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Japan wins its third skateboarding gold medal of the Games, in women’s park.
TOKYO — The formidable team of skateboarders from Japan continued its stellar performance at the Olympics and on Wednesday took the gold and silver medals in the women’s park competition, ending the gold medal hopes of the 13-year-old Sky Brown.
Sakura Yosozumi, 19, won the event under the blistering midday sun at Ariake Urban Sports Park. Her winning score of 60.09 put her a point ahead of the 12-year-old Kokona Hiraki.
Brown, who grew up in Japan, lives in California and competed for Britain, finished third to earn the bronze medal.
A victory by Hiraki or Brown would have made either one the youngest gold medalist in Olympics history. The official distinction remains with Marjorie Gestring, a diver who won at age 13 years 268 days at the 1936 Berlin Games.
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Brown stumbled in her first two runs of the final but skated flawlessly on the pressure-packed third. She raised her arms in the air, climbed out of the bowl and knelt on the deck and then got hugs from her competitors.
The judges were less impressed and gave her a score of 56.47.
Misugu Okamoto, 15 and a favorite for the gold medal, came off the board on all of her final runs but still scored well enough to finish fourth.
The women’s park discipline in skateboarding had the youngest set of teenagers (and one preteen) in the Olympics. One by one, they dropped into the concrete bowl and buzzed over its ramps and hips and up its walls, flying up and over the lip to twist and turn and drop back in again.
Runs lasted 45 seconds. Brown, Hiraki and Okamoto were among those who stood out from the beginning with bigger airs, more nuanced tricks and bursts of speed and confidence.
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Park skateboarders navigate the bowl in a single nonstop stretch for 45 seconds, or until they fall.
Park skateboarders navigate the bowl in a single nonstop stretch for 45 seconds, or until they fall.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Hiraki, who will turn 13 in about three weeks, was the second-youngest athlete among the 11,000 at these Olympics. She wore white Nike coveralls, like someone about to go painting. (The youngest Olympian competing in Tokyo was Hend Zaza of Syria, a table-tennis player.)
Brown turned 13 last month. The effervescent daughter of a British father and a Japanese mother, she grew up mostly in Japan and now lives mostly in Southern California.
“All three of them feel like home,” she said.
She competed in baggy pants and a tank top featuring the Union Jack. She gained attention in Britain by winning a juniors version of “Dancing With the Stars” in 2018. Her smile and her Instagram posts have earned her fans in at least three countries. She has a younger brother named Ocean who has gained attention, too.
She was severely injured last year in an accident at Tony Hawk’s indoor skatepark when she flew through a gap between two high ramps, crashing at least 15 feet to the concrete. She was unconscious with a skull fracture and broke a wrist and a hand.
She was back on a board a few weeks later and appeared to be flying higher and skating harder than ever at the Olympics.
“Falling is part of skateboarding,” she said in an interview in May. “It’s part of life. I was honestly excited to get back on the board.”
Brown’s main rival at the Olympics was expected to be Okamoto, a quiet and straight-faced competitor, the best park skater of the past couple of years. She is part of a deep Japanese contingent that has captured more medals in skateboarding than any other country — including all three of the Olympic gold medals awarded so far.
— John Branch
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
Janja Garnbret of Slovenia leads the qualifiers in women’s sport climbing.
Sport climbing, to the chagrin of climbers and fans, was granted only one medal each for men and women.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO — Janja Garnbret of Slovenia, the most dominating competition climber of recent years and the gold medal favorite in the first Olympic women’s sport climbing competition, cruised into the eight-woman final with a typically strong performance on Wednesday night.
Garnbret, 22, is a double threat in bouldering and lead climbing, two of the three disciplines that have been combined into one event as sport climbing makes its Olympics debut.
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She will be tested in Friday’s final by a veteran group that includes Akiyo Noguchi and Miho Nonaka of Japan, plus the 20-year-old Brooke Raboutou of the United States and the 17-year-old Chaehyun Seo of Korea.
Sport climbing, to the chagrin of climbers and fans, was granted only one medal each for men and women. That forced organizers to smash three distinct climbing disciplines — speed, bouldering and lead — into one combination event.
At the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, speed will have its own medal, and lead and bouldering — which have more skills and athletes in common — will partner as another medal event.
But in Tokyo, each athlete’s ranking in the three individual disciplines is multiplied together to produce a single score. Garnbret was 14th in speed, first in bouldering and fourth in lead. That total of 56 points — 14x1x4 — put her in first place, ahead of Seo, Nonaka and Noguchi, who rounded out the top four.
All of the Olympic finalists but two are adept at bouldering and lead climbing. One exception was Aleksandra Miroslaw of Poland, who had the fastest time up the 15-meter speed wall. That first-place finish was enough to get her into the final despite a last-place result in bouldering and a second-to-last place showing in lead.
Anouck Jaubert of France used a second-place finish in speed to squeak into the final, too.
Kyra Condie of the United States was 11th among the 20 competitors. Her hopes for making the final were undone by a pair of boulder problems that left nearly everyone but Garnbret vexed. Condie then endured an early slip in lead climbing.
The men’s final is scheduled for Thursday, and got some unexpected intrigue after the qualifying round on Tuesday when Bassa Mawem of France dropped out of the final with a biceps injury, leaving only seven competitors.
Mawem, the fastest speed climber in the final, was scheduled to race against Adam Ondra, likely the slowest, in the first round of a head-to-head speed bracket. Now Ondra will receive a bye and an automatic slot in the speed semifinals.
That means that a likely eighth-place finish in speed — a ranking number that can be hard to overcome in the multiplication of the combined format — will now be no worse than fourth for Ondra, a dominating boulderer and lead climber.
Correction: Aug. 4, 2021
An earlier version of this article misidentified the country Janja Garnbret represents. It is Slovenia, not Slovakia.
— John Branch
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
The U.S. baseball team beats the Dominican Republic, keeping its gold medal hopes alive.
The United States beat the Dominican Republic, 3-1, on Wednesday to advance to the semifinals.Credit...Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Behind one of its oldest and one of its youngest players, the United States toppled the Dominican Republic, 3-1, on Wednesday to advance to the semifinals and preserve its gold medal hopes. The U.S., which last won the Olympics’ top prize in 2000, will face South Korea on Thursday, with the chance to face unbeaten Japan in the final on the line.
On Wednesday, Scott Kazmir, 37, who returned to the major leagues this season after five years away, allowed only two hits over five scoreless innings while striking out five batters.
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An All-Star with the Tampa Bay Rays in his early 20s, Kazmir made a comeback this major-league season, appearing in three games with the San Francisco Giants. When he was let go by the Giants, Team U.S.A. pounced, and the unemployed Kazmir seized the opportunity to pitch in the Olympics.
“I felt like I still had a lot in me, and I felt like the time off really did me well,” he said.
First baseman Triston Casas, 21, a top prospect for the Boston Red Sox, smashed a two-run home run in the first inning off Denyi Reyes, another player in the Red Sox farm system. It was Casas’s third home run of the Olympics. Designated hitter Tyler Austin added a solo blast in the fifth inning.
In the later game on Wednesday, Japan held off South Korea, 5-2, using a bases-clearing double by Tetsuto Yamada in the eighth inning to pull ahead. Japan is the only undefeated team in the Olympic tournament, and handed the United States its only loss earlier in the week.
Despite the loss on Wednesday, the Dominican Republic advanced to the bronze medal game, where it could claim its first Olympic medal in baseball. The Dominicans will play the loser of the United States-South Korea matchup.
— James Wagner
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
After earning a bronze medal, Noah Lyles opens up about mental health and the challenges of the past year.
Noah Lyles, left, finished third in the men’s 200 meters, while his teammate Kenny Bednarek finished second. Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
TOKYO — Noah Lyles, the American sprinting star, was less than an hour removed from racing to a bronze medal in the men’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Games on Wednesday when he opened up about his mental health and the challenges he had faced over the past year.
He spoke about dealing with depression. He spoke about seeking help in therapy. He spoke about the pressures of his profession. And he cried as he spoke about his younger brother, Josephus, whose own Olympic dream as a professional runner currently lives through Noah because he didn’t make the Olympic team.
“Sometimes I think to myself, this should be him,” Noah Lyles said through tears.
For Lyles and many others competing in Tokyo, the Olympics have doubled as a sort of catharsis. In fact, Lyles’s raw display of emotion was hardly unusual: Many athletes here have been outspoken about the burdens of performing in the wake of the most daunting 18 months of their lives, a period shadowed by the pandemic and racial strife — and a yearlong postponement of the Games themselves.
Simone Biles, the world’s greatest gymnast, withdrew from multiple competitions, citing the stress of the past year as one of the reasons she had lost the ability to control her body as she tumbled through the air.
Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked tennis player who had dominated his sport for months, cracked in his semifinal match, hurling his racket into the stands and smacking a replacement against a fence post. After that loss, and then after missing out on the bronze medal, he was as distraught as he had been in years.
Members of the U.S. women’s soccer team, a fairly indomitable force entering the Olympics, fell in the semifinals and spoke of losing the joy they usually feel when they step onto the field.
Lyles, 24, has been one of the most celebrated stars in American track and field since he won a pair of gold medals at the 2019 world championships. But he has also routinely used his platform to share his struggles with anxiety and depression, and it was no different for him in the wake of winning his first Olympic medal.
“I knew there was a lot of people out there like me who’s scared to say something or to even start that journey,” he said. “I want you to know that it’s OK to not feel good, and you can go out and talk to somebody professionally, or even get on medication, because this is a serious issue and you don’t want to wake up one day and just think, you know, ‘I don’t want to be here anymore.’”
For a long time, he said, track was a sort of oasis for him. School was difficult for him when he was young, and running was an outlet. But over the course of the pandemic, some of that enjoyment disappeared. He took anti-depressants on and off, and he was also profoundly affected by the police killings of unarmed Black people.
Before leaving for Tokyo, he broke down crying in front of his girlfriend, he said, “just talking about how hard it was to get through this year.”
Lyles had always told himself that he would leave the sport behind if he ever lost his passion for it, he said. But while he ultimately chose to continue to train and compete, he was determined not to let track control his life. In the process, he said, he sought more balance. He pointed to his interests in music, art and fashion.
“Even if this doesn’t go right in track, I still have a life outside of it,” he said. “I have places that I can go. I am not defined by being an Olympic bronze medalist, or a gold medal world champion, or the high schooler who went pro. That’s not who I am; I’m Noah Lyles.”
He was at his most emotional, though, when he addressed his relationship with his brother, Josephus, a sprinter who fell short of making the U.S. Olympic team this summer. When they were children, Noah Lyles said, it was actually his brother’s dream to compete at the Games.
“This wasn’t even my dream,” Lyles said as he sobbed. “I just wanted to tag along because I loved my brother, and I wanted to do this together. And it’s taken us so far, and I feel like he should be here.”
In the 200-meter final, staged in an empty stadium, Lyles finished behind Andre De Grasse of Canada and Kenny Bednarek, Lyles’s American teammate. Lyles called his bronze medal “boring.”
“I didn’t win,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s a great achievement.”
— Scott Cacciola
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
The U.S. women’s basketball team routed Australia to reach the semifinals.
Breanna Stewart scored 23 points to lead the United States to a 79-55 rout of Australia in the women’s basketball quarterfinals in Saitama, Japan, moving one step closer to the team’s seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal.
The Americans, who avenged a surprising loss to Australia pre-Olympic exhibition game, will face Serbia, the reigning European champion, in the semifinals on Friday. Serbia beat China on Wednesday.
