Rising star, American gymnast Simone Biles will be back in action Tuesday looking for her fourth gold medal on the final day of action in Rio.
Biles missed her chance at becoming the first woman to win five gold medals during a single Olympics after a misstep on the balance beam Monday, eventually finishing with a bronze medal, but she hopes to move past it as she competes in the floor exercise Tuesday afternoon.
Teammate Aly Raisman will join Biles in the event and is seen as her chief competition, though Biles is the reigning world champion and seen by many as the favorite to win. Last week, the duo took the gold and silver medals in the all-around event.
Men’s gymnastics also heads into its final day Tuesday with competition in the parallel and horizontal bar events.
Water marathon, track cycling
Men will take to the water for the 10km marathon in the first modern open water swimming event at the Olympics. The only other time the event was held in ocean water came in 1896, when swimmers competed in Greece’s Bay of Zea. The race marks the final swim event of 2016.
Track cycling will also wrap up competition Tuesday, with medal events held women’s omnium and sprint races, along with the men’s keirin final round.
American beach volleyball players Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross look to lock up a spot in the final round of their tournament with a game against Brazil’s world champion duo, Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas.
Bolt competes in 200m race
Jamaican runner Usain Bolt will compete for his second gold medal Tuesday morning when he takes part in the men’s 200 meter race. He won his first medal Sunday night in the 100 meters after narrowly edging out American Justin Gatlin.
Gatlin, who took silver in the 100 meter race, will also be back in action for the 200 meters.
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Monday highlights
U.S. swimming juggernaut Michael Phelps is looking forward to a lot more time with his family and on the golf course after he announced his retirement from professional swimming Monday.
Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history with a total of 23 Olympic gold medals, said he is happy with his legacy following the 2016 Rio games and would like to leave the sport after the “greatest Olympics” he’s experienced.
“I am happy now and I think that is the biggest difference between now and 2012. In 2012 I just wanted to be done, I wanted nothing to do with the sport anymore and now I am very happy, very pleased with the place that I am in and I am happy with how I have finished my career,” he said.
Russia wins heavyweight boxing gold
Russia’s Evgeny Tishchenko won the Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medal, defeating Kazakhstan’s Vassiliy Levit in a match so close that spectators booed the judges’ unanimous decision.
Levit appeared to control much of the fight, but the three judges all gave Tishchenko the win in a score of 29-28.
In the track cycling men’s omnium, Italy’s Elia Viviani looked as though he would be out of contention for a medal following a mid-race crash, but he came back to win gold, finishing in Rio’s Olympic velodrome.
In the Greco-Roman wresting 130kg title, Mijain Lopez Nunez won Cuba’s second gold medal of the 2016 Olympics as he beat Turkey’s Riza Kayaalp.
Bahamas outruns US for 400m gold
World champion American runner Allyson Felix lost her attempt to win her record fifth Olympic gold medal late Monday in the women’s 400-meter final after Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dove across the finish line and narrowly edged her out.
Felix ended the race with a time of 49.51, just shy of Miller’s 49.44, to earn the silver medal. Miller took the gold while Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson got bronze.
Kenyan wins 800m race
David Rushida of Kenya won the gold medal in the 800 meter race — his second in a row — in exciting fashion, edging out his closest competitor by just a few tenths of a second. Taoufik Makhloufi took silver with a time of 1:42.61 and American Clayton Murphy brought home bronze with a time of 1:42.93.
The U.S. currently leads the medal count with 26 golds and a total of 75. Great Britain comes in second with 16 golds and a total of 41, while China takes third with 15 golds and 46 total.
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