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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):12:05 a.m.MEDAL ALERT: China rallied from one set down to defeat the upstart Serbians for gold in womens volleyball at the Rio Games.China took a 23-22 lead in the fourth set Saturday night when Ting Zhus kill sent Maja Ognjenovic to the floor with a hard ball to the face, and the match was over shortly thereafter. Lang Ping raised both arms in the air and Fangxu Yang sprinted over to embrace her. Many more hugs followed.The 19-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-23 win means Chinas coach Jenny Lang Ping becomes the first person to win volleyball gold as a coach and player. Lang Ping captured an Olympic title with the 1984 Chinese national team in Los Angeles then later spent a four-year stint coaching the Americans.Spains Susana Rodriguez and Patricia Rolf of the U.S. made the first all-female referee tandem for a gold-medal match.---12:05 a.m.Caster Semenya won the Olympic title in the 800 meters Saturday with no one close to challenging her, a result that will only stoke the complex debate over whether women with much higher levels of testosterone than normal should be allowed to compete unchecked.Semenya of South Africa won her first Olympic gold in a personal-best of 1 minute, 55.28 seconds, a national record and one of the top 20 times ever in the two-lap race.Burundis Francine Niyonsaba took silver, with Kenyas Margaret Wambui collecting the bronze for an all-African podium.Semenyas breakthrough world title seven years ago pushed the IAAF to introduce rules limiting testosterone in female athletes. Semenya is believed to be one of several female athletes to compete at the Rio Olympics with very high testosterone -- caused by a condition called hyperandrogenism.But under a legal challenge, the IAAF was forced to drop the testosterone-limiting rules last year.---11:25 p.m.REINSTATED: American runner Paul Chelimo has been reinstated and will get his Olympic silver medal in the mens 5,000-meter race after all.Chelimo finished second in Saturday night but was later disqualified for a lane infringement. A short time later, track and fields governing body said Chelimo did not break any rules and would get his medal.Mohammed Ahmed of Canada also was reinstated to finish fourth.The decision means Bernard Lagat of the U.S. has been bumped from the bronze medal back to fifth place. He had been moved up after the initial disqualifications.Mo Farah won the race to complete his second straight Olympic long-distance double.---11:05 p.m.The Rio Games will go down as the best ever on foreign soil for the Americans, who topped their mark of 110 medals at a road Olympics set in Beijing eight years ago.When Saturdays events were complete, the U.S. was at 116 medals in Rio -- with two more guaranteed Sunday, one from mens basketball and the other from womens boxer Claressa Shields.The U.S. has 31 medals in track and field, with only Sundays marathon left. Kenya has 12, Jamaica 11.And swimming was even more one-sided, with 33 medals for Americans there, compared with 10 for second-place Australia.All thats left in the medal race to decide is the overall winning margin -- which will be the largest at a non-boycotted Olympics since the U.S. won 67 more medals than anyone else at the 1932 Los Angeles Games.---10:55 p.m.The governing body for track and field says Paul Chelimo, who originally finished second in the mens 5,000-meter race, was disqualified for a lane infringement.The IAAF says Mohammed Ahmed of Canada and Muktar Edris of Ethiopia also were disqualified for the same reason.The decision to disqualify the trio allowed Bernard Lagat of the United States to take bronze in the race behind winner Mo Farah and second-place Hagos Gebrhiwet.---10:40 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: LaShawn Merritt anchored the U.S. 4x400-meter relay team to win an Olympic gold medal and regain control of the event at the games.Four years after the Bahamas beat the U.S. team, the Americans finished with a time of 2 minutes 57.30 seconds. The Jamaicans brought the baton home .86 seconds later. The defending champion Bahamas took bronze in 2:58.49.Arman Hall, Tony McQuay, and Gil Roberts set up Merritt for the win. The veteran already has two gold medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and eight world championship gold medals stretching as far back as 2005.He won bronze in the 400 earlier this week in Rio.