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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Day 5 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, swimming, judo, fencing and more. Here are some things to watch (all times local):SWIMMINGA day after Michael Phelps won his 20th and 21st golds , he and Ryan Lochte will be looking to get to the semifinals in the mens 200 meter individual medleys. Phelps took first Tuesday night in the 200 meter butterfly and later teamed with Lochte as half of the gold medal winning 4x200 meter freestyle relay team.The 200 meter individual semis are at 11:29 p.m. Heats start earlier in the day, at 2:09 p.m. Lochte holds the world record, which he set in 2011, and Phelps has the Olympic record, set in 2008 (Beijing).At 11:03 p.m. the men will go in the 100 meter freestyle. Australian Kyle Chalmers had the fastest qualifying time on Tuesday, and he already shared in a bronze in the 4x100 freestyle relay. American Caeleb Dressel was nipping at his heels in the preliminaries, and he takes to the water with a gold already in hand , also from the 4x100.The women seek gold in the 200 meter butterfly a day after the semifinals. Mireia Belmonte Garcia of Spain had the fastest qualifying time Tuesday. She already won bronze in the 400 meter individual medley.Later, at 11:55 p.m. the womens 4x200m freestyle relay final is held. Heats start at 2:31 p.m.GYMNASTICSA day after U.S. women took gold in the team finals, the mens individual all-around final is held. Events start at 4 p.m. and all eyes will be on Japans Kohei Uchimura. He won the worlds in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and is the defending gold medalist (London).He starts on the floor exercise and comes to the event with a gold in hand from the mens team finals Monday.TENNISThe tennis tournament continues and it could be a busy day for Rafael Nadal . He has three matches scheduled, though rain in the forecast could change that. His day is to start at 12:30 p.m. at the earliest in the third round of singles against 15th-seeded Gilles Simon, of France. His semifinal doubles match with Marc Lopez and a first-round mixed doubles match are to take place later.BASKETBALLWell see how much U.S. star Carmelo Anthony can add to his Olympic scoring total when his dominant team faces Australia at 7 p.m. Anthony is in third place and has 258 for his career after surpassing Michael Jordans 256 on Tuesday against Brazil. David Robinson is No. 2, with 270 points. LeBron James has 273 points.Earlier, Serbia takes on France at 2:15 p.m.At 3:30 p.m., the U.S. women play Serbia. Theyve smashed opponents Senegal and Spain in their first two games.SOCCERIts do or die for host nation Brazil when the men take on Denmark at 10 p.m. The team has had two disappointing draws and fans are booing them -- and superstar Neymar -- when they take the field.Also of note, Argentina faces Honduras at 1 p.m.BEACH VOLLEYBALLAfter consecutive midnight matches , including one Tuesday, American Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross take on the Swiss team of Isabelle Forrer and Anouk Verge-Depre at the more reasonable hour of 9 p.m. Walsh Jennings took gold in London and Ross won silver, but each were playing with different partners at the time.ROAD CYCLINGThe womens individual time trial starts at 8:30 a.m. with defending gold medalist Kristin Armstrong going last at 9:06 a.m. The men start at 10 a.m. and British cyclist Chris Froome , coming off his third victory in Paris in four years, goes last at 11:40 p.m.FENCINGA day after South Koreas Sangyoung Park won gold in mens epee, the womens foil fencers and mens sabre fencers go for the gold. The womens final is at 8:15 p.m. and the mens are held at 8:45 p.m.RUGBYPreliminary rounds continue with strong matchups in rugby sevens one day after the stunning upset win for Japan over New Zealand. At 11:30 a.m., South Africa takes on Australia. An hour later, New Zealand tries to get some momentum back with a match against Great Britain. And, at 1:30 p.m., gold medal favorite Fiji faces the United States.JUDOWomen and men compete for medals in the middleweight divisions (70kg and 90kg, respectively), with bouts taking place through the day.---AP Summer Games website: http://summergames.ap.orgYogi Ferrell Jersey . The Brazilian goalkeeper signed a loan deal with the Major League Soccer club on Friday as he looks to get playing time ahead of this summers World Cup in his home country. Iman Shumpert Kings Jersey . The (11-11-4) Jets are seventh in the Central Division with 26 points. 