U.S. wins first gold medal in women’s 3-on-3 basketball

The U.S. team of Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young won the first women’s gold medal in the new Olympic sport of 3-on-3 basketball.

Plum scored all five of her points early to help the Americans take the lead and they held on for an 18-15 win over the team representing the Russian Olympic Committee.

Plum led all scorers in this tournament. She finished with 55 points over the course of the five-day event in which the U.S. played nine games and only lost one.

China beat France 16-14 for the bronze medal and Serbia defeated Belgium 2110 in the men’s third-place game.

Latvia beats Russia in men’s 3-on-3 final

Latvia’s Karlis Lasmanis drained a shot from behind the arc to close the game and seal a gold-medal-winning 21-18 victory over the Russians in the debut of 3-on-3 basketball at the Olympics.

Lasmanis spotted up and swished the shot and then was dogpiled by his three Latvian teammates. They will bring home the country’s first medal of the Tokyo Games. U.S. men rebound to trounce Iran

The U.S. got back to winning — and winning easily Wednesday morning.

Damian Lillard scored 21 points and the Americans rebounded from an opening loss with their first victory of these Olympics, romping past Iran, 120-66.

Devin Booker scored 16 points and Jayson Tatum had 14 for the Americans, who had their 25-game Olympic winning streak snapped with an 83-76 loss to France on Sunday.

The U.S. knocked down 19 3-pointers and 23 of its 37 shots (62%) inside the arc. TRACK AND FIELD U.S. vaulter Kendricks tests positive, is out

U.S. pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, winner of the last two World Championships, has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Olympics.

Kendrick’s positive test was announced by USA Track & Field and could have major ramifications for a U.S. track team that is expected to dominate the competition in Tokyo.

“He and his close contacts were immediately notified and protocols were activated to isolate the athlete. We are following the USOPC and (Tokyo 2020) guidance on next steps to ensure the safety of the remainder of our delegation,” USATF said in a statement.

The Oceanside native and former Ole Miss standout is the American record-holder at 19-feet, 10 1/2 inches, equal to the fourth-highest vault in history. GYMNASTICS Japan’s Hashimoto wins men’s all-around

Japanese teenager Daiki Hashimoto won the gold medal in the men’s allaround competition.

The 19-year-old Hashimoto used a thrilling high bar routine during the final rotation to edge Xiao Ruoteng of China and reigning world champion Nikita Nagornyy.

Hashimoto’s all-around total of 88.465 points included a 14.933 on high bar. That was good enough for him to surge past Xiao and into the top spot. The gold is the third straight Olympic title for the Japanese gymnast. Kohei Uchimura won in 2012 and 2016. CYCLING Van Vlueten wins women’s time trial

Annemiek van Vleuten roared to an emphatic victory in the women’s time trial at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Dutch rider led by more than six seconds at the first time check, then pushed it to an astonishing 28 seconds before she put the hammer down to finish in 30 minutes, 13.49 seconds at Fuji International Speedway.

Marlen Reusser of Switzerland finished more than 56 seconds back to earn the silver medal and van Vleuten’s teammate Anna van der Breggen earned bronze. Slovenia’s Roglic wins gold in men’s time trial

Primoz Roglic capped an incredible month for Slovenian cycling by winning the Olympic time trial. He added a gold medal to the bronze won by Tour de France champion Tadej Pogecar in the road race.

Roglic’s closest rival was Dutch time trial specialist Tom Dumoulin, who finished more than a minute behind to win his second consecutive Olympic silver medal. Rohan Dennis of Australia claimed the bronze medal. DIVING China wins another gold in synchronized

China won its third gold medal in diving at the Tokyo Olympics.

Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi won men’s 3-meter synchronized springboard. They finished with 467.82 points after leading throughout the six-dive contest.

Andrew Capobianco and Michael Hixon of the U.S. earned silver at 444.36. It’s the same color medal that Hixon won five years ago in Rio with a different partner.

Germany’s Patrick Hausding and Lars Rudiger rallied from sixth to take bronze at 404.73. EQUESTRIAN German rider wins individual dressage

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl of Germany has unseated Charlotte Dujardin of Britain for gold in the individual dressage competition.

German teammate Isabell Werth finished second with a score of 89.657%. She trailed Von Bredow-Werndl’s 91.732% in her Olympic debut. Dujardin came in third. FENCING South Korea men take saber final

South Korea defeated Italy 45-26 to win the men’s team saber fencing final. It’s the South Koreans’ first gold of the Tokyo Olympics in a sport other than archery.

Hungary took its third fencing medal in Tokyo with a 45-40 win over Germany for the bronze medal. JUDO Arai wins Japan’s sixth judo medal

Chizuru Arai won Japan’s sixth gold medal in judo at the Tokyo Olympics. She beat Austria’s Michaela Polleres in the final of the women’s 70-kilogram middleweight division. Taimazova and the Netherlands’ Sanne van Dijke won bronze. ROWING Romanian women win first rowing gold

Romania’s Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis won the first rowing gold medal of the Tokyo Games, in women’s double sculls. They bolted from the start and never let up in a dominating performance. The rowing medal events had been delayed for a day because of bad weather forecasts amid a tropical storm.

• The French team of Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias held off a late charge from the Netherlands over the final 50 meters to win the men’s double sculls by 0.2 seconds in Olympic record time of 6 minutes, 33 seconds.

• Australia’s women’s four set a new Olympic-best time to win the gold medal in windy conditions at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway. The Australian boat led at each marker but had to fight off the Netherlands over the last 50 meters to win in 6 minutes, 15.37 seconds, just .34 seconds ahead of the Dutch boat. Ireland took bronze.

• The Australian men’s four charged to victory moments after the Aussie women claimed their gold.

• The Netherlands set a world record in men’s quadruple sculls with a sprint over the final 500 meters to win the gold medal. Their time of 5 minutes, 32.03 seconds beat the previous mark of 5:32.26 set by Ukraine at the 2014 worlds. RUGBY Fiji beats New Zealand to win gold medal

Fiji beat New Zealand 2712 to successfully defend the title it won when rugby sevens made its Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The gold in Rio was Fiji’s first Olympic medal in any sport. Now the Pacific island nation has two.