OLYMPICS: Tokyo, '2020': Latest News (Wolf watch)

Update/News:

• Japan's Yuto Horigome won the first skateboarding Olympic gold with victory in the men's street

.
Japan's Yuto Horigome wins first skateboarding gold in Olympic history

 

Elsewhere:
Rowing:

• GB's rowers reached the men's double sculls and quadruple sculls finals, while Vicky Thornley is into the women's single sculls semi-finals.
• Tuesday's rowing has been cancelled because of adverse weather conditions expected, while Monday's events had already been moved to other days.

Swimming:

• Swimmer Max Litchfield narrowly missed out on Team GB's first medal of the Games, finishing fourth in the men's 400m individual medley final.
• Aimee Willmott was seventh in the women's equivalent, before GB finished fifth in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay.
• Eighteen-year-old Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui produced a major shock to win gold in the 400m freestyle.

Taekwondo:

• Two-time defending Olympic champion Jade Jones fell to a shock defeat in the opening round of the taekwondo. Jones, the -57kg gold medallist in both London and Rio, was stunned by Kimia Alizadeh of the refugee team.

<><><><><>

• US golfer Bryson DeChambeau was ruled out of the Games after testing positive for Covid-19 before arriving in Tokyo.

 

News: (BBC /\ CNN):



'Superb' Horigome wins first ever skateboarding gold
x
Tokyo Olympics: Live news and results

 

Only two days in and I'm already pissed off with the amount of sodding sport on BBC channels !!!

 

It's amazing how many NEW sports are in the Olympics and the years of dedication and hard work that
is required to master them.

 

One thing is for sure this is going to be one of the hottest olympic games ever

World Judo Champion Jessica Klimkait, going for the GOLD in Tokyo

 

Other Channels are available ... as are RadIo Stations

 

Watch out, they practice their field goals, but kicking a manikin in the nuts!

 

Double history - Japan as brother and sister win Gold:

. . . . .

ABE Hifumi has won Japan’s third judo gold medal at its home Olympics with an ippon victory over Georgia’s Vazha Margvelashvili.
He joins his younger sibling, Uta, who won gold on the same day, making them the first ever brother and sister to win gold on the same day in any individual sport in Olympic history

Japanese Judokas Become First Brother and Sister to Win Gold at Same Olympics – NBC Connecticut

 

Meanwhile in the Volleyball: -

. . . . .

. . . . .

Volleyball - Olympic Schedule & Results | Tokyo 2020

 

Let's go surfing now - - -

. . . .

ICHINOMIYA, Chiba: (By Andrew McKIRDY)
Under blue skies and a blazing sun, surfing made its Olympic debut on Sunday, more than a century after Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku first pushed for its inclusion at the Games.

Surfing finally makes Olympic bow under blazing Japanese sun - Japan Today

 

News: (BBC):



Shock GOLDs:
Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer won a surprise road race gold
. . .
and Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui
. . .

stunned the favourites in the pool on a drama-filled second day at the Tokyo Olympics

Shock golds & Osaka returns to action

 

News: (CNN):



A Bad day for US Basketball - though Joy in the Pool:

July 25 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

 

News: (GB Strike Gold):



4th time lucky for Daley
Daley - now 27 - it marks a first gold medal at his fourth Olympic Games and he wept with joy on the podium, while Lee - four years his junior - can contemplate gold at the first time of asking.

Tom Daley and Matty Lee strike gold in synchronised 10m platform final (olympics.com)

 

News: (BBC update):



And there was more joy =
Tokyo Olympics: Tom Daley and Matty Lee win gold in men's synchronised 10m platform - BBC Sport

 

. . . . .
- - - - .....TOM DALEY and MATTY LEE ......................... - - - - ADAM PEATY ........................... - - - - - TIM PIDOCK

 

Japan upsets China for table tennis mixed doubles gold:

. . . . .

Japanese pair MIZUTANI Jun and ITO Mima ended the People's Republic of China's recent dominance in the sport by beating XU Xin and LIU Shiwen 4-3 for the mixed doubles title.
- The upset comes five years after China swept all four table tennis tournaments at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. It's also the first time China has not won gold in singles, doubles or team table tennis since 2004.
- Hopes were still high for Japan entering the match, though. Mizutani won bronze in the singles in Rio 2016, and some consider Ito to be China's biggest threat in the female ranks.
- China got off to a fast start, winning the first two games 11-5 and 11-7. Japan fought back in the third game, winning 11-8, and then took two more close games, 11-9 in the fourth and 11-9 in the fifth.
- China then won the sixth game, 11-6, to set up a deciding seventh game, which Japan dominated, taking an 8-0 lead and holding on for an 11-6 win — and the gold.
China's table tennis team is so strong that Liu, the women's world champion, didn't even make the women's singles' team and is only playing team events.

 

GB HOCKEY bounce back:



Tokyo Olympics: Great Britain women's hockey team beat South Africa as men defeat Canada - BBC Sport

 

First Weightlifting Gold for the Phillippines:

. . . .
Hidilyn Diaz won gold with a dramatic final lift in the -55kg category
She become the first Olympic gold medalist from the Philippines after winning the women’s 55-kilogram weightlifting category.
Diaz overtook LIAO Qiuyun of People's Republic of China on her last lift in the clean and jerk to win with a total 224 kilograms, one more than Liao.