RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) The Latest on the Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
6:50 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT-WORLD RECORD: The British pursuit squad of Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Owain Doull beat Australia in world-record time to win its third straight Olympic gold medal in the event.
Wiggins also became the most decorated Olympian in British history with his fifth gold medal and eighth overall. He was tied with retired track cyclist Chris Hoy, who also won seven medals.
Britain broke its own world record in the semifinals before topping it again in the finals, stopping the clock in 3 minutes, 50.265 seconds. That beat the Australian team of Alexander Edmondson, Jack Bobridge, Michael Hepburn and Sam Welsford, who finished in 3:51.008 to take silver.
Denmark beat New Zealand to earn bronze.
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MEDAL ALERT: Dorian van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands has clinched the men's windsurfing gold medal and Clint Dempsey of Britain has clinched the silver, the same order of finish as in the London Games in 2012.
Van Rijsselberghe and Dempsey still have to sail the medals race on Sunday. The two congratulated each other after crossing the finish line on the Atlantic Ocean on Friday after the 12th race. The Dutchman had finishes of first, first and sixth - his lowest of the series - to finish with 23 points. Dempsey, who led the first two days of the regatta, went 5-7-8 to finish for 44 points.
The bronze medal will be up for grabs on Sunday.
It's a carbon copy repeat of London 2012 when van Rijsselberghe took gold ahead of the Briton.
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6:50 p.m.
Australian Open champ Angelique Kerber will play for the Olympic singles gold medal after yet another big win in 2016.
The second-seeded German beat American Madison Keys 6-3, 7-5 in the semifinals Friday, saving all 10 break points she faced. Kerber will play Puerto Rico's Monica Puig for gold Saturday.
The 28-year-old Kerber made her first major final in January, stunning Serena Williams for the title in Melbourne. She got to another Grand Slam title match at Wimbledon, losing there to Williams.
But with Williams upset in the third round in Rio de Janeiro, Kerber has looked comfortable in the role of favorite. She has yet to drop a set through five rounds.
The seventh-seeded Keys will face two-time Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova for the bronze medal Saturday.
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6:50 p.m.
Looking to bounce back from the disappointment of missing out on a synchronized diving medal, Jennifer Abel of Canada led the way in the preliminaries of the women's 3-meter springboard.
Abel topped the favored Chinese on Friday with a five-round score of 373.00 points. He Zi was right behind at 367.05, followed by teammate and reigning world champion Shi Tingmao at 357.55.
The top 18 advanced to Saturday's semifinals, where the field will be culled to 12 divers for the final.
The Chinese are hoping to rebound from a bronze medal in the men's springboard synchronized event, which cost the diving powerhouse a chance to sweep all eight events. They have won women's 3-meter springboard at seven straight Olympics, one short of the eight consecutive titles won by the United States from 1920-56.
A morning practice session was called off so officials would work to clean the green-tinged water. The color appeared closer to normal during the competition thought it was still a bit murky.
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6:40 p.m.
A Brazilian swimmer has filed a police report after receiving hateful messages on social media.
Rio de Janeiro police are investigating Facebook users who wrote offensive messages on a photo shared by swimmer Joanna Maranhao after she failed to qualify for the 200-meter individual medley final.
Maranhao went to the police station on Friday and said the comments wishing she was raped were hurtful. The 29-year-old swimmer initially expressed her anger in a post-race interview on Tuesday after the 200-meter butterfly.
Discriminatory posts are investigated by special internet crime units in Brazil and users can be punished for defamation, slander or injury.
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6:40 p.m.
Melanie Behringer scored a 76th-minute winner as Germany defeated China 1-0 to reach the semifinals of the women's Olympic soccer tournament on Friday.
Behringer scored with a superb long-range shot when China was already a player down because of a second yellow card shown to Wang Shanshan in the 57th.
China had a chance to tie late but Wang Shuang missed an 84th-minute penalty kick, sending her shot into the post and keeping alive Germany's hopes of winning the gold medal for the first time.
A two-time World Cup champion, Germany won the Olympic bronze three times.
It will now play either Canada of France, which play later Friday.
China won the silver medal in 1996.
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6:30 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi have won the gold medal in the women's team sprint at the Rio Olympics, beating the Russian team of Daria Shmeleva and Anastasia Voinova in the finals.
China broke its own world record in the semifinals, beating Spain with a time of 31.928 seconds, before knocking off the Russians to improve on the silver it won at the London Games.
Gong teamed with Guo Shuang in that effort four years ago.
The German team of Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel, the reigning Olympic champions, beat the Australian pair of Anna Meares and Stephanie Morton to claim bronze.
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6:30 p.m.
