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United States' Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gestures as he restates his intention to retire at a news conference at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) RIO DE JANEIRO - The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
12:20 a.m.
Usain Bolt expected an easier race to the men's 100-meter title than in years past.
Why? The Jamaican said he's in far better shape than he was a year ago, when his races were "pretty much a dog fight."
Bolt won his third consecutive gold medal in the 100 meters on Sunday night and already has his sights set on the 200-meters and possibly a new world record. He said he's far more confident about the 200 than he is the 100, and having a day of rest this week will make him fresh for his next event.
Bolt reiterated that these Olympics are for one purpose: For him to prove he's the greatest sprinter ever.
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12:20 a.m.
Brazil now has half of the women's beach volleyball semifinalists.
World champions Agatha and Barbara advanced with a 23-21, 21-16 victory over Russia on Sunday night. That lined them up for a matchup with the winner of the midnight match between Australia and Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross.
Brazil's Talita and Larissa, the No. 1 seed, advanced earlier Sunday with a victory over Switzerland.
The hosts also have one men's team still playing. Alison and Bruno will face Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena on Monday.
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12:20 a.m.
Justin Gatlin is satisfied with second place in the 100-meter finals.
At 34, Gatlin was the oldest sprinter in the field and he took solace in medaling.
Gatlin was booed when he was introduced at the introductions because of his doping suspensions, but Gatlin said he tuned out the reaction on Sunday night and focused on the American flags in the crowd.
Told later that winner Usain Bolt was upset Gatlin was booed, the American said he has tremendous respect for Bolt.
Gatlin said: "There is no bad blood. I'm a competitor, he's a competitor and he has pushed me to be the athlete that I am today. I hope he can say the say for me."
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12:20 a.m.
It's hard to get a wave started at the Copacabana beach volleyball venue, even when you're an NBA star like DeAndre Jordan.
Jordan and fellow U.S. basketball players Kevin Durant and Jimmy Butler showed up to see the women's beach quarterfinals on Sunday night and immediately caused a stir. Jordan tried to get the crowd going, but the Brazilian fans were too distracted watching world champions Agatha and Barbara against Russia.
Durant put on a USA Volleyball scarf, and they all mugged for pictures as they waited for Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross to begin their match.
Durant also saw Walsh Jennings play in London, when she won her third straight Olympic gold medal.
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11:25 p.m.
Yohan Blake failed to medal in the men's 100-meters but paid tribute to Jamaican teammate Usain Bolt.
Blake finished fourth and called Bolt "an icon and true warrior of the sport."
There was a time when Blake was considered one of the few sprinters who could dethrone Bolt and he took the silver in London four years ago.
He said injures have slowed him, but insisted "I'm not dead" and he'll be back.
He praised Bolt for his long reign. When asked if Bolt is bigger in Jamaica than Bob Marley, Blake said "he's getting there."
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11:20 p.m.
As Wayde van Niekerk sprinted to a world record in winning the men's 400-meters, his competitors could only watch in awe.
Third-place finisher LaShawn Merritt said van Niekerk took off at the start and set a far faster pace than he thought would win the race.
Silver medalist Kirani James of Grenada marveled that van Niekerk never slowed. He was trying to use van Niekerk as a gauge, but the winner "just kept going."
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10:55 p.m.
Minutes after winning Olympic gold, Usain Bolt unlaced his now-famous gold spikes and took selfies with fans in the near-capacity stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Then, he turned his yellow hat backward, kneeled down and gave the crowd what it really wanted: The arching "To the World Pose."
The Jamaican superstar won the signature event in track and field on Sunday night added this race to his already gleaming resume as the first person to capture three straight 100-meter titles at the Olympics.
Bolt beat American Justin Gatlin, who was greeted by the fans with raucous boos, by .08 seconds. Andre de Grasse of Canada won the bronze.
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10:35 p.m.
Usain Bolt became the first person to win three straight Olympic 100-meter titles, blowing down the straightaway in 9.81 seconds for his seventh overall Olympic gold.
American Justin Gatlin, Bolt's closest pursuer over the past four years, finished second, .08 seconds behind. Andre de Grasse of Canada won the bronze.
Bolt came into the Olympics not having run a 100 since June 30, when he pulled out of Jamaican national championships with a bad left hamstring.
The rehab began immediately, and on a muggy Sunday night in Rio, the shining star of track and field showed no signs of distress.
