Woman shuttler P.V. Sindhu will face a daunting task against China’s Wang Yihan, a silver-medallist four years ago in London, in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. The lanky player from Hyderabad and Kidambi Srikanth, who made it to the men’s singles quarters, are the only two medal contenders left in the competition. Day 11 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, track and field, boxing, wrestling and more.
Latest updates (all times in IST):
0439 hrs: And the Indian wins! Sindhu plays spectacular badminton against the Chinese ace winning by 2-0.
0435 hrs: The Chinese ace catching up, playing aggressive badminton.
0431 hrs: Sindhu leads by five points. Spectators elated!
0422 hrs: Change of game! Sindhu leads. However, the Chinese ace looks determined to catch up.
0414 hrs: "India Jeete Ga!" (India shall win) chants spectators, as Sindhu scores a point against her opponent.
0412 hrs: Sensational performance by Sindhu. She wins first set against Chinese opponent.
0404 hrs: Sindhu levels score again with Chinese Wang Yihan. It's a close game!
0358 hrs: Sindhu levels score with Wang Yihan. She is yet to lead against the Chinese.
0348 hrs: Competition doesn't seem only on the court but among spectators too.
0344 hrs: China's Wang Yihan leads by three points, although the Indian ace looks determined to catch up.
0331hrs: Women's single quarter-final match in badminton between India's P.V. Sindhu and China's Wang Yihan to begin shortly .
03:30 hrs: US star Simone Biles won the women's floor exercise at the Rio Olympics, becoming just the fourth woman in history to win four gymnastics gold medals at one Olympic Games. The 19-year-old dominated the floor with the highest difficulty and execution scores, winning with 15.966 points.
0308 hrs: Belgium wins men's hockey semifinals against Netherlands by two goals. Belgium will face Argentina in finals.
2048 hrs: Britain could claim three more gold medals and five more total after its riders all advanced through preliminary rounds during the morning track cycling session at the Rio Games. Becky James and Katy Marchant swept through the women’s sprint quarterfinals, and Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner are alive in the keirin. Laura Trott leads the multidiscipline omnium.
Track cycling concludes with the finals in all three events Tuesday night. IOC president Thomas Bach took in the session with UCI president Brian Cookson, the head of cycling’s world governing body. Bach also turned out to watch the end of the Olympic road race.
2047 hrs: Netherlands has finished off a sweep of the Olympic open water swimming races with a thrilling victory in the men’s 10-kilometre race.
Ferry Weertman captured the gold medal at Copacabana after Greece’s Spiros Gianniotis crossed under the finish line first but reached up after the Dutchman to touch the timing pad.
That gave the victory to Weertman in a time of 1 minute, 52.59.8 seconds, one day after Sharon van Rouwendaal took the women’s race for the Netherlands.
Gianniotis missed a chance to give Greece its first swimming gold since the inaugural Olympics in 1896.
The bronze went to France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier, who out-touched China’s Lijun Zu. American Jordan Wilimovsky was fifth.
Australia’s Jarrod Poort broke away from the pack early in the race, building a lead of more than a minute at the midway point. He couldn’t hold on, getting passed on the last of four laps and finishing 20th.
2023 hrs: Christian Taylor has successfully defended his Olympic triple jump title, leading Will Claye in a repeat U.S. sweep of gold and silver medals.
Taylor, who won gold in London in 2012 at 17.81, set the benchmark on Tuesday with a season-leading mark of 17.86 on his first attempt.
Claye was second again and Dong Bin of China won bronze.
1955 hrs : Meanwhile, BB Sharan Singh, WFI president, has said that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has appealed against the clean chit to wrestler Narsingh Yadav. "Hearing will be on 18 August, but we are confident as our case is strong"
1935 hrs:
Men's GR98kg >#wrestling : Hardeep lost 1-2 to the >#tur wrestler but if the Turkish reaches finals, he will have a chance for bronze. >#Ind
— Rio Olympics - India (@RioOlympicsInd) >August 16, 2016
1917 hrs: Both wrestlers — Hardeep Singh and Turkey's Cenk İldem — make their way to the middle. And, it begins.
1912 hrs: Think you know the rules of wrestling? If not, Here's an >article that can help you understand it better.
1908 hrs: Hardeep Singh's Greco-Roman 98 kg event is the next game -- should be happening in another 10 minutes.