Flamengo, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama are three of the most famous soccer clubs in Rio de Janeiro - and all of Brazil. But their rivalry began in a different sport: rowing.
All three started as rowing clubs and that legacy remains a key part of their identity.
Flamengo's official name is Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, or Flamengo regatta club. The original crest had an anchor and two oars and is still used by the Flamengo rowing team. The club's official song, chanted by fans at soccer games, makes several references to rowing.
Flamengo's sports complex sits just next to the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon where the Olympic regatta is taking place.
These days rowing doesn't have the same stature in Rio as it did in the club's beginnings when big crowds would follow the regattas against Botafogo and Vasco da Gama on the lagoon.
Flamengo's rowing director Edson Figueiredo says nowadays only about 100 people turn up to watch state championship races against the local rivals.
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6:15 p.m.
The U.S. fencing team won bronze Friday in men's foil, its first medal in the event in 84 years.
The Americans, led by top-ranked Alexander Massialas and Gerek Meinhardt, throttled Italy 45-31 for its third medal in fencing so far at the Rio Games.
Massialas and Daryl Homer won silver medals in their respective individual events.
Massialas and Meinhardt dominated the Italians with a three-match stretch in which they outscored their opponents 20-1. The win was especially sweet for Massialas, whose poor performance in the semifinals kept his team from fighting for a gold medal.
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6:15 p.m.
A Brazilian cyclist has been suspended after failing a doping test before the Olympics.
The international cycling federation, UCI, says Kleber Ramos tested positive for CERA, a version of the blood-boosting drug EPO, on July 31.
The test came a week before Ramos competed in the Olympic road race on Aug. 6. He did not finish
The 30-year-old Ramos was on a UCI list of provisionally suspended athletes with analysis of the backup ''B'' sample still pending.
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6 p.m.
WORLD RECORD: China has shattered its own world record in the women's team sprint at the Olympic velodrome, its time of 31.928 seconds pushing it into a gold-medal match with Russia.
The team of Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi broke their Olympic record set at the London Games in the first round. Then they lowered the mark of 32.034 from last year's world championships.
China is the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the event.
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6 p.m.
France's Teddy Riner has successfully defended his Olympic judo title in the men's heavyweight division at the Rio Olympics.
In an uneventful final against Japan's world number two Hisayoshi Harasawa on Friday, Riner won on penalties. He had only one versus the two that Harasawa compiled.
Riner hasn't lost a match since 2010 and never looked in danger on Friday.
It is France's second judo gold medal of the Rio Olympics - and of Friday. Earlier on the same tatami mat, France's Emilie Andeol triumphed over defending Olympic judo champion Idalys Ortiz of Cuba.
The men's bronze medals were won by Brazil's Rafael Silva and Israel's Or Sasson.
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5:45 p.m.
U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo didn't shy away from what she thought of the Swedish team that eliminated the Americans from the Olympics in a penalty shootout.
Following Friday's loss, Solo said she thinks the U.S. team ''played a bunch of cowards. The best team did not win today, I strongly and firmly believe that.''
Solo was criticizing Sweden's style of play, which was defensive throughout the match.
In response, Sweden coach Pia Sundhage said: ''It's OK to be a coward if you win.''
Until Friday's loss, the reigning World Cup champions and four-time Olympic champions had not dropped a match this year.
Sundhage coached the U.S. team for five years and led the squad to gold medals in both Beijing and London.
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5:40 p.m.
WORLD RECORD: Bradley Wiggins became Britain's most decorated Olympian when he led his pursuit team past New Zealand in record time in the semifinals of the Rio Olympics.
Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Owain Doull stopped the clock in 3 minutes, 50.570 seconds, wiping out the mark of 3:51.659 they set at the London Games. They assured themselves of no worse than a silver medal but will face Australia later Friday night for gold.
It will be the eighth medal overall for Wiggins. The former Tour de France winner was tied with retired British track cyclist Chris Hoy, who has seven Olympic medals.
He is teaming with Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Owain Doull in the team pursuit.
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5:40 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: As soon as the final arrow struck the board, Ku Bonchan pumped his fist, doubled over and came up looking to the sky.
The Korean then gave his chest a double tap knowing the gold was officially his after a 7-3 defeat of Frenchman Jean-Charles Valladont in the men's individual archery Friday.
Ku had to outlast American Brady Ellison in a shootout in the semifinal just to advance, but then rolled through Valladont with all 10s and nines - except for the final eight that clinched the gold.
Valladont defeated Netherlands' Sjef van den Berg 7-3 to reach the gold medal round before taking silver.
Ellison rallied from a poor final arrow in the shootout against Ku to defeat van den Berg 6-2. He had to immediately put away the disappointment of the loss because the bronze medal round began moments later. Ellison has two team silver medals, but this was his first as an individual.
