![]() The reigning gold medalist slammed into the turn coming off a jump and was hit by two other riders. CRASH LANDINGĪmerican BMX racer Connor Fields was awake, stable and awaiting further medical evaluation at the hospital after a violent crash on the first lap of his qualifying heat. has now won 51 consecutive games going back to the bronze medal game in the 1992 Olympics, although the team has looked far from sharp in its first two games at the Saitama Super Arena. beat Japan 86-69 in the women’s basketball tournament. STREAKINGĪ’ja Wilson scored 20 points and Breanna Stewart added 15 to help the U.S. She is currently tied with Jamaican Merlene Ottey for the most for a female Olympian. The decision could give Allyson Felix a chance to win her record-setting 10th Olympic medal. USA Track and Field did not give details of the reason for the appeal. team appealed and was reinstated and placed directly into the final. breezed to a victory in the first qualifying heat of the relay, but was disqualified because of a bad pass between Lynna Irby and Elija Godwin. DISQUALIFIEDĪ faulty exchange in the Olympic debut of the mixed 4×400 relay nearly cost the U.S. ![]() Cheptegei took the silver medal and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda was third. Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first track and field gold medal of the Olympics with a victory in the men’s 10,000 meters.īarega won in 27 minutes, 43.22 seconds to upset world champion and world-record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda. Murphy settled for a bronze and silver this time. winning streak with his two golds in Tokyo. ![]() Murphy was a double-gold medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, extending America’s dominance of the backstroke events that went back to 1992. The silver went to American Ryan Murphy in 1:54.15, while Luke Greenbank of Britain grabbed the bronze in 1:54.72. Rylov added the 200-meter backstroke title to his victory in the 100 back, winning with an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 53.29 seconds. Russian Evgeny Rylov has completed a backstroke sweep at the Tokyo Olympics. The United States will next face Canada, which advanced to the semifinals 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless draw with Brazil in Rifu. She then saved a shot from Aniek Nouwen before Rapinoe put her penalty away. United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher stopped Vivianne Meidema’s opening attempt in the shootout. Megan Rapinoe converted the deciding penalty in a shootout and the United States advanced to the semifinals of the women’s Olympic soccer tournament 4-2 following a 2-2 draw with the Netherlands. Zverev’s opponent in the gold-medal match will be Karen Khachanov of the Russian Olympic Committee.ĭjokovic came back on the court a little more than an hour later to play with Serbian partner Nina Stojanovic in the mixed doubles semifinals and lost that match, too, getting beaten by the Russian duo of Elena Vesnina and Aslan Karatsev 7-6 (4), 7-5. Steffi Graf in 1988 remains the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam. He won the Australian and French Opens as well as Wimbledon this year and needed the Olympic and U.S. The top-ranked Serb lost to Alexander Zverev of Germany 1-6, 3-6, 6-1 in the semifinals of the tennis tournament.ĭjokovic was attempting to become the first man to win all four Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic gold in the same year. There will be no Golden Slam for Novak Djokovic. Teahna Daniels of the United States and Dina Asher-Smith of Britain also progressed. Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Ivory Coast laid down the fastest time of the heats in a surprising 10.78 seconds. Defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah won her heat in 10.82 seconds and fellow Jamaican and favorite Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce cruised home in 10.84 to win hers.
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