Olympic Update:
–Seventeen-year-old U.S. swimmer Lydia Jacoby of Alaska won the 100-meter breaststroke in an upset, beating teammate Lilly King, who won the gold in 2016 in Rio. King came in third this time.
–The U.S. women’s basketball team beat Nigeria 81-72 in their opening game. The win was the Americans’ 50th straight dating back to the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
–The U.S. men lost their first Olympics swimming backstroke race since 1992 in Barcelona, when Russians took the top two spots, with American Ryan Murphy taking a bronze medal.
–Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka, who lit Olympic Cauldron flame Friday, has been eliminated in an upset, falling in her third-round match. Osaka, ranked second in the world, had won her first two matches in straight sets.
–Flora Duffy won the women’s triathlon, giving Bermuda its first-ever Olympic gold medal.
–Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. Diaz, competing in the 55-kilogram weight class, also set an Olympic record of 280 pounds in the clean and jerk
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