The Latest: Start list altered to add Russian swimmer

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

1:50 p.m.

The fallout from the Russian doping scandal is causing havoc at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

The start list was altered at the last minute to add a Russian swimmer.

In the women’s 100-meter butterfly, Natalia Lovtcova wasn’t listed on the initial list that came out.

But she’s now set to compete in the last of six preliminary heats along with fellow Russian Svetlana Chimrova.

Three other Russian swimmers were initially banned from the Rio Games because of their links to doping. But it appears they have been cleared to compete.

Yulia Efimova, Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev are all listed as competitors on the Russian team.

Efimova posted on social media that she’d been cleared, while Morozov held a news conference Friday to say he would be swimming in Rio.

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1:30 p.m.

Katie Ledecky will have a shot at five medals at the Rio Olympics.

Despite finishing seventh in the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. trials, Ledecky will anchor the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay on Saturday at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

Amanda Weir will swim the leadoff leg, followed by Lia Neal, Allison Schmitt and Ledecky.

The 19-year-old Ledecky is already set to swim the 200, 400 and 800 free in Rio, as well as anchor the 4×200 free relay.

Abbey Weitzeil and Simone Manuel were the top finishers in the 100 free at the U.S. trials. They are resting up for the evening final, where they will likely be joined the two fastest swimmers in the prelims.

Dana Vollmer, who finished sixth at trials, also is a possibility. But she’s busy enough as it is, competing Saturday in the 100 butterfly.

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1:15 p.m.

A 16-year-old American who was the youngest male ever to qualify for table tennis in Olympic history has lost in the first round of the games.

Kanak Jha was beaten Saturday by Iranian Noshad Alamiyan 4-1 in the best of seven match.

Jha struggled with nerves in the first game, losing it decisively to Alamiyan, 24, but he bounced back to win the second. Jha couldn’t build momentum after that, losing three straight games. After hitting long on match point, Jha flipped his racket into the air and caught it.

He’ll be back for the team event.

Jha said after the match that he was nervous and struggled to handle the Iranian’s attacking style.

His teammate, Lily Zhang, fared better.

The Californian demolished Venezuela’s Gremlis Arvelo 4-0, a huge improvement on Zhang’s Olympic debut four years ago in London, when she lost as a 16-year-old in the first round. The 20-year-old Californian plays again later Saturday.

Zhang’s coach, Massimo Constantini, says she controlled her nerves much better than she did in London. When asked about her preparations for the next game, he said she was taking a nap.

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1:10 p.m.

World champion Japan is off to a bit of a shaky start in men’s gymnastics.

While the Japanese managed to post the top score during their subdivision in team qualifying on Saturday morning, they were uncharacteristically sloppy. Six-time world champion and defending Olympic gold medalist Kohei Uchimura fell off high bar, and world floor exercise champion Kenzo Shirai stepped out of bounds during his routine.

Uchimura recovered to lead the all-around after the first of three subdivisions with a score of 90.498.

Host Brazil seemed to feed off the energy of the home crowd. The Brazilians were second behind Japan with a team score of 268.078. Veteran Brazilian gymnast Diego Hypolito broke down in tears after posting a 15.5 on floor exercise while a sea of Brazilian flags waved from the stands.

The top eight teams advance to Monday’s team final. The top 24 all-around finishers will move on to next Wednesday’s individual final.

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1:10 p.m.

After all the talk about staying out of the water in Rio, Serbian rowers Milos Vasic and Nenad Benik found themselves immersed in it on day one of the Olympic regatta.

The Serb pair capsized — which rarely happens in elite rowing events — in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon as choppy waters left athletes struggling to stay in their boats.

Vasic and Benik overturned about halfway through their heat in the men’s pair, which was easily won by New Zealand’s Eric Murray and Hamish Bond.

Stunned and soaked, they clung to their boat as the other three crews continued toward the finish line.

They will get another chance to advance to the semifinals though, as race officials decided to let them compete in the repechage.

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1.05p.m.

Moroccan boxer Hassan Saada is officially out of the Olympics.

He was arrested Friday on allegations he sexually assaulted two Brazilian housekeepers in the Olympic Village. Police said the possible attacks happened Wednesday. Under Brazilian law, suspects can be held for a long period while a case is examined.

With Saada out, Turkey’s Mehmet Nadir Una was declared a walkover winner and advanced to the round of 16 in the light heavyweight division.

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1:00 p.m.

Moroccan boxer Hassan Saada is officially out of the Olympics.