After a typically clunky burst out of the starting block, he started pulling away from Gatlin with about 30 meters left.
He's not done. Qualifying for the men's 200, his favorite race, starts Tuesday, with the relay on Friday.
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10:25 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Usain Bolt wins unprecedented third Olympic gold in 100 meters, defeating Justin Gatlin of the US by .08 seconds.
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10:20 p.m.
Florian Fuchs scored with no time remaining on the clock, and two-time defending Olympic champion Germany scored twice in the final minute to beat New Zealand 3-2 Sunday in the men's field hockey quarterfinals.
Germany trailed 2-0 before scoring all three of its goals in the final five minutes. Moritz Furste scored on a penalty corner at 55:29, then scored on another penalty corner with 41 seconds remaining.
New Zealand went ahead 1-0 on a goal by Hugo Inglis early in the second period, and increased its lead to 2-0 on a goal by Shea McAleese early in the fourth.
Germany advanced to play Argentina, which defeated Spain 2-1 earlier in the day.
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10:15 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia has won the triple jump at the Rio Games, with a jump of 15.17 meters on her fourth attempt to win the gold. Yulimar Rochas of Venezuela took silver with 14.98 and defending champion Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan settled for bronze with 14.74.
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10:15 p.m.
Wayde van Niekerk has won the Olympic 400-meter title in a world-record 43.03 seconds, lowering the mark set by Michael Johnson in 1999.
And the South African did it from the outside lane. Van Niekerk stormed out of the blocks and kept going, holding off 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James and 2008 winner LaShawn Merritt, who both ran season-best times to finish with silver and bronze.
Johnson set the previous world record of 43.18 at Seville, Spain, in 1999.
Van Niekerk's previous personal record was 43.48.
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10:05 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT-WORLD RECORD: Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa has won the Olympic 400-meter title in a world record 43.03 seconds. Van Niekerk, running in the outside lane, stormed out of the blocks and held off of 2012 champion Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt. He lowered the mark of 43.18 that Michael Johnson set in Seville, Spain, in 1999.
10 p.m.
Andrew Fisher saw his chances at making the men's 100-meter final dashed when he false started in the semifinals.
The sprinter representing Bahrain blamed a hovering helicopter.
Fisher said the helicopter approached Olympic Stadium as he was in the starting block and it distracted him. He knew instantly he was disqualified.
He said it's the first false start of his international career.
Fisher said "it was the chopper," and "that should never happen at a meet this big."
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9:55 p.m.
The coach of long jumper Darya Klishina, the only Russian entered in Olympic track and field, tells the Associated Press she is trying to block out the uncertainty over whether she can compete.
Klishina was at a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing earlier Sunday as she fights to stay in the Olympics.
When the Russian team barred due to doping scandals, the IAAF gave Klishina an exemption it then withdrew citing "new information". Klishina's lawyer says that concerns possible tampering with doping samples by Russian authorities.
Coach Loren Seagrave says their plan is to "act as if" Klishina can compete and "we don't yet know the outcome so we must look at the situation in the positive."
Klishina trained at a warmup track near the Olympic Stadium on Sunday.
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9:20 p.m.
Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin set up the biggest clash on the Olympic track by both winning their 100 meters semifinals.
Bolt was slow out of the blocks again but powered through the midsection before easing across the line in a season's best of 9.86. He had time to look left and right before turning the power off, showing off the smile the world has come to love. Andre de Grasse of Canada finished in 9.92 to go through.
Gatlin was all business, fast from the start and barely letting up at the finish for a time of 9.94. After being roundly booed by the crowd before the start, he immediately disappeared into the stadium tunnel after his win.
Jimmy Vicaut of France won the first heat in 9.95, turning around a disappointing season with a place in the final.
Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade was out, finishing fifth in the first heat with a time of 10.05.
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9:10 p.m.
World champion Allyson Felix ran a season-best 49.67 to lead the qualifiers into the women's 400-meter final.
Felix is running only in the 400 after missing a chance to defend her Olympic 200-meter title by failing to make the U.S. team. She went out hard and coasted to the finish ahead of Shaunae Miller, the world championship silver medalist of Bahamas.
There'll be three Americans and two Jamaicans in Monday's final.
Phyllis Francis of the United States won the first of the three semifinal heats in 50.31, holding off Stephenie Ann McPherson of Jamaica.
World championships bronze medalist Shericka Jackson set a personal best 49.83 to win the second heat, overhauling American Natasha Hastings on the line.
