Kohei Uchimura of Japan won the men's gymnastics all-around title for the second straight time.

American Sam Mikulak recovered from a fall on vault to rally into seventh. Chris Brooks was 14th.

Mikulak and Brooks were hoping to take some of the sting out of another fifth-place finish in the team event. Mikulak, a four-time national champ, saw his hopes of reaching the podium end when he shorted his vault landing.

Kicked from rugby: Patriots safety Nate Ebner and the U.S. rugby team fell just short of the quarterfinals. Needing to stay within four points of back-to-back world sevens series champion Fiji, the Americans lost 24-19.

“To lose to the best team in the world and not make the quarters — it's heartbreaking,” Ebner said.

After two more classification matches Thursday, Ebner will switch gears from being an Olympian to thinking about his day job.

“I'll go back to camp and get into the NFL football season,” he said. “Hopefully I'll be in better shape.”

Triply golden:Kristin Armstrong made it three consecutive gold medals in the cycling time trial, then broke into tears.

“That's what we do, we cry when we're happy,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong, who turns 43 Thursday, joined speedskater Bonnie Blair as the only American women to win three golds in the same event at any Olympics.

In the men's race, Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara won his second gold, beating favored Tom Dumoulin and Tour de France champion Chris Froome.

False start:Justin Gatlin says he has served his time for doping infractions and is ignoring critics.

“I've dealt with that punishment,” said Gatlin, 34. “I've moved forward.”

The sprinter's comments followed U.S. swimmer Lilly King saying:“Do I think people who have been caught doping should be on the team? They shouldn't.”

Said Gatlin: “People want to label people and that's all they want to do. People need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner.”

Ringing success: Four years after an embarrassing shutout, the U.S. will medal in boxing.

Nico Hernandez is guaranteed to win at least a bronze in light flyweight after his third straight win.

NBC in spin mode: Through five nights, NBC's prime-time ratings are down more than 20 percent from the comparable period for the 2012 Games.

But NBC contends the London Games aired only on NBC during prime time. That's not the case in Rio, with coverage also on NBCSN and Bravo. It says the overall prime-time rating should be composed of all those platforms.

If considered that way, NBC says prime-time viewership has been up at least 7 percent each night.

NBC also pointed out viewers had streamed 883 million minutes of Olympics coverage. That exceeds the 818 million for the entire London Games.

Ed Sherman contributed.