He was arrested Friday on allegations he sexually assaulted two Brazilian housekeepers in the Olympic Village. Police said the possible attacks by happened Wednesday. Under Brazilian law, suspects can be held for a long period while a case is examined.

With Saada out, Turkey’s Mehmet Nadir Una was declared a walkover winner and advanced to the round of 16 in the light heavyweight division.

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12:55 p.m.

The head of Russia’s Olympic delegation says a leading wrestler has been cleared to fight at the games despite a previous doping ban.

Viktor Lebedev, a two-time freestyle world champion, had been excluded under an International Olympic Committee rule barring Russians who had previously been banned for doping.

Russian chef de mission Igor Kazikov tells state news agencies that Lebedev was cleared by the IOC after that rule was struck down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The announcement continues a turbulent summer for Lebedev, who had originally refused to go to the Olympics as “a matter of honor” after being embarrassed by what he called biased refereeing in his favor at a Russian qualifying tournament.

He was later persuaded to compete in Rio by Russian officials.

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12:40 p.m.

Rio de Janeiro Games organizers have apologized to the spectators enduring long lines to access the Olympic Park on the first full day of competition.

Organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada acknowledged that “we obviously need to upgrade” the systems and have asked authorities to speed up bag checks.

Andrada said Saturday that “we apologize to everyone who is standing in the sun in lines outside the venues … we need to fix this in the next couple of hours.”

Addressing questions about official buses getting lost, Andrada said organizers would check if drivers had sufficient training.

But Andrada says “we don’t have major structural problems with transport.”

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12:35 p.m.

Score one from the Pros vs. the Joes in Olympic boxing.

Italian fighter Carmine Tommasone became the first professional fighter to win an Olympic bout after 112 years of amateur competition.

Tommasone is one of three traditional pros who will compete for gold medals. He’s joined by Cameroon’s Hassan N’Dam and Thailand’s Amnat Ruenroeng.

The International Boxing Association’s high-profile plan to entice prominent pros to Rio de Janeiro didn’t work. The stars didn’t come out to try and add some gold, silver or bronze to the green they make fighting professionally.

Tommasone defeated Mexican boxer Lindolfo Delgado via a three-round unanimous decision in a lightweight bout.

Tommasone fought roughly 14 pounds over his pro weight after qualifying in a special tournament reserved for professionals.

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12:20 p.m.

France’s Marie-Florence Candassamy has pulled off a stunning upset in fencing, knocking top-ranked Anqi Xu of China out of the women’s epee tournament in the round of 32.

Candassamy entered the tournament ranked just 49th in the world, but her aggressive fighting style had Xu on her heels. Candassamy took a 10-6 lead after the second period and clinched the blowout victory midway through the third period.

Russia’s Tatiana Logunova, ranked third in the world, also saw her tournament end with an early round defeat. And all three Americans; Katharine Holmes and sisters Courtney and Kelley Hurley, were knocked out before the round of 16.

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11:40 a.m.

The Olympic boxing tournament is underway featuring the first men’s bouts without headgear since 1980 in Moscow.

Britain’s Galal Yafai dominated Cameroon’s Simplice Fotsala in a unanimous decision victory to open the action.

“It was good to go down in history as the first bout without headguards, but it was just another fight for me,” Yafai said.

It’s also the first time scoring will use the traditional 10-point system. There is a boxing event every day of the Olympics.

Olympic boxing fans still hooted for the ring card girls. But the women were dressed in conservative white shorts and T-shirts, not the scantily clad attire generally seen at major professional boxing events.

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11:35 a.m.

The beach volleyball venue has had its first visiting dignitaries.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dropped in for the opening match at Copacabana Beach between Italy and Austria. And Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi and his entourage came into the mixed zone to congratulate the winning team.

Kerry was in town for the Opening Ceremony on Friday night and popped in at the beach volleyball venue on after watching the start of a cycling race nearby. He watched Italy’s Adrian Carambula and Alex Ranghieri beat Austria in straight sets.

Kerry stuck around for the second match, featuring Brazil and Canada.

The former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate said said he had plans to go to the Olympic Park later in the day.

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11:30 a.m.

No instances of mechanical doping were discovered during checks by the UCI prior to the start of the men’s Olympic road race along the famed Copacabana Beach.

Officials from cycling’s governing body checked each frame for hidden motors using a tablet and software that can detect magnetic fields given off by them. Mechanical doping became a hot-button issue earlier this year when a motor was found in the frame of a cyclocross rider.

Meanwhile, a sizeable break is working well together early in the men’s race, where a cobblestone section sent Ahmet Orken of Turkey to the deck and bounced the chain of Australia’s Richie Porte off.

