Tokyo Olympics Day 5: US makes big rebound in men’s basketball

Tokyo Olympics Day 5: US makes huge rebound in males’s basketball

Up to date: 1:30 AM CDT Jul 28, 2023

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to assist us break down every thing we have to know is David Warton, characteristic sports activities author on the L. A. Instances who’s stay for us at present in Tokyo. David. Nice to have you ever on. So what are among the huge moments that you just noticed at present? Effectively, you understand, at present really was a giant second. There was a disappointment for Japan, however was Naomi Osaka shedding early in tennis and that is a giant deal on this nation. She’s an enormous star. As you go across the metropolis, you see round billboards and buildings all over. In order that was type of one of many actual huge moments. We have Katie Ledecky arising tomorrow for the U. S. Followers and that is gonna be a giant take care of Naomi Osaka. It was fairly stunning. What are you attributed to straight units? She stated she was comfortable along with her efficiency, nevertheless it was quite a lot of stress. Was it maybe simply an excessive amount of stress or did her opponent simply play very well? It seemed like stress. She seemed lackluster, she did not seem like she had the stability and the motion that we often see from her. So uh I simply was pondering the entire time that she seemed like somebody who has type of worn down and and was not wherever close to her finest. We noticed the Philippines when their first ever gold medal in girls’s weightlifting. How huge of a second was that for that nation? That is a wonderful thing about the olympics is each every now and then, you get the state of affairs the place a smaller nation that does not have that athletic background abruptly will get a gold medal or will get on the rostrum and and that is one of many issues that I like most concerning the olympics, is to see moments like that. There was a bunch of latest sports activities this yr and I used to be taking a look at your Twitter feed and also you tweeted about girls’s road skateboarding, the typical age on the rostrum, 14.5 years outdated, the youngest in Olympic historical past. , one of many targets of including these new sports activities was to enchantment to the youth. So does it, does it seem like that is working? Yeah, I imply I believe so, we’ll know higher when after we see, you understand, kind of what the viewership numbers are, particularly on non conventional platforms, you understand, are the children streaming a few of these competitions are watching them in numerous methods and perhaps their mother and father would have uh however I used to be out additionally on the road skateboarding the day earlier than for males, the place you had, you understand, Nigel Houston who’s type of a legend in that sport and he did not do very properly, however there have been some nice performances by another athletes, uh together with {the japanese} star who gained the gold. And that is what the, the Worldwide olympic committee desires, They need sports activities that children are going to look at and they usually’re gonna flip youngsters into olympic followers as a result of their their viewership has been getting steadily older and older for a very long time now they usually want to usher in a brand new era and Hawaii’s Carisa extra. She took house the primary, the gold and the primary ever browsing competitors for girls. How is that? The situations weren’t nice on the market. , we we acquired caught the sting of a storm right here in Tokyo. Uh So the water was fairly stormy. It was a type of days the place it is probably not how properly you rode the wave, It was what number of methods you had been really in a position to catch as a result of within the stormy mess there wasn’t a lot on the market, However she did very well. I imply she scored over a ten, which I, I believe was one of many highest mixed scores of the day and she or he simply did nice. After which we additionally um, had Caroline marks who simply barely missed off, missed out on a overseas. So it was an excellent day for the american girls on the browsing. What concerning the american girls in soccer? They’d a tie towards Australia. How is that this crew trying proper now? Not nice, not what we’re used to seeing. Um, they seemed shaky and uh, individuals thought, properly, perhaps after that preliminary loss to Sweden within the very first sport, perhaps they’d get motivated. They talked about, you understand, getting pumped up and, and getting indignant about that, however we’ve not seen an enormous enchancment. Uh, you understand, if there hadn’t been two personal targets towards New Zealand of their second sport, they may have really been in some hassle, they will advance now, however they higher discover one other gear or they are not gonna final actual lengthy after we get to knock out. And simply normally curious what the temper is like on the bottom there as a result of clearly is an olympics, like no different beneath the cloud of covid quite a lot of controversy. How are the athletes doing? Are they’re they nonetheless actually simply excited to be there even if their household not there to cheer them on and no followers? Effectively, I believe there’s two elements, I imply, to start with, they prepare for years and years for this and most of those olympic athletes, they’re solely gonna have one or two olympics of their profession to allow them to’t afford to let one cross by. So yeah, they’re very comfortable to be right here they usually’re competing very arduous. However as I used to be telling somebody earlier at present, these really feel type of like an olympics within the laboratory, they’re they’re very sterile, you understand, you do not have these moments the place the group goes loopy and and and that pumps athletes up and that is once you see the actually particular moments and we do not have that right here, we now have good arduous competitors, nevertheless it feels totally different and with out the followers and with out all that noise, you understand, I believe that is what you are gonna get for the following for the remainder of the 2 weeks. That is such an fascinating approach to put it. Simply seeing over twitter breaking as we converse. Simone biles out of crew competitors for crew usa, she’ll be within the particular person competitors on thursday, that is from NBC, to not simply type of lay that on you now, however any ideas? Yeah, and I hadn’t heard that, That is superb. However pay attention, we will be strolling this tightrope in Tokyo during the tip of the olympics the place, you understand, we have had, we have had all types of massive stars pull out of occasions. We’re gonna have individuals pulled out due to Covid issues. And um, you understand, it is the most important concern of the IOC is to, is to lose a whole competitors, a whole occasion to Covid. However that is the danger that we will be going through daily. And I am not saying, I do not know what the state of affairs is with simone biles, however we will be taking a look at issues like that for the following two weeks. All proper. David Warden, options sportswriter on the Los Angeles Instances Stay in Tokyo. Such nice reporting. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of us.