Let's cheering >#HardeepSingh as he will be seen in action today at >#Rio2016 ! Go win it! >#RuknaNahiHai>@jswsports
— WeAreMarwari (@WeAreMarwari) >August 16, 2016
1906 hrs: Lisa Carrington has proved once again she’s the world’s fastest kayaker.
The New Zealander won her second straight gold in the women’s 200-metre flatwater race, a furious sprint where paddlers go full throttle for about 40 seconds.
Carrington is also a four-time world champion in the event.
She won the race in 39.864 seconds, ahead of silver medalist Marta Walczykiewicz of Poland and Inna Osipenko-Rodomska of Azerbaijan, who got bronze.
Earlier, Hungarian kayakers Gabriella Szabo and Danuta Kozak won the gold medal in the women’s 500-metre double, edging Germany’s Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze by just 5 hundredths of a second. Poland took third place.
1823 hrs: Sebastian Brendel of Germany beat Brazil’s Isaquias Queiroz to win his second consecutive gold medal in the men’s 1,000-metres canoe sprint.
Brendel and Queiroz were neck-and-neck for most of the race but the German pulled ahead in the final 250 meters. Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova got the bronze.
The crowd at Lagoa stadium roared for Queiroz, who was chasing Brazil’s first gold in flatwater canoeing. The Brazilian’s nickname is “Sem Rim,” or missing kidney, because he lost one kidney after falling from a tree at age 10.
Queiroz will also race in the men’s 200-metre sprint and the 1,000-metre doubles.
1713 hrs: Simone Biles is seeking a fourth Olympic gold, one of 28 to be handed out.
On the men’s side, Oleg Verniaiev leads on parallel bars while Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands will try to defend his Olympic high bar title.
Five gold medals are up for grabs in track events, including women’s 1500 meters and discus, and men’s high jump, triple jump and 100-metre hurdles.
At the Rio velodrome, the British team is hoping for big things. Jason Kenny is going for his third gold in Rio, this time in the keirin; Katy Marchant and Becky James are in the individual sprint and Laura Trott is favored to defend her title in the women’s multi-event omnium.
Semifinals are taking place in women’s soccer and in men’s and women’s beach volleyball; knockout play begins in women’s basketball, with the U.S. facing Japan; and the men are swimming in the open ocean off Copacabana beach.
1633 hrs: Brazilians love the beach and they are really loving the beach volleyball competition at the Rio Olympics.
That’s because Brazil has three entries in Tuesday’s men’s and women’s semifinals, including Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt, who eliminated Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena on Monday night. The Brazilians will face the Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen.
On the women’s side, Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross of the United States play Tuesday for a spot in the gold-medal game when they meet Brazilian world champions Agatha and Barbara at the stroke of midnight on the beach.
Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha of Brazil take on Germans Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst in the other women’s semifinal.
Walsh Jennings is going for her fourth gold, and Ross is looking to improve on the silver she earned at the 2012 London Olympics.
1608 hrs: It’s the men’s turn to take to the sewage-filled waters off Copacabana beach for their 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) open water race.
Rio de Janeiro is only the second Olympics holding the competition in open ocean waters. At the first Summer Games in 1896, before custom-built pools were the norm, swimming was held in Greece’s Bay of Zea.
The inaugural open water event in 2008 was staged at Beijing’s rowing and canoeing canal and the open water swim in 2012 took place in Serpentine lake at London’s Hyde Park.
On Monday, Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto won bronze in the open water swim when France’s Aurelie Muller was disqualified for colliding with another swimmer. It was the first Olympic swimming medal ever won by a Brazilian woman.
Sharon van Rouwendaal claimed gold for the Netherlands.
Gymanstics:
Simone Biles can wrap up her remarkable time in Rio with a fourth Olympic gold medal when she competes in the floor exercise.
Biles has already earned three golds and a bronze, though her chance to become the first female gymnast to capture five golds in a single Olympics ended when she wobbled during the balance beam final on Monday and ended up with bronze.
Biles is the reigning world champion in the floor exercise. Her biggest competition will come from teammate Aly Raisman, who captured gold in London four years ago. Biles and Raisman went 1-2 in the all-around competition last week.
The men will wrap up the Olympics with the high bar at 2 p.m. and parallel bar finals. Oleg Verniaiev, who came in second to Kohei Uchimura in the men’s all—around, leads the field on parallel bars. Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands will try to defend his Olympic title on high bar.
