Today's other stories in brief
Bronzed Brazil
SOCCER:Brazil took out their frustration at missing the Olympic final by beating Belgium 3-0 to take bronze.
Manchester City striker Jo scored twice after Diego netted the opener as Brazil bounced back from their 3-0 semi-final loss to Argentina.
Diego converted Rafinha's cross into the net on 27 minutes, before Jo headed the second before half-time.
Jo then nutmegged Belgium goalkeeper Logan Bailly in injury-time to complete the scoring.
Revenge for LeBron and friends
BASKETBALL:The US avenged their semi-final defeat to Argentina four years ago in Athens to set up a final against the 2006 world champions, Spain.
Luis Scola top-scored with 28 for the reigning champions, but they lost their leading scorer, Manu Ginobili, to an ankle injury in the first quarter.
And Carmelo Anthony's 21 and LeBron James's 15 helped the US ease through.
Spain edged out Lithuania 91-86, with Pau Gasol scoring a joint game-high 19, to reach their second Olympic final.
It leaves the Lithuanians facing a fifth consecutive bronze-medal play-off match.
The US will be confident of repeating their 1984 final victory over Spain tomorrow, as they won their pool game by a 37 points.
France and Latvia shine in debut event
BMX CYCLING:Anne-Caroline Chausson of France and Latvian Maris Strombergs won gold in the debut Olympic finals of BMX after crash-filled runs that showed the extreme edge of the rough-and-tumble sport.
Chausson, who came out of retirement to compete, won the gold after favourite Shanaze Reade of Britain crashed out in the final curve as she was trying to cut in to overtake the Frenchwoman.
Chausson's team-mate Laetitia Le Corguille took the silver and American Jill Kintner took the bronze in an exciting day marked by spectacular crashes and frenetic jostling for position as eight riders raced down the course at once.
Just a few minutes later Strombergs beat the Americans at their own sport to win the men's event. The Latvian avoided two big crashes in the final that left several riders splayed out on the course.
The American Mike Day took silver and his team-mate Donny Robinson took bronze.
Bekele chases the double
ATHLETICS:Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele's attempt to complete the long-distance double by winning the 5,000 metres should be the highlight of the final evening of track tonight.
The 26-year-old retained his 10,000 metres title last Sunday, but needs his first major 5,000-metre gold to become the first man to win both since his compatriot Miruts Yifter did so in 1980.
Bekele, who took silver in Athens, holds the world record at the distance but faces stiff competition from a trio of Kenyans and their former compatriot Bernard Lagat.
Kenyan world champion Alfred Kirwa Yego qualified fastest for what looks a wide-open 800-metre final, but his former compatriot Yusuf Saad Kamel, now running for Bahrain, has the best time of the year of those who made the final.
Bahrain will also be hoping for gold from another East African import in the women's 1,500m, where the Ethiopian-born world champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal is the only finalist to have run under four minutes this year.
Dutch women grab second gold
WOMEN'S HOCKEY:Reigning world champions the Netherlands beat China 2-0 to win their second gold.
Sixth-ranked China's silver was their first Olympic hockey medal of any colour, while Argentina outclassed Germany to take the bronze for a second consecutive Games.
The Dutch took the lead from a botched penalty corner in the 51st minute when forward Naomi van As knocked in a rebound to score her first goal of the tournament.
Despite dominating the first 15 minutes the Dutch could not find a way past goalkeeper Zhang Yimeng, who stopped four penalty corners.
The Dutch took control as the second half wore on and Maartje Goderie sealed the win in the 62nd minute with a stunning reverse-stick slam from the top of the circle.
Long jump down to one centimetre
ATHLETICS: Brazil's Maurren Higa Maggi won the women's long jump gold by one centimetre from defending champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia.
The 32-year-old recorded a best jump of 7.04 metres on the first of her six attempts, then had to watch nervously as Lebedeva, also the world champion, leapt 7.03 with her last effort to take the silver.
The bronze medal went to Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare with 6.91 metres, 21 centimetres more than her previous best.
Okagbare had initially failed to make the final when she finished 13th in qualifying, but was promoted into the top 12 when Ukraine's heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska of the Ukraine was kicked out of the Games for a doping offence.
Blonska has had her silver taken away and faces a lifetime ban after failing a drugs test.
Blonska had been provisionally suspended after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. The heptathlon silver goes to Hyleas Fountain of the US, the bronze to Russia's Tatiana Chernova.
