US wrestler <b>Jordan Burroughs stunned in quarterfinals</b>

Geduev, a three-time European champion ranked second in the world, upended Burroughs, 3-2, in the 74-kilogram division to hand the American just his third international loss and knock him out of gold-medal contention.

A devastated Burroughs was later routed, 11-1, by Uzbekistan’s Bekzod Abdurakhmonov in the loser’s bracket with a potential bronze still on the line.

Geduev wound up with a silver medal, dropping the gold-medal match to Iran’s Hassan Yazdani after being taken down with under 10 seconds left.

‘‘This was supposed to be my year. This was supposed to be my breakthrough performance,’’ Burroughs said as he wiped away tears that had mixed with blood from a head cut. ‘‘I've done everything right. I've sacrificed so much to get here. I wanted to be among the greats. I wanted to be a Simone Biles, a Michael Phelps, nationally. I wanted to be those guys, and it’s unfortunate.’’

Inbee Park kept her composure in strong wind and made two late birdies to regain the lead, posting a 1-under-par 70 for a two-shot lead going into the final round of the women’s golf tournament at Olympic Golf Course.

Just as difficult as the 30-mile-per-hour gusts was seeing the name of Lydia Ko right behind her.

Ko, the No. 1 player in women’s golf, made the first hole-in-one of her career as she raced into contention. The 19-year-old Kiwi made all pars on the back nine when the wind arrived and shot 65. She started the day seven shots behind and has a solid chance at gold.

‘‘Some holes, when you are making par, you feel like you’re making birdies,’’ Ko said. ‘‘That’s what the situation and conditions were like out there. I think I've done a good job of putting myself in there and still having the chance to be standing on that podium.’’

Gerina Piller, the American who narrowly qualified for the Olympics in her final event, shot a 68 and was in the final group, two shots behind. Piller has never won on the LPGA Tour, though there is something about playing for her country that brings out her best golf. Piller’s signature moment was making the winning putt for the United States in the Solheim Cup last year in Germany.

Shanshan Feng of China shot 68 and was three shots back.

Park, however, is still the player to beat.

The 28-year-old South Korean finally got her putter going, and she’s among the best in women’s golf on the greens. Her struggles were with the longer clubs, especially as the wind became fierce. Park tried to play short on the par-4 12th into the wind and hit into the sandy native area. On the par-3 14th, her hybrid went well over the green into more trouble, and she lost her lead.

Park bounced back with two birdies, a pitch to tap-in range on the short 16th and a 20-foot birdie on the 17th to build a cushion. But on the par-5 closing hole, her tee shot found a bunker and it took three more shots to reach the green. She made one last bogey and was at 11-under 202.

‘‘I feel I hung in there, and I'm very happy I have a chance tomorrow,’’ Park said. ‘‘It was hard to judge the distance, and on the green it was hard to concentrate because the ball was oscillating. I'm pretty exhausted.’’

Piller hit a bold pitch to 4 feet on the 16th to momentarily tie for the lead. She also went into the bunker on the 18th hole, and her next shot hit the top lip and only advance some 65 yards, leading to bogey.

They weren’t the only players to struggle.

Charley Hull of Britain fell out of the chasing pack by missing three par putts inside 5 feet on the back nine. She shot 74 and was six shots behind. Brooke Henderson of Canada, the No. 2 player in women’s golf, struggled even more. Henderson was still in the mix when she four-putted for double bogey on the 16th hole, taking three of those putts from 3 feet. She wound up with a 75 and was seven back.

Ko is right where she wants to be and is the most seasoned of those going after the gold medal, the first for women’s golf since 1900. She is a four-time winner on the LPGA Tour this year, the best player in women’s golf and finally got some confidence in her putter.

She used a 7-iron for her hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth hole — the second of the day after Lin Xiyu of China made an ace on that hole — as the highlight of a front nine in which she shot 29. Ko was stunned to hear the cheering when it dropped in.

‘‘I made my first ever hole-in-one, so to do that at the Olympics, it doesn’t get any better than that,’’ Ko said. ‘‘But to put myself back into good position going into tomorrow I think was a job well done going forward.’’

Stacy Lewis went backward. The American, who began the day one shot behind, made a bogey on the easy par-5 fifth by hitting into the water, and closed out her round with a double bogey on the 18th when her third shot sailed long into the native area, and she chipped back over the green. She shot 76.

A Cuban modern pentathlon athlete was strapped to a stretcher and carted off after being thrown from her horse into a post.

Leyda Laura Moya was injured early in her equestrian run when her horse failed to clear a jump and she crashed into the supports.

The 24-year-old appeared to be gasping for air as medical personnel raced onto the course. Moya lay on the course for several minutes as medics stabilized her and strapped her to a stretcher.

Moya managed to wave from the cart as the crowd clapped for her on the way out of Deodoro Stadium.

American boxer Claressa Shields is one win away from a second gold medal.

Shields danced her way out of the ring following a unanimous decision victory over Kazakhstan’s Dariga Shakimova in a middleweight bout.

She won, 40-36, 40-36 and 39-37, on the scorecards.

Shields will add to her tattoo collection with a win in the gold medal bout. She has the Olympic rings tattooed on her right bicep. ‘‘Rio’’ and ‘‘London’’ are inscribed within the bottom two loops.

She said she would get an ‘‘Au’’ tattoo because those letters on the periodic table stands for gold.

The 21-year-old Flint, Mich., native hasn’t lost a fight since the London Games, winning two world championships and a Pan-Am Games title between Olympics.

Russia was stripped of another track-and-field medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after three athletes were retroactively caught in drug tests, the latest blow to a country reeling from scandals over widespread doping.