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“I think our players had a look in their eyes that they didn’t want to go home,” U.S. Coach Dawn Staley said.
The United States opened a 14-point lead after the first quarter, extended it to 21 points by halftime, pushed it to 30 in the third quarter and never looked back. Brittney Griner added 15 points and 8 rebounds and A’ja Wilson had 10 points against Australia, the world’s second-ranked team.
The United States ran its Olympic winning streak to 53 straight games. This year’s team leads the Olympic tournament in scoring, shooting percentage, rebounds, assists and blocks. But it may have been motivated more by a 70-67 defeat against Australia in a warmup game last month in Las Vegas.
“We didn’t talk much about it,” center Sylvia Fowles said. “We watched film yesterday before practice and pretty much that was the last of it. We try not to harp on it, what happened in Vegas, but I think everybody got the memo and we knew exactly what happened.”
— Andrew Das
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/03/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
How Sydney McLaughlin Beat Her Own World Record to Win Gold
By The New York Times Aug. 4, 2021
TOKYO — In one of the most anticipated head-to-head showdowns of the Games, Sydney McLaughlin set another world record, beating her closest rival and the defending gold medalist, Dalilah Muhammad, in the women’s 400-meter hurdles by a razor-thin 0.12 seconds. On a fast track at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, McLaughlin, 21, finished in a time of 51.46 seconds, shaving 0.44 seconds off her own world record.
Muhammad’s silver medal-winning time was her personal best, at 51.58 seconds. Femke Bol of the Netherlands won bronze, finishing with a time of 52.03 seconds, also a personal best.
Here’s how the race unfolded (press play):
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Muhammad got out to an early lead, which is her style, but it was only the slimmest of margins over McLaughlin, who trailed Muhammad until finally overtaking her rival in the final meters.
McLaughlin was the fastest of the three medalists from the ninth hurdle to the finish line, using her stamina and speed to capture the gold.
Who was fastest in the final meters
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It was a fast race across the board. Five of the seven finishers beat their personal-best times. (Anna Cockrell of the United States was disqualified.)
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1st McLaughlin
0.163
51.46
2nd Muhammad
0.200
51.58
3rd Bol
0.165
52.03
4th Russell
0.136
53.08
5th Ryzhykova
0.177
53.48
6th Tkachuk
0.206
53.79
7th Woodruff
0.235
55.84
DQ Cockrell
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Race start
Muhammad was the first to clear the initial hurdle, which she nearly always is. But McLaughlin was almost as fast, touching down a split second later. McLaughlin is the faster finisher, so Muhammad probably needed more of a cushion.
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Muhammad
Joe Ward
On the backstretch
At Hurdle 4, along the backstretch, Muhammad built on her lead, finishing her hurdle while McLaughlin had just taken off. McLaughlin appeared nearly neck and neck with Bol, the bronze medalist.
McLaughlin
Bol
Muhammad
Larry Buchanan
The final turn
By the last turn, Muhammad still had a sizable lead of at least a step over McLaughlin at Hurdle 8. But, according to Ralph Mann, a consultant to U.S.A. Track & Field, McLaughlin “ran the last three hurdles much better than she’s ever run them before.”
McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Bol
Muhammad
Muhammad
Composite image shows positions of medalists at four moments in the race
Composite image by Jeremy White
To the finish
McLaughlin didn’t come off the ninth hurdle as well as she could have, and she had to stretch to get to Hurdle 10. Here, she had a choice: Take long strides, or take stutter steps to clear the hurdle. If McLaughlin had stutter-stepped, she would not have had the momentum to overtake Muhammad in the final straightaway, according to Mann.
Muhammad still had a lead coming over the final hurdle, but would it be enough to stave off McLaughlin, who tends to run faster in those final meters? The answer was no, by 0.12 of a second.
Composite image shows
positions of medalists at
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McLaughlin
Bol
Muhammad
Composite image by Bedel Saget and Jon Huang
Using her sprint-first approach, Muhammad had set a new standard for hurdling strategy and technique, and in 2019, she broke a world record in the event that had stood for 16 years.
In the past three years alone, following her example, other hurdlers also passed that old world-record time, including McLaughlin, who has now set the past two world marks.
The rivalry between the two American hurdlers has grown steadily in that time. McLaughlin first bested Muhammad’s world record mark in June at the U.S. Olympic trials.
McLaughlin vs. Muhammad
How this race compares to each athlete’s previous times
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Source: World Athletics·Note: Includes National Championship, World Championship, Diamond League and Olympic events where both athletes competed.
“It’s going to be interesting for the next three years,” said Dr. Mann. “We’re going to see some real rivalry here, and each of them know what they need to work on: Dalilah is going to be pounding the end of that race, and Sydney is going to be trying to get her start speed up.”
Methodology
The Times recorded the position of the top three finishers in a sequence of more than 100 photographs taken every five-hundredths of a second to determine the speed of each athlete throughout the final stretch of the race. Speeds were calculated by combining the positions of the athletes with timestamp information from the images.
By Bedel Saget, Joe Ward, Lazaro Gamio, Larry Buchanan, Jeremy White, Emily Rhyne, Jon Huang and Taylor Johnston
Speed analysis by Tessa Barton, Alexandre Devaux, Or Fleisher, Mark McKeague and Peter Whidden
Race visualization by Rich Harris, Eden Weingart, Alice Fang, Nikolas Diamant and Ashley Wu
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/04/sports/olympics/sydney-mclaughlin-hurdles-400m-olympics.html?
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I like the human interest stories myself where athletes ate helping each other.
Cool pics, thanks...
My fav - A police officer is seen in the mostly empty stadium on July 23.
The last time the Olympics were in Tokyo
People attend the opening ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. AP
Updated 7:59 PM ET, Wed May 26, 2021
When Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, it was the first time the Olympics had ever been held in Asia.
And they weren't actually held during the summer. The Games took place in October that year to avoid the heat and humidity of the summer months and the typhoon season in September.
Japan would later host two Winter Olympics — in 1972 and 1998 — before Tokyo was awarded the Summer Games again for 2020. The 2020 Games were moved to 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/26/world/gallery/1964-tokyo-olympics/index.html
The best photos from the Tokyo Olympics
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (cnn.com)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/sport/gallery/tokyo-summer-olympics-best-photos/index.html
Updated 10:04 AM ET, Wed August 4, 2021
It's the final week of the Tokyo Olympics, and these Games have been filled with amazing performances and some unexpected results.
On Wednesday, Canada's Andre De Grasse won gold in the 200 meters, finishing just ahead of Americans Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles. It's the first Olympic gold for De Grasse, who won bronze in the 100 meters this year and was the silver medalist in the 200 five years ago. He also has two other bronze medals from the 2016 Olympics.
Earlier in the day, the United States' Sydney McLaughlin broke her own world record as she won gold in the 400-meter hurdles. McLaughlin finished in 51.46 seconds, just .12 seconds ahead of fellow American Dalilah Muhammad. Muhammad, who won the event at the 2016 Olympics, also ran faster than McLaughlin's previous world record of 51.90.
Here are the most compelling photos we've seen from these Olympics so far.
" From Opening Ceremony to Aug. 4, | 200+ photos so far "
Sky Brown competes in the park skateboarding final on Wednesday, August 4. Brown, who at 13 is Great Britain's youngest-ever athlete to compete in the Summer Olympics, won a bronze medal. Japan's Sakura Yosozumi won the gold, and her compatriot Kokona Hiraki won the silver. Hiraki is just 12 years old.Kim Price/CSM/ZUMA Wire
BMX racers compete in the women's quarterfinals on July 29.Benoit Doppagne/AFP/Getty Images
During a break in his first-round match, Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev cools down with a mobile air conditioner and a towel with ice cubes. "It was some of the worst (heat) I've ever had," he said after he beat Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik.Michael Kappeler/Picture Alliance/Getty Images
Field hockey players from Spain warm up before their match against Belgium on August 1.John Locher/AP
The Olympic teams from every country watch performers on stage.Mike Egerton/PA Images/Getty Images
A police officer is seen in the mostly empty stadium on July 23. Organizers said that for the opening ceremony, only 950 VIPs would be present in a stadium that can seat nearly 70,000 people.Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images
Watch: Wildest reactions from coaches and crew in Tokyo
It was a different atmosphere in Tokyo with fewer fans in attendance, but the emotions were still on full display as coaches showed their pride and jubilation for their victorious athletes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics2020-videos/watch-wildest-reactions-from-coaches-and-crew-in-tokyo/ar-AAMPkdl?ocid=msedgntp
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Brazil beats Mexico in a testy men’s soccer semifinal and will face Spain in the final.
Brazil beat Mexico on penalty kicks, 4-1, to advance to the Olympic men’s soccer final after a foul-filled semifinal that featured 10 yellow cards but no goals.
Dani Alves, Gabriel Martinelli, Bruno Guimaraes and Reinier converted their kicks in the shootout for Brazil after their goalkeeper, Santos, stopped Mexico’s first penalty and then watched its second attempt hit the post and bounce away.
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Carlos Rodriguez kept Mexico alive by making Mexico’s third kick, but Reinier stepped up moments later to end it, slipping his shot past goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
Brazil will face the tournament favorite, Spain, in Saturday’s gold medal match in Yokohama. Spain beat host Japan on a curling shot by Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio deep into extra time.
Spain’s winner came with five minutes left in the second extra-time period, when Asensio, who had entered the match as a substitute, found a few yards of space in Japan’s penalty area and curled in a left-footed shot inside the far post.
Spain’s trip to the final is its first since 2000, when it won the silver medal in Sydney. It last won the Olympic tournament in 1992, on home soil in Barcelona.
The Brazil-Mexico semifinal at Ibaraki Kashima Stadium was a rematch of the 2012 Olympic final, and featured the past two men’s soccer champions. Mexico beat Brazil at Wembley in 2012, and Brazil claimed its first men’s title on home soil in 2016.
— Andrew Das
Tamyra Mensah-Stock becomes the first Black woman to win a wrestling gold.
Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the second American woman to win a wrestling gold medal.Credit...Leah Millis/Reuters
CHIBA, Japan — Either way on Tuesday night, Tamyra Mensah-Stock knew there would be a first.
Since women’s wrestling was added to the Summer Olympics in 2004, a Black woman had never won the top prize. But in the light heavyweight gold medal match at Makuhari Messe Hall, Mensah-Stock, a Texas native whose father came to the United States from Ghana at 30, was going up against Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria.
“Oooooh, it was awesome,” Mensah-Stock said afterward with her usual zeal and earnestness.
“Oh my gosh, look at us representing,” she added later. “And I’m like, if one of us wins, we’re making history. You’re making history, I’m making history, we’re making history. It’s fantastic. It meant a lot. I’m so proud of Blessing. I was looking at her, ‘Dang, she’s killing it.’ But I can kill it, too.”
And Mensah-Stock, 28, certainly did, dominating her opponents throughout the Tokyo Games and beating Oborududu, 32, by a score of 4-1 to become the second American woman to win a wrestling gold medal after Helen Maroulis in 2016.
Asked about the feat after the match, she said: “Young women are going to see themselves in a number ways. And they’re going to look up there and go, ‘I can do that. I can see myself.’”
Then Mensah-Stock signaled toward her head, saying, “Look at this natural hair. Come on, man! I made sure I brought my puffballs out so they could know that you can do it, too.”
