2019 world champion Jacarra Winchester qualified for a bronze-medal match at 53 kg, where she will battle two-time world champion Vanesa Kaladzinskya of Belarus on Friday night.
Kyle Dake qualified for the 74kg bronze medal match, where he'll face off against two-time world champion and 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Frank Chamizo of Italy.
TOKYO — Keyshawn Davis will have a chance to end the 17-year gold medal drought lingering over the U.S. men’s boxing team.
On Friday, Davis defeated Hovhannes Bachkov of Armenia in the lightweight semifinals by unanimous decision, 5-0, at the Tokyo Games.
Fellow American Richard Torrez will fight in the super heavyweight final Sunday in the final bout of the tournament.
The last U.S. men’s boxer to win a gold medal was Andre Ward in 2004.
Davis, 23 and a native of Norfolk, Virginia, is one of three professionals on the U.S. team’s roster.
In the round of 16 here, Davis scored a TKO victory over France's Sofiane Oumiha, who was the No. 1 seed and 2016 Olympic silver medalist.
TOKYO — The U.S. women’s volleyball team will finally have a chance to play for Olympic gold.
The Americans advanced to the final, beating Serbia 25-19, 25-15, 25-23 in the semifinal on Friday. Annie Drews and Jordan Larson led the U.S. women with 17 and 15 points, respectively.
Setter Jordyn Poulter returned after rolling her ankle during pool play, while outside hitter Jordan Thompson was still out with an ankle injury.
Five years ago in Rio, the United States fell to Serbia in the semifinal and went on to take the bronze medal. It will have the opportunity for the country’s first gold after claiming bronze in 2012 and silver in 2008.
The Americans will face either Brazil or Korea after those teams face off in the other semifinal later Friday.
Despite being a bit stuck in the mud in their semifinal against Serbia, the U.S. women’s basketball team has had little trouble to this point and leads 41-23 at halftime.
It wasn’t a great display of basketball for either side, but much of that is due to Serbia being unable to do much of anything against Team USA’s defense. The Serbians made just 10-of-36 field goals in the first half, including several airballs, and often looked like they were just throwing up prayers at the rim and hoping for something good to happen.
The U.S. wasn’t particularly sharp for long stretches but picked it up toward the end of the second quarter and went on an 11-2 run in the final 2:25 of the half to create some distance.
Guard Sue Bird and center Brittney Griner each have eight points for the U.S. while A’ja Wilson has seven. At this point, Team USA appears well on track to make the gold medal game back here at Saitama Super Arena on Sunday.
KAWAGOE, Japan — Nelly Korda didn’t have her best game, at least not compared to Thursday’s Olympic-record score of 62 (9-under-par) in the second round, but that didn’t matter much.
Groups will tee off at 6:30 a.m. local time off tees one and 10 in an effort to finish the final round before an expected tropical storm moves into the area. Before the tournament started, players had been warned the tournament may last only 54 hole or that the final round could be moved to Sunday.
Had the 54-hole reality panned out, Korda would already be Olympic champion. Instead the 22-year-old will have to hold off Ashok and four others tied for third at 10-under for the tournament. One of those golfers is defending silver-medalist Lydia Ko (New Zealand), who fired the second-best score of the day with a 66.
The other players at 10-under are Hannah Greene (Australia), Emily Petersen (Denmark) and Japan’s Mone Inami.
Ross and Klineman won 2-0 (21-15, 21-16). Ross contributed nine total attack points and Klineman finished with ten attack points and two block points. They went on an early 5-0 run to go up 7-2 in the first set and Australia was never able to take a lead through 20 minutes of playtime.
After going down two points to start the second set, Ross and Klineman went on a resurgent 10-0 run. Martacho del Solar and Clancy tried to overtake the lead, closing the gap to 16-13, but the U.S. team prevailed.
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