Bolt cruises to world record in 100-meters

Cycling
Teenager Taylor Phinney won’t be adding to his family’s medal collection just yet. The son of 1984 medalists Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Davis Phinney failed to qualify for the medal round in the individual pursuit, losing in a round-of-eight matchup. Britain’s Bradley Wiggins won the event for his second straight gold medal.

Phinney still had the best Olympic finish by a U.S. men’s pursuit racer since 1984.

“There’s going to be a lot more Olympics in my future,” said Taylor Phinney, who wasn’t even thinking about competing a year ago. “I’ll be back.”

Two-time world champion Sarah Hammer failed to advance to the medal round in women’s pursuit, and fellow American Giddeon Massie failed to advance in keirin, which was won by Britain’s Chris Hoy.

With Hoy winning and countryman Ross Edgar taking silver, the British already have eight cycling medals, four of them gold.

Joan Llaneras of Spain won the men’s points race, adding that gold to the one he claimed in the event at Sydney in 2000 and the silver won in Athens four years ago.

Trampoline
Boing, boing, boing. That’s the bouncing of the trampoline and the sound of the Americans Chris Estrada and Erin Blanchard getting bounced out in qualifying.

“I was pretty calm until I got on the trampoline,” Estrada said. “Then the nerves hit.”

Water polo
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After raising doubt with a loss to Serbia, they showed strong defense in knocking off world No. 1 Croatia 7-5. The Croats came in having won three games by a total of 15 goals.

“They’ve got to know now that if they play like that, they can win this thing,” U.S. coach Terry Schroeder said.

The Americans must knock off Germany to earn a spot in the quarterfinals.

Weightlifting
American Cheryl Haworth was sixth in the women’s super heavyweight division. Jang Mi-ran of South Korea broke three world records on the way to gold and the unofficial title of the world’s strongest woman.

Men’s soccer
Belgium’s Moussa Dembele scored two goals after his club was reduced to 10 men, giving the Belgians a 3-2 victory over Italy and moving them one win from its first Olympic soccer medal since taking gold in 1920.

Rafael Sobis and Marcelo each scored a goal in extra time, giving Brazil a 2-0 win over 10-man Cameroon and sending the Brazilians into the semifinals for the first time since 1996.

In later games, Argentina was to play the Netherlands and Nigeria was to face Ivory Coast.

Table tennis
So much for bronze. The U.S. women were ousted from the third-place playoff
bracket by South Korea.

The second-seeded Germans will face the winner of the China-South Korea contest to be played later Saturday for men’s gold.  

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