OLYMPIC PREVIEW DAY 7 – AUGUST 10TH – US FACES TOUGH TEST IN BASKETBALL, MEN’S GYMNASTICS INDIVIDUAL FINAL, MUCH MORE!

Each day I’ll be previewing a few of the biggest events for the day at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Now, I won’t preview every event but I’ll pick 3-10 each day and give my quick prediction for who will win. This isn’t supposed to necessarily be an in-depth prediction article, but I will give you times and TV stations of a few events to watch for the day, with added emphasis to contests involving the US, as most of this websites viewers are from there.  Anyway, without further ado, let’s begin!

Women’s Cycling

*Starts at 7:30AM ET, NBCSN

Road Time Trial
Gold:  Linda Villumsen (New Zealand)
Silver:  Lisa Brennauer (Germany)
Bronze:  Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands)

Men’s Cycling

*Starts at 9AM ET, NBCSN

Road Time Trial
Gold:  Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
Silver:  Tony Martin (Germany)
Bronze: Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands)

Men’s Rugby

*Starts at 12:30PM ET, Live Stream

Group Stage (A) –  Fiji (2-0) v  United States (1-1)
The Pick:  Fiji

Women’s Basketball

*Starts at 2:30PM ET, NBCSN

Group Stage (B) –  United States (2-0) v  Serbia (0-2)
The Pick:  United States

Men’s Gymnastics

*Starts at 3PM ET, Live Stream

Individual All-Around Final
Gold:  Kōhei Uchimura (Japan)
Silver:  Max Whitlock (Great Britain)
Bronze:  Deng Shudi (China)

Men’s Basketball

*Starts at 6PM ET, NBCSN

Group Stage (A) –  Australia (2-0) v  United States (2-0)
The Pick: United States

Women’s Beach Volleyball

*Starts at 8PM ET, NBC

Group Stage (C) –  Ross/Walsh-Jennings (2-0) (United States) v  Forrer/Vergé-Dépré (1-1) (Switzerland)
The Pick:   Ross/Walsh-Jennings (United States)

Swimming

*Starts at 9PM ET, NBC

*For the semifinals I’m only predicting who will finish 1st in the qualifying, in the finals I predict Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

Women’s 100m freestyle semifinals
The Pick:  Sarah Sjöström (Sweeden)

Men’s 100m freestyle final
Gold:  Nathan Adrian (United States)
Silver:  Cameron McEvoy (Australia)
Bronze:  Marcelo Chierighini (Brazil)

Men’s 200m individual medley semifinals
The Pick:  Kosuke Hagino (Japan)

Women’s 4x200m freestyle final
Gold: United States
Silver:  China
Bronze:  Australia