RIO DE JANEIRO – The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
6:40 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Top-ranked Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia easily won the gold medal at 98 kilograms in Greco-Roman wrestling Tuesday.
Aleksanyan beat Cuban Yasmany Lugo Cabrera 3-0, halting Cuba’s attempt to win an Olympic title in each day of the Greco-Roman portion of the tournament.
Aleksanyan scored early with a two-point turn and deftly defended himself in the second period to clinch his third straight world title.
Bronze medals went to Turkey’s Celk Ildem – who did a backflip to celebrate his win – and Iran’s Ghasem Rezaei.
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6:35 p.m.
A new Olympic field hockey champion will be crowned after Belgium reached the men’s final for the first time by beating its Netherlands neighbor 3-1.
Earlier, Argentina also reached its first men’s final when it dumped defending two-time champion Germany 5-2.
Emotions ran deep at the Olympic Hockey Centre after the second semifinal.
Belgium beat the Netherlands for the first time in major competition, ending an 80-year winless run.
The Dutch, who blew away top-ranked Australia in the quarterfinals, took over the mantle as gold-medal favorites.
Preceding the final Thursday, Germany and the Netherlands, who played in the final in London, meet for bronze.
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6:25 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Kristina Vogel of Germany swept past Becky James of Britain to win the gold medal in the individual sprint at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Katy Marchant added a bronze for Britain when she swept Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands.
The world bronze medalist in the event, Vogel knocked off Marchant in the semifinal round to set up her match with James. She won both races in the best-of-three event from the lead, even losing her saddle as she crossed the finish line to win the gold medal.
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6:10 p.m.
Brazil’s men reached the gold medal match of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament, beating the Netherlands in three sets to clinch no worse than a silver medal.
After a loss by the top-seeded Brazilian women quieted the Copacabana crowd in the early Tuesday semifinal, Alison and Bruno brought it back to life. The fans in the 12,000-seat stadium rose to their feet for Brazil’s double-match point in the second set, but the Dutch came back to force a tiebreaking third set.
The Brazilians beat Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen 21-17, 21-23, 16-14. The 6-foot-8 Alison, known as “Mammoth” collapsed face-first on the sand, while Bruno slapped alternately at a television camera and his own chest in celebration.
Alison and Bruno will play the winner of the night semifinal between Russia and Italy.
Earlier Tuesday, top-seeded Brazilian women Talita and Larissa lost to Germany and will play in the bronze medal match.
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6:05 p.m.
Melanie Behringer and Sara Daebritz each scored to send Germany to its first-ever Olympic gold-medal match with a 2-0 semifinal win over Canada on Tuesday.
Germany, which has won three Olympic bronze medals, will face Sweden in the final Friday at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
The Swedes advanced 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless draw in front of a nearly full house at Maracana earlier on Tuesday.
German’s semifinal was played some 275 miles to the north at Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte. The Olympic soccer tournament has been played in cities across the country.
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5:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Laura Trott continued Britain’s golden Olympics in the velodrome by defending her title in the women’s omnium, adding to the gold medal she won in the team pursuit competition.
Sarah Hammer of the United States took silver ahead of Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore.
Trott had three victories and two second-place finishes in the first five races of the six-discipline omnium, then merely padded her lead in the points race to easily secure victory.
The British team has won five of the eight gold medals available in the track program. Jason Kenny in the keirin and Becky James in the individual sprint can add to that total.
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5:35 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Wrestler Davor Stefanek is the first Serbian man to win an Olympic gold medal, taking the title at 66 kilograms in the Greco-Roman discipline.
Stefanek, who upset top-seeded German Frank Staebler in the quarterfinals, beat Armenia’s Migran Arutyunyan 1-1 on Tuesday on criteria. Stefanek scored the final point to clinch the match.
Georgia’s Shmagi Bolkvadze and Rasul Chunayev of Azerbaijan won bronze.
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5:35 p.m.
The leader of Budapest’s bid for the 2024 Olympics rejects the label of “underdog” in the race says the three other candidates “should be afraid of us.”
The Hungarian capital is competing against Paris, Rome and Los Angeles for the 2024 Olympics and has been viewed as the outsider in the race.
Bid chairman Balazs Furjes took exception to that perception at a news conference Tuesday to promote the candidacy.
He says Budapest “is not an underdog in this competition.”
Furjes adds that Budapest “is an equal participant and has all the chances just like the others to finish No. 1.”
