PARIS -- A look at five members of the France team ahead of Sundays European Championship final against Portugal:---HUGO LLORISThis is Lloris fourth major tournament as Frances No. 1. The captain demonstrated just how important he is to the title bid late in Thursdays 2-0 semifinal win over Germany, preserving the clean sheet with a fine reflex save to deny Joshua Kimmich. Often acting as the sweeper by rushing off his line to thwart attacks early, the Tottenham goalkeeper can be vulnerable at crosses.Lloris leadership off the field has shined in the past year, thoughtfully and eloquently addressing a traumatized nation following the Paris attacks in November. He also addressed the healing potential of soccer in his final media appearance before the final.---PAUL POGBAOften deployed in a deeper role for his dynamic tackling, Pogba has also exhibited his passing range to unlock defenses. However, what France doesnt get from Pogba are goals at the end of his burst through defenses. Hes only netted six times in 37 internationals, with his solitary strike at Euro 2016 coming against unheralded Iceland.Sundays final could be Pogbas last game before a big-money move from Juventus, with the midfielder having been linked with the likes of Manchester United and Real Madrid.---DIMITRI PAYETDespite fading in the semifinals, Payets elegancy and efficiency on the ball has been an essential component of Frances bid for a first trophy since Euro 2000. Its taken until late in his career for the 29-year-old Payet to become a France regular, having taken six years to reach 25 appearances.The electrifying midfielders spectacular goals for West Ham last season secured him a place at Euro 2016 and he delivered with essential goals in the opening two games to ensure the hosts made a perfect start.---OLIVIER GIROUDWith 10 goals in 12 games, Giroud has established himself as a real striking force for France. And yet he continues to divide opinion among fans -- both with club side Arsenal and on international duty.Even scoring in a Euro 2016 warmup game didnt prevent him being jeered by French fans that night. Its the tendency to waste good scoring opportunities, rather than being appreciated for his link-up play, that leaves the 29-year-old Giroud constantly on an uphill mission to prove his quality.---ANTOINE GRIEZMANNSmall for a striker -- at 1.76 meters (5-foot-9) -- Griezmann is making a big impact at his home tournament, both in the air and on the ground. The Atletico Madrid striker is the undoubted star of the championship so far and seems destined to take home the Golden Boot as top scorer.Griezmann has scored six goals in six games -- double the tally of teammates Giroud and Dimitri Payet, as well as Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):12:45 p.m.Two-time defending womens indoor volleyball champion Brazil has been eliminated from the Olympics at home and the players shocked faces afterward told it all.China rallied from losing the first set to stun the medal favorite Brazilians 15-13 in the decisive fifth set early Wednesday morning.Brazil had been the favorite to face the United States in a potential gold-medal match after beating the Americans in each of the past Olympics.Brazils players cried at their early exit and a young boy in the stands burst into tears.Meanwhile, a young China team that had been far from steady at these Olympics played its best, most consistent match yet.---12:10 a.m.Italys Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo will play for the gold medal in beach volleyball.The two-time Olympians beat Russias Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Konstantin Semenov 15-21, 21-16, 15-13 on Tuesday night in the semifinals at the Copacabana beach venue.Next up: Brazils Alison and Bruno, the No. 1 seed in the tournament, the defending world champions and the hometown favorites.---11:15 p.m.Darya Klishina calls it a great responsibility to be the only track and field competitor from Russia at the Rio Olympics.All 67 other potential Russian athletes in the sport were banned from participating in the 2016 Games by tracks governing body, the IAAF, because of evidence of systemic doping.But Klishina, who lives and trains in the United States, learned a day before long jump qualifying Tuesday night that she would be allowed to participate in Brazil.And she managed to reach the final.She said waiting for the Court of Arbitration for Sports ruling on her eligibility made for a really tough and really hard week for me, mentally. She said she did not practice while waiting for the decision.---11:10 p.m.Omar McLeod converted his season dominance of the 110-meter hurdles into an Olympic gold medal, a first for Jamaica in the event.McLeod, the world indoor champion, gained the lead quickly and pulled away as he won in 13.05 seconds on Tuesday night.Cuban-born Orlando Ortega of Spain took silver in 13.17 seconds and Dimitri Bascou of France won bronze in 13.24.The Jamaicans have dominated the mens 100-meter and 200-meter titles in the last decade, but had never previously produced a male athlete who converted that raw pace into an Olympic title over the sprint hurdles.