Serving as a symbol to others has long been on Mensah-Stock’s mind. Back home in Katy, Texas, she started wrestling in 10th grade after she was bullied in track and field, her sport of choice. She reluctantly switched to wrestling at the behest of her twin sister, a wrestler, but soon found that the sport not only unlocked her athletic ability but also helped her develop confidence.
Mensah-Stock said she wanted other young women, perhaps those who felt like she once did, to see that “you can be silly, you can have fun, and you can be strong, you can be tough and you can be a wrestler.”
In her first year wrestling, Mensah-Stock finished second in the state championships but knew more was to come. She told a friend that they would be Olympians one day. In 2016, she made it to the Rio Games, but only as a practice partner for her teammates when she failed to secure a spot in the competition.
“From the very beginning, I knew I could get here,” she said.
Although a Black woman hadn’t won an Olympic gold in wrestling before, Mensah-Stock rattled off the names of Black wrestlers who had achieved so much before her. Among them: Toccara Montgomery, who finished seventh in the 2004 Games, and Randi Miller, who won a bronze medal in the 63-kilogram weight class in 2008.
“They paved the way for me, and I was like, ‘I know you guys could have done it, so I’m going out there and I’m going to accomplish this,’” Mensah-Stock said.
Before the gold medal match, Mensah-Stock struggled to sleep because of nerves. She said her coach, Izzy Izboinikov, made sure she ate something. Watching other wrestlers from the United States compete earlier on Tuesday made her anxiety worse.
“It wasn’t pretty,” she said.
But after the clock ran out and Mensah-Stock was the winner, she formed a heart sign with her hands and showed it to both sides of the arena. The television broadcast showed her family, watching from the United States, making the same gesture in response. From the stands, her training partner Maya Nelson clapped and shouted with so much glee that her mask couldn’t stay on.
The heart sign, she later said, was a tribute to her loved ones: her father who died in a car crash after leaving one of her high school tournaments, a tragedy that nearly led her to quit wrestling; her uncle, a former professional boxer, who died of cancer; her grandfather who also died of cancer; a late friend who was also a wrestler; her husband, her mother, her aunt, her sister and the entire country.
“I’m trying to send love to everyone,” she said.
— James Wagner
Repeat victories in the 100 and 200 meters give Elaine Thompson-Herah a rare ‘double-double.’
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica won her second gold at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday and became the first woman to achieve a “double-double” in Olympic track and field events — meaning she retained her titles in consecutive games.
Thompson-Herah took home the gold in the women’s 200 meters on Tuesday with a time of 21.53 seconds, a national record. Three days earlier, she won the women’s 100 meters, where she set a new Olympic record at 10.61 seconds, breaking the record set by the American Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988.
The wins are a repeat of her victories in the same events at the 2016 Rio Games.
“I really had to pull it out to win the 200 meter,” Thompson-Herah said. “Oh, my God, it’s amazing that I have ever seen this day. That I could complete another double. I can’t believe it.”
— Alexandra E. Petri
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/02/sports/olympics-tokyo?
India’s golden hockey era has been reawakened.
India will play for the bronze in field hockey. It has not won a medal since 1980.Credit...Alexandra Garcia/The New York Times
It is not just that India was once the best team in the world in field hockey. It’s that India was once better at field hockey than any country was at nearly anything.
Those glory days had seemed to be long gone. India, which once won hockey medals at 10 straight Olympics, has not touched one since 1980. But at these Olympics, the Indian men’s hockey team has raised echoes of the great teams of the past, and the women’s team, which has never won a medal, is in contention for the first time.
The men’s gold medal bid came to an end on Tuesday with a 5-2 loss to Belgium in the semifinals, but the team still had a chance for a bronze, its best performance in a generation. The women remain alive for gold.
“Disappointed, but you don’t have time to worry about that,” said Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, the goalkeeper known as the Wall. “Now we still have a chance to win a medal, and that’s more important for us than crying at this time.”
The golden era started in 1928 when India, which had only been playing international matches for two years, won at the Amsterdam Olympics, scoring 29 goals and giving up none. It won in 1932 and ’36 as well. Dhyan Chand, widely considered the greatest hockey player ever, was part of all three teams.
After World War II, the streak continued, with gold medals in 1948, ’52 and ’56, before India finally lost to Pakistan in 1960. It reclaimed the title in 1964.
But that was the end of the Indian dominance. The country won one more gold medal, in the boycott year of 1980, but has no medals since. India was 12th and last at the London Olympics and eighth four years ago in Rio. In a country where cricket is by far the dominant sport, hockey was becoming more and more of an antiquated curiosity.
But the 2020 India team has been a throwback to its glory days. After a 4-1 record in the group stage, India upended Britain in the quarterfinals, 3-1, to advance to the final four.
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Amit Rohidas and India lost to Belgium on Tuesday.
Amit Rohidas and India lost to Belgium on Tuesday.Credit...Alexandra Garcia/The New York Times
The women’s team, without any of the men’s glorious history, has similarly overachieved, shocking Australia in the quarterfinals. It plays in a semifinal of its own against Argentina on Wednesday.
“This will be a very big, big thing in India,” said the women’s team captain, Rani Rampal.
Indeed, the teams are causing a stir back home. The Times of India said the women’s victory over Australia rivaled India’s win over England in cricket at Lord’s in 1983 as the greatest sporting upset in Indian history.
The paper had called the men’s semifinal “an hour of reckoning,” saying that “a win will not just confirm a return to the Games podium, but it will restore belief in the sport.”
Though India lost the game, a bronze and that return to the podium is still in the offing. So too, maybe, is a new day for Indian hockey.
— Victor Mather
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/02/sports/olympics-tokyo?
Karsten Warholm of Norway wins the men’s 400-meter hurdles, setting a world record.
TOKYO — Rai Benjamin of the United States and Karsten Warholm of Norway had spent recent years circling one another as they vied for the title of world’s greatest 400-meter hurdler.
On Tuesday, under the oppressive midday sun at Olympic Stadium, Warholm obliterated his own world record to win his first Olympic gold medal, edging Benjamin, who finished second.
Warholm finished in 45.94 seconds. Benjamin also went under the existing world record in 46.17. Alison dos Santos of Brazil was third.
“I always say that the perfect race doesn’t exist, but this is the closest I’ve come to a perfect race,” Warholm said.
In the run-up to the Games this summer, Warholm and Benjamin had each seemed determined to assert himself as the world’s best. At the U.S. Olympic trials in June, Benjamin came desperately close to breaking the event’s longstanding world record, coming within .05 seconds of the mark that Kevin Young had set in winning Olympic gold for the U.S. in 1992. As it was, Benjamin’s time was the second-fastest in history.
One week later, Warholm finally did it: He ran 46.70 seconds in front of an adoring crowd at Bislett Stadium in Oslo to break Young’s record and set himself up as the favorite — by the slimmest of margins — in Tokyo.
Warholm, 25, and Benjamin, 24, offered a hint of a preview when they wound up in the same semifinal heat on Sunday. Both men eased through the finish line — Warholm less than a tenth of a second ahead of Benjamin — as they conserved energy for Tuesday’s final.
But their heat was tantalizing nonetheless — their first time going head-to-head since 2019, when Warholm edged Benjamin to defend his world championship.
Benjamin and Warholm are only two of the athletes who have combined to make the 400-meter hurdles one of the marquee disciplines at the Games — and must-see TV for those watching from home.
Last week, Warholm was asked whether he thought it would take another world record to win the gold medal.
“Maybe someone will else will do it,” he said. “I’ve done my job.”
He did his job again on Tuesday, shattering his own world record in an empty Olympic Stadium.
— Scott Cacciola
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/02/sports/olympics-tokyo?
Olympics Live Updates: Athing Mu, 19, Is First American to Win the 800 Meters Since 1968
Simone Biles returned to competition and won bronze in the balance beam final. Brazil reached the men’s soccer final, and U.S. teams advanced in men’s basketball and women’s beach volleyball.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/02/sports/olympics-tokyo?
Novak Djokovic’s Racket Ends Up Just Like His Golden Slam Dreams, In Absolute Ruins
The Serbian superstar’s racket received the brunt of his temper tantrum during his loss to Spain’s Pablo Carreño Busta in the bronze medal match.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/novak-djokovic-tokyo-olympics-racket_n_610521dce4b0fd216c25f7ce?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
The guy has always been a jerk and I hope he gets his clock cleaned in NY.
Not only pouting over his loss in singles; he broke his racket, went home and stiffed his mixed doubles partner.
Tom Daley’s Olympic knitting is moving the needle in a big way
Britain’s Tom Daley is having a darn good time at the Olympics. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
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Matt Bonesteel
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Tom Daley of Britain has an eternity between events at this year’s Tokyo Olympics: After winning gold in 10-meter synchronized diving with Matty Lee on July 26, Daley does not compete again until the 10-meter platform preliminaries on Friday, two days before the Games come to an end.
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Daley killed off some of that time by creating a TikTok tour of the Olympic Village that went viral, but the minute-long video hardly put a dent in his sizable block of free time. And so he’s filling his open hours, including time cheering on his teammates at the pool, with the hobby he has described as his “secret weapon":
Daley was only 14 years old when he burst onto the scene at the 2008 Beijing Games, finishing seventh in 10-meter platform and eighth in 10-meter synchronized. Now 26, he calls himself the “granddad” of Team Great Britain and told the BBC last year that he took up knitting to stay sharp during the coronavirus pandemic.
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“There are loads of things I’m doing to keep myself going, like yoga and visualization, but I’ve also taken up knitting, which could be my secret weapon,” he said. “It’s part of my mindfulness routine, a way of escaping from everything for a while, and I’ve made all kinds of things like scarves and little hats for my son.”
Daley was first spotted knitting in the stands at this year’s Games during the women’s 3-meter springboard final on Sunday, and he continued Monday during the men’s 3-meter springboard preliminaries. He’s so taken up by knitting that he’s started an Instagram to show off his productions, including a little pouch for his gold medal “to stop it from getting scratched.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/08/02/tom-daley-knitting-olympics/
Olympic High Jumpers Opt to Share First Place in Emotional Moment: 'Can We Have 2 Golds?'
Both Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi cleared the 2.37m mark in the high jump final
By Lindsay KimbleAugust 02, 2021 04:51 AM
Rather than move into a jump-off during Sunday's men's high jump final, Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi opted to share the gold medal in the event — in one of the most emotional moments caught on camera.
Barshim and Tamberi had both cleared the 2.37m mark, as did eventual bronze medalist Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus. While Nedaseku had more failed attempts than his competitors and was thus put in third place, Barshim and Tamberi had cleared the height until 2.39m.
An official presented the option for a jump-off for the gold medal, but the men instead opted to share the top prize — even asking the official: "Can we have two golds?" Soon, photographers snapped as Tamberi, 29, excitedly jumped up on his opponent to hug him, before both reveled in their win at the Olympic Stadium.
Speaking to reporters in a press conference afterward, Barshim, 30, said the moment was "history."
"Coming here and being at the top of the game, to win the Olympics, it's a dream come true," said Barshim. "Once we finished with that 2.39m jump he just looked at me, I look at him, and we just understood that there was no need to go (and compete). It wasn't even a question."
Continued Barshim, "This is a real moment here."
Tokyo was Barshim's third Olympics. He won bronze at the 2012 London Games, and silver at the 2016 Rio Games in the same event. Tamberi was unable to compete at the last Olympics due to an injury.
Said Barshim on Sunday, "This is beyond sport. This is sportsmanship, and this is the message we deliver to the young generation."
