8:50 p.m.
Kuwait's Fehaid Al Deehani, competing as an independent, has captured men's double trap gold by defeating Italy's Marco Innocenti in the final match.
With Kuwait suspended by the IOC, Al Deehani and seven other athletes were allowed to compete as independents in Rio.
The veteran of six Olympics needed a shoot-off with American Joshua Richmond to get into the finals, but hit 28 targets to reach the gold medal match against Innocenti.
A proud officer in the Kuwait army, Al Deehani dropped to the ground and kneeled after reaching the final, then pounded his chest as he walked away.
In the gold medal match, Al Deehani hit 26 targets and Innocenti 24. Al Deehani raised his arms in triumph after hitting the final two targets, then turned and again pounded his chest at the crowd.
Al Deehani became the first Kuwaiti athlete to win an Olympic medal with a bronze at Sydney in 2000 and added another in London four years ago.
Steven Scott hit all 30 targets to defeat Great Britain shooter Tim Kneale for the bronze medal.
8:10 p.m.
Two-time Olympic champion Argentina has been eliminated from the Rio Games soccer tournament after a 1-1 draw against Honduras, which advanced to the quarterfinals along with Portugal.
Argentina needed to win Wednesday to reach the knockout round.
Antony Lozano scored for Honduras in the 75th minute and Mauricio Martinez scored for Argentina in injury time.
Both teams missed penalties when the match was scoreless. Honduras captain Bryan Acosta had his shot saved by Argentina goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli before halftime, while Argentina playmaker Angel Correa hit the post from the spot in the 55th.
Portugal drew 1-1 against Algeria in Belo Horizonte to finish first in the group with seven points. Honduras and Argentina ended with four points, with Honduras ahead on goal differential.
8 p.m.
Tests on the injured right ankle of Italy volleyball captain Emanuele Birarelli have revealed a grade-1 sprain, and he's expected to return to Olympic action by the quarterfinals.
The Italian Volleyball Federation said Birarelli would miss a group-stage match against Mexico on Thursday. If the currently undefeated Italians are in a strong position after Thursday, he also might sit out Saturday against Brazil to make sure he is 100 percent when knockout matches begin for a team determined to improve on its bronze medal from the London Olympics four years ago.
The 35-year-old Birarelli will undergo treatment on the ankle and be evaluated each day before it is determined when he comes back. He was injured during the third set of a four-set victory against the United States on Tuesday night.
7:40 p.m.
A tumultuous group stage has resulted in pre-tournament favorites Fiji and New Zealand meeting in the rugby sevens quarterfinals, and Japan making an unlikely run to the playoffs at the Olympics.
New Zealand was able to advance despite losing to Japan in a stunning upset earlier this week. That was because Fiji defeated the United States on Wednesday by enough points.
The U.S. team did not advance. The team took Wednesday's match to the last minute when Nate Ebner sprinted from almost halfway to score a try in the right corner to make it 24-19, piling the pressure on Madison Hughes. But the U.S. captain and goalkicker missed the conversion from out wide, leaving the margin at five points and meaning the Americans missed out by the slimmest of margins.
In the other quarterfinals, Pool B winner South Africa will play No. 4 Australia — a rematch of their the last encounter in the group stage which the Australians won 12-5 — and Pool C winner Britain will play Argentina, and France plays Japan.
7:40 p.m.
The Dutch gymnast known as the Lord of the Rings is on a quest to get back into the Olympics.
A spokesman for Gelderland Court said Wednesday that Yuri van Gelder is seeking an injunction against the Netherlands Olympic Committee to get himself reinstated to the Dutch team in Rio.
Van Gelder was kicked off the team this week and sent home after leaving the athletes' village Saturday night and not returning until early Sunday.
The Royal Netherlands Gymnastics Association said the 33-year-old Van Gelder, who previously served a year-long ban for cocaine use, admitted drinking alcohol while away from the village.
Court spokesman Maarten Brouwer says a hearing is set for Friday. Brouwer says Van Gelder is seeking an order reinstating him to the Dutch team in time to take part in the men's rings final scheduled for Monday.
Van Gelder's lawyer, Cor Hellingman, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. The Netherlands Olympic Committee also could not immediately be reached for comment.
7 p.m.
One win was enough for judoka Popole Misenga.