---11:05 p.m.Darya Klishina, the lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics, will get another day of competition at the Rio Games by qualifying for the final of the womens long jump.Klishina was only cleared on appeal early Monday to take her place in the qualifying competition on Tuesday night. She measured 6.64 meters on her first attempt, good enough to advance as the eighth of 12 qualifiers for Wednesdays final.The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Klishina is eligible to compete in Rio because she has been based outside of Russia for the last three years and has been subjected to regular drug testing.She was the only one of 68 Russians cleared to participate in Rio by the IAAF, track and fields governing body, which later tried to ban her from the Olympics after receiving what it said was new information from World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren.---10:55 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Omar McLeod has won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.05 seconds, giving Jamaica its first Olympic gold in the event. Orlando Ortega of Spain took silver in 13.17 and Dimitri Bascou of France won bronze.---10:50 p.m.In another high-powered long-distance race between Kenya and Ethiopia, it was Faith Kipyegon for Kenya clinching gold in the Olympic womens 1,500 meters over favorite and world-record holder Genzebe Dibaba.Halfway through the race, Dibaba of Ethiopia moved to the front with a mighty kick but Kipyegon moved right with her. Dibaba kicked again at the bell and again failed to shake Kipyegon. Heading into the final turn with 200 meters to go, Kipyegon swept past Dibaba and opened up a big gap in the finishing straight.Kipyegon, who was runner-up to Dibaba at last years world championships, finished the race in 4 minutes, 8.92 seconds for a 1.35-second margin over Dibaba, who took silver.Jennifer Simpson of the United States took bronze in 4:10.53.---10:45 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: Faith Kipyegon of Kenya ran away from world-record holder Genzebe Dibaba over the last half lap of the womens 1,500 meters to win the gold medal in Rio.Kipyegon, who was runner-up to the Ethiopian Dibaba at last years world championships, finished Tuesdays race in 4 minutes, 8.92 seconds for a 1.35-second margin over Dibaba, who took silver.Jennifer Simpson of the United States took bronze.---10:35 p.m.Derek Drouin of Canada has won the mens high jump gold medal at a height of 2.38 meters, adding the Olympic title to his world championship victory last year.The 26-year-old Drouin, who won bronze at the London Olympics, was clean through his first five heights and, after clinching the gold medal, stopped after missing one attempt at 2.40 to start his celebrations.Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, who shared the Olympic bronze in 2012 and had the leading mark of the season entering the Olympics, took the silver at 2.36.Bogdan Bondarenko of Ukraine, the 2013 world champion, missed twice at 2.38 and then passed and raised the bar to 2.40 in a bid for gold. He balked at his first run up and then walked into the bar, ensuring Drouin would take the gold.---10:30 p.m.World champion Dafne Schippers won a high-powered semifinal heat with Olympic 100-meter champion Elaine Thompson as both went through to Wednesdays 200-meter final.Schippers was the only woman to dip under the 22-second mark with 21.96 seconds, holding an edge of .17 seconds over the Jamaican in the heat. The Dutchwoman disappointed with a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter but insisted she had been slowed by a groin injury.Tori Bowie of the United States, the silver medalist in the 100, won the second 200-meter heat in 22.13 seconds while Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory coast won the third heat.---10:15 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: DDerek Drouin of Canada has won the Olympic mens high jump gold medal after clearing 2.dddddddddddd38 meters on his first attempt. Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar took the silver at 2.36 and 2013 world champion Bogdan Bondarenko of Ukraine won bronze.---9:55 p.m.Sydney McLaughlin can get back to the homework thats due before the end of the summer. The youngest U.S. track and field Olympian since 1972 did not advance to the final of the 400-meter hurdles.McLaughlin, a 17-year-old from Dunellen, New Jersey, was fifth in her 400-meter hurdles semifinal Tuesday night at the Rio Games, finishing in 56.22 seconds.The top two runners in each semifinal automatically qualify for the final, along with the top two fastest others.So McLaughlins Olympics are over. Thats the bad news. The good news is she can focus on the summer reading project thats due before she starts her senior year of high school.