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Coming Up: Women's Soccer, And America's Hope For Boxing Gold

NPR | By Bill Chappell

Published August 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM EDT

In the London Olympics, 23 medal events will take place in 19 sports today. The big event for many Americans is the women's soccer final, a rematch of last year's World Cup match with Japan. The country is also down to its final hope for a gold medal in boxing, in the form of 17-year-old Claressa Shields.

Here are some highlights of the action. All times refer to the Eastern time zone:

Soccer

2:45p Women's Soccer Gold Medal Match: USA vs. Japan

Water Polo

3:00p Women's Gold Medal Match: USA vs. Spain

Boxing

12:15p Women's Middleweight (75kg) Final: Claressa Shields of USA vs. Nadezda Torlopova of Russia

Athletics

2:20p Men's Triple Jump Final

2:30p Women's 800m Semifinals

3:00p Men's 800m Final

3:20p Women's 4x100m Relay Round 1

3:55p Men's 200m Final

4:20p Men's Decathlon 1500m

Basketball

12:00p Women's Semifinal Australia vs. USA

Volleyball

10:00a Women's Semifinal: South Korea vs. USA

Coming Up: Women's Soccer, And America's Hope For Boxing Gold

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