CINCINNATI - Rafa Nadal and Stan Wawrinka, two of the headliners at the Western & Southern Open, fell in singles to a pair of young guns on a hot, steamy day on the hardcourts in Cincinnati.
RIO DE JANEIRO-- There will be no golden end to Tony Parker's international career, nor silver or bronze either after France bowed out of the Olympic men's basketball tournament with a whimper on Wednesday falling 92-67 to Spain.
RIO DE JANEIRO-- Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands won the men's marathon swimming event off Rio's Copacabana Beach on Tuesday in a race so close that he did not realise he had won until a friend called from home to give him the good news.
RIO DE JANEIRO-- The Netherlands beat Germany in a sudden-death shootout on Wednesday to reach the final of the Olympic women's hockey tournament and keep the target of a third successive gold medal in their sights.
RIO DE JANEIRO-- Netherlands' Marit Bouwmeester won sailing gold in the women's Laser Radial single-person dinghy competition on Tuesday after a closely-fought medal race that saw Ireland's Annalise Murphy slip past Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom to take silver.