He says “as much as we are kind of afraid of them, they should be afraid of us in the spirit of Olympic values and friendship.”
The IOC will select the 2024 host city in September 2017.
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5:35 p.m.
The public address system broke down at the Olympic Hockey Centre, so the Netherlands then Belgium teams belted out their national anthems before their men’s field hockey semifinal.
As the teams sang on Tuesday, their fans joined and echoed the players.
There were cheers and clapping for everyone, and the match started on time.
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5:35 p.m.
One of the best spectator sports at the Olympics is pin trading. But collection buffs say the Rio Games have been a disappointment much like Sochi was two years ago.
They say fears of Zika, filthy water and street crime kept crowds down and pin collectors away.
Sid Hopkins of Atlanta is doing less-than-brisk business inside the Coca Cola pin trading tent. He estimates pin trading is off 40 percent from London in 2012.
Hopkins says Rio is the worst he’s seen in his nine Olympics.
Hopkins said “People were afraid of Zika and crime. That’s too bad because I haven’t seen any mosquitoes and with all the police and soldiers here, we feel very safe.”
Russian collector Irina Dzidziguri suggest another factor in the drop-off is that some of the thousands of Brazilian volunteers are not eager to give up the pins they’ve been given by media outlets, athletes and others.
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4:50 p.m.
Germany quieted the Copacabana crowd has eliminated Brazil’s top-seeded beach volleyball team, beating hometown and tournament favorites Larissa and Talita 21-18, 21-12.
By winning the semifinals, Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst clinched Germany’s first-ever Olympic medal in women’s beach volleyball. The German men won the gold medal in London.
The Germans will play the winner of the night semifinal between the Americans, Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross, and the No. 2-seeded Brazilian team of Agatha and Barbara.
Ludwig dropped to the sand after the winning point on Tuesday.
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4:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Cancer survivor and six-time Olympian Santiago Lange of Argentina won the gold medal in the Nacra 17 mixed catamaran on Tuesday with crew Cecilia Carranza Saroli in the Rio Games sailing regatta.
It’s been an extraordinary games for the 54-year-old Lange. He is the oldest competitor in sailing at Rio and his sons, Yago and Klaus, are sailing for Argentina in the 49er skiff class.
Lange lost part of a lung to cancer last year.
He and Saroli won the gold by one point over Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin of Australia. Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank of Austria won the bronze.
He and crewmate Carlos Espinola won bronze medals in the discontinued Tornado class at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.
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4:40 p.m.
UPSET ALERT: Germany beat Brazil’s top-seeded women’s team at the Copacabana beach volleyball venue on Tuesday, topping the hometown and tournament favorites 21-18, 21-12, to clinch a spot in the gold medal match.
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4:40 p.m.
Rio Games organizers say they dropped the ball at the start of the games in terms of logistics and other details.
Games spokesman Mario Andrada said Tuesday that senior International Olympic Committee officials complained that transportation logistics were not as good they should have been.
Andrada said: “You need to provide good service and we were kind of dropping the ball a little bit in the beginning,”
Games organizers made adjustments including having professional instead of volunteer drivers transport IOC guests at the Olympics.
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4:25 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Fabian Hambuechen of Germany finally reached the top spot on high bar at the Olympics.
The German gymnast soared to gold in the high bar finals on Tuesday to add to the silver he won in London and the bronze he captured in Beijing in 2008.
Hambuechen posted a score of 15.766, just ahead silver medalist American Danell Leyva. The silver was the second for Leyva in the span of 90 minutes. He won silver on parallel bars earlier Tuesday.
Nile Wilson of Great Britain took third just ahead of American Sam Mikulak
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4:25 p.m.
Rio Games organizers believe the booing of Olympic pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie was understandable but also unacceptable.
Lavillenie, of France, faced a hostile reaction from boisterous home fans as Thiago Braz da Silva delivered Brazil’s second gold medal of its home Olympics on Monday night.
Lavillenie complained that “if you get no respect in the Olympics, where can you get respect?” after he won silver.
Rio Games spokesman Mario Adrada said Tuesday that in many ways the booing was “understandable,” but “we cannot afford (that) an athlete feels booing interferes with his or her performance.”
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3:55 p.m.
Hedvig Lindahl made two saves and Lisa Dahlkvist converted the final penalty as Sweden defeated host Brazil 4-3 in a shootout to reach the final of the Olympic soccer tournament for the first time.
