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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - Ibtihaj Muhammad made her debut as the first American Olympic athlete competing with a hijab on Monday but her adventure ended prematurely in the second round of women‘s sabre fencing.Wearing a black Muslim head scarf under her mask, the eighth-ranked Muhammad won her first round match 15-13 against Ukraine‘s Olena Kravatska but was then stopped later in the day 15-12 by Cecilia Berder of France in the last 16.Muhammad, who missed the 2012 Games on London for injury reasons, has another chance to make the podium in the team event on Saturday, having been part of the American team which won the world title in 2014. ....
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - Britain‘s Mo Farah will aim to emulate Lasse Viren with back-to-back distance doubles at the Olympics, after matching the legendary Finn Saturday with a gold-after-falling achievement in the Rio Games 10,000 metres.Viren won the 10,000m in 1972 after falling in the 12th lap en route to the doubles with the 5,000 that year in Munich and 1976 in Montreal.Farah took the double at London 2012 and on Saturday recovered from a fall at a similar mid-race stage as Viren, getting tripped by American training partner Galen Rupp. ....
Brasilia (dpa) - Brazil‘s bid for the elusive Olympic football gold was dented again in the form of a second straight goalless draw, against Iraq on Sunday night.Renato Augusto volleyed high in injury time after being denied by the bar in the 44th. But the Brazilians were also lucky when Iraq‘s Mohanad Abdulraheem hit the post early on. ....
Rather than praise the World Anti-Doping Agency for initiating the report into widespread Russian doping, the head of the German Olympic Association has criticized the body for acting as a prosecutor and not doing anything about the problem beforehand.Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - German Olympic Association president Alfons Hoermann has slammed the World Anti-Doping Agency for its conduct surrounding the Russian drugs scandal.WADA called for a blanket ban on Russians competing at the Rio Olympics which start on August 5 after a report it commissioned exposed a state-run doping programme. ....
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - Australian John Millmann scored the first double bagel win in men‘s singles at the Olympics when he crushed Lithuania‘s Ricardas Berankis 6-0, 6-0 in the first round.World number 75 Millman was in full command on a hot afternoon en route to the historic win. ....