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Track events getting hotter

TOKYO — The action on Day 13 of the Tokyo Games will feature track and field, with medals in the men's 400-meter final, the men's and women's 4x100 relays and the women's 400 meters.

The women's beach volleyball final will be live during NBC's primetime coverage, while the U.S. women's soccer team tries to salvage its Olympic tournament in the bronze medal match. The U.S. men's basketball team is one game away from its 16th Olympic men's basketball gold medal with a semifinal matchup against Australia.

American track stars Michael Cherry and Michael Norman will be chasing medals in the men's 400-meter final to be aired live Thursday in NBC's primetime coverage.Cherry is a two-time world championship medalist and Norman is among the top three in the world.The rest of NBC's primetime coverage includes the women's beach volleyball final, and encore presentations of the women's platform diving final and men's skateboarding park final.

The U.S. looks to move one win away from its 16th Olympic men's basketball gold medal when it takes on Australia. The American men have never lost to the Australians in a major competition, going 15-0 in such meetings.Australia has already defeated the U.S. men's basketball team once this summer, in an exhibition at Las Vegas before the Tokyo Games.

The scheduling for women's soccer was clearly made for the U.S. women's team to play live for the gold medal — but the Americans did not advance out of the semifinals. So it will be Canada facing Sweden in a primetime medal match that was moved to USA Network with a 10 p.m. start.

The U.S. women's water polo team remains in the hunt for its third consecutive gold medal and faces the Russian Olympic Committee in the semifinals.

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