---10:35 p.m.After three runners were disqualified from the mens 5,000-meter race, 41-year-old American Bernard Lagat ended up with a bronze medal.Lagat became the oldest person in a running event to win a medal at the Olympics. Jamaican great Merlene Ottey was 40 when she won a bronze medal in the 100 and a silver in the 4x100 relay at the 2000 Sydney Games.Lagat says its hard to imagine. To me, things happen. But I guess if the rules are like that, then whatever decision they want to make, Im going to accept.---10:30 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Azerbaijans Radik Isaev has won the mens heavyweight taekwondo gold medal at the Rio Olympics after defeating Nigers Abdoulrazak Issoufou in a cagey final where both fighters struggled with their timing and distance.Isaev won 6-2. He is the current world champion and was the only fighter able to challenge Issoufou on the mat on Saturday. Although Issoufou stands at six feet nine inches tall, Isaev is just two inches shorter and was able to find ways to counter Issoufous long reach and swinging head kicks.Isaev ultimately was able to land two head shots on the hulking Issoufou that proved enough to secure victory.Earlier in the day, Isaev defeated South Koreas Cha Dong-Min, a gold medalist at the Beijing Games.The mens bronze medals were won by Brazils Maicon Siqueira and South Koreas Cha Dong-Min.---10:30 p.m.American swimmer Ryan Lochte says he over-exaggerated what happened at a Rio de Janeiro gas station and acknowledged his immature behavior got him and three teammates into a mess that consumed the final days of the Olympics.In a portion of an interview with NBCs Matt Lauer that aired Saturday, Lochte continued backtracking from a story he initially described as an armed robbery. Police have said the swimmers vandalized a bathroom and armed guards confronted them and asked them to pay for the damage.Lochte said whether you call it a robbery or whether you call it extortion or us just paying for the damages, we dont know. All we know is that there was a gun pointed in our direction and we were demanded to give money.But he admitted that he understood that he was being told that the Americans had to pay for the damages or the police would be called.---10:30 p.m.DISQUALIFICATION ALERT: Paul Chelimo of the United States, who crossed the line in silver medal position behind Mo Farah in the Olympic 5,000 meters, is among those disqualified from the race. It was unclear what his infraction was.---10:20 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Allyson Felix won a womens track record sixth Olympic gold medal, helping the United States win the 4x400-meter relay.Felix, who also won gold in the 4x100 relay and silver in the 400 meters, ran the final leg of the race as the Americans won in 3 minutes, 19.06 seconds. Courtney Okolo ran the first leg, followed by Natasha Hastings and Phyllis Francis.Jamaica took silver and Britain got bronze.---10:15 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Thomas Rohler of Germany won his first major title with his penultimate throw of 90.30 meters to clinch the Olympic javelin gold medal.Behind him, Julius Yego of Kenya took silver with a throw of 88.24, despite having to retire injured late in the competition. Defending champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago took bronze with 85.38.---10:15 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Chinas Zheng Shuyin has won the womens taekwondo heavyweight gold medal after defeating world number one Maria Espinoza of Mexico in a slow-moving final where both fighters were on the defensive.Zheng defeated Espinoza 5-0.At times, both Zheng and Espinoza appeared unwilling to spar and the referee penalized both for passivity.Zheng used her considerable height advantage over Espinoza -- she is six inches taller -- to block Espinozas attempted jabs and to sneak in her own kicks. Espinoza previously won two Olympic medals: a gold at Beijing and bronze in London.Zheng won a bronze at the Asian championships in April. Her Olympic gold medal is Chinas second in taekwondo at the Rio Games; Zhao Shuai took the mens 58-kilogram division Wednesday.The womens bronze medals were won by Britains Bianca Walkden and Jackie Galloway of the U.S.--10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Ruth Beitia won her first major championship at 37, taking gold in the Olympic high jump with a leap of 1.97 meters.The Spaniard took gold on a countback, beating Mirela Demireva of Bulgaria into second place while Blanka Vlasic took bronze.Chaunte Lowe, a perpetual contender without a global title, also cleared the same height as Beitia but fell just outside the medals.