Christine Ohuruogu, the 2008 Olympic champion and silver medalist in London in 2012, was knocked out after finishing fifth in the first heat.
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9:05 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Andy Murray of Britain beat Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina for his second consecutive Olympic singles gold medal.
Murray's 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory Sunday at the Rio Games makes him the first man or woman with two Olympic singles titles, let alone two in a row.
At London in 2012, Murray won a singles gold and mixed doubles silver.
The second-seeded Murray stretched his winning streak to a career-high 18 matches and stopped the resurgent run of the 141st-ranked del Potro, who knocked off No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the first round and No. 3 Rafael Nadal in the semifinals.
Del Potro's silver goes alongside his bronze from four years ago.
Kei Nishikori defeated Nadal for the bronze earlier Sunday.
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9:05 p.m.
Sarah Robles won the United States' first weightlifting medal for 16 years Sunday with bronze in the women's over-75-kilogram category.
China's Meng Suping won gold with 130 kilograms in the snatch and 177 in the clean and jerk for a total of 307, one more than second-placed Kim Kuk Hyang of North Korea.
Robles lifted 286 total, with 126 in the snatch and 160 in the clean and jerk.
After making her final lift, Robles sank onto her knees and gave a roar of delight before blowing a kiss to the crowd.
The last U.S. medal winners in weightlifting were Tara Nott and Cheryl Haworth when the women's events debuted in 2000. The last U.S. men's medals were in 1984.
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8:40 p.m.
Michael Phelps insists his swimming career is over. He's got big plans for the next phase of his life, and it starts with being a father to 3-month-old son Boomer.
The most decorated athlete in Olympics history says he is looking forward to having the time to devote to his son after being so tied up with training for the Rio Games.
He said on Sunday that he ditched the athletes village to stay with Boomer and his fiancee, Nicole Johnson, on Saturday night. While other athletes celebrate their victories wildly, Phelps says he spent the night changing diapers. He says he wants to be there for Boomer "every step of the way."
Phelps says he plans to keep swimming, but only for exercise. Phelps would routinely put on weight after performing in the Olympics, but he says he wants to avoid that in retirement.
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8 p.m.
The Netherlands defeated Australia 4-0 in a men's field hockey quarterfinal match between the world's top two teams on Sunday night.
The second-ranked Dutch advanced to play neighbor Belgium in a Tuesday semifinal. Belgium defeated India 3-1 earlier in the day.
The top-ranked Australians had medaled in six consecutive Olympics, claiming gold in 2004 and bronze in 2008 and 2012.
Billy Bakker scored for the Netherlands 49 seconds into the match to set the tone.
Australia dominated possession in the second period, but the Netherlands consistently made good defensive plays in the circle. The Dutch then added to their lead when Bob de Voogd knocked one in late in the second.
Valentin Verga scored for the Dutch early in the third period, and Mink van der Weerden added another goal early in the fourth.
Goalie Jaap Stockmann registered the shutout for the Netherlands.
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7:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: France has won the gold medal in men's team epee, easily defeating Italy 45-31 in a matchup between two of the sport's traditional powers.
Until Sunday, France overall had won just one silver and one bronze in fencing in the Rio Olympics. They were left off the podium entirely in 2012 in London.
The team of Yannick Borel, Daniel Jarent and Jean-Michel Lucenay brought that golden shutout to an end on the last day of the fencing tournament.
Borel wrapped the match up with a quick touch of opponent Marco Fichera. Borel ripped off his mask and let out a scream to celebrate.
France was the favorite as the top-ranked squad in the world coming into the Summer Games.
Hungary won the bronze after beating Ukraine 39-37.
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7:10 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Russia wrestler Roman Vlasov won gold for the second Olympics in a row, taking first at 75 kilograms in the Greco-Roman event.
Vlasov beat Denmark's Mark Madsen 5-1 on SundaY, his second straight win over the Dane in the world finals.
Madsen has now finished second in the world five times. Still, Madsen became Denmark's first Olympic medalist in wrestling since 1948 by winning silver.
Vlasov's win might be the first of many in Rio for the Russians, who typically dominate the Olympic tournament.
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7:10 p.m.
Brazil's men's soccer team arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the first time during the Olympics and its first stop was at the athletes' village.
Neymar and his teammates met with several other athletes Sunday in the nearly two hours that they stayed at the village.
