Capsules of Friday's events at the Summer Olympics:
Badminton
Top-seeded Joko Suprianto of Indonesia and No. 2 Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark reached the men's round of 16 with easy victories. Defending champion Susi Susanti of Indonesia and top-seeded Ye Zhaoying of China advanced in women's play.
Basketball (men)
Australia and Greece joined the United States in the quarterfinals. Andrew Gaze scored 29 points and Shane Heal had 28 as Australia beat Puerto Rico 101-96. Arturas Karnishovas scored 20 points and Arvydas Sabonis had 12 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in Lithuania's 85-49 victory over Angola. Greece defeated South Korea 108-86 and Yugoslavia topped Brazil 101-82.
Beach volleyball
Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes won their showdown on the sand, defeating fellow Americans Sinjin Smith and Carl Henkel 17-15 to advance to the semifinals.
Americans Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh also remained undefeated, beating Spain 15-6.
Boxing
Rhoshii Wells of the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale capped a three-victory day for the United States by outpointing Ricardo Rodriguez of Brazil 16-2 at 165 pounds.
Other U.S. boxers winning were Terrance Cauthen at 132 pounds and Albert Guardado at 106. Cauthen, booed for dancing away from his opponent in the final minute, escaped with a 10-9 victory over Tumentsetsec Ultumea of Mongolia. Guardado outpointed Anicet Rasonnaivo of Madagascar.
Cycling
The SuperBikes were a super disappointment again as the U.S. pursuit team was ousted in the quarterfinals by world-record holder Australia. Rebecca Twigg, who ditched her SuperBike after a disappointing race Thursday, also was eliminated in the women's individual pursuits quarterfinals.
Equestrian
New Zealanders Blyth Tait and Sally Clark finished 1-2 in the three-day event, with American Kerry Millikin third.
Field hockey
The medal chances of the U.S. women's team remained in jeopardy when officials rejected the team's protest of a 2-1 loss to Argentina. The Americans then played a 1-1 tie against Germany, with Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper in attendance.
The U.S. men's team, 0-23-4 in its Olympic history, lost to Spain 7-1.
Judo
North Korea's Kye Sun ended the 84-match winning streak of Japan's Ryoko Tamura as the women's under-106-pound division ended. In the men's event, Tadahiro Nomura of Japan stopped Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy to win the under-132-pound class.
Rowing
Americans Teresa Bell and Lindsay Burns won their semifinal by a half-boat length to advance to the lightweight double sculls final. Three of four U.S. boats moved on to the medal finals.
Shooting
China won three medals, including two golds. Yang Ling won the 10-meter running target gold, leading a 1-2 Chinese finish, and Li Duihong took the gold in the 25-meter women's pistol event.
Table tennis
Jan-Ove Waldner, the defending champion from Sweden, registered a 21-11, 21-19 victory over South Korea's Lee Chul-seung. China's Kong Linghui, the 1995 world champion, defeated Toshio Tasaki of Japan 21-9,
The last U.S. hopes in women's singles were eliminated.
Team handball (women)
Anja Jul Andersen scored eight goals as Denmark beat the United States 29-19. Two-time defending champion South Korea topped Germany 33-20, Hungary beat China 29-19 and Norway defeated Angola 30-18.
Tennis
MaliVai Washington and Andre Agassi won their first-round doubles match, beating Mexico's Oscar Ortiz and Alejandro Hernandez 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Washington, the men's No. 4 singles seed, beat Oleg Ogorodov of Uzbekistan 6-3, 6-4. In women's play, No. 2 seed Conchita Martinez of Spain, No. 7 Mary Joe Fernandez and No. 9 Lindsay Davenport won in straight sets.
Weightlifting
Pyrros Dimas of Greece broke two world records in winning the gold medal in the 1823/4-pound division. Dimas broke his own records in the snatch (3963/4 pounds) and total (8651/4 pounds).
Yachting
Californians Jeff Madrigali, Jim Barton and Kent Massey claimed a share of the lead in the Soling Class. Americans Kris Stookey and Louise Van Voorhis sailed to victory in the women's 470 double-handed dingy.