The Latest: Defending champ misses 200m breaststroke cut
Neglected TO QUALIFY: In the greatest amazement of the swimming preliminaries, guarding Olympic champion Daniel Gyurta of Hungary neglected to qualify in the 200-meter breaststroke.
Gyurta's season of 2 minutes, 11.28 seconds landed him in seventeenth. He passed up a major opportunity for the last accessible spot for the 16-man elimination rounds by two-hundredths of a second. He won gold in the occasion four years prior in London.
The top qualifier was Anton Chupkov of Russia in 2:07.93. His buddy Ilya Khomenko progressed in fourth.
Americans Kevin Cordes and Josh Prenot likewise proceeded onward.
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3:45 p.m.
England has qualified quickest for the men's 4x200-meter free-form transfer in the Olympic pool.
Stephen Milne, Robbie Renwick, Dan Wallace and Duncan Scott posted a period of 7 minutes, 6.31 seconds in the warms.
The U.S. group of Clark Smith, Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Ryan Lochte was second speediest in 7:06.74. Lochte was vieing for the first run through in Rio. He figures to return for the evening last, joined by three new colleagues.
Russia progressed in third in 7:06.81.
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3:45 p.m.
Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain is the top qualifier in the ladies' 200-meter butterfly warms.
Her season of 2 minutes, 6.64 seconds drives 15 different swimmers into the elimination rounds Tuesday night.
U.S. fellow team members Hali Flickinger and Cammile Adams tied for the second-quickest time of 2:06.67 while swimming in various warms.
Belmonte earned bronze in the 400 individual variety on the main day of the swimming rivalry.
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3:20 p.m.
Pele would like to show up at the end function for the Rio Olympics.
The soccer extraordinary, who has been in weakness, tweeted Tuesday: "I am proceeding with my physiotherapy and concentrated on going along with you for the end merriments on August 21. I cherish you! #olympics"
Pele was the favored decision of coordinators to light the cauldron amid the opening service, yet he first said sponsorship responsibilities and later refered to wellbeing attentiveness toward keeping him away.
The 75-year-old Pele had hip surgery as of late and strolls with a stick.
The Olympic cauldron was lit by Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima.
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3:20 p.m.
Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain is the top qualifier in the ladies' 200-meter butterfly warms.
Her season of 2 minutes, 6.64 seconds drives 15 different swimmers into the elimination rounds Tuesday night.
U.S. partners Hali Flickinger and Cammile Adams tied for the second-speediest time of 2:06.67 while swimming in various warms.
Belmonte earned bronze in the 400 individual mixture on the principal day of the swimming rivalry.
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3:20 p.m.
Penny Taylor turned in the best execution of her Olympic profession, scoring 31 guides Tuesday toward help Australia defeat France 89-71.
The 35-year-old Taylor, who plays with the Phoenix Mercury and is resigning from ladies' b-ball after the WNBA season closes, needs to go out a champ.
Taylor opened the second with a 3-pointer and a three-guide play toward begin a 15-0 raced to take control and drove 46-29 at halftime. The three-time Olympian hit her initial seven shots and fell off the seat at whatever point France debilitated to trim Australia's lead under twofold digits.
It was a major win for the Aussies against the group that beat them in extra time in the 2012 London Games and keeping them from the silver award.
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3:20 p.m.
Shielding champions Michael Jung of Germany and Sam FBW won a second progressive gold award in eventing, with another unmistakable round in the showjumping.
Jung, who had gotten no punishments in the crosscountry stage or the primary hop on Tuesday, had another impeccable round to wind up just the third rider in Olympic history to win consecutive individual gold awards.
He is likewise the main rider to have completed on his dressage score in the Olympics — and as of now accomplished that deed in London, four years prior.
Nicolas Astier and Piaf de B'Neville had four hopping punishments and two time as they added singular silver to the group gold they won with France before in the day.
Phillip Dutton of the United States, who had come to inside one wall of an individual decoration in each significant title subsequent to 1994, won bronze on Mighty Nice.
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3:15 p.m.
Flip out! Cameroon's Wilfried Seyi wowed the group when he played out a reverse somersault amidst the ring taking after his win in a middleweight session.
Possibly his next stop ought to be the Karolyi farm and a spot on the U.S. vaulting group.
He had maybe the best festival move among the triumphant boxers. The boxers like to indicate the group and move for what have been uncontrollably eager group.
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2:55 p.m.
Paddling authorities say there's a danger races may must be scratched off for a brief moment day as solid winds are normal on the Rio tidal pond where the Olympic regatta is occurring.
Intense blasts made hustling unimaginable on Sunday, and following two days of quiet conditions, the winds are relied upon to get once more.
