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ICYMI: USWNT's shocking exit, swimming, Rafa's next test and hoops
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More hardware for Phelps, Ledecky and more: Leave it to these Games to give us another tie for a medal, with two archrivals no less. Michael Phelps rallied from sixth overall at the turn to lock up a silver medal in the men's 100-meter butterfly, but he finished in a three-way tie for the medal with Chad le Clos and L?szl? Cseh. Phelps now has won five medals over his week in Rio -- tonight's silver and four golds.
On the women's side Katie Ledecky completed the sweep by winning the 800 freestyle in 8:04.79 -- beating her own world-record time -- to become the second woman in history to win the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle races at the same Olympics. Earlier, Maya DiRado caught heavy favorite Katinka Hossz? in the last 25 meters to claim gold in the 200 backstroke. DiRado won in (2:05.99), followed by Hossz? (2:06.05) and Canada's Hilary Caldwell (2:07.54).
No medal for the USWNT: There will be a new Olympic soccer champion after the U.S. women lost to Sweden in a penalty shootout (1-1, 4-3 on penalties). The Americans trailed early in the match before Alex Morgan evened the score at 1 in the 77th minute. It was the first time an Olympic women's soccer match went to penalties, and the first time the USWNT failed to reach the semifinal round of a major tournament. And who coached Sweden to a semifinal berth? None other than former U.S. coach Pia Sundhage, who has yet to lose a game against the United States since leaving the program after the last Olympics in 2012 (0-1-3).
Men's and women's team still undefeated: The U.S. men's and women's hoops teams both won again Friday. Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore each scored 12 points to lead the Americans to an 81-51 win against Canada, extending the team's Olympic winning streak to 45 games. The women's squad is now 4-0 in Group B play heading into its final prelim game against China (Sunday, 11:15 a.m. ET). The men's side got quite the challenge from Serbia but held on to win 94-91 after the Serbs missed a potential tying shot at the buzzer.
U.S. men eliminated from medal contention: After winning silver in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the past two Games have been hard on the U.S. men's team. The downward trend continued in Rio after losing 8-5 against Montenegro, eliminating any hope of a quarterfinal berth. The Americans have one prelim match left on the schedule, against Italy (Sunday, 2:30 p.m. ET), and are fifth in Group B (1-3 record).
Team dressage reaches podium: Laura Graves, Steffen Peters and Allison Brock combined to take home bronze on an average of 76.667 percent, behind first-place Germany (81.936) and Great Britain (78.602), for the Americans' first Olympic medal in dressage since 2004. Graves led the team with a score of 78.071 percent in the grand prix and 80.644 percent in the grand prix special. All three riders also qualified for the individual round in grand prix freestyle (Monday).
Ellison medals again:?Brady Ellison won the bronze 6-2 against the Netherlands' Sjef van den Berg after one arrow away from the gold-medal round in the men's individual archery. Instead, Ellison missed and had to fight for bronze instead. He also had to get past best friend and teammate, Jake Kaminski, then another teammate in Zach Garrett to reach the quarterfinals. Ellison now has three medals, a silver from in Rio, and another silver from London 2012.
Big names return to court: The men's semifinals are set after Friday's matches, as Andy Murray will take on Kei Nishikori (Saturday, 11 a.m. ET) and Rafael Nadal takes on Juan Martin del Potro (follows Murray-Nishikori match). Madison Keys lost in straight sets to Angelique Kerber and will face Petra Kvitova in the bronze-medal match (Saturday, 11 a.m. ET). Kerber will face Puerto Rico's Monica Puig in the gold-medal match.
And finally ...
Social media was still abuzz Friday after big Thursday night wins for Simone Biles, Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps. And a certain big-name baller with a new contract offered up his congratulations:
