Track: A Challenge For Bolt, Gold For Jamaica, Sweep For US

The American men take on Spain (2:30 p.m. ET) with the victor advancing to the gold medal game.

Gymnastics gala: Laurie Hernandez performs on balance beam: Laurie Hernandez, a silver medalist on beam, showed her skill with a performance in the gymnastics gala. The finals are at 10:45 p.m. following semifinals starting at 8:40 p.m.

U.S. Olympian Adeline Gray visits the USA House at Colegio Sao Paulo on August 5, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Biles is the reigning world champion in the floor exercise.

He was the London Olympic champion in both events.

HOW TO SEE IT: Catch the second, third and fourth round of woomen’s golf beginning at 5:30 a.m. CT on your smartphone or computer. Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi and American Matt Centrowitz hope to crash the party.

Top American boxer Claressa Shields fights for the first time in the tournament. Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch of Germany should also be in the mix.

At 4 p.m., Nigeria and Germany play in the other semifinal. They play at 1 p.m. Other boxing matches include the women’s middleweight semifinals, the men’s flyweight semifinals, the men’s light welterweight semifinals and the men’s super heavyweight semifinals.

Victory would give Brazil, led by standout Neymar after a disappointing start to the tournament, the only trophy it hasn’t won in soccer. The loss sent the top-ranked Americans home without a medal for the first time since women’s soccer joined the Olympics in 1996.

The American women are eyeing a sweep in the 100 hurdles, the team is that deep. But they’re ahead of the game.

It’s a moot point at the moment for Ledecky, who has opted to attend college and maintain her amateur status. Army colonel Hoang Xuan Vinh, 41, topped the 10-meter air pistol event to deliver Vietnam’s first Olympic gold medal.

In other quarterfinal games, Australia plays Serbia at 11 a.m., Spain plays Turkey at 2:30 p.m., and France faces Canada at 10:15 p.m. However, the majority of California’s medals have been bronze (10), while IL natives have produced seven gold medals out of nine total medals from the state. He announced he’d be retiring after the 2012 Olympics but ultimately chose to compete in the 2016 Games.

Uzbekistan fighter Shakhram Giyasov faces Daniyar Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan at 4:30 p.m. for the men’s welterweight gold.

Inbee Park takes a two-shot lead into the final round of women’s golf at Olympic Golf Course.

Reduced to tears many times after draping the Puerto Rican flag across her body after the gold-medal match, Puig beat two of the world’s best five players to win the title. We know Brazil are one of the best in the world so we didn’t think about the result, we just concentrated. State media and Internet users had already started to go easy on the athletes, who are cultivated through a sophisticated government-sponsored sports school system, after the medal haul trickled in the first few days of the Olympics.

Defending champion Jaroslav Kulhavy of the Czech Republic, world champion Nino Schurter of Switzerland and former world champ Julien Absalon of France are favorites in the men’s mountain bike race at 12:30 p.m. “It’s a very pressurized match because it’s a medal match – very, very pressurized”.

Serbia, which will get the country’s first volleyball medal, advanced to the finals by beating the USA, which plays the Dutch for the bronze at 1 p.m.

Sweden was riding high after knocking off the three-time defending champion United States in the quarterfinals.

The Rio Games officially end with a closing ceremony that starts at 8 p.m. and is expected to last more than two hours, with reminders of Brazil’s lively culture and a passing of the torch to Japan for the Tokyo Games in 2020. It will be the last race of these Games for Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt, who will run in the 4×100 relay looking to add to his two gold medals won here. I wanted that gold medal to retire with.

The 56 triathletes in Rio must swim for 1.5km, cycle for 40km and then run for 10km in a draining combination of speed and endurance. Qui Bo, followed by teammate Chen Aisen. Silver and bronze remain up for grabs.

The top 18 move to Saturday’s semifinals at 11 a.m., where scores don’t carry over.

Tune in to NBC 5 at 7 p.m. for primetime coverage from Rio. Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff and Canada’s Catherine Pendrel are also among the favorites.

But the younger Chinese players did not consider defeat an option, putting up a spectacular fight and outplaying their opponents 15-25, 25-23, 25-22, 22-25, 15-13 to advance to the semi-finals where they will face an upstart Netherlands side.