Meanwhile, Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin has already abandoned. He broke his wrist at the Tour de France a couple weeks ago but started anyway. He is among the favorites in the time trial next week, so it’s no surprise that he has chosen to save himself.

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11:25 a.m.

France won the first game of rugby at the Olympics in 92 years — and the first ever for the women — beating Spain 24-7 to kick off the six-day sevens tournament.

Patricia Garcia got the tournament underway at the Summer Games, kicing off for Spain, and Camille Grassineau crossed for the first try to give France the lead after 2 minutes and 24 seconds.

Rugby sevens, the fast-pace, condensed form of the game, is the chosen format for the sport’s return to the Olympic program for the first time since 1924, when the U.S. men won the gold medal in the 15-a-side tournament.

There were about 1,000 people in the crowd for the opening match at the temporary 15,000-seat Deodoro Stadium.

The U.S. women open against Fiji later Saturday, with Jillion Potter selected in the starting seven, capping an inspirational comeback from cancer that sidelined her for the 2014-15 world series competition.

Australia and New Zealand are the favorites for the women’s gold medal, which will be decided Monday. Fiji and New Zealand are favorites for gold in the men’s competition, which kicks off Tuesday.

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11:25 a.m.

Serbia’s men’s pair capsized on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon as choppy waters complicated things for rowers on the first day of competition.

Milos Vasic and Nenad Benik ended up in the water as their boat overturned about halfway through their heat, which was easily won by New Zealand’s Eric Murray and Hamish Bond.

After a quiet morning the wind picked up and athletes were struggling to keep their oars from bouncing off the waves on the 2-kilometer course.

Britain’s Alan Campbell, who won his heat in the men’s single sculls, said the conditions took him by surprise.

“He needs to spread his arms a bit more to protect us,” Campbell said, nodding toward the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue towering over the rowing venue.

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11:15 a.m.

Host nation Brazil is off to a flying start in women’s handball after stunning reigning Olympic and world champion Norway 31-28 in the opening game of the tournament.

Ana Paula Rodrigues led the way with 12 goals for Brazil, which was 2013 world champion but has never won an Olympic handball medal.

Brazil took the lead early in the first half at the Future Arena and held off a Norwegian revival which briefly leveled the score in the second at 18-18.

As the arena filled up with passionate home fans for the early morning game, five unanswered goals and some big saves from goalkeeper Mayssa Raquel Pessoa took Brazil’s lead from 22-21 to 27-21, paving the way for victory.

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11:15 a.m.

American shooter Virginia Thrasher has won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympics in the women’s 10-meter air rifle.

Thrasher shot 10.5 on her first shot of the final elimination round and smiled after 10.4 on her second shot put her comfortably ahead of China’s Li Du. Thrasher had a cumulative score of 208.0 to beat Du, a two-time gold medalist, by a point. China’s Siling Yu earned the bronze.

The 19-year Thrasher became the first freshman to win both individual NCAA rifle titles and helped West Virginia win the team title. She followed that by winning the U.S. Olympic Trials less than a month later, earning a trip to Rio.

American Sarah Scherer made the finals in her return to the Olympics after two back surgeries, but was eliminated in the first round. She finished eighth.

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11 a.m.

Eyewitnesses say a man was shot dead near the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro after Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony.

Associated Press photographers reported hearing loud multiple gun shots, forcing games volunteers and others leaving the ceremony to duck for cover behind cars.

A shooter was seen running from the scene and fleeing in a car close to a university parking lot.

After police and medics arrived on the scene, paramedics were seen treating the victim as blood poured from his body onto the road.

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10:45 a.m.

Defending Olympic champion Gabby Douglas will get her shot at history. Douglas is one of three American women who will compete in the all-around for the U.S. during women’s gymnastics preliminaries on Sunday.

Three-time world champion Simone Biles and three-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman will also do all four events for the Americans, who are heavily favored to defend the gold they won easily in London four years ago. The top eight teams in qualifying move on to Tuesday’s team final. The top 24 individual qualifiers will also advance to next week’s all-around final, with a limit of two per country, meaning either Biles, Douglas or Raisman will not make the cut.

Douglas is attempting to become the first woman in nearly 50 years to repeat as Olympic champion. She is the first reigning Olympic champion to return to the next games since Nadia Comaneci in 1980, where she finished second.

Laurie Hernandez, who finished second to Biles at Olympic trials, will compete on floor exercise, vault and balance beam. Madison Kocian will compete on uneven bars, where she is the world champion.