Briefly
Badminton
Top-seeded Joko Suprianto of Indonesia and No. 2 Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark reached the men’s round of 16 with easy victories.
Basketball (men)
The Dream Team finally had a blowout victory after three less impressive wins, defeating China 133-70. The Americans broke the record of 127 points reached in 1992. The crowd, announced as an Olympic-record 34,417, gave the Dream Team its biggest round of applause early in the second half when Charles Barkley spelled out the letters Y-M-C-A while the Village People song played during a timeout. Barkley didn’t play, but Scottie Pippen (U.S. tournament-high 24 points) and Reggie Miller (19 points) did.
Greece defeated South Korea 108-86 and Yugoslavia remained unbeaten with a 101-82 victory over Brazil to join the U.S. in the quarterfinals.
Beach volleyball
Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes won their showdown on the sand, defeating fellow Americans Sinjin Smith and Carl Henkel 17-15 to advance to the semifinals. Americans Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh also remained undefeated, beating Spain 15-6.
Boxing
Rhoshii Wells of the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale capped a three-victory day for the United States by outpointing Ricardo Rodriguez of Brazil 16-2 at 165 pounds. Other U.S. boxers winning were Terrance Cauthen at 132 pounds and Albert Guardado at 106.
Diving
Mary Ellen Clark’s hopes for another diving medal almost ended on the first day of competition. Clark, bronze medalist at Barcelona in 1992, needed a strong final dive to secure her spot among the 18 qualifiers who advanced to today’s semifinals.
Equestrian
New Zealanders Blyth Tait and Sally Clark finished 1-2 in the three-day event, with American Kerry Millikin third.
Field hockey
The medal chances of the U.S. women’s team remained in jeopardy when officials rejected the team’s protest of a 2-1 loss to Argentina. The U.S. men, 0-23-4 in Olympic history, lost to Spain 7-1.
Judo
North Korea’s Kye Sun ended the 84-match winning streak of Japan’s Ryoko Tamura as the women’s under-106-pound division ended.
Rowing
Americans Teresa Bell and Lindsay Burns won their semifinal by a half-boat length to advance to the lightweight double sculls final.
Shooting
China won three medals, including two golds.
Li Duihong, a Chinese Army markswoman, shot a 687.9 overall match for a 3.1-point lead over world record holder Diano Yourgova of Bulgaria.
Table tennis
Jan-Ove Waldner, the defending champion from Sweden, registered a 21-11, 21-19 victory over South Korea’s Lee Chul-seung. The last U.S. hopes in women’s singles were eliminated.
Tennis
MaliVai Washington and Andre Agassi won their first-round doubles match, beating Mexico’s Oscar Ortiz and Alejandro Hernandez 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. In women’s play, No. 2 seed Conchita Martinez of Spain, No. 7 Mary Joe Fernandez and No. 9 Lindsay Davenport won in straight sets.
Track and field
American Randy Barnes won the shot put on his final throw (70 feet 11-1/4 inches), moving up from sixth place to leave stunned teammate John Godina with the silver. Michael Johnson nonchalantly passed his first test in the men’s 400 meters - the opening step in his quest for a double triumph in the 200 and 400. Johnson ran second in his heat in 45.80 seconds.
Gail Devers and Gwen Torrence advanced to the semifinals in the women’s 100. The Olympics ended quickly for Mary Slaney. Perhaps America’s greatest female distance runner but never an Olympic medalist, Slaney was seventh in her 5,000 heat and failed to advance to Sunday’s final.
Volleyball
The United States women’s team, led by former Japanese citizen Yoko Zetterlund, beat Japan 15-11, 15-7, 15-12 and clinched a spot in the quarterfinals.
Water polo
Spain beat the United States 5-4, ending the Americans’ medal hopes.
Weightlifting
Pyrros Dimas of Greece broke two world records in winning the gold medal in the 182-3/4 pound division. Dimas broke his own records in the snatch (396-3/4 pounds) and total (865-1/4 pounds).
Yachting
Americans Kris Stookey and Louise Van Voorhis sailed to victory in the women’s 470 double-handed dingy.