Briefly
Baseball
The U.S. team set a new standard for Olympic homers in a 15-5 rout of Japan. The Americans hit an Olympic record five homers in one inning, the first, and wound up with seven in the game.
Basketball (women)
Energized by a Georgia Dome crowd of 31,230, the U.S. team beat Zaire 107-47 for its third straight victory in the biggest blowout in Olympic history.
Beach volleyball
American men Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes advanced with a 15-5 victory over Germany’s Jorg Ahmann and Axel Hager.
Two of the three U.S. women’s pairs lost, and one was eliminated. The winners, Linda Hanley and Barbra Fontana Harris, won two matches by 15-6 scores.
Boxing
Welterweight Fernando Vargas of the U.S. lost a controversial decision to Romania’s Marian Simion.
Arnaldo Mesa of Cuba registered a first-round win over Zahir Raheem. Heavyweight Felix Savon, five-time world champion and defending gold medalist from Cuba, KO’d Kwamena Turkson of Sweden in the first round.
Cycling
Andrea Collinelli of Italy beat France’s Philippe Ermenault for the gold in men’s individual pursuit in 4 minutes, 20.893 seconds.
Equestrian
New Zealanders Blyth Tait and Sally Clark were 1-2 after the individual endurance phase of the three-day event, with U.S. rider Kerry Millikin third.
Fencing
A first-round 45-44 loss to Poland knocked the U.S. women’s foil team out of medal contention and the Americans finished next-to-last, winning only four of the final 11 points. The U.S. men’s foil team fared no better, finishing 10th in an 11-team Olympic field.
Field hockey
The U.S. women’s team protested its 2-1 defeat to Argentina because of a dispute over the time remaining when the Americans had their final scoring chance. A ruling on the protest was expected today.
Gymnastics
Ukraine’s Lilia Podkopayeva put together a beautiful floor routine on her final event and won the women’s all-around gold. Americans fared poorly, with Shannon Miller eighth and Dominique Moceanu ninth.
Judo
Germany’s Udo Quellmalz won the men’s under-143 pound class and France’s Marie-Claire Restoux took the under-114-1/2 pound gold medal.
Rowing
U.S. pair Karen Kraft and Missy Schwen, the world silver medalists, beat Australian world champions Mega Still and Kate Slatter in the semifinals.
Shooting
Germany won two golds. Christian Klees shot a world-record score of 704.8 in the men’s 50-meter free rifle prone event and defending champion Ralf Schumann won in 25-meter rapid fire pistol.
Swimming
American Brooke Bennett won the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle, while Janet Evans finished sixth in the last race of her career. Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary became the first swimmer in Olympic history to win five golds in individual events when she captured her third straight 200-meter backstroke title. In the 50-meter freestyle, Alexander Popov edged American Gary Hall Jr.
Table tennis
American Amy Feng scored her second consecutive straight-set singles victory.
Team handball
World champion France and runner-up Croatia posted their second straight victories.
Tennis
Top-seeded Monica Seles reached the women’s third round, beating Patricia Hy-Boulais of Canada 6-3, 6-2. Andre Agassi, top-seeded among the men, beat Karol Kucera of Slovakia 6-4, 6-4.
Volleyball
Bryan Ivie’s spike attempt hit the net out-of-bounds marker on match point in the fifth-set tiebreaker and the U.S. men’s team lost to rival Cuba 4-15, 15-9, 14-16, 15-8, 18-16.
Yachting
Courtney Becker-Dey of the U.S. dropped from second to third in the Europe Class.
xxxx TODAY’S TV SCHEDULE All events on NBC 9 a.m.-noon: Track & Field; Swimming - qualifying heats; Equestrian - Three-Day Jumping, Individual; Rowing - Semifinals; Cycling. 4:30-9 p.m.: Track & Field; Swimming - Finals (Women’s 200 butterfly; Men’s 200 backstroke; Women’s 50 freestyle; Men’s 1500 freestyle; Men’s 400 medley relay); Men’s Basketball - U.S. vs. China; Diving - Women’s platform; Women’s Volleyball - U.S. vs. Japan; Canoeing - Whitewater training. 9:41-11:11 p.m.: Women’s Volleyball - U.S. vs. Japan; Boxing; Water Polo - quarterfinals; Cycling; Weightlifting - Light heavyweight final.