---9:35 p.m.In a leap of greater magnitude than mere meters, the lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics has begun competition in the womens long jump.Darya Klishina was only cleared on appeal early Monday to take her place in the qualifying competition on Tuesday night. She measured 6.64 meters on her first attempt, jumping 12th of 19 athletes in Group A.The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Klishina is eligible to compete in Rio because she has been based outside of Russia for the last three years and has been subjected to regular drug testing.She was the only one of 68 Russians cleared to participate in Rio by the IAAF, track and fields governing body, which later tried to ban her from the Olympics after receiving what it said was new information from World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren.---9:35 p.m.Two days in a row, Thiago Braz da Silva was cheered as a Brazilian national hero. As many times, Renaud Lavillenie of France was booed at the Olympic Stadium.The 22-year-old Brazilian pole vaulter Braz upset the defending champion Lavillenie late Monday, and thousands of fans booed Lavillenie during the duel.Lavillenie ripped into the behavior of the crowd, saying nothing like it had been seen since the treatment of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He immediately apologized and retracted his statement, but maintained that Brazil had shown bad sportsmanship and a lack of Olympic spirit.Lavillenie again paid for it Tuesday. Braz raised his arms to calm the fans and applauded the silver medal of Lavillenie.The only drawback for Brazil was that Brazs pole vault teammate Fabiana Murer failed to make it past her opening height in qualifying early Tuesday while the nation already was dreaming of an unlikely double.---9:10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT: China is keeping pace at the Rio Games to repeat its London sweep of table tennis.The Chinese womens team defeated Germany on Tuesday for gold. The three-member Chinese team, which lost only a single game, consists of the gold and silver medalists from Rio and the No. 1 player in the world.The Japanese women took team bronze over Singapore earlier Tuesday.Chinas mens team plays Japan on Wednesday for gold.A win would see China again taking all the table tennis gold, in singles for men and women and in both team competitions.The mens bronze medal team match Wednesday has Germany playing South Korea.Chinas Ma Long has already taken gold over fellow countryman Zhang Jike in mens singles, and Ding Ning beat Chinas Li Xiaoxia in the womens finals.---9:10 p.m.MEDAL ALERT-WORLD RECORD: Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia has set a new world record in the over-105 kilogram weightlifting division with 473 total kilos to win the gold medal in a surprising upset over the heavily favored Behdad Salimi of Iran.The 22-year-old Talakhadze lifted 215 kilos on the snatch and 258 on the clean and jerk to set the new mark.Salimi set the world record for the snatch with 216 kilos. But he could not complete any of his three attempts on the clean and jerk. Salimi appeared to disagree with the judges ruling on his first two tries and didnt have the energy to complete the third.Gor Minasyan of Armenia won silver and Georgias Irakli Turmanidze took home the bronze.---8:50 p.m.The medal race at the Rio Games will likely remain close going into the final weekend. For second place, that is.The U.S. -- which has left the last five Summer Games with more medals than any other country -- is about to make it six in a row. With a handful of events left Tuesday night, the U.S. had 83 medals, 33 more than Britain and 34 more than China.Take away the games that dealt with boycotts in 1980 and 1984, and the Americans are on pace for the biggest medal-count romp since outdistancing host Sweden by 40 medals at the London Games in 1948.Theres no shortage of reasons why.Russias Olympic team surely is missing some medal contenders because of the sanctions and fallout that came after a state-sponsored doping program was brought to light. China won 100 medals in Beijing eight years ago and 89 more at London 2012, though has struggled -- by its recent standards, anyway -- in Rio.(This item has been corrected to reflect that the 1948 games were in London, not Stockholm.)---8:50 p.m.The U.S. womens basketball team showed off its speed, size and depth in a 110-64 victory over Japan and advanced to the semifinals with another convincing win.Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi each scored 19 points as the U.S. routed Japan for its 47th straight win. The U.S. did it without Sue Bird for most the game as the point guard went down in the second quarter with a knee injury.The Americans, who will play the winner of France-Canada in the semifinals Thursday, apparently even impressed Japan.The Japanese players posed for a team picture with the U.S. after the rout -- the second straight opponent to get a memento with the Am