Cristiane and Andressa had their shots saved by Lindahl at the packed Maracana Stadium. Brazil goalkeeper Barbara stopped the shot by Kosovare Asllani.
The teams drew 0-0 after regulation and extra time.
Brazil was trying to win the women’s soccer gold for the first time. It twice won the silver, in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. Brazil was eliminated by Japan in the quarterfinals of the London Olympics four years ago.
Canada and Germany will play the other semifinal.
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3:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have won the gold medal in the men’s 49er class in the Rio Olympics sailing regatta with a race to spare.
The Kiwis came in as the overwhelming favorites after dominating the skiff class the last four years after taking the silver in London.
They’ve dominated in this regatta, too. They finished third, fifth and fourth in Tuesday’s races to take an unassailable 34-point lead over Germany’s Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel. Defending gold medalists Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Australia are in third place going into Thursday’s medal race.
Burling and Tuke also sail for Emirates Team New Zealand in the America’s Cup. Outteridge and Jensen sail with Sweden’s Artemis Racing.
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3:50 p.m.
Karch Kiraly’s top-ranked U.S. women’s team moved one step closer to its goal of capturing the Americans’ first volleyball gold, defeating familiar opponent Japan in straight sets Tuesday to reach the semifinals in Rio.
The unbeaten U.S. won 25-16, 25-23, 25-22 and has dropped just five sets all tournament. It has faced Japan more times than any other team since 1983. The Americans have won the last three meetings on the Olympic stage against Japan, opening the 2008 Beijing Games with a four-set victory after sweeping Japan in a match at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
The Americans will face Russia or Serbia in Thursday’s semifinals.
Two-time reigning Olympic champion and host Brazil will take on a young China team in Tuesday’s late match for a date with the upstart Netherlands women, who beat South Korea in four sets. The Dutch are back in their first Olympics in 20 years and went 4-1 in group play behind the Americans.
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3:40 p.m.
Simone Biles put the finishing touches on one of the greatest Olympics by a gymnast ever, capturing her fourth gold of the games with a showstopping performance in the floor exercise.
The 19-year-old American on Tuesday completed an extraordinary stretch that included a team gold for the “Final Five” as well as individual golds in the all-around and vault and bronze on balance beam.
Her five medals tie the most for an American woman in a single Olympics and her four golds tie an Olympic record shared by three others.
Biles embraced longtime coach Aimee Boorman shortly after her routine, which includes a tumbling pass named in her honor and a Brazilian-themed segment intended to play to the crowd in Rio. She beamed when her score of 15.966 was posted.
Teammate Aly Raisman followed with a 15.500 silver-medal performance to give her a third medal during Rio and six overall in her Olympic career.
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This item has been corrected to show that four golds ties an Olympic record shared by four others.
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3:35 p.m.
Caleb Paine has won the bronze medal in the Finn class, the first sailing medal for the United States at the Rio Games.
Paine led at every mark to win Tuesday’s race. The gold medal was clinched two days ago by Britain’s Giles Scott. Silver went to Vasilij Zbogar of Slovenia.
Paine was sailing in his first Olympics after beating 2008 silver medalist Zach Railey in the selection process.
The United States was whitewashed in sailing at the London Games, failing to win an Olympic medal for the first time since 1936.
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3:10 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Simone Biles closes out her Olympics with 4th gold medal of Rio Games in floor exercise.
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3:15 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Russia continued its dominance of Olympic synchronized swimming in Tuesday’s duet final as Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina each won their fourth career gold medals.
Russia has won every available Olympic gold in synchronized swimming since 2000, and Ishchenko and Romashina are among the most decorated swimmers in the sport’s history.
They performed an elegant and up-tempo free routine to win gold with a total score of 194.991 out of a possible 200, after coming in with the lead from the technical routine, and embraced their coaches at poolside.
That made it almost impossible for China’s Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan to challenge, and they had to settle for their country’s first Olympic silver in synchro duet on 192.3688.
Japan edged out Ukraine for bronze on 188.0547.
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This item has been corrected to reflect silver was China’s first in synchro duet.
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3 p.m.
The water is back to normal at the Olympic diving pool.
The water turned a murky green a week ago. But on Tuesday it was its usual blue color and resembled the color of the larger synchronized swimming pool next to it.
The diving pool’s water changed color a week ago, touching off an embarrassing sequence of events for games’ organizers. The green color spread to the pool used for early water polo play before officials drained it and filled it with clean water from a practice pool.
Diving events end Saturday.
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3 p.m.
Brazil and Sweden are in extra time in the semifinals of the women’s Olympic soccer tournament.
Brazil controlled possession from the start but couldn’t capitalize on its scoring chances at the packed Maracana Stadium. Sweden threatened a few times on counterattacks.
Brazil is trying to win the women’s soccer gold for the first time. It twice won the silver, in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. Marta and Brazil were eliminated by Japan in the quarterfinals of the London Olympics four years ago.
Sweden is trying to reach the Olympic final for the first time.
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2:40 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Oleg Verniaiev of the Ukraine picked up his second medal in men’s gymnastics, taking gold in the parallel bars final on Tuesday.
Verniaiev’s score of 16.041 was just a touch better than the 15.9 put up by American Danell Leyva. David Belyavskiy of Russia earned the bronze.
Verniaiev finished a close second to Japan’s Kohei Uchimura in the all-around final last week.
The silver by Leyva was the first Olympic medal by an American on parallel bars since 1996. A bronze medalist in the all-around four years ago, Leyva was originally an alternate on the 2016 team before stepping in after John Orozco was injured during training in the weeks leading up to the games.
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2:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Tom Burton of Australia has won the gold medal in the men’s Laser class at the Rio Olympics sailing regatta.
It’s the first sailing gold in the Rio Games for the Australians, who won three classes in the London Games in 2012.
Burton finished third in Tuesday’s medal race to finish two points ahead of Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia, who came in already having been assured of at least the silver. He finished ninth in the medal race. His silver is the first Olympic sailing medal for Croatia.
Sam Meech of New Zealand won the bronze.
Robert Scheidt fell just short in his attempt to become the first sailor and first Brazilian to win six Olympic medals. Although he won the medal race, he finished fourth overall, four points behind Meech.
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2:25 p.m.
Kenyan sprinter Carvin Nkanata took a chance and jumped on a plane in Florida on Monday night, landed in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday morning, ran at the Olympics a couple of hours later.
Heat 8 of the 200 meters at the Olympic Stadium was the second race of the day for the U.S.-born Nkanata. The first was getting from the airport to the stadium, getting his accreditation, getting registered and getting a lane.
No surprise that Nkanata, who says he was only cleared to run for Kenya by the Court of Arbitration for Sport early Tuesday morning, didn’t run his best. He finished last in his heat in 21.43 seconds.
He says: “I just got on a plane last night. I just prayed. I just thought I’ve got to get here.”
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2:20 p.m.
Serbia shocked Australia, eliminating the three-time women’s basketball silver medalists 73-71 Tuesday and leaving the stunned Aussies standing on the court with their hands on their heads, crying in disbelief.
Ana Dabovic hit a free throw with 10.2 seconds left to give Serbia a two-point lead and the Aussies had one last chance to force overtime or win it. But Australia guard Leilani Mitchell’s heave from near the three-point line was short and Marianna Tolo’s desperation put-back didn’t hit the rim – sending the jubilant Serbs racing to midcourt to celebrate.
Penny Taylor, who is retiring at the end of the WNBA season, stood with her hands on her head when the horn sounded. And emotional Liz Cambage, who has carried the Aussies in Rio and had 29 points and 11 rebounds, broke down in tears. Australia’s streak of medaling in every Olympics since 1996 came to an abrupt end.
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2:05 p.m.
China swept all five Olympic badminton golds in London, but its attempt to repeat was over even before Rio’s gold medal rounds were even set to begin.
In mixed doubles, Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying of Malaysia knocked out London silver medalists Xu Chen and Ma Jin of China. The Malaysians will play Wednesday for gold against Indonesia’s Tontowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir, who beat Chinese Olympic champions Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei.
And in a women’s doubles semifinal, Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark defeated China’s Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang.
But China still has hopes for medals.
China’s Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan will play for gold Friday against Malaysia’s Tan Wee Kiong and Goh V. Shem.
In men’s singles, many are watching world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, of Malaysia, who has lost the last two Olympic finals to two-time champion Lin Dan, of China. If both continue winning, the rivals will play in the semifinals.
In women’s singles, the favorites are Spanish world No. 1 Carolina Marin and Li Xuerui, the Chinese defending Olympic champion.
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1:55 p.m.