---9:55 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Mo Farah of Britain became the first runner in 40 years to win back-to-back long-distance doubles at the Olympics by taking gold in the mens 5,000 meters.Farah already won the 10,000 meters at the Rio de Janeiro Games to go along with his two gold medals from the same events in London four years ago.The last man to win both distance races in consecutive Olympics was Finnish great Lasse Viren at the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Games.Farah won 13 minutes, 3.30 seconds. Paul Chelimo of the United States took bronze and Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia got bronze.---9:45 p.m.Usain Bolt could not resist.Walking down the steps and away from the track Saturday night with the previous nights 4x100 meters relay gold medal around his neck, Bolt stopped and stretched out his massive arms in the To The World pose. And -- surprise -- the crowd loved it.His Olympic farewell victory ceremony with his three relay teammates had up to that point been muted by his standards, with little more than a wave and a salutary clapping for the tens of thousands in the stands of the Olympic Stadium, where he had only arrived a short time earlier after again proving just how fast he is.Bolt made it in record time to Olympic Stadium from Maracana Stadium across town, where he had been watching the mens soccer final and Brazils Neymar, who saluted Bolt with his own To The World after scoring in the game.---9:30 p.m.Caster Semenya of South Africa won the 800 meters Olympic gold medal, fighting from behind to overtake Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi on the final bend before cruising home.Semenya won in a South African national record 1 minute, 55.28 seconds, while Niyoinsaba of Burundi was 1.21 seconds behind. Margaret Wambui of Kenya took bronze in 1:56.89.Semenya has become the unwilling face of the controversial debate in track and field over women with very high levels of testosterone being allowed to compete. She is believed to be one of several female athletes at the Olympics with a condition called hyperandrogenism.The IAAF was last year forced to drop rules that regulated their testosterone levels.---9:20 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Caster Semenya, the unwilling face of tracks dilemma dealing with hyperandrogenism, wins Olympic gold in the womens 800 meters.---9:10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Matt Centrowitz of the United States ran from the front and held off Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria at the line to win the gold medal in the mens 1,500 meters.Centrowitz won the silver medal at the 2013 world championships and took fourth at the 2012 London Games.His last lap on Saturday was 50.62 seconds.Nick Willis of New Zealand took bronze.The last American to win the mens 1,500 was Mel Sheppard at the 1908 London Olympics.Kenya favorite Asbel Kiprop fell halfway through the race and could not get back into medal contention. He finished sixth.---8:40 p.m.For Brazilians, its the perfect finish to an imperfect Olympics.In Brazil vs. Germany for mens soccer gold, Neymar gives the hosts a 1-0 lead. But the Germans tie it and ultimately it goes to penalty kicks.Germany makes its first four. So does Brazil.Then Germany is stopped on its fifth, and the stage is set for -- who else? -- Neymar to set off a national celebration. His shot sails into the back of the net, Brazil wins and the roar could be heard all over Rio as Neymar collapsed on the field in a quivering mass of joyous tears.---8:35 p.m.The 60,000-capacity Olympic Stadium was only a third full 20 minutes before the opening event of the track and field evening program, when one giant roar made it clear why there was a lack of attention.When Germany missed its fifth penalty in a shootout against Brazil in the mens soccer final miles away at Maracana Stadium, the crowd suddenly roared.Following the game on their smartphones or over the radio, all Brazilian eyes and ears were turned across town.The roar was even bigger when Neymar slotted the decisive kick, and fireworks started cracking around the Olympic Stadium.---8:15 p.m.Neymar buried the final penalty kick and host country Brazil won its first-ever Olympic mens soccer gold medal with a 5-4 shootout following a 1-1 draw with Germany.The crowd at iconic Maracana Stadium roared and Neymar fell to the field sobbing after he was mobbed by his teammates.Neymar scored in the 27th minute as Brazil took a 1-0 lead in Saturdays match. Max Meyer scored the equalizer for Germany in the 59th minute.