Echoed his co-medalist: "Sharing with a friend is more beautiful."
https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-high-jumpers-qatar-italy-share-gold/
Day-by-day guide to Team USA athletes in action at Tokyo 2020
21 JUL 2021
Here’s your daily guide to the U.S. athletes looking to impress at Tokyo 2020 in 2021.
After an additional year of waiting, time is now up. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in 2021, are here.
Across 17 days of competition – including two additional days before the day of the Opening Ceremony
– the world’s best athletes will compete to be in with a chance to call themselves Olympic champion.
Team USA is sure to make headlines throughout the course of the Games with stars such as Simone Biles, Allyson Felix and Noah Lyles all competing in Japan’s capital.
When is Simone Biles competing? On what day can I watch Katie Ledecky?
Ask no more.
Olympics.com has compiled a day-by-day guide that covers all those questions and more.
All times below are in Japan Standard Time (Eastern time ET +13 hours).
21 July, day minus two...
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8 August, Day 16
Should Team USA make it to the women’s basketball final today then a seventh gold medal could be in the cards. They will draw on all the experience of former WNBA MVPs A’ja Wilson, Sylvia Fowles and Breanna Stewart to make their gold medal dream a reality.
The day will conclude with the Closing ceremony.
Medal events: 13
Athletics
0700-0945: M marathon
Basketball
1130-1400: W gold medal
Boxing
1400-1415: W Lightweight final; 1415-1430: M Lightweight final; 1445-1500: W Middleweight final; 1515-1530: M Super Heavyweight final
Cycling track
1000-1315: M Keirin, W Omnium, W Sprint
Handball
1100-1300: W bronze-medal match; 1500-1730: W gold-medal match
Rhythmic gymnastics
1100-1255: Group All-Around final
Volleyball
0900-1100: W Bronze Medal March; 1330-1600: W Gold Medal Match
Water polo
1340-1500: M Bronze Medal Match; 1630-1820: M Gold Medal Match
Closing Ceremony: 2000-2230
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/guide-team-usa-athletes-tokyo-2020
7th heaven: Aussie McKeon leaves Tokyo with 7 swim medals
By BETH HARRIS, August 1, 2021
TOYKO (AP) — Emma McKeon won two more gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, making the Australian the first woman to earn seven medals in swimming at a single Games.
She set an Olympic record to win the 50-meter freestyle in 23.81 seconds, completing the sprint double after her victory in the 100.
Thirty minutes later, McKeon dived back in the pool to win again, this time as part of Australia’s 4×100 medley relay. They trailed the Americans after her butterfly leg, but anchor Cate Campbell sprinted past Abbey Weitzeil to clinch the victory with an Olympic-record time.
“I feel like it has been a bit of a roller coaster getting a gold medal and trying to keep the emotions at bay,” McKeon said. “It will take a while to sink in because I’ve been focusing on myself to keep my cool.”
McKeon leaves Tokyo with four golds and three bronze, tying the record for most medals won by a woman at a single Games set by Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952 in Helsinki.
She became the most decorated Olympian in Australia’s history. McKeon has 11 career medals, eclipsing the record of nine that she shared for one day with swimming greats Ian Thorpe and Leisel Jones.
“I’ve never really looked at the stats of medal counts,” she said. “It is an honor because I know I’ve worked so hard for it.”
The 27-year-old from Brisbane comes from a swimming family. She and her brother, David, were the first brother-sister duo since 1960 to swim for Australia at the Olympics five years ago in Rio. That’s where McKeon won four medals — one gold, two silvers and a bronze. Her father, Ron, was a swimmer who runs a learn-to-swim center south of Sydney.
McKeon watched the Olympics as a youngster.
“I grew up wanting to do a similar same thing,” she said.
McKeon’s efforts on the last day at the Tokyo pool mirrored that of American star Caeleb Dressel. They both won the 50 free and swam the butterfly leg on victorious relays.
McKeon touched in 23.81 seconds in the 50 free. In the medley relay, the Aussies beat the two-time defending champion Americans.
“I don’t know how she does it. I’m exhausted,” said Kyle Chalmers, one of the McKeon’s teammates. “To win one gold medal or an Olympic medal, it’s very, very special. We’re lucky to have her on the team.”
https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-swimming-sports-australia-abbey-weitzeil-768e041bba191a50c8fd0379082f25d7
Belarus sprinter says punishment awaited her back home
By DANIEL KOZIN and DARIA LITVINOVA
12 minutes ago
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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021. Tsimanouskaya alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday, Aug. 1, at Tokyo’s main airport. An activist group supporting Tsimanouskaya said she believed her life was in danger in Belarus and would seek asylum with the Austrian embassy in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
MOSCOW (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team at the Tokyo Games said Tuesday that they “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government that has relentlessly stifled any criticism.
Waiting to leave Japan to seek refuge in Europe, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she hopes she can continue her career, but for now her safety is the priority. After she criticized the management of her team on social media, she accused officials of hustling her to the airport and trying to put her on a plane back to Belarus.
In the dramatic standoff, several countries offered help, and Poland granted her a humanitarian visa Monday. She plans to fly to Warsaw later in the week.
Team officials “made it clear that, upon return home, I would definitely face some form of punishment,” the 24-year-old sprinter told The Associated Press in a videocall interview from Tokyo. “There were also thinly disguised hints that more would await me.”
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Biles returns to Olympic competition, wins bronze on beam
By WILL GRAVES, an hour ago
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U.S. gymnast Simone Biles poses with her bronze medal for the artistic gymnastics women's balance beam apparatus at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles isn’t going home with a fistful of gold medals. A mental block — one brought on by exhaustion or stress or something the American gymnastics star still can’t quite grasp — that forced her to pull out of four Olympic finals saw to that.
Yet standing on the podium Tuesday, a bronze medal hanging around her neck and tears in her eyes, the 24-year-old Biles may have claimed something far more valuable: a piece of herself back.
From the “twisties” that have haunted her for a week. From the endless speculation about her state of mind. From the hype machine — one, admittedly, she fed into at times — that set expectations so high coming to Tokyo nothing short of the impossible would have been enough.
It all became too much. A week ago, her internal wires got crossed when she hopped on uneven bars during practice. Suddenly, she couldn’t spin. She could barely move. She still doesn’t quite know why. And if she’s being honest, the wires still aren’t reconnected. She’s not sure when they will be.
“It was something that was so out of my control,” Biles said. “But the outcome I had, at end of the day, my mental and physical health is better than any medal. So I couldn’t be mad.”
Biles and coach Cecile Landi adjusted her routine to ease her anxiety, switching out a dismount that required her to twist for one with two simpler backflips instead, a skill she hadn’t done in competition in 12 years, half a lifetime ago. Even with the degree of difficulty lowered, she earned a 14.000, good enough for third behind Chinese teammates Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing.
Afterward, she chatted with IOC President Thomas Bach then wiped away tears after accepting her seventh Olympic medal, tied with Shannon Miller for the most by an American gymnast. A wave of relief washed over her following a turbulent eight days that shifted the focus from the Tokyo Games to the mental health of the athletes who compete under the rings.
“We’re not just entertainment, we’re humans,” Biles said. “And there are things going on behind the scenes that we’re also trying to juggle with as well, on top of sports.”
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Biles thought she had it under control. Then the Americans finished a surprising second to the Russian team in qualifying. She sensed the weight of the world on her shoulders. During the first vault rotation in the team final, the weight became too much. Shaken, she took herself out of the final three events and watched as her teammates held on for silver.
The decision made her a touchstone of sorts. Yes, there was a lot of support. She felt “embarrassed” when a trip through the Olympic Village included a steady stream of people coming up to tell them how much she meant to them. There was a lot of hate, too, one of the reasons she moved her Twitter app to the back of her phone, hopefully tamping down the temptation to search her mentions.
“It’s not good for me right now,” she said.
There was no phone in sight when she appeared on the floor in a red, white and blue leotard with nearly 5,000 crystals stitched on. If she was nervous, it hardly showed. She warmed up and then sat on the floor next to teammate and newly minted all-around champion Sunisa Lee to watch highlights from other sports on a large video board.
Her routine was steady, seemingly immune to the whir of dozens of cameras capturing her every move. She made a small hop after landing her double-pike, then saluted the stands. One last bow perhaps, in a career that includes 32 major international medals and a spot atop her sport.
It’s far too soon to think about Paris.
“I just need to process this Olympics first,” she said.
While she hasn’t officially announced her retirement — she’s hinted that she might want to stick around in some fashion until the 2024 Games to honor coaches Laurent and Cecile Landi, who are both French — a long layoff awaits. She’s headlining a post-Olympic tour through the fall. What happens after that is a mystery, even to Biles.
Two weeks ago, she was a heavy favorite to win four golds. Maybe five. A week ago, her body couldn’t do what she’d long trained it to do. Even on Monday, watching others spin their way through their routines made her want to “puke.”
Tuesday night offered justice of sorts. Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, she was stunned when her bronze on beam was met with a shrug of the shoulders, proof of the double standard she is held to. She earned another one in Japan under circumstances no one could have envisioned.
“This one is definitely sweeter,” she said.
Even if it’s the last.
Biles receding into the background opened up the door for the teammates who have long competed in her considerable shadow. The 18-year-old Lee, who finished fifth on the balance beam, won the Olympic all-around title. She ended up with three medals in Tokyo, including silver in the team final and bronze on uneven bars.
Lee became the fifth straight American woman to capture the all-around title. MyKayla Skinner, placed into the vault final after Biles scratched, soared to silver. On Monday, Jade Carey’s long journey to the Olympics ended with a victory on floor exercise after Biles gave her a pep talk following a nightmarish vault performance in which she tripped at the end of the runway and narrowly avoided serious injury.
It wasn’t the role Biles expected to fill when she arrived. She did it anyway, repaying those who have spent the last eight years doing the same for her. Asked if there was anything she would change about her experience in Japan, she shook her head.
“Nothing,” she said. “I would change nothing.”
https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-gymnastics-simone-biles-8d61f4de9ec021860cda002f4eac5804
A Canadian diver who scored a 0 with a feet-first flop with the finals on the line said she wasn't going to give up
Scott Davis
Sun, August 1, 2021, 9:31 PM
The Canadian diver Pamela Ware scored a 0.0 with a feet-first dive in the Olympics.
The failed dive knocked Ware out of competition for the event final.
In an emotional video, Ware said she made a mistake but would not give up.
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The Canadian diver Pamela Ware experienced a worst-case scenario for any diver at the Tokyo Olympics.
Competing in the women's 3-meter springboard semifinal, Ware had a misstep on her approach that forced her to bail out of her last dive and jump feet-first into the water.
Worse, Ware was competing for the final. One TV announcer noted during Ware's approach that Ware was attempting a dive with a 3.5 difficulty, the most difficult of the competition to that point. The other announcer said, "This dive could be spectacular!"
As Ware left the board, she clearly did not have her rhythm down and instead attempted something akin to a backyard plunge.
Screeshot shows Pamela Ware diving into the pool at the Tokyo Olympics
via NBC
Screenshot shows Pamela Ware vertical in the air on a dive attempt at the Tokyo Olympics.
via NBC
Screenshot shows Pamela Ware going feet first into the pool on a dive attempt at the Tokyo Olympics.
via NBC
"That's what pressure can do," one of the announcers said, noting that Ware would not score a point on the attempt.
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Ware discussed the fallout on Instagram, thanking those who offered her support and saying the mistake could have happened to anyone.
