Rio Olympics 2016: Soccer, swimming, more to watch on Day 7

With his win in the 200m individual medley on Thursday night, Phelps became the third Olympian and the first swimmer to win four gold medals in the same individual event in consecutive Olympic Games, joining Americans Carl Lewis and discus thrower Al Oerter, Rio2016.com noted.

The evening’s highlight is qualifying heats for the women’s 100.

The first athletics medal of Rio 2016 will be won in the women’s 10,000m.

We’ll finally get our chance to see the fastest man in the world.

Rio Olympics organizers on Thursday put on a fearless face as problems plaguing the first Games on the South American continent pile up, admitting preparations could have been better but sounding confident of eventual success.

The 2016 Rio Olympic Games got underway a week ago and already there have been headline-grabbing upsets, world records and remarkable surprises.

The finals are on Sunday night, and Bolt has told his parents he’s ready for them despite nursing a sore hamstring.

Australian sprinter Morgan Mitchell ran her career-best after going vegan a year and a half ago. And he won’t need swimming in the next four years in the same way.

That title now belongs exclusively to him.

Five sprinters at Rio have joined the small list of women to crack the 10.8-second mark: Elaine Thompson of Jamaica, Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast and American teammates English Gardner, Tianna Bartoletta and Tori Bowie.

It was Phelps capturing the gold medal in the race with a time of one minute and 54.66 seconds, a full second ahead of silver medalist Kosuke Hagino of Japan.

He has won four golds and a silver in Rio so far, taking his tally to 22 golds, and is not finished completely yet even if Friday was his last individual race.

This time in record-setting fashion.

More history has been made after the small island of Fiji has won their first Olympic medal in history as the Fiji rugby team defeated the British team 43-7. Her poor performances have put her at risk of missing out on a medal in the Laser Radial class.

Few people know the US women’s soccer team like former coach Pia Sundhage – but that’s not always a good thing for the Americans. The host nation needed a 4-0 win over Denmark on Wednesday to stave off elimination.

HOW TO SEE IT: See the USA men’s volleyball team face France live online at 4 p.m. ET, or on NBC’s daytime coverage.

After a successful first week, Team GB now sit in eight place on the medals table with four golds, six silvers and six bronze.

The first games to be held in South America have been dogged by security concerns since they opened on August 5.

Canada has a number of matches to watch. And at 7 p.m., Chaim Schalk and Ben Saxton play the Netherlands’ Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen. “Now we’ve got something back, a medal”.

The men head into the second round with Australia’s Marcus Fraser atop the leaderboard with an 8-under 63 at Olympic Golf Course, where wildlife has been abundant. Fraser shot an 8-under 63 that stood for a three-shot advantage over Henrik Stenson of Sweden and Graham DeLaet of Canada. It’s US fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad’s last chance to medal.

The decision followed a high-stakes hearing Friday in a packed courtroom in the eastern city of Arnhem that was the latest twist in 33-year-old Van Gelder’s turbulent sports career which, alongside his 2005 world title, has also featured a ban for cocaine use and being dropped from a Dutch World Championships team for alleged drug use.

Defending men’s gold medal champions Russian Federation take on 2014 world champions Poland at 3 p.m. Brazil won silver in London while Italy took bronze.

On the men’s side, preliminaries start in the 800 metre and 400 metre.

Fresh from winning the team gold medal and Simon Biles’ historic first-place performance in the all-around competition, the US women’s gymnasts stepped into the media glare on Friday looking a bit shellshocked by the attention. He won’t take to the track until noon Saturday for the first round of the men’s 100.