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Olympic report

From Wire Reports

Basketball

Angel McCoughtry scored 18 points, Tina Charles had 16 and the U.S. women beat Turkey 89-58 in a matchup of unbeaten teams. Turkey stayed close before McCoughtry helped the Americans build a 15-point advantage by the half. Former North Idaho College player Tugce Canitez scored two points for Turkey. The Americans close out pool play Sunday against China, which is also 3-0.

Beach volleyball

Two-time defending Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor picked up another win. But another one of their impressive streaks is over. The Americans lost the first set of their match against Austria 21-17, the first lost set in three Olympics. But they came back to win the second set 21-8 and took the third 15-10 to remain unbeaten in this – and every other – trip to the Olympics. On the men’s side, Americans Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal beat Latvia to bounce back from their only loss of the tournament and advance.

Boxing

Three American fighters lost to a Cuban world champion and two Russian heavyweights, depleting the U.S. ranks to four remaining men. Top-seeded bantamweight Lazaro Alvarez of Cuba beat Joseph Diaz Jr. 21-15, and U.S. heavyweight Michael Hunter tired badly in the third round of a narrow loss to Artur Beterbiev before super heavyweight Dominic Breazeale dropped a 19-8 decision to Magomed Omarov.

Volleyball

Destinee Hooker scored 22 points and the U.S. women’s team improved to 3-0 with a three-set preliminary round victory over China. Megan Hodge added 18 points for the top-ranked U.S. in the 26-24, 25-16, 31-29 win.

Fencing

Two-time Olympic sabre champion Mariel Zagunis, who carried the American flag at the opening ceremony, lost her last two matches and failed to make the podium. Kim Jiyeon of South Korea won the gold, beating Russia’s Sofya Velikaya in the final. Olga Kharlan of Ukraine got the bronze. Seth Kelsey of the U.S. also dropped his last two matches in men’s individual epee, leaving him without a medal as well. Venezuela’s Ruben Limardo, Norway’s Bartosz Piasecki and Jung Jinsun of South Korea took the top three spots.

Soccer

Britain beat Uruguay 1-0 in its final group game to join fellow medal contenders Brazil and Mexico in the quarterfinals. Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge scored the winner just before halftime in front of 70,000 fans.

Diving

China completed a sweep of the synchronized diving events, winning the men’s 3-meter springboard to move halfway toward taking each of the diving gold medals. Kristian Ipsen and Troy Dumais of the U.S. earned the bronze at 446.70. It was the first medal of Dumais’ long career in his fourth Olympics, equaling Greg Louganis for most appearances by a male U.S. diver.

Water polo

Maica Garcia scored twice in the last two minutes as Spain rallied for a 9-9 draw with the United States in the women’s tournament.