World road race champion Peter Sagan says he is pursuing a dream by competing on the mountain bike at the Rio Games.
It’s a big change for Sagan, who won three stages in this year’s Tour de France and clinched the best sprinter’s green jersey for the fifth consecutive year.
Now he’s training on the mountain bike. The fan favorite won a small race in Wyoming a couple weeks ago as a tuneup.
Sagan said Tuesday that the competition will be much tougher in Rio, but he wants to give it a try. He’s says he’s excited to be in Rio after his hopes to compete on the mountain bike in 2012 in London were dashed.
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1:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands has won the gold medal in the women’s Laser Radial class in the Rio Olympics sailing regatta.
Bouwmeester, who won the silver in London four years ago, was seventh in the medal race Tuesday and finished six points ahead of silver medalist Annalise Murphy of Ireland. Murphy finished fourth in London after dominating early in that regatta.
The bronze medal went to Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark.
Defending bronze medalist Evi Van Acker of Belgium finished fourth. Van Acker fell ill earlier in the regatta and struggled. Her coach said she contracted a severe intestinal infection while training on polluted Guanabara Bay last month.
The race had been scheduled for Monday but was postponed due to high winds.
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1:35 p.m.
Argentina has reached its first Olympic final in men’s field hockey after thrashing defending two-time champion Germany 5-2.
Gonzalo Peillat scored three times from penalty corners in the first half, and Agustin Mazzilli and Lucas Vila added second-half goals for Argentina’s biggest win over Germany in a major event.
Captain Moritz Furste and Christopher Ruhr scored for Germany.
Netherlands and Belgium play the second semifinal late.
Germany was riding an incredible streak of luck from scoring in the last 8 seconds of three games, including a 4-4 draw with Argentina in pool play last Thursday. But Argentina wasn’t fazed, having lost to the Germans only once in seven previous major matches in two years.
Los Leones, the Lions, are guaranteed their first medal in 11 Olympics, out of the shadow of their great women’s side, who medaled in the last six games but lost to archrival the Netherlands in the quarterfinals Monday.
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1:30 p.m.
Cao Yuan of China was top qualifier in the semifinals of the men’s 3-meter springboard at the Rio Olympics.
Yuan blew away the field, finishing with a score of 489.10 points to advance to the evening final.
Rommel Pacheco of Mexico was next at 469.70, just ahead of Russia’s Evgenii Kuznetsov (468.35) and Mike Hixon of the United States (467.25).
The top 12 will compete for the gold at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center.
Cao will be trying to give China its fifth diving victory in six events at Rio. He’ll have to go it alone after his teammate, He Chao, stunningly failed to advance out of the preliminaries.
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1:20 p.m.
The busiest day at the Rio Olympics boat basin is underway with the women’s Laser Radial medal race on the Sugarloaf Course just off Flamengo Beach.
It’s the first of four medal races scheduled for Tuesday. The Laser Radial and men’s Laser medal races were postponed from Monday, when first there was too little wind, and then too much wind to sail.
The Laser Radials went off at 1:05 p.m. The Lasers were to follow at 1:50, followed by the Finn men and 2:35 p.m. and the Nacra 17 mixed catamaran crews at 3:20.
Britain’s Giles Scott has already clinched the gold medal. American Caleb Paine of San Diego has a chance at the bronze.
The 470 men and women are scheduled to sail their final three preliminary races. Their medal races are Wednesday.
The 49er men and 49erFX women are scheduled to sail their final three races as well. Their medal races are Thursday, wrapping up the regatta.
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1 p.m.
Usain Bolt’s bid for a triple-sprint double is on track after winning his preliminary heat in the 200 meters.
After winning a gold medal in the 100 for a third consecutive Olympics, Bolt has turned his focus to lowering his world record mark of 19.19 mark in the 200-meters.
On Tuesday, he powered out of the blocks and ran hard out of the curve before slowing down to win heat 9 in 20.28 seconds.
Semifinals in the 200-meters are set for Wednesday the final for Thursday. Bolt is looking to win this eighth Olympic gold medal.
Two other Jamaicans were among the fastest times, with London 2012 silver medalist Yohan Blake running 20.13 and Nickel Ashmeade finishing in 20.15.
Justin Gatlin got some cheers from the crowd this time, a contrast to the booing that greeted his introductions for the semifinals and the final of the 100 on Sunday. The American won his heat in 20.42.