After winning his preliminary fight on Wednesday morning, the Congo refugee faced top-seeded South Korean Donghan Gwak in the second round of the men's 90-kilogram division. With the crowd shouting "Popole" and clapping to cheer him on, he fought aggressively to get a strong grip on Gwak's uniform and tried several times to throw him or wrestle him to the ground.
But after about four minutes, Gwak - the current judo world champion - scored an automatic ippon victory. Misenga said afterward that it was an honor to fight a world champion and that he was proud to have lasted four minutes against him.
He said he was sure his family in Congo had seen him on television and that he "was sending them a kiss wherever they are."
7 p.m.
No surprises in the opening round of women's 100-meter freestyle swimming.
World-record holder Cate Campbell of Australia was the top qualifier Wednesday in an Olympic-record time of 52.78 seconds. Simone Manuel of the United States took the second spot at 53.32, followed by Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden and defending Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands. Another American, Abbey Weitzeil, qualified for the evening semifinals with the seventh-fastest time. Campbell's younger sister, reigning world champion Bronte, advanced in eighth place.
Italy's Federica Pellegrini scratched from the event after finishing fourth the night before in the 200 free.
6 p.m.
Fabian Cancellara has denied Chris Froome the Tour de France-Olympic double. The retiring Swiss star instead capped his own remarkable career with another time trial gold medal at the Rio Games.
Cancellara looked like the same powerful youngster who cruised to gold at the 2008 Beijing Games, decimating the hilly, rain-slicked course along the coast in 1 hour, 12 minutes, 15.42 seconds.
He finished 47 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands, who competed despite breaking his hand during the Tour de France, while Froome had to settle for the bronze medal.
Cancellara began weeping the moment Froome, the last rider of the day, crossed the finish line Wednesday. He announced more than a year ago that this would be his final season as a cyclist.
5:50 p.m.
An unexpected miscue was not enough to derail Jin Jongoh's bid for a third straight gold.
The South Korean overcame an inexplicable 6.6 on his ninth shot of the finals with some stellar shooting, tracking down Vietnam's Hoang Xuan Vinh to win gold in men's 50-meter pistol at the RioOlympics.
Jin dropped to the bottom of the standings with a surprising ninth shot that put him on the cusp of elimination. He survived and continued to climb up the standings with a series of shots in the 10-ring after falling 4.4 points behind Hoang.
Jin passed Hoang on the penultimate shot of the finals and finished 2.4 points ahead of Hoang, who became Vietnam's first gold medalist with his victory in 10-meter air pistol on Saturday.
North Korea's Kim Song Guk captured bronze.
5.30pm
China's overwhelming domination of table tennis at the Olympics continues.
It will be a rematch of China's Li Xiaoxia, the 28-year-old gold medalist from London, against China's Ding Ning, London silver medalist, in the women's gold medal match later Wednesday.
Japan's Ai Fukuhara and North Korea's Kim Song I will play later in the bronze medal match.
Li obliterated Fukuhara, a media darling in her country since she was a toddler, four games to zero in their best-of-seven match.
Ding, 26, faced a tougher challenge from Kim, 21, who is ranked 31st at the Olympics and is world No. 56. Ding won 4-1.
Kim, a so-called "chopper," or defensive specialist, played before a small but loud North Korean cheering section, which included Choe Ryong Hae, a top lieutenant of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
China has won 24 of 28 gold medals since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988, and all the golds at the past two Games.
For the men's side, London champion Zhang Jike, who was named after Brazilian soccer star Zico, will face Vladimir Samsonov, a 40-year-old from Belarus, in the semifinals on Thursday. China's Ma Long, the current world No. 1, will play Japan's Jun Mizutani.
5:05 p.m.
Rio Olympic organizers say a preliminary analysis has shown that stones not bullets hit a bus carrying journalists, breaking two windows.
The incident happened as the bus was traveling in the Curicica area of Rio de Janeiro as it traveled toward the Olympic Park on Tuesday.
Games security official Luiz Fernando Correa says through a translator that "we have a preliminary analysis that it was actually a stone and not firearms shots."
Correa doesn't know yet whether the stones were thrown "by hand or by any other instrument" but he says it was an "act of vandalism not a criminal act with the intention of injuring one person or another."
Mobile security patrols are being stepped up on roads around Olympic venues.
4.55pm
Refugee athlete Popole Misenga has won his first-round match in the men's division of judo's 90-kilogram division.
In a competitive contest against India's Avtar Singh, Misenga managed to score one point with a throw that landed Singh on his side — but it was ultimately enough to win. In a crowd dotted with Brazilian flags, the cheers for Misenga's victory were deafening.
