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The Latest: Brazil's Thiago Braz wins pole vault gold

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

12:05 a.m.

Brazil has won its second gold of the Rio Games when 22-year-old Thiago Braz da Silva upset Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie.

Lavillenie, of France, first set the Olympic record at 5.98 meters, and boosted by the boisterous home fans, da Silva cleared 6.03 to improve on that mark.

Sam Kendricks of the United States took bronze with 5.85.

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Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo have beaten one of Russia's two men's beach volleyball quarterfinalists and moved one win away from an Olympic medal.