Olympic 2016 Results: How to View Wednesday's Live Medal Tally Updates
Another star is done accumulating Olympic gold medals for the United States, but the damage is already done.
On Tuesday, Simone Biles picked up her fourth gold of the 2016 Rio Games in the individual floor exercise. Combining her first-place finishes with star swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, the trio has more gold medals (13) than all but two other nations (Great Britain and China).
With five days remaining, the U.S. has fortified its place atop the leaderboard. As the men's basketball squad reaches one step closer to keeping the throne, the country can claim more hardware on Wednesday in table tennis, beach volleyball and track and field, among other medal events.
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Here's an updated look at Brazil's country-by-country medal tally:
Good news for fans of parity: The U.S. men's basketball games are no longer forgone conclusions. Bad news for U.S. basketball supporters: Wednesday's quarterfinals bout with Argentina is no longer a forgone conclusion.
Twelve years ago, Argentina shocked Team USA in the Olympic semifinals on its way to gold. That upset marked the only time a U.S. team comprised of NBA players didn't win it all.
Following two consecutive three-point victories, nobody can assume the Americans will prevail.
Surprised by Australia, Serbia and France all putting up tough fights? So is Paul George, who said what everyone was thinking to USA Today's Sam Amick.
“To start out (heading into the Olympics), I thought personally that we were going to dominate; these games were going to come easy,” George said after Team USA's 100-97 win over France on Sunday. “But you start playing the better competition, and you see across the board that these teams are pretty good.”
A dozen years after engineering the major upset, Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola and Andres Nocioni can repeat history in what may be the last time each of the NBA veterans compete in the Olympics. Per the Boston Globe's Gary Washburn, Ginobili and Co. aren't excited about their opponent's recent mortality:
Having dropped back-to-back losses to Lithuania and Spain, Argentina isn't cruising into the quarterfinals, either. The likes or Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony have to be licking their lips at facing a defense that just yielded 92 points to a Spain squad that was enduring underwhelming preliminary results.
Yet this is likely the Golden Generation's last stand, so expect a tough fight.
A much lesser-known juggernaut, Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho has won gold in each of the last three Olympic Games. According to NBCOlympics.com's Nick Zaccardi, no woman has ever won gold in four separate Olympics.
Icho can become the first if she claims the freestyle 58 kg again. She'll begin her quest for history in Wednesday's round-of-16 match against Tunisia's Marwa Amri.
Kerri Walsh Jennings can no longer beat Icho to the punch. On Tuesday night, the beach volleyball icon suffered the first Olympic loss of her career. Her streak of three gold medals and 26 matches won ended when she and teammate April Ross lost to Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas in two tightly contested sets.
Entering the semifinal showdown, Walsh Jennings had dropped two sets over her entire Olympic career.
Brazil's triumphant duo will battle Germany's Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst, who knocked off top-ranked Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha in a straight-set semifinals upset.
The U.S. pairing will instead play for bronze against the world's No. 1 seed, also representing Brazil. As a result, they'll once again encounter a raucous crowd as the road villains.
A day after Brazil suffered heartbreak in the women's soccer semifinals, the men will look to assuage the host's spirits in their semifinal showdown with Honduras. The winner will advance to the gold-medal match against Nigeria or Germany, who collide later on Wednesday afternoon.
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