Russia lost its silver medal in the women’s 4 x 400 relay after Anastasia Kapachinskaya tested positive for the steroids stanozol and turinabol in a reanalysis of her doping samples, the International Olympic Committee said.

It’s the second 2008 relay medal stripped this week from Russia because of doping. On Tuesday, the IOC took away Russia’s gold in the 4 x 100 after Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for the same two steroids.

Under international rules, an entire relay team loses its medals if one of the runners tests positive.

With Kapachinskaya’s positive, Jamaica is in line to move up from third to silver and Belarus from fourth to bronze in the 4 x 400 relay.

Kapachinskaya was also disqualified from her fifth-place finish in the individual 400 meters.

In the two other cases announced Friday, Alexander Pogorelov tested positive for turinabol and was stripped of his fourth-place finish in the decathlon, and Ivan Yushkov had his 10th place result in the shot put annulled after he tested positive for stanozolol, turinabol and oxandrolone.

European Olympic head Patrick Hickey of Ireland has been transferred to a prison in the closing days of the Rio Games while under investigation in a ticket-scalping scandal, authorities said.

The 71-year-old International Olympic Committee executive was denied bail after his legal team argued unsuccessfully that he was being detained illegally following his early-morning arrest Wednesday at his hotel.

Police only began questioning Hickey on Thursday because he was hospitalized for a day with chest pains following his arrest. Hickey has now been transferred to the sprawling Bangu prison complex in Rio, a police statement said.

Hickey has temporarily stepped aside from his IOC duties, including his post on the ruling executive board and heading the influential umbrella group for Europe’s Olympic bodies.

Hickey is facing charges of conspiracy, ticket scalping and ambush marketing after Brazilian authorities alleged he was part of a plot to make $3 million by illegally selling Rio Games tickets above face value.

Police said Ireland’s Olympic body helped transfer tickets to an unauthorized vendor who would set high fees and disguise the transaction as a hospitality package.

The Olympic Council of Ireland said it will ‘‘cooperate fully’’ with any state inquiry at home into the ticketing scandal.

‘‘The OCI will now also commission its own independent inquiry into the ticketing arrangements for Rio 2016,’’ the Dublin-based organization said. ‘‘The previously announced internal inquiry by the OCI has been discontinued.’’

Kevin James Mallon, from the British hospitality provider THG, was arrested in Rio last week. Authorities have also issued warrants for four more executives at the company.

Some Irish tickets for the Olympics’ opening ceremony with a face value of $1,400 were sold for $8,000, police said.

The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month, but organizers said deep budget cuts mean a venue will close, facilities will be dismantled, and the workforce will be reduced.

Poor ticket sales have compounded existing financial challenges in recession-battered Brazil, which already have affected operations at the Olympics, which close Sunday.

Rio has less than three weeks to prepare for Paralympics, the pinnacle of the disability sport calendar where organizers hoped to build on progress made at the well-attended games in London four years ago. Rio organizers report ticket sales of just over 290,000 tickets for the Sept. 7-18 Paralympics.

‘‘At this point it is difficult for us to expect the full venues that we saw in Beijing or London, or expect to see in Tokyo in four years’ time,’’ International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven said.

The IPC said it has already sought to reduce costs over the last year and the new, deeper ‘‘major budget cuts’’ will affect every team and visitors to the Games.

‘‘Never before in the 56-year history of the Paralympic Games have we faced circumstances like this,’’ Craven said. ‘‘Since becoming aware of the full scale of the problem, we have focused all of our efforts on finding solutions to the problems.’’

The IPC has secured an additional $47 million in funding from Rio mayor Eduardo Paes and said the government will bring in up to $31 million of sponsorship from state-run companies.

But the workforce for the Paralympics will still be reduced, transport services cut, and media centers closed. The wheelchair fencing competition will move to a new venue, allowing the Deorodo Olympic Park to be closed and dismantled.

Grants of more than $7 million that the Rio organizers were due to make to the 165 participating countries are almost a month overdue. The first athletes are due to arrive on Aug. 31, although there will be no Russians after the country was suspended from the IPC over its state-sponsored doping scheme.

‘‘Currently we have around 10 countries who, even if the grants are paid, may struggle to cover the cost of their travel to the games,’’ Craven said. ‘‘The IPC is working with them to find solutions and ensure their participation here in Rio.’’

Britain’s Paralympic body expressed concern that Rio’s constrained budgets are setting back the Games.

‘‘London 2012 proudly showed the world what was possible and we want Rio to be the next stage of that positive journey,’’ the British Paralympic Association said. ‘‘The IPC’s announcement makes clear that there is major risk to that.’’

Yelena Isinbayeva walked away from competing but not from her sport.

The women’s pole vault world record-holder announced her retirement as she focuses on a new career in sports politics and considers an offer to lead Russian track and field.

Isinbayeva was prevented from seeking a third Olympic title in Rio de Janeiro after the IAAF banned all but one Russian track and field athlete from the Games over their country’s state-sponsored doping scandal.

She still traveled to Rio to campaign in the election for the athletes’ representative on the International Olympic Committee. A day after being among the four winning candidates, the 34-year-old Isinbayeva decided she doesn’t want to compete anymore.

‘‘Today in Rio on August 19 2016, Yelena Isinbayeva is finishing her professional career,’’ she said close to the end of a 50-minute news conference.

‘‘Yesterday’s election to the IOC commission inspired me,’’ Isinbayeva added through a translator. ‘‘It means I am not saying goodbye to the sport. I say goodbye to the pole, to my medals . . . I fulfilled my dreams.’’

And without doping, she maintains.