Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Privacy Statement. Opens in a new window Opens an external site Opens an external site in a new window. After much speculation over lineups, the U. Olympic trials. Manuel was eligible to swim the 4x relay as a member of the U. Australia remains the heavy favorite in the event. It swam a Djokovic was on familiar territory, playing on the same court where he won the Japan Open, and dispatched the th-ranked player in the world, , The only unfamiliar sight in the drubbing came during the changeovers.
There, Djokovic and Dellien had all the usual tools at their disposal to battle the Tokyo heat and humidity, including cold towels, shaded chairs and plenty of cold water. Players also had what appeared to be personal cooling devices, contraptions that looked as though someone stuck a portable exhaust hose into a rolling cooler made for drinks.
So scorching was the temperature on court — temperatures hovered in the lows almost all day, and hard courts absorb heat — that Djokovic adjusted the hose during multiple changeovers so air was blowing right in his face. After the match, he and joined world No. My team captain Viktor Troicki was speaking to the referee a couple of times. He beat Dellien in just 61 minutes. Andrew Wilson of Bethesda, Md. American Claire Curran, 17, was 10th at Huske, whose winning time from the U.
Olympic trials was the fastest in the world this year, was under world record pace at the meter mark, making the turn in The International Olympic Committee president is lying to 11, international athletes with differing immune status and levels of exposure who are gathered unsafely amid a pandemic. And frankly he is lying to the world as well. The risks have mounted by the day, with coronavirus cases before the first full day of competition.
At which point Bach has suddenly shifted his effervescent frothing to the other side of his mouth and declared that so many positive tests show the system is working. Read the full story. Kalisz, the silver medalist in Rio de Janeiro in , finished third in preliminary heats in Litherland finished tied for fifth at The bigger news in the IM was the fact that Japanese star Daiya Seto, the top-ranked swimmer in the world this year in the event and the top seed entering prelims, failed to make the eight-man final, finishing ninth at TOKYO — After all the training and daydreaming and anticipating, the Olympics often happen in a blip, and sometimes the blip is mean.
So it went Saturday for Jourdan Delacruz, the year-old weightlifter from north Texas with the good story and the bright future. At the elegant Tokyo International Forum amid the metropolis, she went from the verge of a bronze medal to the outskirts of the standings. It happened in the kg division, the first of the 14 female and male weight categories to go in Tokyo, when Delacruz could not convert any of her three lifts in the second of the two disciplines, the clean and jerk.
All three lifts came at kilograms Biden, one of a handful of world leaders in Tokyo for the start of the Games, entered the outdoor venue shortly before tip-off, taking a seat behind French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron turned and gave her a fist bump after the result. Biden then greeted the American players courtside. It was the second stop during a busy day for Biden. She arrived after hosting a U. Mexico softball watch party with foreign service officers and their families at the U.
Embassy earlier in the day. For the first time at the Summer Olympics , basketball fans will have two disciplines to follow when a fast-paced, showy version of the traditional five-a-side game debuts in Tokyo. This new event may look familiar to anyone accustomed to hunting for pickup games on their neighborhood courts: Teams will compete in minute, first-topoint games where flashy shooters are rewarded and play will move at breakneck speed, in part because the court is smaller.
Sound fun? Carapaz finished the kilometer Wout van Aert of Belgium claimed silver and Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia took bronze, each with a time of American Brandon McNulty, who also rode in the Tour de France, finished in sixth place, but he was in a lead pack with Carapaz as the race wound down, was alone in second within three miles of the finish line and was still in contention for a medal during the final sprint. Carapaz emerged triumphant after a race that included an ascent of nearly 5, meters and a circuit at the base of Mount Fuji.
The race started at Musashinonomori Park, about 25 kilometers west of Tokyo, and continued to the southwest away from the capital city, finishing at the Fuji Speedway. The year-old Carapaz, who won the Tour de Suisse in June, was cheered to the finish line by thousands of fans , a rarity at Tokyo , where fans are banned from most events. The top three, however, are only separated by just over a half-second.
Wellbrock is leading, Romanchuk in second, Finke in third and Paltrinieri is in fourth. Romanchuk in third. Ukrainian Mykhailo Romanchuk has moved up to third with Paltrinieri in third and Finke in fourth. Wellbrock takes the lead at the meter mark over Paltrinieri, but Finke in third is less than a second back. Paltrinieri, the reigning Olympic champion in the event, has about a one second lead in this race.
He's now looking to pick up his second gold medal. He'll be swimming out of the fifth lane in the longest distance race on the men's side. Sweden's Sarah Sjoestroem takes the silver at Weitzeil finishes eighth at Andrew finishes fourth at Caeleb Dressel is the favorite as he races in the fast lane, looking for his fourth gold medal. Who will win the Olympic gold in the freestyle?
Titmus won it in the most recent world championships, but Ledecky holds the world and Olympic records in the race. Kamminga was second at Andrew just misses by about a half-second with a time of Michael Andrew U. He seems poised to make it a second straight Olympic gold medal shortly.
Both will advance to the final in the race as the two went No.
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