Day 13 of the 2016 Rio Games features three North Texans continuing their quest for gold and Usain Bolt is back in the starting blocks.
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USAIN BOLT WINS GOLD AGAIN, MISSES RECORD
Usain Bolt tilted his head backward and screamed. He plaintively raised his palms to the sky, tugged hard on his shirt, then angrily ripped the No. 6 sticker off his right hip.
It had the look of an unthinkable loss in the Olympic 200 meters.
But there's only one opponent that can really beat Bolt: Time.
The Jamaican superstar romped in what he says is likely his last Olympic individual race Thursday night, but finished in 19.78 seconds, .59 short of his own world record -- the one he said he really wanted to break.
FIELDS ADVANCES TO SEMIFINALS
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Connor Fields and his U.S. teammates made it safely through the wind and the wrecks at the BMX track.
Two-time defending gold medalist Maris Strombergs of Latvia and reigning world champion Joris Daudet of France weren't as fortunate on Thursday at the Summer Olympics.
A crash-filled quarterfinal round on a breezy afternoon in Rio de Janeiro cleared the field of a handful of medal contenders, and brought the United States one step closer to returning to the podium after getting shut out in London four years ago.
All three American riders advanced to the semifinals on Friday.
GERINA PILLER TEES OFF IN ROUND THREE
Flower Mound resident Gerina Piller had an awesome save in Round 2 of the women's golf competition Wednesday.
She goes into Round 3 tied for eighth on the leaderboard after shooting a 67.
US BEATS FRANCE 86-87, ADVANCES TO THE FINAL
The U.S. women's basketball team advanced to the Summer Games final yet again.
Team USA didn't have its starting point guard, Sue Bird after she injured her knee, but they still won by 19 points. If the women beat Spain in the final Sunday, it will be six straight golds for th
HELEN MAROULIS WINS CONTINUES QUEST FOR FIRST US GOLD IN WOMEN’S WRESTLING
It took a moment for Helen Maroulis' accomplishment to sink in.
Maroulis defeated Japan's Saori Yoshida 4-1 in the 53-kilogram freestyle final to win the first-ever gold medal for a United States women's wrestler and derail Yoshida's quest for a fourth straight gold.
Meanwhile, a dream matchup in the women's wrestling 75 kilogram freestyle category was ruined when the United States' Adeline Gray and Brazil's Aline da Silva Ferreira both lost in the quarterfinals.
Gray, the heavily favored three-time world champion, lost to Vasilisa Marzaliuk of Belarus 3-1 on Thursday. Marzaliuk finished fifth at the 2012 Olympics in the 72 kilogram class, and was third in the 2015 World Championships at 75 kilograms.