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RIO DE JANEIRO -- In addition to Round 2 of womens golf, platform diving and BMX cycling, here are a few other events to keep on the radar Thursday:Womens semifinals, U.S. versus France, 6 p.m. ET: The American women enter the semifinals riding a 47-game Olympic winning streak and will vie for their sixth straight gold medal, which would be their ninth in 10 appearances. They will likely be without star guard Sue Bird, who is day-to-day with a sprained knee capsule. Still, the team is averaging more than 104 points a game. The game is a rematch of the 2012 London gold-medal game, a game the Americans won by 36 points. Spain and Serbia play in the other semifinal (2 p.m. ET).Complete basketball coverageMens 200-meter final, 9:30 p.m. ET; Decathlon final, ET: Usain Bolt races for his eighth Olympic gold medal in the 200 final. Not only will he be going for gold, but hell also be trying to break his own world record in the event (19.19). Justin Gatlin will not be one of his main challengers (the American failed to qualify after his semifinal heat tie wasnt fast enough to advance); instead, LaShawn Merritt and Canadas Andre De Grasse, who toyed and smiled with Bolt as they crossed the finish line in the semifinal heat, will look to pull off the upset.Earlier in the evening, Ashton Eaton looks to lock up his second straight Olympic gold medal in the decathlon. Hed become the third athlete to complete the feat, joining Daley Thompson (1980, 1984) and Bob Mathias (1948, 1952). Eaton holds the world record, last set at 9,045 points in 2015, and his 8,750 score at Olympic trials is the best score in 2016 by 145 points. Also, Caster Semenya races in the womens 800 semifinal heats, as she looks to better the silver medal she won in London four years ago.Complete track and field coverageWomens semifinals, U.S. versus Serbia, noon ET: The U.S. womens team faces Serbia and looks for its third straight Olympic final appearance. 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Such is Rosbergs current lead in the title race, that he can afford to finish second to Hamilton at all four of the remaining races and still be crowned champion at the final round in Abu Dhabi.Thirty-three points is a lot, Wolff said. But you can see in Malaysia how quickly it can change. Youre in the lead and the other guy wins and all of a sudden its 25 points lost and then its down to eight.This is still a mechanical sport and the way Nico attacks the championship by looking at each weekend as a single event has proven to be the right strategy for him, but equally Lewis functions best when he is under pressure and when he has a target. I have no doubt that this will be an intense fight until the end. That is far from over.There are four weekends to go, Lewis is going to regroup, weve seen it before. Remember when Nico won eight races in a row and then Lewis had that winning streak? Hes very strong and he needs the enemy -- sometimes more than one -- and thats how he functions. Again, I think its going to go down to the end.Hamilton arrived at the Japanese Grand Prix in the media spotlight after he came to Suzuka just one week after his engine failure in Malaysia. In the absence of a standout quote in his Thursday press conference, much of the media focused on the amount of time he spent using the Snapchat aapp on his phone during the session.ddddddddddddHamilton felt some of the media reaction had been disrespectful and on Saturday night told the written press he was not willing to answer their questions before wishing them a good weekend and walking out of his usual press conference.Asked whether the events of the weekend may have affected Hamiltons concentration on track and led to his poor start, Wolff said: Lewis in Malaysia he was really on a roll, dominating the weekend then obviously we let him down with an engine failure, and that was an easy one for him to bring home.During the week he was OK, then all of these things around the press conferences, yesterday -- whether it affects him or not, I dont think so, because it is just not his priority I guess. I wouldnt put it down to that that his start didnt go well ... because the racing was great after that, how he recovered was really exceptional.Hamilton shared a private jet home with Wolff and Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda, but speaking before their departure Wolff said he had no plans to address the events of the weekend with his driver.I think just after the race is not the right moment to really put the finger where it hurts we need to calm down and find out what happened, regroup, and my learning from the last couple of years is that 24 hours later things look completely different than they appear an hour after the race.So our main emphasis will be building him up and just enjoying the ride home. We have 10 days its not such a rush like last week, and hes going to come back strong in Austin. ' ' '