World paddling league official chief Matt Smith told columnists on Tuesday that authorities will choose at 7:30 a.m. neighborhood time whether to Wednesday morning. If not, they will make another call at 12 p.m. whether to hold races toward the evening.
Smith said the climate gauge demonstrated a 48-hour climate framework moving in and that Thursday could likewise get confused.
Regardless of the fact that races are crossed out on both days, he said the regatta could be finished by the Sunday twelve due date, when paddling needs to hand over the course to kayak sprint.
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2:40 p.m.
Vladislav Yakovlev has invested as much energy in the vessel as in the water amid the Olympic regatta in Rio.
The Kazakh rower flipped his scull for the second time Tuesday in a warmth for lower positioned competitors.
Yakovlev was driving his warmth in the single sculls when he found a crab, which means the paddle edge got stuck in the water. Next thing his watercraft was topsy turvy and Yakovlev adjacent to it.
He experienced some difficulty getting back in, however in the long run figured out how to proceed with the 2-kilometer race, completing in last place, 3 minutes behind Thailand's Jaruwat Saensuk.
It was Yakovlev's second overturning in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. He additionally flipped in a warmth Monday however completed the race.
He'll have one final opportunity to complete a race without getting wet on Friday, in the last warmth for the most minimal positioned scullers.
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2:40 p.m.
As the surprises gather surrounding him, 2012 singles gold medalist Andy Murray is having a simple time so far at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
England's Murray, who is seeded No. 2, breezed into the third round with a 6-3, 6-1 triumph over Argentina's Juan Monaco on Tuesday. Murray submitted just 10 unforced blunders ?— Monaco had 26 — ? what's more, was broken just once.
Murray has dropped a stupendous aggregate of nine diversions in the competition, looking particularly like the most loved to end up the initial tennis player in Olympic history to gather two singles golds.
No. 1 Novak Djokovic lost in the first round, and the men seeded Nos. 5 and 7 as of now are gone, as well.
Seventh-seeded David Ferrer of Spain lost 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 on Tuesday to Evgeny Donskoy of Russia.
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2:15 p.m.
U.S. ladies' water polo mentor Adam Krikorian held back tears as he depicted his tornado week after the demise of one of his two more seasoned siblings.
Blake Krikorian kicked the bucket Wednesday at 48. He had gone oar boarding in the San Francisco Bay Area and was discovered lying alongside his auto in the parking garage. A region coroner told the San Francisco Chronicle it shows up he kicked the bucket of normal causes.
Adam Krikorian left the group to be with his family and came back to Rio on Monday where he instructed the U.S. to a 11-4 triumph over Spain in its Olympic opener on Tuesday.
He says he feels for his sibling's better half and two kids, and the backing from his players lifted him up.
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2:10 p.m.
Guarding Olympic champion Nathan Adrian has barely progressed in the 100-meter free-form warms.
The American sprinter got the sixteenth and last spot for Tuesday night's elimination rounds with a period of 48.58 seconds. He was 0.68 seconds behind top qualifier Kyle Chalmers of Australia, who was planned in 47.90.
The other American, Caeleb Dressel, was second quickest in 47.91.
Other striking names moving into the elimination rounds are Santo Condorelli of Canada and Russian Vladimir Morozov. Morozov was one of the Russian swimmers at first banned from the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Rami Anis, an individual from the evacuee Olympic group, didn't qualify, completing 56th of 59 swimmers.
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2:10 p.m.
The International Judo Federation says that "a methodology" is under approach to survey the status of Olympic judo champion Majlinda Kelmendi, after the Kosovo star declined to submit to an unannounced medication test in France in June.
The IJF said in an announcement on Tuesday that a French doping controller landed at a preparation camp in Saint-Cyprien on June 16 and had was shocked by the nearness of remote competitors notwithstanding French nationals.
At the point when the controller requested that remote judo contenders submit to their doping controls, a few mentors counseled the IJF, who said that "they had no commitment to do the test in those conditions."
Notwithstanding Kelmendi, Germany's Martyna Trajdos declined to submit to the test. At the point when IJF president Marius Vizer was told, he tried all competitors who didn't submit to the control the next week; those outcomes were all negative.
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2:05 p.m.
Nourishment is so rare at a considerable lot of Rio's Olympic venues that coordinators are making extraordinary move.
Rio sorting out board of trustees representative Mario Andrada says we are "permitting individuals to leave the venues for sustenance and water since this facilitates the weight" to supply nourishment and beverage inside the doors.
Fans have grumbled about the absence of sustenance or ?— when it's accessible — ? the gigantic lines to pay for it.
Coordinators say a few suppliers neglected to convey supplies.
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