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5:25 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: France's fifth-ranked Emilie Andeol has beaten defending Olympic judo champion Idalys Ortiz in the women's over-78 kilogram division, in a lengthy final that went into overtime.
It is France's first judo gold of the Rio Games.
Neither fighter managed to score within the prescribed four-minute fight time, forcing the bout into a ''golden score'' period. After about three minutes, Andeol managed to trip Ortiz onto her back and then proceeded to hold her down to the mat for 20 seconds, earning an immediate victory.
Andeol jumped over the barriers into the crowd afterward, hugging supporters waving the French flag.
The country will have another shot later this afternoon when top-ranked Teddy Riner fights in the men's heavyweight final.
The bronze medals were won by Japan's Kanae Yamabe and current judo world heavyweight champion Song Yu of China.
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5:25 p.m.
FAILED TO QUALIFY: Sun Yang of China won't be defending his Olympic title in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle.
Sun finished 16th in Friday's preliminaries and only the top eight advanced to the final Saturday, the last day of swimming at the Rio Olympics.
World champion Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy had the fastest time of 14 minutes, 44.51 seconds.
Connor Jaeger of the United States was second in 14:45.74. American Jordan Wilimovsky, who also qualified in open water swimming, was third at 14:48.47.
Mack Horton of Australia, who beat Sun to win the 400 free, was fourth.
Another former 1,500 champion also is out. Ous Mellouli of Tunisia, who won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finished 21st. He will compete in the 10-kilometer race next week at Copacabana Beach.
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5:10 p.m.
Rafael Nadal made it to the semifinals in his bid for a second Olympic singles gold, overcoming his Brazilian opponent and a raucous, flag-waving home crowd in the Rio Games' main tennis stadium.
Spain's Nadal, the No. 3 seed, came back to beat 54th-ranked Thomaz Bellucci 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 in 2 hours on Friday.
Nadal was the singles champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, then missed the London Games four years ago because of a knee injury.
These Olympics represent the left-hander's first competition since sitting out 2+ months with an injured left wrist he says is not fully healed.
Nadal and Marc Lopez are scheduled to play in the men's doubles final later Friday.
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5 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: North Korea has its first gold medal of the Rio Olympics after Rim Jong Sim won the women's 75-kilogram weightlifting class.
Rim was utterly dominant, lifting 121 kilograms in the snatch and 153 in the clean and jerk for a total of 274, way ahead of the 258 managed by Belarusian silver medalist Darya Naumava, or 257 for Spain's Lidia Valentin Perez.
North Korea won four gold medals in London four years ago but has started slowly in Rio, with only two silver and two bronze medals before Rim's win.
Rim was gold medalist in the 69kg class four years ago and had few serious rivals at 75kg partly because the gold, silver and bronze medalists from that event in 2012 are all suspended after failing drug tests.
(Corrects earlier item to say Rim lifted 121 kilograms in the snatch)
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4:55 p.m.
Brazil has put another team into the quarterfinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.
Defending world champions Larissa and Talita beat Germany in straight sets Friday on the opening day of the knockout round. Earlier, the other Brazilian women's team advanced when Agatha and Barbara beat China.
Brazil was one of four countries to qualify the maximum of four teams - two men's, two women's - for the Olympics. But the host nation was the only one to have all four make it out of pool play.
The two Brazilian men's teams play Saturday in the Round of 16.
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4:55 p.m.
A German Olympic canoeing coach is fighting for his life in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after suffering serious head injuries in a car accident early Friday, officials said.
Stefan Henze, a canoe slalom silver medalist at the 2004 Games, underwent emergency surgery in a Rio hospital to treat the craniocerebral injury.
''His head injuries are live threatening,'' the German Olympic Sports Confederation said in a statement.
Sports scientist Christian Kaeding, who was in the taxi with Henze, was slightly injured and has already been released from hospital.
The Germans were heading back to the athletes' village in the taxi, Rio Olympics spokesman Mario Andrada said earlier Friday.
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4:40 p.m.
MEDAL ALERT: Rosie MacLennan of Canada defended her Olympic title win women's trampoline, edging Great Britain's Bryony Page for gold on Friday afternoon.
MacLennan posted a score of 56.465 in the finals, just a touch better than Page's 56.040. Li Dan of China earned bronze.
MacLennan was third during qualifying but put together an aggressive series of 10 skills that sends gymnasts two stories repeatedly into the air over the course of their one-minute routine. MacLennan appeared to wander outside of the target box on the tramp midway through her set but recovered and received a massive roar as she settled her feet on the tramp during her dismount.
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