"What we do in the competition is just a tiny factor of what we actually do to get to where we are," Ware said in a video. "I was so ready for this competition, and I made a mistake. It could have happened to anybody, but it happened to me at the wrong time."
Ware had placed fourth in the preliminary round. She told reporters after her failed dive that she was still in shock and believed she would have risked injury if she attempted the dive.
"I think that if I would have done the dive, I could have possibly hurt myself," Ware told reporters, per CBC's Christine Rankin.
The comment is especially pertinent, as the American gymnast Simone Biles dropped out of several events with the "twisties," a phenomenon that can make gymnasts lose track of where they are in the air.
Ware, 28, said she was proud of her accomplishments to that point and planned on returning to the Olympic stage.
"I have done everything possible to make it to where I am and I'm human, I'm allowed to make mistakes," she said in her Instagram video before pausing. "I hope you guys are going to get used to having me around because I'm not going anywhere, I'm not giving up."
Watch Ware's video below:
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-diver-scored-0-feet-013136731.html
Krajewski becomes 1st woman to win individual eventing gold
Julia Krajewski of Germany flies past overnight leader Andrew Townend during the show jumping portion of the individual eventing competition to became the first woman to win the event in Olympic history.
https://www.nbcolympics.com/videos/krajewski-becomes-1st-woman-win-individual-eventing-gold
How the World’s Fastest Men Battled for Gold in 10 Seconds
By The New York Times Aug. 1, 2021
TOKYO — There is now a successor to Usain Bolt. Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy ran a 9.80-second 100 meters to win the gold medal on Sunday night at Tokyo Olympic Stadium. It marked the first time since 2004 that anyone other than Bolt, who retired in 2017, has been the Olympic champion in the men’s event.
Who was fastest at each meter
Fastest
Slowest
0
25
50
75
100
4th
Simbine
9.93
1st
Jacobs
9.80
Hughes
DQ
2nd
Kerley
9.84
6th
Su
9.98
5th
Baker
9.95
Adegoke
DNF
3rd
de Grasse
9.89
Note: Zharnel Hughes was disqualified, and Enoch Adegoke did not finish.·The New York Times
Without Bolt, it was a wide-open race: Nearly everyone in the starting blocks had a shot at victory. A false start caused Zharnel Hughes of Britain to be disqualified, and Enoch Adegoke of Nigeria did not finish; the remaining six competitors all clocked times under 10 seconds.
Fred Kerley of the United States won silver, four-hundredths of a second behind Jacobs, and Andre de Grasse of Canada (9:89) won bronze, as he did in Rio. All three of the top finishers achieved personal best times.
Speed during the entire race
MAX SPEED
AVERAGE SPEED
Jacobs
26.76m.p.h.
at 72 meters
22.93m.p.h.
Kerley
26.29m.p.h.
at 66 meters
22.84m.p.h.
de Grasse
26.59m.p.h.
at 68 meters
22.73m.p.h.
Simbine
26.53m.p.h.
at 74 meters
22.56m.p.h.
Baker
26.14m.p.h.
at 66 meters
22.53m.p.h.
Su
26.10m.p.h.
at 66 meters
22.54m.p.h.
Jacobs’s time was 0.17 seconds off Bolt’s Olympic record of 9.63 that he set in London in 2012, and 0.22 seconds off Bolt’s world record of 9.58 that he set in 2009. The last European to win gold in the 100 was Britain’s Linford Christie in Barcelona in 1992. (Jacobs, who was born in Texas to an Italian mother, ran for Italy.)
Speed throughout the race
Each line is the smoothed average of a runner’s readings.
091827m.p.h.0meters255075100Jacobs
The New York Times
Explosive start for Kerley
Runners’ positions at
four moments in first few
seconds of the race
Jacobs
Jacobs
Kerley
Kerley
de Grasse
de Grasse
Composite image by Jeremy White
Kerley blasted out of the blocks faster than any of the runners, reacting with a time of 0.128 seconds. Jacobs’s reaction time was 0.161, the second slowest of the seven starters. During the acceleration phase, the first 30 meters or so, Kerley was holding off the pack.
Speed during first 25 meters
091827m.p.h.0meters510152025JacobsKerley
Section detail
Jacobs gains ground
Jacobs
Jacobs
Kerley
Kerley
de Grasse
de Grasse
Composite image by Jeremy White
Jacobs erased his early deficit in a hurry, then stayed just behind Kerley through the second 25 meters. Jacobs was running faster than anyone at this point in the race. But Kerley had been a 400-meter runner until switching over to the 100 this year. Specialists in the 400 often make great finishers in the 100, so Kerley appeared to be in good shape.
Speed from meters 25 to 50
2324252627m.p.h.25meters3035404550JacobsKerley
Section detail
Jacobs reaches 26.76 m.p.h.
Jacobs
Jacobs
Kerley
Kerley
de Grasse
de Grasse
Composite image by Jeremy White
But Jacobs increased his speed and drew even with Kerley midway through the race — and looked strong. His peak speed was 26.76 m.p.h. Jacobs, a former Italian long jump champion, had set an Italian 100-meter record in May, at 9.95, and then ran 9.94 in the heats here. He would need to run faster than he ever had over the last 50 meters if he wanted to win. In Lane 8, Adegoke pulled up with an apparent leg injury.
Speed from meters 50 to 75
2324252627m.p.h.50meters5560657075JacobsKerley
Section detail
A gold, and a personal best, for Jacobs
Jacobs
Jacobs
Kerley
Kerley
de Grasse
de Grasse
Composite image by Jeremy White
In the final meters, Kerley could not hold off Jacobs, who was running the race of his life. With about five meters to go, it looked as if either runner could claim the gold. Kerley was running faster than Jacobs at this point. Both runners leaned hard into the finish line.
When the results were posted, Jacobs had raced more than a tenth of a second faster than he ever had before, setting a personal best and claiming both a gold medal and the unofficial title of the fastest man in the world.
Speed from meters 75 to 100
2324252627m.p.h.75meters80859095100JacobsKerley
Section detail
Methodology
The Times recorded the position of every runner in a sequence of more than 100 photographs taken every five-hundredths of a second to determine the speed of each athlete throughout the race. Speeds were calculated by combining the positions of the athletes with timestamp information from the images.
By Joe Ward, Lazaro Gamio, Larry Buchanan, Jeremy White, Weiyi Cai, Jon Huang, Emily Rhyne and Bedel Saget
Speed analysis by Tessa Barton, Alexandre Devaux, Or Fleisher, Niko Koppel, Mark McKeague and Peter Whidden. Additional race analysis by Peter Weyand, biomechanist.
Correction: Aug. 1, 2021
A chart in this article showing the runners ranked by speed throughout the race depicted incorrect standings for some runners at several points. It has been updated.
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Masahiro Tanaka is back in Japan and about to face off against his former U.S. teammates.
YOKOHAMA, Japan — The U.S. baseball team will face off against top-ranked Japan in a battle of unbeaten teams at Yokohama Baseball Stadium on Monday night. On the mound will be a face that is very familiar to fans from both countries: Masahiro Tanaka.
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After completing his seven-year, $155 million contract with the Yankees in October, Tanaka returned to his former team, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He wanted to remain in New York and has said he has unfinished business in the United States (he never won a World Series). But the Yankees opted, in General Manager Brian Cashman’s words, to acquire two other pitchers — Corey Kluber and Jameson Taillon — for the price of one.
So Tanaka, a two-time All-Star who posted a 3.74 earned run average with the Yankees, returned home. The right-hander signed a two-year deal with the Eagles. An added benefit: Because the Nippon Professional Baseball league takes an Olympic break, Tanaka was allowed to pitch for his country again. Major League Baseball doesn’t pause its season for the Olympics, nor does it permit players from 40-man rosters to participate.
“I didn’t come home because I wanted to participate in the Olympics, but I thought I would have a chance to participate if I’m in Japan,” Tanaka said in Japanese. “I wanted to be selected.”
He had many motivations. The 10th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan — and specifically the Sendai area, where the Eagles play — is not lost on Tanaka. And the last time he was on Japan’s Olympic roster in 2008, he was 19, which was also the last time baseball was played in the Summer Games. Japan failed to win a medal then.
This time around, Tanaka, 32, said the experience has been very different. “I was the youngest, now I’m the oldest,” he said. “I feel the different roles I play.”
To win its first two games against the Dominican Republic and Mexico, Japan used two talented young pitchers — Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 22, and Masato Morishita, 23. Facing a tougher assignment against the United States, Manager Atsunori Inaba tabbed Tanaka, who knows a few of the opposing hitters, such as Todd Frazier, a former Yankees teammate.
Back in New York, where Tanaka was well liked in the clubhouse, teammates such as Gerrit Cole have kept tabs on his performance this year. Tanaka, who has a 2.86 E.R.A. in 85 innings with the Eagles this season, has done the same with the Yankees and the M.L.B. standings, including the play of Los Angeles two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, a leading American League M.V.P. contender.
Asked over the weekend what he thought of Ohtani’s season, Tanaka answered in English before departing for the team bus: “amazing.”
Makiko Inoue contributed reporting
— James Wagner
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/01/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
An Olympic sprinter from Belarus seeks refuge in Japan, fearing jail at home after criticizing her coaches.
A Belarusian sprinter said on Sunday that she was under the protection of the Japanese police after her country’s Olympic Committee tried and failed to forcibly deport her after she criticized her coaches for registering her for the wrong event.
The sprinter, Kristina Timanovskaya, announced on Sunday night via Instagram that she had sought protection in Japan because she feared for her safety in Belarus, where the country’s strongman leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, in power for 27 years, has sought to stifle any dissent.
“I am afraid that in Belarus they might put me in jail,” Ms. Timanovskaya told the independent Belarusian news portal Zerkalo.io. “I am not afraid that I will be fired or kicked out of the national team, I am worried about my safety. And I think that at the moment it is not safe for me in Belarus.”
The Belarusian National Olympic Committee, which is run by Mr. Lukashenko’s eldest son, Victor Lukashenko, said on Sunday that it had withdrawn Ms. Timanovskaya from the Games because of her “emotional and psychological state” after consulting with a doctor.
Ms. Timanovskaya denied being examined by any doctors and said she was in good physical and psychological health. She said she had been forcibly removed from her country’s team because “I spoke on my Instagram about the negligence of our coaches.”
In a video taken at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, she asked the International Olympic Committee for support. In a statement, the I.O.C. said it was researching the situation.
“The I.O.C. has seen the reports in the media,” the statement said, and “is looking into it.”
Ms. Timanovskaya, 24, was to participate in the Olympic Games for the first time this summer in the 200-meter sprint. But she said was informed that she would be running the 4x400-meter relay race because some team members had not taken enough antidoping tests to qualify for the event.
— Valerie Hopkins
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/01/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
Jade Carey of the United States wins the floor exercise gold.
Jade Carey had qualified for the Olympics as an individual, not with the U.S. women’s gymnastics team.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
TOKYO — Jade Carey redeemed herself from a disappointing performance in the vault final to come back the next day here at the Tokyo Games and win the gold medal on the floor exercise.
With a routine that was more difficult than the ones performed by her peers, Carey flipped and twisted her way to the top of the podium with what she called “the best floor routine I’ve ever done in my life.”
Italy’s Vanessa Ferrari won silver and two gymnasts tied for bronze: Mai Murakami of Japan and Angelina Melnikova of Russia.
