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The Latest: American Mikaela Mayer loses lightweight bout

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

5:40 p.m.

Make it 0-2 for the Americans in boxing.

Antonio Vargas and Mikaela Mayer both lost their bouts, dropping Team USA to 10-5 in the boxing tournament.

Russian fighter Anastasiia Beliakova topped Mayer in a majority decision that knocked her out of the tournament. Though she found it late in life, the 26-year-old Mayer had used boxing to help turn her life around.

She was defeated in the lightweight bout, and her medal quest will have to wait another four years.