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Rio Olympics schedule: What to watch Tuesday

US gymnast Simone Biles goes for her fourth Olympic gold medal when she competes in the floor exercise Tuesday. Usain Bolt returns to the track to compete in the 200m sprint.

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United States' Simone Biles watches the scoreboard during the artistic gymnastics women's team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016.

Day 11 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, track and field, boxing, wrestling and more. Here are some events to watch (all times local):

GYMNASTICS

Simone Biles can wrap up her聽in Rio with a fourth Olympic gold medal when she competes in the floor exercise at 2:47 p.m.

Biles has already earned three golds and a bronze, though her chance to become the first female gymnast to capture five golds in a single Olympics ended聽聽during the balance beam final on Monday and ended up with bronze.

Biles is the reigning world champion in the floor exercise. Her biggest competition will come from teammate Aly Raisman, who captured gold in London four years ago. Biles and Raisman went 1-2 in the all-around competition last week.

The men will wrap up the Olympics with the high bar at 2 p.m. and parallel bar finals at 3:34 p.m. Oleg Verniaiev, who came in second to聽聽in the men's all-around, leads the field on parallel bars. Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands will try to defend his Olympic title on high bar.

础尘别谤颈肠补苍听聽will compete in both finals. He'll be joined on high bar by teammate聽听.

TRACK AND FIELD

After a day off, Usain Bolt returns to the track in his quest for聽聽鈥 in his favorite event, too: the 200 meters.

"I'm always confident going into the 200 meters," said Bolt, who surged past聽聽to win the 100 on Sunday. "I think the 100 meters is always the hardest one for me. Going to the 200 now, I'm very confident." Then again, the fastest man on the planet has never lacked for confidence. He runs in the ninth heat at 12:46 p.m.

Also Tuesday, American 海角大神 Taylor will defend his triple jump title. The competition begins at 9:50 a.m.

Keep an eye on Jamaican Omar McLeod and 础尘别谤颈肠补苍听聽, the University of Oregon football/track standout, in the 110-meter hurdles. The finals are at 10:45 p.m. following semifinals starting at 8:40 p.m.

Medals also will be awarded in women's discus (11:20 a.m.), the women's 1500 meters (10:30 p.m.) and the men's high jump (8:30 p.m.).

BASKETBALL

The U.S. women's team begins knockout play聽against Japan聽when the two teams play in the quarterfinals at 6:45 p.m. The Americans have won 46 consecutive games in the Olympics and are three victories away from a sixth consecutive gold medal. They聽聽, winning the five games by an average of 40.8 points.

The U.S. hasn't faced Japan since the 1996 quarterfinals when the Americans won by 15 points.聽has been the surprise of the tournament, already matching its three victories in 1996 in the Atlanta Games. The Japanese also have the rare distinction of being the only team left playing in the Olympics who have beaten the U.S., although that came back in 1976.

In other quarterfinal games, Australia plays Serbia at 11 a.m., Spain plays Turkey at 2:30 p.m., and France faces Canada at 10:15 p.m.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross play for a spot in the gold-medal game when they meet Brazilian world champions Agatha and Barbara in the beach volleyball semifinals at 11:59 p.m.

Walsh Jennings is going for her fourth gold, and Ross is looking to improve on the silver she earned when she lost to her fellow Americans in the London final. Brazil has three entries in Tuesday's men's and women's semifinals, including Alison and Bruno,聽聽of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the round of eight. They play the Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen at 5 p.m.

SOCCER

Marta and Brazil are聽聽from the gold-medal match, but the team will first have to overcome a pumped up聽聽team that knocked off the three-time defending champion United States in the quarterfinals. They play at 1 p.m.

Tuesday's other semifinal match, between Canada and Germany, will be held at 4 p.m.

聽, which won bronze four years ago, is the only team from the medal round at the London Games to return to the semifinals in Brazil.

VOLLEYBALL

The top-ranked聽聽, which went 5-0 in Olympic group play, faces Japan in a quarterfinal matchup at 2 p.m. as the Americans try to move one step closer to the first gold in program history.

Japan is arguably the best defensive team in this tournament.

Two-time reigning Olympic champion and host Brazil will take on a young China team in the 10:15 p.m. match, while the upstart Netherlands women 鈥 back in their first Olympics in 20 years and 4-1 in group play behind the Americans 鈥 face South Korea at 10 a.m.

BOXING

Nicola Adams, the British flyweight who won the first gold medal in Olympic women's boxing history, opens the slate with her first bout of the tournament. She faces Tetyana Kob of Ukraine at 11 a.m.

Shakur Stevenson and Gary Russell have fights early in the day for an聽聽trying to make up for an 0-2 effort on Monday. The main event of a 19-fight card has Brazilian Robson Conceicao fighting Frenchman Sofiane Oumiha for Olympic gold in the lightweight division. That fight starts at 7:15 p.m.

TRACK CYCLING

The track cycling program concludes Tuesday night with Britain seeking more Olympic gold.聽聽is going for his third title of the Rio Games in the keirin at 6:14 p.m., Katy Marchant and Becky James are still alive in the individual sprint at 6:26 p.m., and Laura Trott is favored to defend her title in the women's omnium at 5:05 p.m. Italian Elia Viviani won the men's event Monday despite being taken out in a crash that claimed two other riders. The聽聽has already won four gold medals through seven events inside the velodrome.

OPEN WATER SWIMMING

A day after Brazil won its first swimming medal of the games 鈥 a bronze in the聽聽鈥 the men take to the sewage-filled waters off Copacabana beach for their 10K race.

This is only the second Olympics holding competition in open ocean waters. At the first Summer Games in 1896, before custom-built pools were the norm, swimming was held in the Bay of Zea. The inaugural open water event in 2008 was staged at Beijing's rowing and canoeing canal. Four years ago, the open water in London took place in the Serpentine lake at Hyde Park.

Brazil's Poliana Okimoto went from just off the podium to bronze when France's Aurelie Muller was disqualified for colliding with another swimming. The first swimming medal ever won by a Brazilian woman, either in the pool or open water, eased some of the sting from a disappointing performance by the pool swimmers, who failed to win a medal at their home Olympics.

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