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RIO DE JANEIRO -- For the third straight Olympics, China will take home every gold medal in table tennis.The Chinese mens team beat Japan 3-1 on Wednesday, cementing the nations status as the world leader in the sport.Chinese women have won every singles gold medal since the sport entered the Olympics in 1988. China has won the past eight mens team world championships. There have been only team competitions at the past three Olympics, and Chinas men and women have won all of those.Chinas mens team consisted of the gold and silver medalists in Rio de Janeiro -- Ma Long and Zhang Jike -- and third-ranked Xu Xin.Ma didnt drop a game in the first set against Koki Niwa of Japan, who is ranked 22nd in the world.Xu lost two straight games in his set against bronze medalist Jun Mizutani of Japan before taking the next two. Xu then dropped the deciding fifth game to Mizutani, which left the match tied 1-1.When Japan jumped out with a quick lead in the doubles portion of the match, winning the first game, China seemed a bit shaky. But Zhang and Xu calmly took the next three doubles games to beat Maharu Yoshimura, ranked No. 21, and Niwa to take a 2-1 lead in the match.The next set saw Ma rout Yoshimura to secure China the gold.Germany beat South Korea earlier Wednesday for bronze.On Tuesday, the Chinese womens team defeated Germany 3-0 for gold.The Chinese women lost only a single game in the match. On the team were the gold and silver medalists from Rio -- Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia -- and the No. 1 player in the world, Liu Shiwen.The Japanese women took team bronze over Singapore.Ua Curry 1 Wholesale . The giant slalom world champion slipped during her first run in the morning, landing on her back and then twisting forward before getting her leg caught in the protective material on the side of the slope. 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Breaking three of his own world records on his way to winning in Paris, Chan silenced the critics and left the audiences standing in appreciation and awe.HOUSTON -- Houstons struggles against Texas might cost the Astros a playoff spot.Ken Giles allowed two runs in the ninth inning of the Astros 3-2 loss to the Rangers on Tuesday night. Giles had converted nine consecutive save opportunities.Houston (75-70) has won just three times in 18 games against Texas this year. It is 4 1/2 games back of Toronto and Baltimore for the top spot in the wild-card standings.Ive seen and been in some tough ones, Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. This ones pretty hard. We had every chance to win the game and obviously strange things happen when we play these guys.Giles trouble started when Rougned Odor reached on a wild pitch after striking out with one out. He swiped second and scored on Elvis Andrus two-out triple. Jurickson Profar followed with a tiebreaking RBI single.Things didnt go our way, go my way, Giles said. Its my responsibility to shut the guys down. I didnt do my job today. I take full responsibility for that. I didnt make the pitches when I needed to so Im just going to take the good from the bad and just bounce back for the guys next time.It was the first blown save for Giles (2-4) since June 18 against Cincinnati. Alex Claudio (4-1) pitched the eighth for the win, and Tanner Scheppers worked a perfect ninth for his first save.These guys play complete games across the way and we havent been able to solve them, Hinch said.Jose Altuve homered in the fourth and Jason Castro connected in the sixth, sending a drive to the upper deck in right field to give the Astros a 2-1 lead.Adrian Beltre led off the second with his 30th homer for AL West-leading Texas (87-59). Beltre fell to a knee after swinging, but his towering shot traveled all the way to the Crawford Boxes in left.Houston right-hhander Brad Peacock allowed three hits in six innings.dddddddddddd He retired his last 10 batters.Texas right-hander A.J. Griffin also pitched well, striking out seven in a season-long seven innings. Griffin has allowed 26 homers this season and seven over his three September starts.TRAINERS ROOMAstros: LHP Dallas Keuchel, who hasnt pitched since Aug. 27 because of inflammation in his left shoulder, probably will not throw Wednesday, Hinch said. We are going to go day to day and see if we can increase any type of activity, but his target date is a little gray area than anything else, Hinch said.WATCH YOUR STEPOn Evan Gattis towering popup in the fifth, Andrus came in from shortstop and walked up the back of the pitchers mound. As he made the catch, Andrus appeared to trip on the top of the mound and fell, but hung on to the ball.Altuve also lost his footing during the game, but his fall did not have a good result. Altuve hit an infield single off third base in the sixth that was fielded by Andrus. Altuve made a wide turn around first and slipped in the dirt about 15 feet past first. Andrus double-pumped and then fired to first as Altuve had issues getting his footing back and was tagged out.UP NEXTRangers: LHP Derek Holland (7-7) will start Wednesday instead of RHP Yu Darvish, manager Jeff Banister said following Tuesdays game. Darvish will move behind LHP Cole Hamels in the rotation and start Saturday.Astros: RP Joe Musgrove (2-4) will take the mound Wednesday night for the Astros looking to repeat the success he had in his last start Friday against the Cubs when he allowed two runs in six innings. ' ' '