Misenga hasn't seen his family in the Congo for 15 years and settled in Brazil three years ago, after coming to compete in the world championships. He trains at the judo school run by renowned coach Geraldo Bernardes, the coach of Brazilian judoka Rafaela Silva — who won the country's first gold of the Olympics on Sunday.
In his next fight, Misenga faces top-seeded Donghan Gwak of South Korea.
4.30pm
Rain is delaying the start of play on Day 5 of the tennis competition at the Rio Olympics.
Among the players on Wednesday's schedule are the last two men's singles gold medalists, Andy Murray of Britain and Rafael Nadal of Spain, in third-round action.
Nadal is supposed to play three matches, weather permitting, including in the men's doubles semifinals with Marc Lopez, and the first round of mixed doubles with Garbine Muguruza.
4:10 p.m.
Sitting right next to the murky diving well at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre, it looks as if the water polo pool is turning green with envy.
The third day of the men's water polo tournament kicked off in green-tinged water after the diving pool turned green on Tuesday. A spokesman for the venue said they would have a statement from the organizing committee soon.
There was no sign of any issue with the water polo pool during the first day of the women's competition.
For now, at least, the black lines on the bottom of the pool are clearly visible, and there is no sign of any effect on play. But if the water gets any darker, it could grow more physical since it will be hard for the referees to determine what's going on underwater.
3pm
Kristin Armstrong of the United States won her third consecutive Olympic time trial Wednesday, her golden effort on the brutal course leaving her in an exhausted heap on the road at the finish line.
Armstrong covered the course through driving wind and rain in 44 minutes, 26.42 seconds, beating reigning bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya of Russia by just 5.55 seconds.
Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands added a bronze medal to her gold from the road race.
Armstrong, who turns 43 on Thursday, joined speed skater Bonnie Blair as the only American women to win three gold medals in the same event at any Olympics. She also won in Beijing and London.
Dutch rider Ellen van Dijk slid off the course, likely costing her a medal. She finished fourth.
1:50 p.m.
The first riders are off in the women's and men's Olympic time trials, greeted at the Pontal area of Rio de Janeiro by hard rain and cold winds buffeting off the coast.
The miserable conditions should make a brutal course even more grueling.
Ireland's Dan Martin, who competed over part of it in the road race, tweeted that he was "not sure I'd want to ride down that descent in the wet nevermind race."
USA Cycling chief executive Derek Bouchard-Hall called the conditions "rather bleak."
Two-time gold medalist Kristin Armstrong is last off in the women's race for the U.S., while reigning bronze medalist Chris Froome of Britain is last off in the men's race.
1:25 p.m.
Rowing officials have canceled all racing Wednesday due to high winds.
It's the second day lost to bad weather at the Olympic regatta and officials will have to try to cram in the remaining races in coming days.
Twenty-two races were on the schedule for Wednesday, including finals in the men's and women's fours, the first medal races on the rowing calendar in Rio.
Racing officials announced at 8:09 a.m. local time that there would be no racing Wednesday, and that a new schedule would follow.
1 p.m.
Annemiek van Vleuten has been released from the hospital following her crash in the Olympic road race Sunday and has been cleared to fly home to the Netherlands on Friday.
Van Vleuten flipped hard onto her head on the final descent with her bike catapulting farther down the road. She lay motionless as the rest of the field passed her on the way to the finish.
She sustained a concussion and three spinal fractures in the crash.
Van Vleuten said she is staying in a hotel rather than the Olympic village to better recover, and "the concussion is the reason they want to keep me here" a couple more days.
Her teammate Anna van der Breggen won the Olympic road race.
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12:50 p.m.
Eleven sports will be awarding 20 gold medals at the Rio Olympics on Wednesday, with four of them coming at the Olympic Aquatics Center.
The men will be seeking gold in the 200 meter breaststroke and the 100 meter freestyle, while the women will be competing in the 200 meter butterfly and the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. In the 100 meter freestyle, Australian Kyle Chalmers had the fastest qualifying time but American Caeleb Dressel was nipping at his heels.
At the men's individual all-around gymnastics final, defending gold medalist Kohei Uchimura of Japan is the favorite, since he is also a three-time world champion.
Individual road race time trials for both the men and the women will take place on Rio's challenging Grumari circuit.
Other medals will be awarded in canoe slalom, diving, fencing, judo, rowing, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.