Americans Richards, Jones blow leads on track

Boxing

A light heavyweight from Tajikistan was disqualified for biting his opponent on the shoulder — and Evander Holyfield, boxing’s most famous biting victim, just missed seeing it.

Holyfield was at the arena for much of the evening card, but apparently was gone when Dzhakhon Kurbanov chomped on Kazakhstan’s Yerkebulan Shynaliyev during a clinch, drawing blood.

Also, China clinched at least four medals after managing just one at all previous Olympics.

Lightweight Alexey Tishchenko, one of three Russians left after their powerful team’s collapse, stayed in contention with a victory. He won the featherweight gold in Athens before moving up in class two years ago.

Sailing

The U.S. got its first gold from the regatta when British-born Anna Tunnicliffe won the women’s Laser Radial class. China’s Xu Lijia got bronze, marking the third sailing medal for the hosts.

Britain got its third gold in sailing when Paul Goodison won the men’s Laser.

Also, a jury rejected yet another protest about the 49er class gold medal that went to Denmark in a boat borrowed from Croatia. Spain, which would’ve moved from silver to gold if the Danes were disqualified, said they saw the markings for Croatia and didn’t realize it was really the Danes.

Synchronized swimming

Russia’s four-time world champion duo, both named Anastasia, kept their front-runner status going through the duet free preliminaries. The final is Wednesday. Americans Christina Jones and Andrea Nott came out of prelims fifth.

Women’s handball

Russia needed two overtimes to beat France 32-31 and advance to a semifinal game against Hungary. The Russians came out of pool play undefeated.

South Korea will play Norway in the other semifinal.

Men’s field hockey

Australia advanced to the semifinals against Spain. Germany will play the Netherlands.

Equestrian

Anky van Grunsven of the Netherlands won her third straight gold in individual dressage.

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