Artistic Gymnastics: Women’s Floor Exercise Final ›
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Jade Carey
United States
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SILVER
Vanessa Ferrari
Italy
14.200
BRONZE
Mai Murakami
Japan
14.166
BRONZE
Angelina Melnikova
Russian Olympic Committee
14.166
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Rebeca Andrade
Brazil
14.033
6
Jessica Gadirova
Britain
14.000
7
Jennifer Gadirova
Britain
13.233
8
Viktoriia Listunova
Russian Olympic Committee
12.400
After realizing that she had won, Carey gave her coach, Brian — who is also her father — a big hug. The day before, the two had hugged on the competition floor, but out of sadness.
In the vault final on Sunday, Carey, who is 21 and from Phoenix, tripped during her run-up to her first vault. She had planned to do a Yurchenko 2½, which is 2½ twists in the air and one flip, but could only flip once, with no twists. Her low score for that vault ruined her chances for a medal. She left the competition in tears.
“Yesterday was really tough for me,” Carey said, calling it “a kind of a blur.” She said her U.S. teammates, especially Simone Biles, had given her a pep talk once she returned to the team’s hotel. Biles told her, “Let it go and move on. It happened and you can’t do anything about it.”
Carey added: “For tonight, I just had to let that go.”
But Carey had one chance to bounce back at these Games, and took it.
In qualifying, Carey finished third on the floor exercise, behind Ferrari, who was first, and Biles, in second. Biles elected not to compete in the final, though she announced Monday that she would participate in the balance beam final on Tuesday — her last possible event at the Tokyo Games.
Maggie Astor contributed reporting.
— Juliet Macur
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/01/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
Canada’s women’s soccer team beats the U.S., 1-0, and will play for gold.
Jessie Fleming’s penalty kick was the lone goal of the match.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
KASHIMA, Japan — The United States women’s soccer team lost, 1-0, to Canada in an Olympic semifinal match Monday night at Ibaraki Kashima Stadium, ending the Americans’ hopes of following up their 2019 World Cup title with an Olympic gold medal.
The United States lost its star goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, the penalty-kick shootout hero of its quarterfinal victory, to a knee injury just half an hour into the match. But in the end, it was a shot that no goalkeeper was likely to save that sank them.
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In the 74th minute, Canada midfielder Jessie Fleming, striding to the spot after a video review awarded her team a penalty and a chance to take the lead, lashed a penalty kick high and hard to the left of Adrianna Franch, the American backup keeper. It rippled the side netting in the corner of the goal, sending her team into raucous celebrations.
The penalty call had not been made initially on the field, but it was confirmed by a second look from the video assistant and the match referee, Kateryna Monzul of Ukraine. It came after the United States defender Tierna Davidson and Canadian forward Deanne Rose came together to chase a bouncing ball in the penalty area. Davidson took a swing at it, but missed, and instead clipped the leg of Rose, who went tumbling to the ground.
Monzul reviewed the contact on a sideline monitor and then returned and, dramatically, pointed to the spot.
The loss sent the Americans spiraling out of a tournament in which they never looked totally comfortable. They fell to Sweden, 3-0, in their opening match and looked tentative and ponderous at various points thereafter.
Canada now has a chance to win a gold medal after winning the bronze at two straight Games.
— Andrew Keh
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/01/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
Olympics Live Updates: Jade Carey Wins Floor Exercise; Simone Biles to Compete on Beam
The balance beam final on Tuesday is Biles’s last possible event at the Tokyo Games. On Monday, Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Olympics.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/01/sports/olympics-tokyo-medals-results?
I watched the cross country racing last night which is part of a 3 entry event.
There are three types of equestrian competitions at the Games. Dressage is almost like dancing on horseback, as riders are judged on precise movements by their mounts. In jumping, horses clear high hurdles. Eventing includes both dressage and jumping, and also adds a grueling cross-country race over hurdles.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/olympic-sports-explained.html?
There are no spring chickens in Equestrian as most of the horses are at least 10 years old.
In the cross country racing they go through a variety of jumps some of which are also in water and they are on the clock as well.
They have one jump called Mount Fugi. It's a blind jump since the landing drops off.
Obstacle 16ABC – Mt. Fuji Drop
As they approach this set of jumps the riders will know the various routes and which one they are likely to take. The more
direct route has them jumping down a large drop (1.80 drop) then bending left a few strides later a narrow brush jump
and then continuing left-handed down the slope to a right-handed corner. The straightway requires a brave horse
jumping down the drop which will then stay focused and keep the line to the brush and then maintain control down the
slope and stay straight to the corner. The longer route still must jump down the drop, but the ensuing brush and righthanded corner have more distance between them which will give the rider more time for preparation.
Page 16 shows you what the horse sees going into the jump as well as the landing which he doesn't see.
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/EQU/OG2020-_EQU_C03D_EQUOEVENINDV----------XC--000100--.pdf
Results and Scores -- Sunday 1 August
https://results.nbcolympics.com/results
Key moments from the Olympic Games: Day 9
Here's what you missed from Day 9 of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
ByAlex Scott
August 1, 2021, 9:02 AM
Each day, ABC News will give you a roundup of key Olympic moments from the day's events in Tokyo, happening 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time. After a 12-month delay, the unprecedented 2020 Summer Olympics is taking place without fans or spectators and under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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'Rave horse' Mopsie rages in Olympic dressage freestyle
Mia Zanzucchi
Jul. 31, 2021 11:57 am ET
(Updated: Jul. 31, 2021 12:37 pm ET)
https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/rave-horse-mopsie-rages-olympic-dressage-freestyle
Olympic Latest: Bencic wins tennis gold for Switzerland
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TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:
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Key moments from the Olympic Games: Day 8
Here's what you missed from Day 8 of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
ByAlex Scott
July 31, 2021, 9:13 AM
Each day, ABC News will give you a roundup of key Olympic moments from the day’s events in Tokyo, happening 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time. After a 12-month delay, the unprecedented 2020 Summer Olympics is taking place without fans or spectators and under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tokyo Olympics, wildfires, COVID-19 pandemic: This Week in Pictures
ABC News photo editors chose some of their favorite news images of the week for this collection.
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The United States fails to medal in rowing for the first time since 1908.
Juliet Macur
By Juliet Macur
July 30, 2021
The United States rowing team had two final chances on Friday to win a medal in rowing at the Tokyo Games, but both of its boats came up short, ending an era of success at the Olympics that has lasted for more than a century.
The last time the United States failed to make the podium in rowing in an Olympics was in 1908.
“This might go without saying, but change is clearly necessary,” Amanda Kraus, chief executive of U.S. Rowing, said in a statement sent Friday via text. “This is a disappointing moment indeed, first and foremost for rowers themselves and the individuals who coached and cared for them.”
The U.S. team’s men’s and women’s eight-oared boats raced in the finals on Friday at Sea Forest Waterway, with the American women hoping to extend their phenomenal Olympic gold medal streak that began at the 2008 Beijing Games. But that three-time Olympic champion boat, which for years was so strong that it could win with different combinations of rowers filling the seats, finished fourth, more than 3½ seconds behind the winning Canadian team.
Rowing Medals ›
Women’s Single Sculls
Emma Twigg
New Zealand
Men’s Single Sculls
Stefanos Ntouskos
Greece
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Canada
Men’s Eight
New Zealand
The New Zealand eight won the silver medal, and the Chinese boat won the bronze. Both of those rowing teams are on the rise, with Friday’s medals their first in the women’s eight.
“The young group of girls who have been coming though had just added so much new life to our boat,” Kelsey Bevan, the four-set for New Zealand, said at a news conference. “Yeah, I think this is only the start of the program.”
New Zealand’s women finished their race, put away their boats and returned to the racecourse to see the men’s eights competition, which was the final rowing event of the Games. It would be a great day for New Zealand rowing: their men’s team was rocketing down the course and won the gold medal.
Earlier in the day, Emma Twigg, the single sculler from New Zealand, won the gold medal after consecutive fourth-place finishes in her past two Olympics. With a gold medal around her neck now at her fourth Summer Games, Twigg said she is a perfect example of how persistence can pay off.
“If you believe in yourself and keep going and dreaming, this can be the result,” she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/sports/olympics/rowing-results-sculls-eights.html
The Yips, the Twisties, the Waggles: Simone Biles Gets Them, and You Probably Do Too
July 30, 2021
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Ms. Boylan is a contributing Opinion writer. She writes on L.G.B.T.Q. politics, education and life in Maine.
There is a regrettable incident involving a dog, a pigeon and a free kick. A soccer player loses his mojo. His coaches try to name the problem.
“I think we know already what it is,” Coach Beard says in the second-season premiere of “Ted Lasso,” the Apple TV+ comedy series about a British football team’s folksy American coach. He writes the words down on a piece of paper.
THE YIPS.
“What are the yips?” someone asks.
After a lot of shushing — it’s bad luck in pro sports, apparently, to even say those sometimes career-ending words aloud — Coach Beard explains: “It’s when, just out of nowhere, an athlete suddenly can’t do the basic fundamentals of their sport.”
“Yeah,” Lasso adds. “You know, like Chuck Knoblauchs’s throw to first, or Charles Barkley’s golf swing.”
Or, I thought this week, it’s like Simone Biles’s struggle during her vault at the Tokyo Olympics. The preternaturally talented gymnast’s intention had been to do an Amanar, a difficult maneuver with two and a half twists. But somewhere in midair, she said later, she got lost. Minutes after that, she withdrew from competition.
Biles called it a case of “the twisties” and offered an informative Instagram tutorial on how terrifying and perilous they can be at her level of gymnastics. As a Washington Post article put it: “The twisties are essentially like the yips in other sports. But in gymnastics, the phenomenon affects the athletes when they’re in the air, so the mind-body disconnect can be dangerous, even for someone of Biles’s caliber.” A teammate of Biles’s from 2016, Laurie Hernandez, described the feeling to NPR: “Hated it so much,” she said. “It actively makes you feel like you’re not the caliber of athlete that you are.”
It’s heartbreaking to see this happen to Biles, whose strength and grace have been inspirational. But the twisties aren’t unique to sports. Anyone who has ever tried to do something great has also experienced doubt, uncertainty and the loss of faith. These are the struggles that make us human.
Some pundits lost no time in attacking the young athlete. The conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk called Biles a “sociopath”: “We are raising a generation of weak people like Simone Biles,” he said in a widely shared clip. “Simone Biles just showed the rest of the nation that when things get tough, you shatter into a million pieces.”
The media personality Piers Morgan pushed back against the many who have praised Biles for prioritizing her own health over winning a gold medal: “Well sorry if it offends all the howling Twitter snowflake virtue-signallers, but I don’t think it’s remotely courageous, heroic or inspiring to quit,” he wrote. (That’s despite his own on-air quitting of his job co-hosting “Good Morning Britain” — a display, arguably, of the yips for blowhard chat-show hosts.)
People shatter all the time, and anyone suffering from anxiety deserves compassion and love, rather than cruelty and judgment. This is no less true for a famous gymnast than it is for a midlevel manager or, say, a conservative podcaster. Wait long enough, and surely the yips will come for every one of us.
There are other words for it. In golf — the sport that gave us the term “the yips” — it has also been known as “the staggers,” “the waggles” and “whiskey fingers.” In a New Yorker essay exploring the yips in 2014, the writer David Owen cataloged the affliction in a wide variety of sports: “cueitis” in snooker; “target panic” in archery; and in baseball, “the creature,” “the monster” or “Steve Blass disease” (named for the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who lost the ability to throw into the strike zone).
