Doping: Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics, state media said yesterday citing the country’s swimming association, the latest doping scandal to mar competition at the Games. Controversies over doping overshadowed the build-up to Rio and, far from dying down as events got under way, have flared anew as US and Australian competitors have branded their Russian and Chinese rivals as drug cheats. Chen, 18, failed a test for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide.

Shooting: Henri Junghaenel, of Germany, walked away with a gold medal in his first Olympic Games yesterday by winning the 50 metre rifle prone event. Having scraped into the finals in the last of eight positions, the 28-year-old Junghaenel established an early lead with several successive 10.8 shots, shy of the perfect 10.9. Kim Jonghyun, 31, of South Korea, won his second Olympic silver with a perfect 10.9 shoot-off with Russia’s Kirill Grigoryan, who took the bronze.

Women's Football: Sweden knocked the United States out of the women’s Olympic soccer tournament last night, recording one of the sport’s biggest shocks by beating the holders 4-3 on penalties in the quarter-final after the two sides drew 1-1 after extra time. Lisa Dahlkvist converted Sweden’s final penalty after Alex Morgan and Christen Press missed for the holders in the shootout. Linda Sembrant also missed for Sweden. The United States, who dominated large parts of the match, have won four of the last five Olympic golds and had never not reached the Games final.

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Clay Shooting: In an all-Italian final, first-time Olympian Diana Bacosi defeated 2008 Olympic champion Chiara Cainero to win the gold medal in women’s skeet shooting yesterday. History was made, however, by the bronze medal winner, defending champion American Kim Rhode, who joined an elite record-holding group of just five other Olympic athletes who have won a medal in six different Olympic Games.

Table Tennis: China’s Ma Long (picture, right) overwhelmed team-mate Zhang Jike with a 4-0 win to seize gold in the men’s table tennis singles final, with Japan’s Jun Mizutani claiming the bronze. Ma, the world no.1, capitalised on Zhang’s mistakes and misses to triumph 14-12, 11-5, 11-4 and 11-4 after thrilling the cheering fans with a high-speed game of rapid-fire spins and quick reflexes.