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They were barely six months removed from having lost a World Cup they thought was their own, and the series was thus presented as a time for revenge. The Test team had been plagued by inconsistency over the previous five years, but they could always put that down to infighting and to being led by sub-par captains. Under Wasim Akram, by contrast, Pakistans record was exemplary. Since losing in Australia four years earlier, he had taken charge of five Test series - winning four and drawing one. Even the lone drawn series, away to India in 1999, could be classified as a success, with the third Test of that tour being a victory on course to winning the Asian Test championship. The confidence they had going to Australia wasnt misplaced.A decade earlier Pakistans greatest Test team had gone to Australia having not lost a single one of their previous ten Test series - including two against the uber dominant West Indies. They returned with a one-nil loss. Surely this time it would be different?It was. But not the way they imagined it would be. Pakistan lost nine of their first ten matches on the 1999-2000 tour. That streak, which included all three Tests, began with their inability to play a 50-year old Dennis Lillee and ended with them being blown away by Australias second-tier attack. For the first time in over a decade Pakistan realised that even their best might not be good enough against the best.That has been the story of Pakistans tours to Australia. They have only ever won four Tests there - the last two in dead rubbers. The last time they won a live Test in Australia, the top three music acts on the Billboard charts were Gloria Gaynor, the Bee Gees and Rod Stewart, and Margaret Thatcher was still the leader of the opposition in England. No team has held sway over Pakistan quite like Australia has done.For a country and a fraternity that prides itself on being different and innovative, Australia presents the biggest challenge. Pakistan, after all, is the place where, despite having taken nearly 500 international wickets, Saqlain Mushtaq is still defined as the inventor of the doosra: innovation trumps achievement. And yet, however different they might present themselves as, there is an ideal they wish to emulate. Think of everything that former Pakistan cricketers, pundits and the majority of fans consider to be components of the essential character of Pakistani cricket. Words like mercurial or unpredictable do not feature; those are used by foreigners when referring to Pakistan. When Pakistanis project their best selves it is by describing the team in vaguely masculine terms. The belief in sheer pace, in the importance of legspin; the unhealthy obsession with aggression; the beliief that all that matters is confidence; the sense that every inkblot in a Rorschach test is bound to be a moustache - these are borrowed from Australia.dddddddddddd. The reverence for these qualities has only increased since that fateful winter over the turn of the century. Quite simply, Pakistanis want their team to be Australia, or rather to approximate to their own interpretation of Australianism.Pakistan have attempted to learn from Australia too. Pakistans solutions after that tour of Australia in 1999-2000 were predictable - they set up a national cricket academy. Tauqir Zia sent Colonel Shujauddin to Australia to compile a report on how Australia became what they were at the time, and his solution was that academy. Every time a former player decries the state of domestic cricket, the solution he offers involves following the Australian model - fewer teams, more club cricket, and varied pitches. Never mind that England and India have done pretty well with big first-class systems, nor that the population or sports culture of Pakistan is a complete inversion of Australias; the solution is always to follow Australia.It makes sense too. Every desi kid has that one relative or family friend - the phupho ki beti (aunts daughter), if you will - who is presented as the model of what they should aim for. Considering its a desi family, the taunts and lectures mostly have to do with academics. The phupho ki beti is presented as the contrast to you - if only you studied as much as her, if only you were as obedient and courteous as her, if only you were her. Pakistan cricket is that rebellious kid who wants to create his own world. Australia is the phupho ki beti who will always hover over him like the sword of Damocles.And thats why Pakistans upcoming tour of Australia is so fascinating. Australia, at least until one Test match ago, found themselves in an identity crisis, where they began to question their beliefs. For once, even they wondered aloud. Meanwhile Pakistan were - at least until three Tests ago - the most successful team the nation has had in over two decades, despite all the problems theyve had to face, and they became that team by rejecting the pursuit of Australianism.Thus, this series becomes a fight for the soul of cricket - if Australia prevail, as they always do, the doubts of November will give way to a return to la-la land, where everything is rosy and the world doesnt change. But if the unthinkable happens, well, we might have to question everything weve ever been told. The most likely outcome, though, is that neither of those things will happen - something far worse, something we cant even imagine right now is going to take place. After all, its 2016. ' ' '