SPORTS
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2016
Whipping winds affect
Day 2 of Rio Games
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO —
The whipping gusts that dis-
rupted athletes and spectators
alike were just a prelude to the
winds of change that roared
through Rio de Janeiro on Sun-
day night: Serena and Venus
Williams lost an Olympic dou-
bles match for the irst time.
Day 2 of the Rio Games
proved quite the breeze for
some athletes and much too
windy for others. The gusts
ripped apart a large decorative
panel on the swimming venue
and even shut down shopping
at the megastore — essentially
an enormous tent — inside the
Olympic Park.
Then, the tempest: the Wil-
liams sisters were stunned
in the opening round by the
Czech Republic’s Lucie Safa-
rova and Barbora Strycova
6-3, 6-4 after entering Sun-
day’s match with a 15-0 mark
in the Olympics.
They had won the gold
medal in women’s doubles
every time they entered the
event: in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
The American duo was seeded
No. 1 in Rio and coming off a
14th Grand Slam champion-
ship together at Wimbledon a
month ago.
China won yet another
medal in air rile on a day
nasty winds sent the clay tar-
gets in the trap event bobbing
and bouncing through the air,
forced delays on the tennis
courts and whipped up treach-
erous waves in the Rodrigo de
Freitas Lagoon.
Sunday’s rowing regatta
was called off after a two-
hour delay when the choppy
seas didn’t let up. Race ofi-
cials said winds gusting up to
34 mph (15 meters per second)
As of Aug. 8 at 11:32 a.m.
TOP 10 MEDAL
WINNERS
1.
United States
3 5
4
2.
Italy
3 3
2
3.
China
3 2
3
4.
Australia
3 0
3
5.
South Korea
2 2
1
6.
Hungary
2 0
0
7.
Russia
1 2
3
8.
Sweden
1 1
0
8.
United Kingdom
1 1
0
9.
Japan
1 0
6
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pushed buoys into the lanes
and capsized two boats during
morning practice.
The Americans had another
shattering disappointment in
the women’s road race when
three cyclists blew past Mara
Abbott within sight of the in-
ish line. Dutch rider Anna van
der Breggen led the charge,
giving the Netherlands back-
to-back golds in the event.
Her teammate Annemiek
van Vleuten crashed while
leading the race on the same
inal decent where Giro d’ Ita-
lia winner Vincenzo Nibali
and Colombian climber Sergio
Henao tumbled while leading
the men’s race Saturday. Van
Vleuten sustained three small
fractures in her spine and was
hospitalized in intensive care.
There were 14 golds up for
grabs, including four swim-
ming inals, where Katie
Ledecky is the overwhelm-
ing favorite in the 400-meter
freestyle and Michael Phelps
is eager to get started on his
ifth Olympics now that his
lag-carrying duties are done.
Other highlights from Day
2 of the Rio Games:
RECORD ROUT: Diana
Taurasi and the U.S. women’s
basketball team opened their
Olympics with a record rout,
smashing Senegal 121-56
while setting Olympic marks
for most points in a game,
margin of victory and assists
(36). The Americans, also fea-
turing irst-time Olympians
Brittney Griner, Ella Delle
Donne and Breanna Stew-
art, have won 42 consecutive
Olympic games.
KOSOVO
FIRST:
Majlinda Kelmendi won
Kosovo’s irst Olympic medal,
taking gold in the women’s
52-kilogram judo division.
The top-ranked Kelmendi
struggled for years to represent
her country, which declared
independence from Serbia in
2008. At the last Olympics she
represented Albania because
Kosovo was not recognized
by the International Olympic
Committee until 2014.
CHINA GOLD: Chi-
na’s bid for a gold in shoot-
ing seemed to take a hit when
a two-time defending gold
medalist failed to qualify. But
Zhang Mengxue picked up the
slack, earning China’s fourth
air pistol gold in the last ive
Games. China has dominated
the air rile and pistol shooting
events at the Olympics, earn-
ing nine gold medals since the
2000 Sydney Games.
BAD BREAK: A day
after gruesomely break-
ing his left leg while vault-
ing during men’s preliminar-
ies, French gymnast Samir Air
Said posted a Facebook video
from his hospital bed on Sun-
day thanking people for their
support and pledging to shoot
for Tokyo in 2020. Said under-
went surgery to repair his ib-
ula and tibia he fractured while
trying to land a vault.
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There’s a contradictory mission
for rowers competing in this
year’s Summer Olympics. Get
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Jack Beaumont, Sam Townsend, Angus Groom, and Peter
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