Only four more days of competition (insert all the sad emotions I'm feeling here).
At noon (EST) is the second game of the women's volleyball semifinals. Team USA looks to return to the gold-medal match for the third straight Olympics but faces Serbia first tonight. These two played earlier in the tournament with the Americans winning the match, 3-1. The U.S. has lost both of those previous final matches to claim silver with Brazil getting the gold. If the Americans win today, they will not face the home country as China upset the favorites in the quarterfinals.
At 6 p.m. (EST), the U.S. women's basketball team plays in the semifinals against France. The question for the remainder of these games is not really if the U.S. will win, but by how much? The Americans will play wither Spain or Serbia in the final on Saturday.
Tonight is the night we'll see if Usain Bolt can win both the 100m and 200m in three straight Olympics with the men's 200m final.
Bolt had the best time in the semifinal but he barely beat Canada's Andre De Grasse. American LaShawn Merritt qualified in third behind those two but the shocking event was that Justin Gatlin failed to make it. Bolt may not have the luxury of slowing to look around in the race this time but he's still the absolute favorite to win.
American Ashton Eaton leads the decathlon after the first of two days of competition (5-of-10 events) ahead of Kai Kazmirek of Germany and Damian Warner of Canada. Today is the 110 hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and the 1500m.
Team USA qualified two for the women's 400m hurdle final with Dalilah Muhammad earning the top time and Ashley Spencer in fifth. The Czech Republic's Zuzana Hejnova, who qualified second, is the two-time defending world champion and is the first woman to win back-to-back world titles.
Finals are also happening today in the men's shot put and women's javelin and semifinals in the men's 1500m and women's 800m.
The women's 10m platform diving final begins this afternoon but will likely be shown in primetime. At last year's world championship, this was the one diving discipline (out of eight total) that the Chinese did not win. But after the prelims, the two Chinese divers sit in first and second. China has won gold in this event the last two Olympics. In third is American Jessica Parratto, while the other U.S. diver Katrina Young is in 12th. The person that claimed the world title last year, North Korea's Kim Kuk-hyang did not advance. Note: All of this is prior to the semifinal this morning.
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