Let the final week of the Games begin.
Monday will mark yet another chance for Team USA's favorite gymnasts to medal and it will bring plenty of chances for local athletes to hit the podium.
Without further ado, here are the five things to watch for Monday:
1. Local Track-and-Field Athlete Competes in Hammer Throw Event
Local track-and-field athlete Deanna Price fell short of a medal in the women’s hammer throw Monday.
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Price came in eighth place in the event with a score of 70.95.
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk broke her own hammer throwing world record to win an Olympic gold medal and she did it using the old, gray and tattered left glove of a former champion and close friend. China's Wenxiu Zhang and Great Britain's Sophie Hitchon took silver and bronze, respectively.
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Price is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, where she majored in accounting. She will return to the tracks after qualifying in the event Friday, ranking 9th overall in the qualifying rounds, throwing 70.79m to earn a spot in the finals.
Price won back-to-back titles during the NCAA tournaments while at SIU and was ranked as the third best in collegiate history.
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Fellow SIU alum Gwen Berry came in second during the 2016 Olympic trials following the lift of asthma medication ban and had hopes of reclaiming an American record in her event at Rio. She finished in 14th place, however, falling just short of qualifying for the final.
How to watch: Price will compete in the final hammer throw event beginning at 8:40 a.m. CT. Watch it live here.
2. Wisconsin Wrestler Hits the Mat
Ben Provisor, of Stevens Point, lost his match in the men's Greco-Roman 85kg 1/8 final event, falling 6-3 to Uzbekistan's Rustam Assakalov.
Provisor, who was named the U.S. Open champion in 2011 and 2013 and took second place in the 2011 Pan American Games, was hoping to go for a medal in his Olympic debut.
Provisor has been attending wrestling camps hosted by silver medalist Dennis Hall since he was a child.
He is the second Wisconsin wrestler to hit the Olympic mat after Jesse Thielke competed in the men’s Greco-Roman 59kg event Saturday.
How to watch: Provisor will begin the competition at 8 a.m. with medal matches taking place at 3:30 p.m. CT. Watch live here.
3. Indiana Diver Michael Hixon Goes for Second Medal of Rio Games
Michael Hixon won a silver medal alongside partner Sam Dorman in the men’s synchronized 3m springboard event last week, but this week he’ll go for his first individual medal of the Rio Games.
Hixon and Dorman took a second-place finish Wednesday with a final score of 450.21.
Great Britain’s score of 454.32 gave them a Gold medal while China won a bronze with a score of 443.70.
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Hixon began diving at the age of 7, with his mother Mandy, the diving coach at the University of Massachusetts, as his coach. She remained his coach through high school before Hixon left for the University of Texas and later transferred to Indiana University.
At age 22, Hixon has joined fellow Indiana divers David Boudia and Steele Johnson as an Olympic medalist. Boudia and Johnson also turned in a strong performance last week, securing a silver medal in the men’s synchronized 10m platform event.
Hixon finished 10th during the preliminary event Monday, qualifying for Tuesday’s semifinal with a score of 421.60. He will compete early on in the semifinal event with hopes of making it to the final that afternoon.
4. Allyson Felix Races for Gold
Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas fell over the finish line to beat Allyson Felix in a dramatic women's 400 meter final on Monday night.
Felix, who won the 2015 world title in the event, ran the individual 400 for the first time at the Olympics. But she does have two Olympic 4x400 golds. Her others came in London in the individual 200 and the 4x100 relay.
She was trying to break a tie with five others who have four golds each: Fanny Blanker-Koen of the Netherlands, Betty Cuthbert of Australia, East Germany's Barbel Eckert-Woeckel and Americans Sanya Richards-Ross and Evelyn Ashford.
Felix became the most decorated U.S. woman in Olympic track and field history with seven medals, breaking a tie with Jackie Joyner-Kersee. At 30 years and 271 days, Felix also became the oldest woman to medal in the 400.
She made her Olympic debut at the 2004 Athens Games at age 18, claiming the 200 meter silver behind Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown. At the 2008 Beijing games, Felix again finished second to Campbell-Brown. Then at the 2012 London Games, Felix finally broke through, winning her first Olympic 200-meter gold medal.
Felix also earned gold medals in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays in London to become the first female U.S. track athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympics since Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.
How to watch: Watch Felix run for gold live online as coverage of the event begins at 6:20 p.m. CT, or watch on NBC’s primetime coverage.
5. Biles Nearly Falls, Settles For Bronze on Beam
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Simone Biles won't make it 4 for 4 after a near fall on the balance beam cost her a chance at a gold medal in the event.
Teammate Laurie Hernandez won silver with a strong routine in her best event.
The Olympic all-around champion already has three golds from the team final, the all-around and the vault, which she won on Sunday. Her three golds are the most by an American female gymnast during one Olympics. Biles is the world champion on beam and posted the highest score during qualifying when she put up a 15.633.
Biles and Hernandez scored first and second respectively in the balance beam qualifying rounds.
How to watch: Catch coverage of the events final beginning at 12 p.m. CT on your computer, phone or tablet, or watch the event during NBC’s primetime coverage at 7 p.m. Biles is scheduled to compete at 1:45 p.m. CT.
