Track and field gets underway tomorrow at the Rio Olympic Games, and the first track and field medal will be awarded Friday for the women’s 10,000m final. Friday features several exciting events and opportunities for Team USA to add to its medal count.
Olympics 2016 live stream: How to watch Friday’s events online through NBC Sports
Track and field finally gets underway on Friday at the Rio Olympics, and Katie Ledecky will swim in the women’s 800m freestyle final.
The Round of 16 for men’s and women’s beach volleyball begins tomorrow, and though the brackets are not yet officially set, Team USA’s Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross did punch their ticket to this elimination round with their win over China Monday.
Team USA’s women’s soccer will face Sweden in the quarterfinal Friday, with action kicking off at 12 p.m. ET. Sweden is a team the United States is familiar with, having been grouped with them in the past four World Cups. Sweden’s coach, Pia Sundhage, was previously the coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team, who led Team USA to gold medals in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012.
Dressage is the art of training and riding a horse in a way that develops obedience and flexibility, and the United States dressage team, and particularly Steffen Peters, will look to bring home a gold medal in those finals tomorrow. Peters has represented the United States in four Olympics and won a team bronze medal in 1996. The dressage finals begin at 12:35 p.m. ET.
There are four swimming finals on Friday -- the women’s 200m backstroke, the men’s 100m butterfly, the women’s 800m freestyle and the women’s 50m freestyle finals. Katie Ledecky is the one to watch in the 800m freestyle final. Ledecky has been dominant throughout the Games, and she set an Olympic record in the 800m freestyle preliminary Thursday.
Live Stream
Rowing finals: begins at 7:30 a.m. ET.
Track and field, including women’s 10,000m finals: begins at 8:30 a.m. ET
Men’s rifle prone final: begins at 10 a.m. ET
Men’s and women’s beach volleyball Round of 16: begins at 10 a.m. ET
Men’s water polo, Team USA vs. Montenegro: begins at 10:40 a.m. ET
Men’s tennis singles quarterfinals, American Steve Johnson vs. Great Britain’s Andy Murray: begins at 11 a.m. ET
Women’s soccer, Team USA vs. Sweden: begins at 12 p.m. ET
Men’s and women’s swimming preliminaries: begins at 12 p.m. ET
Dressage grand prix: begins at 12:35 p.m.
Men’s 20 km race walking final: begins at 1:30 p.m. ET
Men’s archery quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals: begins at 2 p.m. ET
Women’s volleyball, Team USA vs. Italy: begins at 2 p.m. ET
Women’s skeet final: begins at 2 p.m. ET
Judo, semifinals and medal matches: begins at 2:30 p.m. ET
Men’s and women’s cycling qualifiers and finals: begins at 3 p.m. ET
Fencing men’s team foil medal matches: begins at 4 p.m. ET
Track and field, women’s shot put final: begins at 7:20 p.m. ET
Men's and women's swimming finals: begins at 9 p.m. ET











