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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Jeff Teague led the Hawks (1-5) with 17 points and eight assists and Al Horford had 12 points and seven rebounds. Mike Scott scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half. NMD Cheap Canada . The return match will take place next Wednesday. Udinese leads Fiorentina 2-1 in the other semifinal. Napoli staged a second-half comeback from two goals down after Gervinhos opener and a stunning strike from Kevin Strootman. Cheap NMDs Canada .C. -- Rodney Hood connected from all over the court while freshman Jabari Parker was busy swatting shots and scoring in transition.PHILADELPHIA -- Up until the start of Saturdays game, it seemed unlikely that Joel Embiid would play at all.He ended up having the best game of his short NBA career.Fighting through a sprained left ankle, Embiid scored a career-high 26 points in 20 minutes, and the Philadelphia 76ers routed the Phoenix Suns 120-105 for their most convincing win of the season.I felt great, Embiid said. When you play, you dont really pay attention to those kind of things. During the game, I was fine. Even now, its fine.Nik Stauskas added a season-high 21 points on 8-for-9 shooting for the Sixers, who have split their last six games after starting the season with seven straight losses. Sergio Rodriguez had eight points, 11 assists and eight rebounds.Eric Bledsoe led Phoenix (4-10) with 27 points. The Suns have lost three of their first four on their six-game road trip.You give any team confidence at home and they can get rolling, Suns coach Earl Watson said. They have a lot of confidence here. The crowd was energetic and Embiid in limited minutes was more than effective.Embiid was 3 for 5 from 3-point range and 9 for 14 from the field overall. He also grabbed seven rebounds and blocked two shots, including a ferocious one on Devin Booker in the second quarter that got the crowd roaring.The 7-foot-2 center, playing in just his ninth NBA game after a pair of foot surgeries sidelined him for his first two seasons, reached his career high on a jumper with 8:30 left.After a three-point play from Bledsoe got Phoenix within six midway through the third quarter, the Sixers reeled off a 10-0 run to open an 82-66 lead. They led by double figures the rest of the way against a banged-up Phoenix team playing the second end of a back-to-back.We got stops, we made some shots and we took off again, Sixers coach Brett Brown said.Embiid and Booker were game-time decisions due to sprained ankles. Each of them started and Embiid, hurt two nights earlier, jumped all over the Suns, scoring Phillys first eight points and 10 in the first three minutes, including a ppair of 3-pointers.ddddddddddddLater in the first quarter, Embiid had eight points in a 10-0 run that helped Philadelphia to a 31-17 advantage, capping the spurt with his third 3 from the top of the key.Thats what makes him so tough to stop, Stauskas said. Obviously hes a dominant force down low but sometimes the bigs arent willing to step up to the line to guard him. And hes making people pay right now with that top-of-the-key 3-pointer.Booker finished with 10 points on 4-for-13 shooting.TIP-INSSuns: The Suns were without T.J. Warren (illness) and Tyson Chandler (mothers funeral). ... Phoenix recalled rookie forward Derrick Jones Jr. from D-League affiliate Northern Arizona before the game.76ers: After shooting 1 for 5 from the field, slumping sharpshooter Robert Covington has missed 27 of his last 31 shots, leading to plenty of boos from the crowd. ... The Sixers have won three straight at home, but dropped their last 21 on the road -two away from matching a franchise record.THE EMBIID PROCESSEmbiid, who already has missed four games this season as the Sixers slowly ease him back, was limited to 24 minutes or less. Jahlil Okafor, who platoons with him at center, was under the same minutes restriction because of knee surgery last season.I hope to play those two together, Brown said. With the minutes restriction, its kind of impossible right now.BOOKER GUTS IT OUTWatson said Booker struggled after returning from his own ankle injury. But the Suns coach was impressed that the second-year rising star was able to play at all.He gave us all he had, Watson said. He knew he wanted to play because we didnt have T.J. He sacrificed his body. Thats just the type of person he is. You could see he could barely move.BOMBS AWAYThe Sixers matched a franchise record with 17 3-pointers.UP NEXTSuns: Visit Washington on Monday.76ers: Host Miami on Monday night. The Heat have won five straight against Philadelphia. ' ' '