Thursday, August 5 Olympic Results

TOKYO OLYMPICS:

-- The U.S. team of April and Alix Klineman won the women’s beach volleyball gold medal, beating Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia, who took silver. The Swiss team won bronze in a defeat of the Latvian team earlier in the day. Ross won silver in the 2012 London Olympics and bronze in Rio in 2016, while Klineman was a first-time Olympian.

-- The U.S women’s soccer team won the bronze medal, downing Australia 4-3. Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd had two goals each, and Lloyd became the Olympics’ all-time leading female scorer with her second goal. Canada, the team the U.S. lost to in the semifinals, will play Sweden for the gold. 

-- The U.S. women’s basketball team defeated Serbia 79-59 and will play for the gold medal. They’ll take on the winner of the other semifinal between France and Japan, and will be trying to win the seventh straight Olympics gold for the U.S.

-- The U.S. women’s team will play for the volleyball gold medal after defeating Serbia 3-0. They will play the winner of the other semifinal between Brazil and South Korea. -- The U.S. men’s track disappointments continued as the American runners didn’t make the medal stand in the 400 meters. Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won gold, Colombia’s Anthony Jose  Zambrano took silver and KIRANI JAMES of Granada won bronze. The highest-finishing American was Michael Cherry in fourth, while teammate and Olympic Trials champion Michael Norman was fifth. 

-- The International Olympic Committee removed two coaches on the Belarus team from the Olympics, four days after they were involved in trying to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya on a plane home. The attempt to send Tsimanouskaya back to Belarus, which is ruled by an autocratic government, came after she criticized team coaches on social media over a racing decision. The athlete, who asked Japanese police for help at the airport, is in Poland on a humanitarian visa.

Medal Count: (As of 3:30 a.m. ET) - The U.S. is in first place  with 92 medals, followed by China with 74 and the Russian Olympic Committee with 60. In the gold medal count, China leads with 34, the U.S. is second with 30, and Japan is third with 22.