Seeking its first gold medal in soccer, Brazil plays Honduras on Wednesday at the Maracana Stadium in the semifinals of the Olympic tournament. The team is staying at its training camp in Teresopolis, a city just outside Rio.
Brazil previously played in Brasilia, Salvador and Sao Paulo. Soccer is the only competition that is played outside of the Olympic host city.
Germany and Nigeria play in the other semifinal.
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6:40 p.m.
American swimmer Nathan Adrian says he's not concerned about his safety after four of his teammates were robbed by armed men in Rio de Janeiro.
The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their taxi and took their money and belongings. The robbery was the latest security incident to hit the Rio Games.
USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky says the four swimmers are safe.
Adrian said Sunday at a news conference that there will be "problems anywhere you go" and that the athletes have been briefed on how to mitigate those risks.
Adrian says now that swimming competition is over at the Olympics, athletes want to see the sights and sounds of Rio.
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6:40 p.m.
Brazilians Larissa and Talita have advanced to the women's beach volleyball semifinals, rallying after losing the first set and surviving a handful of match points in an epic second set.
The No. 1 seeds won 21-23, 27-25, 15-13.
Joana Heidrich buried her head in a towel on the Swiss bench afterward, while Larissa took the microphone to thank the crowd. Heidrich and Nadine Zumkehr were two points from victory in the second but couldn't overcome the favorites and their supportive crowd.
The Brazilians will play Germany on Tuesday.
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6:05 p.m.
Love is in the air at the Olympic diving pool.
After He Zi earned silver in women's 3-meter springboard, the Chinese diver accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend and fellow diver Qin Kai as she stepped off the medal podium Sunday.
A serious-looking Qin opened a box with a ring inside, took it out and slipped it on He's finger after she nodded yes. She clapped her right hand over her mouth and Qin gave her a red rose encased in glass.
The crowd roared in delight as the couple hugged.
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6 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Jason Kenny defeated Callum Skinner in an all-Britain final to defend his individual sprint Olympicgold medal and win his second gold of the Rio Games.
Kenny and Skinner combined with Philip Hindes to win the team sprint Thursday night.
Kenny overtook Skinner on the final straightaway to win the first of their best-of-three race, then showed some veteran poise as he held off Skinner from the lead to make it a clean sweep.
It was Kenny's fifth Olympic gold medal and sixth medal overall. The performance also gave the powerful British track cycling team four golds and six medals overall in Rio.
Denis Dmitriev of Russia swept past Matt Glaetzer of Australia to take bronze.
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5:45 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Ismael Borrero Molina has won the gold medal in 59-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling, giving Cuba at least one wrestling title in each of the last seven Olympics.
Borrero Molina beat Japan's Shinobu Ota 8-0 Sunday in the first title match of the Olympics.
The Cuban dominated the 22-year-old Ota, pulling ahead with a dramatic throw and turn move and clinching on match superiority.
Uzbekistan's Elmurat Tasmuradov and Andre-Stige Berge of Norway claimed bronze medals - with Berge giving the Norwegians their first wrestling medal since 1992.
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5:40 p.m.
Germany has reached the women's beach volleyball semifinals.
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst beat Canada 21-14, 21-14 at the Copacabana venue on Sunday to advance. The German men have won two Olympic beach volleyball medals - including the gold in London - but the women have never reached the podium.
Ludwig is at the Olympics for the third time, previously finishing ninth and fifth with Sara Niedrig.
Canada sent the maximum of four beach volleyball teams to Rio - one of just four countries to hit the quota. But Heather Bansley and Sarah Pavan were their last hope for a medal.
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5:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Giles Scott of Great Britain has clinched the gold medal in the Finn class in the Rio Olympicsregatta with a race to spare.
Scott came in as the heavy favorite, yet still had to prove it in Rio's tricky conditions.
He was also feeling the pressure of following in the enormous wake of countryman Ben Ainslie, who was knighted after winning the Finn gold at London in 2012. Ainslie finished his Olympics career as the most successful sailor ever, with four straight golds and a silver.
Scott also sails for Ainslie's America's Cup syndicate.
The other medals will be determined Tuesday. American Caleb Paine of San Diego is fourth, five points out of the bronze.
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5:15 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Russia's Aliya Mustafina has ended the U.S. women's team dominance atop the podium in women's gymnastics.
Mustafina defended her Olympic title in uneven bars on Sunday, edging American Madison Kocian in a tight final. Mustafina's score of 15.900 was just a touch better than Kocian's score of 15.833. The difference was the difficulty of Mustafina's routine, which was one-tenth tougher than Kocian's brilliant set.
