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

Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah (USA) wins women's 68kg freestyle gold

A dominant first period from the 2019 world champion (in which she scored four technical points) means Mensah becomes just the second woman from the United States to win an Olympic wrestling GOLD medal - and on her Olympic debut no less!

She defeats Blessing Oborududu (NGR) 4-1, with Oborududu becoming the first athlete representing Nigeria to win an Olympic medal in wrestling.

GOLD: Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah (USA)

SILVER: Blessing Oborududu (NGR)

BRONZE: Alla Cherkasova (UKR)
BRONZE: Meerim Zhumanazarova (KGZ)

 

Thompson-Herah completes sprint double:



Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah confirms her place among the pantheon of sprint greats as she completes an Olympic 100m-200m double for the second time with a sensational victory in Tokyo in 21.53 a new national Jamaican record and PB!.

Christine Mbomba, the Namibian, breaks her own world under-20 record again with 21.81 for SILVER;
Gabrielle Thomas (USA) wins BRONZE.

 

Athing Mu (USA) Wins 800m GOLD:



On the biggest stage of her track career, Mu was cool and calm during two laps around the track at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium.
Mu joined Madeline Manning-Mims as the only American women to win Olympic GOLD in the 800 meters.
(Manning-Mims accomplished the feat 53 years ago at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.)

Keely Hodgkinson of Great Britain ran in for SILVER,, and American Raevyn Rogers rounded out the top three achieve the BRONZE

 

'Mondo' wins GOLD in Pole vault:



Sweden's Armand "Mondo" Duplantis confirmed his status as the best pole vaulter in the world with a winning leap of 6.02 metres at Tokyo's National Stadium, as he claimed GOLD.
The 21-year-old Duplantis was the only man to clear the height to land the title just a centimetre lower than the Olympic record Brazil's Thiago Braz set in Rio 2016.

But Duplantis asked for the bar to be raised one centimetre higher than the world record he set in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2020.
He came painstakingly close in his audacious attempt but could not scale the eye-watering height of 6.19m.
Duplantis has been in superior form over the last two years, highlighted by his world-record leap of 6.18m.

Christopher Nilsen produced a lifetime best of 5.97m to claim the SILVER medal, with defending champion Braz taking BRONZE scaling 5.87m.

 

GB, Husband and Wife Medalists:



Jason Kenny became Great Britain's most decorated Olympian as team sprint silver brought an eighth medal, after wife Laura took team pursuit silver.
GB's men had won the team sprint at the past three Games, while the women won the team pursuit in 2012 and 2016.

Tokyo Olympics: Jason and Laura Kenny both claim track cycling silver - BBC Sport

 

Sailing: Double GOLD for GB

• Great Britain won two GOLDs and a SILVER as Giles Scott successfully defended his Finn title on a thrilling day in sailing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

• Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell won the men's 49er before Scott's triumph, while John Gimson and Anna Burnet secured silver in the mixed Nacra 17 class.

Tokyo Olympics: GB's Giles Scott wins Finn class, gold in men's 49er & silver in mixed Nacra 17 - BBC Sport

 

Trump's MAGA celebrate USA loss:



Tokyo Olympics: MAGA conservatives celebrate loss of US women’s soccer team (msn.com)

United States dumped out of Tokyo 2020 after Jessie Fleming penalty sends Canada into gold medal match (msn.com)

 

HASHIMOTO Daiki wins second GOLD:



Less than a week after claiming the men's all-around title, Japan's HASHIMOTO Daiki was golden again
The 19-year-old soared to gold on the horizontal bar, closing out artistic gymnastics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in style.

Hashimoto earned GOLD, just ahead of Croatia's Tin Srbic who got the SILVER with. ROC's Nikita Nagornyy rounded out the podium for the BRONZE

With his victory today, Hashimoto has stamped himself as the heir apparent to UCHIMURA Kohei, who has indicated the Tokyo Games could be his last.
Hashimoto is also the first Japanese since GUSHIKEN Koji (1984) to win two individual gold medals at the same Olympic Games.

It was an error-filled final as all but the top three and Team USA's Brody Malone came off the bar. Malone, for his part, went the wrong way on a pirouetting element.

Srbic's medal is the second won by a Croatian gymnast in Olympic history, while Nagornny's bronze marks a third medal in Tokyo after helping lead ROC to team gold and claiming bronze in the men's individual all-around final.

 

Chinese cyclists and controversial podium gesture:


© AFP via Getty Images Chinese cyclists Bao Shanju (left) and China's Zhong Tianshi (right) are being investing by the Olympic committee for wearing a political badge


Chinese duo Zhong Tianshi and Bao Shanju have been asked to explain why they wore badges featuring the country’s former leader Mao Zedong on the Olympic podium.
The pair sported the accessory during their medal ceremony, but the IOC (International Olympic Committee) have asked them to provide a reason for the controversial gesture.

Chinese cyclists asked to explain themselves after controversial podium gesture (msn.com)

 

Warholm World record:




Karsten Warholm has won GOLD in a spectacular men's 400m hurdles final in a new world record time of 45.94.
The Norwegian decimated his own world record with a time of 45.94. USA's Rai Benjamin wins SILVER, with Alison dos Santos of Brazil taking BRONZE.

Tokyo Olympics: Karsten Warholm world record evokes Bolt and Beamon on magic day - BBC Sport

 

CHINESE GOLD:




People's Republic of China's ZOU Jingyuan has re-established his dominance on the parallel bars, winning Olympic gold Tuesday (3 August) on the final day of artistic gymnastics competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Lukas Dauser of Germany was the SILVER medallist, while Turkey's Ferhat Arican won the BRONZE medal.