---8:10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Brazil wins soccer gold medal in penalty kicks, clinched by Neymar.---7:55 p.m.Germany and Brazil are into penalty kicks knotted 1-all in the gold medal match at the Olympics.Neymar scored in the 27th minute as Brazil took a 1-0 lead in Saturdays match. Max Meyer scored the equalizer for Germany in the 59th minute.Brazil is looking for its first gold medal in soccer. Germany is playing soccer in the Olympics for the first time since 1988.---7:25 p.m.Germany and Brazil are in overtime knotted at 1-all in the gold medal match at the Olympics.Neymar scored in the 27th minute as Brazil took a 1-0 lead in Saturdays match. The crowd at the iconic Maracana Stadium -- which included Usain Bolt -- roared when Neymars free kick bounced off the crossbar and into the goal.Max Meyer scored the equalizer for Germany in the 59th minute.Brazil is looking for its first gold medal in soccer. The Brazilians finished with the silver medal three times and the bronze twice. Four years ago, it lost to Mexico in the final in London.Germany was playing in the Olympics for the first time since 1988, when U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann was on the team. It won the bronze at the time, when it competed as West Germany. It has never won the gold.---7 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Dusan Mandic scored four times and Serbia beat Croatia 11-7 to win the gold medal in mens water polo.Serbia was the favorite coming into the Rio Games, increasing the pressure on the players to bring home the countrys first Olympic title in perhaps its favorite sport.The former Yugoslavia won three gold medals and Serbia and Montenegro lost in the 2004 final in Athens, but Serbia finished third in each of the previous two Olympics.No settling for bronze this time around. After opening with two draws and a loss to Brazil, Serbia closed with five straight victories. 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Its just nice to be out there going to war with the boys I practice with every week.The season has been a lot more fun for Kirkland than the draft. He decided to leave Arkansas early but a poor performance at the combine led to him going undrafted.Kirkland watched the draft with his family and tried not to get too discouraged.I just kept hope alive and Im here now, he said. I always had a positive attitude. I didnt want to get down on myself. Now I have to go even harder than ever.The Raiders showed interest in Kirkland even before the end of the draft, calling him to tell him they wanted him as an undrafted free agent if no team took him.Kirkland got calls from other teams after the draft but chose the Raiders because of their early interest. The coaching staff liked what they saw from Kirkland once he arrived.Denvers been a big, physical guy, tough guy, coach Jack Del Rio said. We were drawn to him in camp, thought there were some things that were worth developing and that developmentt, obviously, has been accelerated a little bit with him being on the field as much as he is now.ddddddddddddKirkland got his chance after blocking tight end Lee Smith went on injured reserve with a lower-leg injury on Oct. 5. Kirkland had been promoted to the active roster the previous week because of injuries on the offensive line but didnt get a chance to play until Smiths injury.With Oaklands other tight ends, Clive Walford and Mychal Rivera, more skilled as receivers than blockers, the Raiders started utilizing the six-lineman package more often.Kirkland played 27 snaps in his first game against San Diego on Oct. 9 and has looked right at home on the field as part of a line that has been one of the leagues best this season at both run and pass blocking.Hes such a good dude, hes so quiet, and all he does is come to work and grind every single day, quarterback Derek Carr said. We knew from the beginning, we were like, `Man, this guy could be special. He could be a really good player. And so far, hes come into games for us and hes played outstanding.Kirkland got his most action against the Broncos when he played 42 snaps and was a key part of a running attack that gained 218 yards.While Kirkland is being counted on mostly as an extra blocker, the Raiders do have a few pass plays in the playbook for him that he hopes get called soon.I got hands. I got good hands, he said. I hope so. That would be a great moment for me.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '