WELCOME BACK
Highlights from Day 12
Simone Biles returned to competition Tuesday and earned a bronze medal on the balance beam.
Basketball: Kevin Durant scored 29 points to keep his quest for a third Olympic title alive, and the Americans headed to the medal round with a 95-81 win, as brothers Pau and Marc Gasol played their last game together for Spain. … Patty Mills scored 18 points and Australia used a 25-0 run in the second half for a 97-59 victory over Argentina, which likely saw Luis Scola, 41 and a five-time Olympian, play his last game for the national team. … Luka Doncic, who has never lost wearing a Slovenian uniform (17-0), had 20 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds in a 94-70 quarterfinal win against Germany. … Rudy Gobert scored 22 points to lead France to the semifinals for the first time since 2000 with an 84-75 victory over Italy.
Boxing: Sena Irie won Japan’s first women’s featherweight boxing gold medal with a unanimous decision over the Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio. … Roniel Iglesias of Cuba won his second Olympic boxing gold medal by soundly beating Pat McCormack of Britain in the welterweight final.
Canoeing: Cuba won a surprise gold medal in the men’s canoe double 1,000 meters, ahead of China and Germany, which had won the event in five of the past seven Olympic Games.
Cycling: Germany became the first women’s pursuit team to beat Britain in an Olympic final, breaking its own world record with a time of 4:04.259. Britain had won the gold medal the previous three Summer Olympics. The world champion Americans beat Canada for bronze. … The Netherlands set an Olympic record (41.369) to romped past Britain in men’s team sprint.
Diving: Xie Siyi and Wang Zongyuan provided China with another 1-2 finish in Olympic diving, taking gold and silver in men’s 3-meter springboard.
Gymnastics: Simone Biles took the bronze in the balance beam in her return to Ariake Gymnastics Centre, earning her seventh career Olympic medal, tied with Shannon Miller for the most by an American gymnast. Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing of China took the top two spots. … Daiki Hashimoto of Japan picked up a third medal in men’s gymnastics, adding gold on the high bar with a 14.066 score. … Zou Jingyuan of China captured gold on parallel bars with a score of 16.233, the highest on any event by any gymnast during the nine days of competition.
Kayaking: New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington took two gold medals by winning the canoe sprint women’s kayak double 500 with boatmate Caitlin Regal, and the sprint 200 alone. … Hungary finished 1- 2 in the men’s kayak 1,000 as Balint Kopasz dominated the final 250 meters to pull away for the gold medal. Adam Varga finished second.
Swimming: Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil won the women’s 10-kilometer marathon swimming gold in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30.8 seconds. Defending champion Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands took silver in 1:59.31.7.
Weightlifting: Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan won gold in the men’s 109-kilogram weightlifting class after world-record holder Simon Martirosyan failed two lifts for the gold medal. Djuraev failed a clean and jerk at 234 kilograms but returned to lift 237kg and overtake Martirosyan for the gold medal spot with a total of 430kg.
Wrestling: Russian wrestler Musa Evloev defeated Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia, 5- 1, in the GrecoRoman 97-kilogram final. … Tamas Lorincz of Hungary defeated Akzhol Makhmudov of Kyrgyzstan, 2-1, in the Greco-Roman 77-kg final.