Zou took the gold after scoring a massive 16.233, which is the highest score of any gymnast - male or female - at these Games. He has dominated the event in international competition, winning the world titles in 2017 and 2018. But a slip up in the qualifying round at the 2019 World Championships found him on the outside looking in during the medal round.
- He was not to be denied in Tokyo.

China's ZOU Jingyuan is golden in parallel bars final (olympics.com)

 

Top high jumpers decide to SHARE gold in instant-classic final

 

Maher wins GOLD in individual showjumping:



Maher won the second Olympic gold of his career, adding individual show jumping to his team medal from London 2012.
Maher and his phenomenal horse Explosion W looked the favourites for the gold medal in his first ride.
The pair were unbeatable in a six-horse jump-off for the medals, securing Team GB yet another gold medal at the Tokyo Games.

Tokyo Olympics: Ben Maher wins gold in individual showjumping - BBC Sport

 

Italy break world record and win team pursuit GOLD:



Italy broke their own world record to win Olympic gold in the men's team pursuit on Wednesday, beating world champions Denmark in a thrilling final at the Izu Velodrome.
After breaking the world record yesterday during the heats, the Italian team clocked a blistering 3:42.032 in the GOLD medal race.

It was the first time in 61 years Italy have secured gold in the event.
The last time they were crowned Olympic champions was at Rome 1960 with their last time on the podium came at Mexico City 1968 (bronze).
"It's a great honour for us. Our group has worked very hard to achieve at the highest level and starting in 2016 we were really motivated by our coach," Francesco Lamon said.

"We are really proud of what we've achieved and our group."
They beat Denmark whomgot the SILVERin three minutes 42.032 seconds and Australia secured BRONZE in a tight and dramatic race after New Zealand lost a rider in a crash.

Tokyo Olympics: Italy break world record to win team pursuit gold - BBC Sport

 

Hannah Mills became the most successful female sailor in Olympic history:



Hannah Mills became the most successful female sailor in Olympic history as she and Eilidh McIntyre won 470 gold at Tokyo 2020.
They finished fifth in the medal race, but their earlier performances meant it was enough to hold off silver medallists Poland and France in bronze.
Mills, one of Team GB's flag bearers at the opening ceremony, won gold in the class in Rio and silver at London 2012.
GB have now won five sailing medals in Tokyo, three of which are gold.

Tokyo Olympics: Team GB sailors Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre win 470 gold - BBC Sport

 

GB's 13-year-old Olympic Medalist:



An emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain's youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.
Aged 13 years and 28 days, Brown produced a composed final run to finish third in the women's park skateboarding final and claim bronze at the Tokyo Games.
Brown replaces Sarah Hardcastle as Britain's youngest summer Games medallist - the swimmer was aged 15 years and 113 days when she won silver and bronze in Los Angeles at the 1984 Olympics

• Japan's Sakura Yosozumi, 19, won GOLD, while 12-year-old compatriot Kokona Hiraki claimed SILVER

Tokyo Olympics: 13-year-old Sky Brown wins Olympic skateboarding bronze - BBC Sport

 

De Grasse claims 200m gold:



Canada's Andre de Grasse surged in the last 50 meters to overtake reigning world champion Noah Lyles for GOLDgold in the men's 200m final,
De Grasse held a slender lead coming out of the bend but had Bednarek and Lyles for company with the Canadian holding on to cross the line in a time of 19.62 seconds.
Bednarek followed in second with a personal best of 19.68, with Lyles bagging bronze in 19.74.

Tokyo Olympics: Andre de Grasse claims 200m gold - BBC Sport

 

Sweden and Canada request women's football final to be moved: - - - Reuters 17 hrs ago

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Sweden and Canada have asked Olympic organisers to move what is expected to be a hotly-contested women's gold medal football match on Friday to later in the day to avoid the sweltering heat of the Japanese summer.

Trackside temperatures at the athletics stadium hit 40C earlier this week, and with the women's gold medal game due to take place at 11:00am local time - 2:00am BST - both sides have expressed concerns for player welfare at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
'I myself have been in contact with FIFA today and written to them, so that's about where the situation is today,' Marika Domanski-Lyfors, the head coach of the Swedish team, said.

'It is primarily about the players' health we're thinking about and trying to change the time of the game.
'There's a pretty big difference between playing in the afternoon or evening, and we are very much exposed to the warmth and heat.

The Swedish Football Association said it had also written to IOC together with Canada to see if the game could be moved.
'If we have to play at 11 o'clock in the morning then we are prepared, but it would clearly be much better to for the performance and the game to have the possibility to play it later,' Domanski-Lyfors added. 'Canada have exactly the same opinion.'

 

Emmanuel Korir wins men's 800m title in Kenyan 1-2:



Kenya's Emmanuel Korir has won the men's 800m final, leading home a Kenyan 1-2 in 1:45.06. T
he 26-year-old athlete, who is the sixth-fastest 800m runner of all time, stormed to the front to take an impressive GOLD ahead of teammate Ferguson Rotich (1:45.23) who picked up the SILVER
The BRONZE medal went to Poland's Patryk Dobek who finished the race in 1:45.39.

However, there was disappointment for Botswana's Nijel Amos - the fastest man in the world this year over 800m - who finished eighth in 1:46.41.

Korir who stormed to victory, driving for the finish line to secure a memorable win and with it the top spot on the Olympic podium.