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Photos: Rio Olympics: Day 1
Kerri Walsh Jennings celebrates with her teammate April Ross after winning a beach volleyball match against Australia, 21-14, 21-13, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early in the morning on Sunday August 7.
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Kosuke Hagino of Japan celebrates winning gold in the final of the men's 400-meter individual medley on the first day of competition at the 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, August 6.
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Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens cries after defeating Venus Williams of the United States in the women's tennis competition 4-6, 6-3, 7-6.
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Hungary's Katinka Hosszu celebrates after breaking the world record by more than two seconds in the women's 400-meter individual medley final.
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Carli Lloyd of United States celebrates with her team after scoring during the women's Group G first round match between United States and France. The United States won the match 1-0.
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Uchimura Kohei of Japan takes part in the competition of qualification of artistic gymnastics.
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Armenia's Artur Hovhannisyan receives a punch from Spain's Samuel Carmona Heredia during a men's light flyweight 49-kg preliminary boxing match. Hovhannisyan lost the match 0-3.
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Madelein Meppelink of the Netherlands signals during the women's beach volleyball preliminary round Pool F match against Olaya Perez Pazo and Norisbeth Agudo of Venezuela. Meppelink and teammate Marleen van Iersel won 21-17, 21-11.
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Italy's Rossella Fiamingo competes against Hungary's Emese Szasz during the women's individual epee gold medal bout in fencing. Szasz won the gold medal.
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Illya Marchenko, of Ukraine, licks his racquet after losing the match in a tie-breaker during the third set against Andreas Seppi, of Italy.
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South Korea's Ku Bon-chan, Kim Woo-jin and Lee Seung-yun celebrate after winning the men's team archery gold medal match at the Sambadrome venue.
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