Ted Lasso refers to Chuck Knoblauch’s case of the yips while playing second base for the Yankees. In 1999 Knoblauch had 26 errors; one of his wild throws in 2000 hit Keith Olbermann’s mother in the face as she watched the game from the stands. (Her glasses were broken, but she was otherwise unharmed.)
We’ve seen this in other arenas, too. Carly Simon was so overcome by panic at a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981 that audience members climbed onstage and tried to soothe her by rubbing her arms and legs. “It’s terribly paradoxical, because I do enjoy doing it,” she told The New York Times later. “But when the anxiety comes on, the adrenaline is so strong it topples me. I never know when it’s going to happen, except that the larger the audience, the more I feel I’ve got to lose.”
Even if your work does not take place in front of a live audience, the yips can get you. In my world, it’s called “writers’ block.” That condition can refer to either the inability to compose, or — even worse — the inability to even sit down at one’s desk.
Truman Capote published “In Cold Blood” in 1965 and waxed rhapsodic about his next project, a novel called “Answered Prayers.” “Oh, how easy it’ll be,” he said. “It’s all in my head!” But by the time of his death in 1984, the novel had not been published. There is still some question as to whether it exists in a safe deposit box somewhere. The morning before his death, Capote gave Joanne Carson (an ex-wife of Johnny Carson) a key to a box he claimed was in a bank in California; he did not specify which one. “The novel will be found when it wants to be found,” he reportedly told her. Thirty-seven years have gone by, and the novel apparently does not yet want to be found.
The title of Capote’s unfinished novel was taken from a line attributed to St. Teresa of Avila, a 16th-century Carmelite nun: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” Maybe that’s what the yips are — a moment when you realize that the thing you have been praying for is a complicated gift.
Whether we respond to the yips with scorn and self-flagellation or with grace and acceptance says a lot about us as human beings. It is one thing to pray for excellence on the vault or the uneven bars. But embracing one’s vulnerability, the very frailty that makes us human — well, that demands a very particular brand of wisdom and humility. I’d call it Olympian.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/opinion/culture/simone-biles-olympics.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
India’s married archers: ‘We are a powerful couple.’
TOKYO — When love’s arrow struck, Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das were ready with their own quivers. Known as Dee-Das in India, the couple are one of two pairs of married archers at the Tokyo Olympics.
Both halves of the couple advanced into the individual archery event, with Das falling in the 1/8 elimination round on Saturday to Takaharu Furukawa of Japan, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Waving the Indian flag in the stands, under a broiling sun, was Kumari, the world No. 1, who had reached the quarterfinals the day before. She was beaten by An San of South Korea, who went on to take the gold medal.
“We are a powerful couple,” Das said after his elimination on Saturday. “We lost in this Olympics here, but from now we will play the game differently. We have learned so many things in the past few years, and we know how to deal with the pressure.”
India’s Olympic imprint is small, especially given its large population. Apart from men’s hockey, the country has won only one other gold medal, in the men’s 10-meter air rifle event in the 2008 Beijing Games. In Tokyo, India’s archers were considered among the country’s medal hopefuls but failed to make it to the podium rounds. So far, India has won a silver medal in women’s weight lifting and is assured a medal in women’s boxing.
Archery is a supremely mental sport. Going into the competition on Saturday, Das inked the word “calm” on his hand as a reminder to not let the pressure erode his confidence. The divergence between a win and a loss in archery is measured in millimeters.
“They help each other with the nerves,” said Mim Bahadur Gurung, the Indian archery coach, referring to the support the couple give each other. “It is easy to be nervous in archery.”
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Atanu Das showed off his wedding and Olympic rings.
Atanu Das showed off his wedding and Olympic rings.Credit...Ju-Min Park/Reuters
In the earlier rounds in Tokyo, contested on an artificial island built from waste landfill, Das had dispensed with the 2012 Olympic gold medalist Oh Jin-hyek, who is part of South Korea’s strong archery squad. Unusually, none of the Koreans were in medal contention in the men’s individual event, although the team won gold on Monday.
The other married archers who competed in Tokyo are Florian Unruh and Lisa Unruh of Germany. A silver medalist in the women’s individual event at the 2016 Rio Games, she was part of the German women’s team that won bronze in Tokyo on Sunday. He made it to the quarterfinals on Saturday, after having upset another Korean Olympic gold medalist.
With Covid-19 raging in India and the government keen to raise its Olympic profile, the archery team was dispatched to an army sports institute in the city of Pune to train for eight months. Being away from family for so long was difficult, but Kumari and Das had each other.
In June, they won gold in the mixed team event at an archery World Cup competition. But Das’s shooting was considered erratic in the run-up to the Games, and they were not paired for competition in Tokyo. Kumari and her mixed team partner, Pravin Jadhav, made it to the quarterfinals before being eliminated by Korean rivals.
Das and Kumari had originally planned to get married around the time of the Tokyo Olympics. But the Games were delayed, and they decided to marry last year. On one ring finger, Das wears his wedding band. On the other, he has a golden band with the Olympic rings.
“Now it’s over,” he said, “but we’ll be back in three years.”
— Hannah Beech
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
New Zealand women’s rugby sevens grabs gold.
Portia Woodman and the New Zealand team beat France in the gold medal game.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
New Zealand’s women’s rugby sevens team captured the gold medal on Saturday, beating France, 26-12.
Fiji beat Britain to capture the bronze medal. The U.S. women’s team, which had hoped to be in medal contention, lost to Australia, 17-7, and finished in sixth place, the same as the U.S. men’s side.
The gold medal game was tight at the start. The French matched an early try by New Zealand but missed the conversion to trail, 7-5. New Zealand added a try when Gayle Broughton dove headfirst over the end line just near the left flag, and it built a 19-5 lead just before halftime with another try and conversion.
Rugby Sevens: Women ›
GOLD
New Zealand
SILVER
France
BRONZE
Fiji
The French narrowed the lead to 19-10 with a try 90 seconds into the second half. But New Zealand added another with under three minutes remaining to expand the lead again.
New Zealand won the silver medal at the Rio Games in 2016, the first Olympiad to include rugby sevens.
The U.S. men’s and women’s teams were ranked second in the world in 2019 and spent a good portion of 2020 in isolation. They were able to travel to Spain this year and competed in a tournament in Los Angeles. But the lack of competition may have hurt.
That was no excuse for Chris Brown, the head coach of the U.S. women’s team.
“Quite honestly, if you look at the quarterfinal where we missed our opportunity, a lot of that came down to a poor tackle rate defensively, but also the wrong game plan from me in how to attack them in the first couple of minutes,” Brown said. “And that guts me, because we played nine quarterfinals over the last year, and it’s the first one we lost.”
— Ken Belson
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
The women’s tennis final is underway, but it’s not the one Japan hoped for.
And Bencic wins!
Belinda Bencic of Switzerland is facing Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic on Saturday night in a gold medal match that is far more quiet and subdued (at least in the stands) than what Tokyo Games organizers were hoping for.
Vondrousova beat Naomi Osaka in the third round of the women’s singles tournament earlier this week, ending the hopes of many Japanese for a marquee Olympic moment with one of their biggest sporting stars. Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony.
Women’s Singles Gold Medal
Third Set
Belinda Bencic
Switzerland
7 2 5 30
Marketa Vondrousova
Czech Republic
5 6 3 40
Bencic has a chance to win two golds: one in singles and one in women’s doubles. She is scheduled to play with Viktorija Golubic on Sunday — also against the Czech Republic (but against the top-seeded team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova).
Earlier Saturday, Elina Svitolina of Ukraine came back from a bad first set to defeat Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan for bronze, 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
— Oskar Garcia
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
Simone Biles will not compete in the uneven bars or vault event finals.
Simone Biles, the superstar American gymnast, will not compete in Sunday’s event finals for vault and uneven bars at the Tokyo Games, according to U.S.A. Gymnastics. Earlier this week, she withdrew from the event finals and the all-around final, citing mental health reasons, and she is still eligible for finals in the floor exercise on Monday and the balance beam on Tuesday.
MyKayla Skinner, the American who had the fourth-highest score on vault during qualifying, will take Biles’s place in the vault final. Skinner did not initially secure a spot in the final because each country is allowed only two gymnasts in each final, and Biles and Jade Carey had qualified ahead of her.
“Can’t wait to compete in vault finals. Doing this for us,” Skinner said on Twitter, mentioning Biles. “It’s go time baby!”
Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos of France will take Biles’s place in the bars finals.
In an emailed statement on Saturday, U.S.A. Gymnastics said Biles “will continue to be evaluated daily” to determine whether she will compete in the floor exercise and the balance beam or whether her Tokyo Games are over.
“We remain in awe of Simone, who continues to handle this situation with courage and grace, and all of the athletes who have stepped up during these unexpected circumstances,” the statement said.
Biles, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, won a silver medal with her U.S. team in the team final after backing out of the event once it began. After performing the vault, she said she had gotten lost in the air and could no longer gauge where her body was in relation to the ground. She said she didn’t think it was safe for her to continue and said she didn’t want to risk losing a medal for the U.S. team by not being able to perform well. Instead, she left her teammates to compete without her and cheered them on from the competition floor.
Two days later, Biles also did not compete in the all-around final because of the issue, which can be described as a mental block. In an Instagram story on Friday, she said that the problem was still plaguing her.
“Literally can not tell up from down,” Biles wrote in the Instagram story. “It’s the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body.”
Biles, who came into the Tokyo Games undefeated in the all-around since 2013, had been expected to become the first woman in 53 years to win back-to-back all-around Olympic titles. Instead, Biles’s teammate, Sunisa Lee, of St. Paul, Minn., went on to win the all-around on Thursday. Lee will compete for her next medal on Sunday on the uneven bars, her specialty.
— Juliet Macur
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
Katie Ledecky now has the most individual Olympic golds of any female swimmer.
Katie Ledecky has 10 medals total in three Olympics, including seven golds.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Katie Ledecky, the U.S. swimmer, has always tried to distance herself from the field, and the Tokyo Olympics have been no exception.
She won two gold medals this week, in the 800-meter freestyle and the 1,500-meter freestyle, which is a new Olympic event for women this year. That gives her six Olympic gold medals in individual events over her career, the most of any female swimmer, and more than any man except Michael Phelps, who has 13.
She has seven total gold medals, including one she won with the U.S. 4x200 freestyle relay team in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. She also has three silver medals — two earned in Tokyo this week, one in Rio — for a total of 10 medals overall.
Ledecky, 24, said Saturday that she intended to continue competing, and to qualify for the 2024 Games in Paris. She is still the world’s best female distance swimmer, but a new generation of athletes is catching up with her, and even overtaking her, especially in the shorter races.
Here’s a look at Ledecky’s decorated career, and the new competition she faces:
For Katie Ledecky, the Longer the Race the Better
How Katie Ledecky’s competitors are closing the gap on her dominance in the pool.
Caeleb Dressel sets a world record, and Katie Ledecky wins a second gold.
Caeleb Dressel beat his own world record in the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday.
Caeleb Dressel beat his own world record in the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO — It was the Katie and Caeleb Show, an ongoing series at swimming, as the Americans continued their medal haul at the Olympics.
Caeleb Dressel won his third gold medal of these Olympics, setting a world record in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 49.45 seconds. He will look for his fourth gold on Sunday, the meet’s final day, in the 50-meter fly.
Men’s 100-Meter Butterfly
See how Caeleb Dressel broke the world record he set in 2019.