The "Final Five" had won every gold medal available in Rio behind superstar Simone Biles. It ended when Mustafina nailed her dismount on her way to an eighth Olympic medal.
Sophie Scheder of German was third.
Gabby Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around champion, finished seventh.
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5:15 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Shi Tingmao of China wins gold in women's 3-meter springboard diving. He Zi of China takes silver and Tania Cagnotto of Italy earns bronze.
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5:15 p.m.
Did you send American boxer Nico Hernandez a congratulatory text for winning an Olympics bronze medal?
He might not have read the message.
Hernandez, the first American to win a boxing medal since 2008, seemed to have some trouble with his mobile device on the way to the medal stand.
He tweeted to T-Mobile, "lost my phone in Rio before receiving my Medal, can you help me find it?"
T-Mobile tweeted back that it would if Hernandez sent the company a direct message, it would "do all we can to help!"
You can call Nico Hernandez an Olympic bronze medalist, just not on his phone.
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4:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Kei Nishikori gave Japan its first Olympic tennis medal in 86 years, overcoming a mid-match lull to beat 2008 champion Rafael Nadal for the bronze in men's singles at the Rio Games.
Nishikori won the third-place match 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-3 on Sunday after blowing a 5-2 lead in the second set.
In 1920, Japan won its only previous Olympic tennis medals, a pair of silvers.
Tennis was one of the original sports at the modern Olympics in 1896, remaining on the schedule until 1924. Then it was dropped, before returning in 1988.
Nadal does leave Brazil with a gold medal from men's doubles for Spain.
Andy Murray of Britain and Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina meet later Sunday in the men's singles final.
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4:30 p.m.
Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock have won the Olympic tennis title in mixed doubles, denying Venus Williams a record fifth gold medal.
Mattek-Sands and Sock beat Williams and Rajeev Ram 6-7 (3), 6-1, 10-7 tiebreak in an all-U.S. final Sunday.
It's the second medal of the Rio Games for Sock, who won bronze in men's doubles with Steve Johnson.
With the silver, Williams still tied the mark for most career tennis medals.
Mattek-Sands and Sock trailed 6-3 in the deciding super tiebreak then won six straight points. Mattek-Sands thought they had won on their first match point, throwing her racket in celebration, but Sock's return landed just long. They closed it out on the next point.
Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic clinched bronze earlier Sunday.
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4:25 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Great Britain's Max Whitlock has picked up his second Olympic gold medal in the span of an hour.
The British gymnast edged teammate and rival Louis Smith for gold in men's pommel horse on Sunday shortly after he topped Brazil's Diego Hypolito for gold on floor exercise.
Whitlock's total of 15.966 was just enough to nip Smith's score of 15.833. Alexander Naddour of the U.S. was third, the first medal by an American on the event since 1984.
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4:20 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock have won the tennis gold medal in mixed doubles, beating fellow Americans Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram 6-7 (3), 6-1, 10-7 tiebreak.
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4:20 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Charline Picon of France has won the gold medal in women's windsurfing at the Rio Olympics.
Peina Chen of China won the silver and Stefaniya Elfutina of Russia the bronze.
Picon finished the medals race in second place to beat Chen by two points. As soon as she crossed the line, Picon let her sail go and knelt down on her board with her head in her hands. Lilian de Geus of Holland, who missed the bronze by one point, jumped the water, got on Picon's board and gave her a hug.
In men's windsurfing, Pierre le Coq of France won the bronze medal. Dorian van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands already had clinched his second straight gold medal and Nick Dempsey of Britain had clinched his second straight silver. Rijsselberghe and Dempsey merely needed to finish the medals race to make it official. Van Rijsselberghe celebrated with the Dutch royal family on a nearby yacht shortly after the finish.
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4:20 p.m.
The hearing for Russian long jumper Darya Klishina's appeal over her ban from the Olympics has ended after more than four hours, with a decision expected later Sunday.
Klishina was the only one of 68 Russians allowed to compete in Olympic track and field by the IAAF, but it canceled her eligibility earlier this week after receiving what it called new information.
The former European indoor champion's lawyer Paul Greene has said the case rests on signs that Klishina's drug testing samples may have been tampered with.
Klishina attended the hearing of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which was held in a beachfront luxury hotel in Rio de Janeiro.