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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. And after losing to Brazil in both gold-medal matches in 2008 and 2012, the Americans see an opportunity given that the host country was already ousted by China. China plays the Netherlands in the other semifinal (9:15 p.m. ET).Complete volleyball coverage Nike Vapor Max Plus Triple Black . Siddikur, whose previous win on the circuit came in Brunei three years ago, finished his bogey-free round with a birdie on the 18th for a total of 17-under 199. Indias Shiv Chowrasia, who has finished runner-up in this tournament twice, was in second place after a 66. Nike Vapormax Plus Black . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. http://www.vapormaxplus.com/ . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . Nike Vapormax Plus Womens . 8 Iowa State on Saturday, sending the Cyclones to their third consecutive loss. The Longhorns (14-4, 3-2) got their biggest win of the season with their third in the row in the Big 12. Nike Vapormax Plus White . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. But underneath the professional exterior he was, and is, compellingly human. Scott Baldwin has warned Wales to expect a wounded beast when South Africa arrive in Cardiff on a face-saving mission next weekend.While woeful Wales played a get-out-of-jail card courtesy of Sam Davies late drop-goal to beat Japan 33-30 on Saturday, the Springboks floundered in Florence, being defeated by Italy for the first time in Test match history.Wales hooker Baldwin said: South Africa are going to come here as a wounded beast. But it is also a kick up the backside for us, and we know we have to put in a much better shift next week to get a result.If you look at our game against Australia (Wales lost 32-8 a fortnight ago) when we left with our tail between our legs, we fronted up against Argentina the following week, and I think that is what they (South Africa) will be trying to do.Last time they came here in 2014 we got a result, and it is on us to do it again. The ambition is there, but for some reason we are just not clicking.In fairness to the coaches, we are doing a lot of skill work in training, a lot of off-load work, skills under pressure and stuff like that, and as players we have got to look at ourselves in how we control the game when we are on the pitch.When the whistle goes at 2.30pm it is up to us to manage the game, and we need to manage it better. It was a disappointing game in nearly every aspect.Bizarrely, given their dismal form, victory over the Springboks would mean Wales winning three out of four autumn Tests this season, which is a feat they have not accomplished since 2002.We probably wont forget the Australia game and how much of a bad loss that was, Baldwin added. But it would probably be a satisfying autumn, I wouldnt say a good one.So bad were the Springboks that South African Rugby president Mark Alexander released a hard-hitting statement after the game, when he highlighted deeply worrying aspects of performances this year that have also included aa record home loss against New Zealand and a 30-point thumping by England.ddddddddddddThe whole of South African rugby is extremely disappointed with this years Springbok results and deeply worrying aspects of the performances, Alexander said, in a statement posted on the official SA Rugby website.It has not been good enough, and no-one is pretending otherwise. It would be easy to lay the blame for that at one door or another and look for scapegoats, but it would also be an oversimplification.All of us within South African rugby need to look at ourselves and ask what we could have done differently in aid of the Springbok cause. Those questions will be asked at the end of the season when we will undertake a full review of the year and what new interventions may be needed to turn things around.We have a Test against Wales on Saturday, and then we will review the season and spend time determining a path for the future.If South Africa want to seek any consolation this week, though, it can probably be found in the fact that Wales look equally poor.Had Test rookie Davies not come up trumps 10 seconds from time, Wales would have been held at home by a team world-ranked five places below them before kick-off and who were without a number of leading players.Japan matched their highest points total against Wales and shared the try-count 3-3 as they displayed a superior attacking outlook to opponents devoid of ideas and lacking composure.Wales interim head coach Rob Howley was not alone in his opinion that the best team lost. A Wales starting XV containing seven British and Irish Lions Test players led Japan 14-6 and 24-13, but still could not avoid a nerve-shredding finale that saw former world junior player of the year Davies deliver the goods for a 73,000 crowd. ' ' '