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Katie Ledecky finished her meet at the Tokyo Games with a gold medal in one of her signature races, the women’s 800-meter freestyle, becoming the first swimmer to win the event in three consecutive Olympics.
She finished in 8 minutes 12.57 seconds, beating rival Ariarne Titmus of Australia by 1.26 seconds. And while Ledecky is finished in Tokyo, floating away with two gold medals (the other in the 1,500 free) and two silver medals, she said she is already looking forward to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, just three years away, and toying with the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
“I’m definitely going through Paris,” Ledecky said. “And maybe beyond, as well. We’ll see.”
Women’s 800-Meter Freestyle
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Dressel finished the 100 fly on the best possible note — a world record — but had more swimming to do. He cruised through a semifinal heat in the 50 free, and will be favored to win another gold on the meet’s last day.
He then joined the American team in the final of the inaugural mixed 4x100 medley relay, swimming free in the final leg, but it was not enough to earn the United States a medal. Britain won, with a world record, followed by China and Australia. The United States was fifth, three seconds behind the winners.
Swimming Medals ›
Men’s 100m Butterfly
Caeleb Dressel
United States
Women’s 200m Backstroke
Kaylee McKeown
Australia
Women’s 800m Freestyle
Katie Ledecky
United States
Mixed 4×100m Medley Relay
Britain
The Americans had hoped for another medal or two in the 200-meter women’s backstroke, but ended up fourth and fifth. Kaylee McKeown of Australia won in a time of 2:04.68.
Simone Manuel of the United States failed to qualify for the 50-meter freestyle final after finishing 11th out of 16 swimmers in semifinal heats in a time of 24.63 seconds. It was the only individual event for Manuel, who shockingly did not qualify for the Olympics in the 100 free, her signature event and one where she won gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
— John Branch
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
Pablo Carreño Busta beat Novak Djokovic for singles bronze, then Djokovic left the mixed doubles tournament.
TOKYO — Pablo Carreño Busta, a highly ranked Spaniard who has twice reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open but never broken through in a big way on the professional tour, outlasted Novak Djokovic, the top men’s player in the world, to win a bronze medal at the Tokyo Games on Saturday.
Soon after Carreño Busta won a marathon match that lasted 2 hours and 39 minutes, Djokovic withdrew from his bronze medal match in mixed doubles, assuring that he would end the Olympics without a medal of any color despite his ambitions to win all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic men’s singles gold in the same year.
Djokovic and his partner, Nina Stojanovic, withdrew on Saturday night with what was announced as a left shoulder injury for Djokovic, and he told reporters that he was disappointed but pleased with his effort during the Games.
“It’s a must to always give your last source of energy that you have left. I’ve done that and the result wasn’t great,” Djokovic said. He added: “The exhaustion, both mental and physical, got to me and it’s unfortunate that the most important matches just didn’t deliver. But I gave it all.”
The walkover meant that Ashleigh Barty, the top-ranked women’s player who was upset in Round 1 of the women’s singles tournament, and John Peers won bronze for Australia in mixed doubles.
Carreño Busta won, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3, in a contest that had several long rallies, highlights and gamesmanship between the players. Djokovic, though, unraveled in the third set, chucking one racket out of frustration onto a concourse above a section of empty seats and banging another against the net post in front of the chair umpire after losing the first three games.
After winning, Carreño Busta dropped to the floor and spread out his arms and legs, much like Djokovic has done time and again after securing one of his 20 Grand Slam victories. After getting up, Carreño Busta greeted Djokovic at the net, then lay on the floor again in front of his courtside bench.
“I thought especially about my family, about all the people that love me, that suffer next to me, that sacrifice themselves to support me,” Carreño Busta said through an interpreter. He added: “I’ve come to Tokyo in a good physical and mental moment.”
Men’s Singles Bronze Medal
Final
Novak Djokovic
Serbia
4 7 3
Pablo Carreno Busta
Spain
6 66 6
Djokovic, who won singles bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games and lost a bronze medal match in London in 2012, had already fallen short in his attempt to be the first man to complete a Golden Slam, needing a gold for Serbia along with a U.S. Open win later this summer. Djokovic — who is 34 and the most dominant professional player right now — has already won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon in 2021. The U.S. Open begins in late August, and he will certainly be the top favorite there because of the Grand Slam structure requiring three sets to win each match — and because he is so difficult to beat on hardcourts.
It was the second win for Carreño Busta, who over Djokovic, but the only one to end on a match point. Last year, Carreño Busta was outplaying Djokovic in the U.S. Open when Djokovic hit a ball out of frustration that nailed a line judge in the throat. Djokovic, the clear favorite in the tournament, was immediately disqualified.
Both players were eliminated in their semifinals on Friday, seemingly as favorites. Yet it will be Alexander Zverev of Germany (who beat Djokovic) facing Karen Khachanov of Russia on Sunday for the gold.
Carreño Busta, 30, is ranked 11th but has only two wins on the professional tour. He won the first set after securing an early break of Djokovic’s serve. Djokovic won the second in a tiebreaker by outlasting Carreño Busta in several long rallies, including one that could have given Carreño Busta the win in straight sets.
Both players dealt with stifling heat throughout the contest: 90 degrees and humid, even in the shade of center court, with what felt like the full force of the sun bearing down on the hardcourt for the first two hours. It was only at the beginning of the third set that their court was fully covered in shade.
Tennis players up and down each draw have struggled throughout these tournaments to cope with the heat. Their only moments of relief on center court, it seems, come when they sit under large white umbrellas on each changeover, where they can have a cold drink and use a large hose that blows cold air.
Djokovic and other players had complained about the conditions earlier in the tournament, and successfully lobbied to move starting times later. If the move made a difference, it was marginal at best.
Carreño Busta said he was having his own frustrations and doubts until he went ahead in the third set.
“The first game of the third set gave me hope to believe in my game,” he said. “And yes, I swatted my way though this match.”
— Oskar Garcia
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals?
Olympics Live Updates: Elaine Thompson-Herah Is (Still) the Fastest Woman in the World
Simone Biles dropped out of the vault and uneven bars gymnastics finals. Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel won more golds in swimming. Novak Djokovic left the tennis tournament empty-handed.
Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica wins the 100-meter dash.
Elaine Thompson-Herah, center, defended her gold medal in the 100-meter dash after overtaking the two-time former champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, left.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO — Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica on Saturday repeated as the Olympic champion in the women’s 100 meters, outsprinting a field that included Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a two-time former champion.
Thompson-Herah finished in 10.61 seconds, breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s Olympic record by a hundredth of a second in a time that made her the second-fastest woman in history.
Women’s 100 Meters
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It was a Jamaican sweep of the medals: Fraser-Pryce took silver in 10.74, and Shericka Jackson won bronze.
Fraser-Pryce had been seeking her third Olympic gold in the event after winning back-to-back titles at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. She won bronze in the 100 meters at the Rio Olympics in 2016, finishing behind Thompson-Herah and Tori Bowie of the United States.
On Saturday, Thompson-Herah edged ahead of Fraser-Pryce about halfway down the track and held her off, triumphantly raising her left arm as she crossed the finish line. She then fell to the track in apparent disbelief.
Teahna Daniels, the lone American in the race, finished seventh.
The final on Saturday was missing two notable figures: Sha’Carri Richardson, the U.S. champion, who is serving a monthlong suspension for testing positive for marijuana, a banned substance; and Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria, who was suspended by antidoping authorities on Saturday for testing positive for human growth hormone.
A deep pool of talent remained. Thompson-Herah seemed to send a message by winning her semifinal heat in 10.76 seconds, despite slowing a few meters from the finish.
Fraser-Pryce, meanwhile, came through her semifinal heat in 10.73. Both runners appeared primed for a showdown. They delivered.
Track and Field: Women’s 100m Final ›
REACTION
TIME
GOLD
Elaine Thompson-Herah
Jamaica
0.150 10.61
SILVER
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Jamaica
0.139 10.74
BRONZE
Shericka Jackson
Jamaica
0.152 10.76
4
Marie-Josee Ta Lou
Ivory Coast
0.158 10.91
5
Ajla del Ponte
Switzerland
0.129 10.97
6
Mujinga Kambundji
Switzerland
0.138 10.99
7
Teahna Daniels
United States
0.144 11.02
8
Daryll Neita
Britain
0.108 11.12
The women’s 100-meter final was preceded by the first mixed-gender 4x400 relay in Olympic history. In a stunner, Poland won gold in a tight finish with the Dominican Republic, which was second, and the U.S. in third.
And in first-round heats of the men’s 100-meter dash, all three Americans — Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker — made it through to the semifinals, though Bromell, one of the favorites to win gold, labored to a fourth-place in his heat and only advanced based on his time.
— Scott Cacciola
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/30/sports/tokyo-olympics-results-medals#elaine-thompson-herah
And they won again this morning.
USA Baseball Olympic Roster.
https://www.usabaseball.com/team-usa/professional-team/roster
USA moves on to the knockout stage and will face Japan; both who won their respective groups.
I've watched both games and they have looked pretty good.
David Robertson closed it out this morning for team USA. He's a free agent and looked pretty good at 36.
The games start at 6 am EST and are available on NBC Sports through your cable provider.
USA's Tokyo 2020 Olympics medal winners
31 JUL 2021
Gold medallists:
Lee Kiefer, fencing, women's foil individual
William Shaner, shooting, 10m air rifle men
Vincent Hancock, shooting, skeet men
Amber English, shooting, skeet women
Carissa Moore, surfing, women
Caeleb Dressel, swimming, men's 100m freestyle
United States, swimming, men's 4x100m freestyle relay
Chase Kalisz, swimming, men's 400m individual medley
Robert Finke, swimming, men's 800m freestyle
Lydia Jacoby, swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Katie Ledecky, swimming, women's 1500m freestyle
Anastasija Zolotic, taekwondo, women's -57kg
United States, basketball 3x3, women
Sunisa Lee, artistic gymnastics, women's all-around
Silver medallists:
United States, diving, women's synchronised 10m platform
Jay Litherland, swimming, men's 400m individual medley
Kathleen Ledecky, swimming, women's 400m freestyle
Emma Weyant, swimming, women's 400m individual medley
United States, artistic gymnastics, women's team
United States, softball
United States, equestrian, dressage team
United States, shooting, 10m air rifle mixed team
United States, diving, men's synchronised 3m springboard
Erica Sutherland, swimming, women's 1500 freestyle
Alex Walsh, swimming, women's 200m individual medley
Kayle Browning, shooting, trap women
Regan Smith, swimming, women's 200m butterfly
United States, swimming, women's 4x200m freestyle relay
Ryan Murphy, swimming, 200m backstroke
Lilly King, swimming, women's 200m backstroke
Bronze medallists:
Jagger Eaton, skateboarding, men's street
Ryan Murphy, swimming, men's 100m backstroke
Kieran Smith, swimming, men's 400m freestyle
Regan Smith, swimming, women's 100m backstroke
Lilly King, swimming, women's 100m breaststroke
Kate Douglass, swimming, women's 200m individual medley
United States, swimming, women's 4x100, freestyle relay
Hali Flickinger, swimming, women's 400m individual medley
Katie Zaferes, triathlon, women's individual
Hali Flickinger, swimming, women's 200m butterfly
Annie Lazor, swimming, women's 200m breaststroke
*Information accurate 08:00 JST 31 July
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/usa-s-tokyo-2020-olympics-medal-winners
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Olympic Medal Count
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm
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