OLYMPIC ROUNDUP \Friday’s other events

Swimming: Ryan Lochte set a world record in the 200-meter backstroke and Rebecca Soni took the 200 breaststroke. Then Lochte won bronze in the 200 IM, behind Michael Phelps and Hungary’s Lazslo Cseh. Soni beat Australia’s Leisel Jones and took away the record Jones had held for 21‚Ñ2 years. American Natalie Coughlin won bronze in the 100 freestyle, her fifth medal of these games.

Track and field: Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia won the 10,000 meters in an Olympic record 29 minutes, 54.66 seconds. Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse took silver, while Shalane Flanagan set an American record at 30:22.22 to win bronze.

Softball: The U.S. women set an Olympic record with four homers in a 7-0 victory over Japan. Then they resumed a rain-stopped game against Canada, trailing 1-0. After being five outs from losing, they wound up winning by the lopsided score of 8-1.

Women’s basketball: The U.S. started slowly, then got clicking, pounding Spain 93-55. Tina Thompson scored nine of her 17 points during a game-breaking 20-5 run in the third quarter and Lisa Leslie added 14 points and 11 rebounds.

Baseball: The U.S. team is in trouble. They fell to 1-2, lost a key player to an injury and angered the mighty Cubans by accusing them of dirty play after losing to them 5-4 in 11 innings. In their first game under a wacky extra-inning format — from the 11th on, teams automatically get runners on first and second and can start anywhere in the batting order — the Americans gave up two runs in the top of the inning, then fell one shy in the bottom. The last at-bat started with Jayson Nix squaring to bunt and fouling the pitch off his left eye. Nix later underwent microsurgery to close about a 2-inch wound above his eye and will not play again in China.

Shooting: The Emmons family picked up another medal. This time, it was Matt getting silver in the 50-meter prone, an event he won four years ago. His wife, Katerina, who shoots for the Czech Republic, has a gold and a silver from these games. Also, American Vincent Hancock was leading after the first day of men’s skeet qualifications.

Women’s volleyball: The U.S. team knocked off China in five sets. The Americans are 3-2 overall, in good shape to advance. China fell to 2-2.

Women’s soccer: Natasha Kai scored on a header in extra time, sending the defending champion Americans into the semifinals with a 2-1 victory over Canada.

Boxing: Sergey Vodopyanov, the world champion bantamweight, and Raynell Williams, a serious American medal contender, lost Friday night, both saying they were wronged by subjective calls. Vodopyanov was edged by India’s Akhil Kumar on total punches in a fight that ended 9-all, while Williams fell behind early and never caught up to France’s Khedafi Djelkhir. Four American boxers remain.

Canoe-kayak: Look out for the Slovaks on the whitewater course. Twins Pavol and Peter Hochschorner won their third straight gold medal in double canoe slalom and countrywoman Elena Kaliska won the women’s single kayak slalom for her second straight gold in the event.

Archery: When South Korean Park Kyung-mo got an 8 on his next-to-last shot, tying the finals, Ukraine’s Viktor Ruban responded with a perfect 10. Park could’ve forced a shoot-off with a perfect score of his own, but he was a few millimeters wide, giving Ruban the gold. American Vic Wunderle, who took silver in 2000, knocked off the reigning champion to get to the quarterfinals, but didn’t get a medal.

Weightlifting: China got its seventh and eighth gold medals in weightlifting, with Lu Yong winning the fourth by a man and Cao Lei taking the fourth for a woman. Kendrick Farris set two U.S. records in the men’s 85-kilogram division, but had to settle for eighth place.

Cycling: It was a big day for Britain, with the British beating France for the gold in men’s team sprint and Bradley Wiggins setting an Olympic record in qualifying for the 4,000-meter individual pursuit. American Taylor Phinney — the 18-year-old son of 1984 gold medalist Connie Carpenter-Phinney and ’84 bronze medalist Davis Phinney — advanced in the pursuit race with his parents watching from the front row.

Judo: China’s Tong Wen won a dramatic come-from-behind victory over Athens champion Maki Tsukada to take the women’s heavyweight title and deny Japan a golden double on the final day of competition. Japan’s Satoshi Ishii, making his Olympic debut, defeated Uzbekistan’s Abdullo Tangriev to win the men’s over 100-kg.

Diving: China’s Phelp-ian run to eight gold medals still looks good, with Guo Jingjing leading after the women’s 3-meter springboard preliminaries. Guo, who already successfully defended her synchronized springboard title with partner Wu Minxia, is in position to claim her second consecutive Olympic 3-meter individual title.

Associated Press