American Danell Leyva will compete in both finals. He’ll be joined on high bar by teammate Sam Mikulak .
Track and field
After a day off, Usain Bolt returns to the track in his quest for more gold in his favorite event, too- the 200 meters.
“I’m always confident going into the 200 meters,” said Bolt, who surged past Justin Gatlin to win the 100 on Sunday. “I think the 100 meters is always the hardest one for me. Going to the 200 now, I’m very confident.” Then again, the fastest man on the planet has never lacked for confidence. He runs in the ninth heat at 12-46 p.m.
Also Tuesday, American Christian Taylor will defend his triple jump title. The competition begins at 9-50 a.m.
Keep an eye on Jamaican Omar McLeod and American Devon Allen , the University of Oregon football/track standout, in the 110-metre hurdles. The finals are at 10-45 p.m. following semifinals starting at 8.40 p.m.
Medals also will be awarded in women’s discus (11.20 a.m.), the women’s 1500 meters (10.30 p.m.) and the men’s high jump (8.30 p.m.).
Basketball
The U.S. women’s team begins knockout play against Japan when the two teams play in the quarterfinals at 6.45 p.m. The Americans have won 46 consecutive games in the Olympics and are three victories away from a sixth consecutive gold medal. They cruised through pool play , winning the five games by an average of 40.8 points.
The U.S. hasn’t faced Japan since the 1996 quarterfinals when the Americans won by 15 points. Japan has been the surprise of the tournament, already matching its three victories in 1996 in the Atlanta Games. The Japanese also have the rare distinction of being the only team left playing in the Olympics who have beaten the U.S., although that came back in 1976.
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.
Beach Volleyball
Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross play for a spot in the gold—medal game when they meet Brazilian world champions Agatha and Barbara in the beach volleyball semifinals at 11-59 p.m.
Walsh Jennings is going for her fourth gold, and Ross is looking to improve on the silver she earned when she lost to her fellow Americans in the London final. Brazil has three entries in Tuesday’s men’s and women’s semifinals, including Alison and Bruno, who eliminated the American men’s team of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the round of eight. They play the Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen at 5 p.m.
Volleyball
The top-ranked U.S. women’s volleyball team , which went 5-0 in Olympic group play, faces Japan in a quarterfinal matchup at 2 p.m. as the Americans try to move one step closer to the first gold in program history.
Japan is arguably the best defensive team in this tournament.
Two-time reigning Olympic champion and host Brazil will take on a young China team in the 10-15 p.m. match, while the upstart Netherlands women back in their first Olympics in 20 years and 4—1 in group play behind the Americans face South Korea at 10 a.m.
Boxing
Nicola Adams, the British flyweight who won the first gold medal in Olympic women’s boxing history, opens the slate with her first bout of the tournament. She faces Tetyana Kob of Ukraine at 11 a.m.
Shakur Stevenson and Gary Russell have fights early in the day for an American team trying to make up for an 0—2 effort on Monday. The main event of a 19—fight card has Brazilian Robson Conceicao fighting Frenchman Sofiane Oumiha for Olympic gold in the lightweight division. That fight starts at 7-15 p.m.
Track Cycling
The track cycling program concludes Tuesday night with Britain seeking more Olympic gold. Jason Kenny is going for his third title of the Rio Games in the keirin at 6-14 p.m., Katy Marchant and Becky James are still alive in the individual sprint at 6-26 p.m., and Laura Trott is favored to defend her title in the women’s omnium at 5-05 p.m. Italian Elia Viviani won the men’s event Monday despite being taken out in a crash that claimed two other riders. The powerhouse British team has already won four gold medals through seven events inside the velodrome.
Open Water Swimming
A day after Brazil won its first swimming medal of the games a bronze in the women’s open water event the men take to the sewage-filled waters off Copacabana beach for their 10K race.
This is only the second Olympics holding competition in open ocean waters. At the first Summer Games in 1896, before custom-built pools were the norm, swimming was held in the Bay of Zea. The inaugural open water event in 2008 was staged at Beijing’s rowing and canoeing canal. Four years ago, the open water in London took place in the Serpentine lake at Hyde Park.
Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto went from just off the podium to bronze when France’s Aurelie Muller was disqualified for colliding with another swimming. The first swimming medal ever won by a Brazilian woman, either in the pool or open water, eased some of the sting from a disappointing performance by the pool swimmers, who failed to win a medal at their home Olympics.
