The Tokyo Video games bought their first swimming particular person world document and a quick begin to the observe competitors on Day 7 of the Olympics.Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa gained the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of two minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of two:19.11 set by Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark on the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.America claimed the opposite two medals. Lilly King set a blistering tempo early within the race and held on for silver in 2:19.92. Annie Lazor grabbed bronze in 2:20.84.”I wasn’t anticipating that in any respect,” mentioned Schoenmaker, who added to her silver within the 100 breast. “It couldn’t have been a greater race. It nonetheless simply doesn’t sink in, perhaps sooner or later.”It was the third world document on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with the primary two coming in girls’s relays.Monitor and subject is underway on the Olympics, with the ladies laying down some very quick instances within the 100 meters heats.There have been no main surprises within the opening session on the Olympic Stadium, aside from these early instances in what guarantees to be a good girls’s 100 battle.Defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah gained her warmth in 10.82 seconds and fellow Jamaican and favourite Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce cruised house in 10.84 to win hers. Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Ivory Coast laid down the quickest time of the heats in a stunning 10.78 seconds.”I’m in shock, really,” Ta Lou mentioned. “However I do know I’m prepared.”Six girls completed in below 11 seconds. Teahna Daniels of america and Dina Asher-Smith of Britain additionally progressed. The ladies’s 100 closing is Saturday.SwimmingRussian Evgeny Rylov has accomplished a backstroke sweep on the Tokyo Olympics. Rylov added the 200-meter backstroke title to his victory within the 100 again, successful with an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 53.29 seconds.The silver went to American Ryan Murphy in 1:54.15, whereas Luke Greenbank of Britain grabbed the bronze in 1:54.72.Murphy was a double-gold medalist on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games, extending America’s dominance of the backstroke occasions that went again to 1992.Rylov ended the U.S. successful streak together with his two golds in Tokyo. Murphy settled for a bronze and silver this time.Monitor & FieldUsain Bolt could be lengthy gone from the dash scene. It doesn’t suggest Jamaica has slowed down one bit.No one has, at the least not on the ladies’s aspect of the game.A gap day on the Olympics that is supposed to supply little greater than a brisk jog for the world’s finest at 100 meters became one thing very completely different Friday.Girls’s BasketballA’ja Wilson scored 20 factors and Breanna Stewart added 15 to assist the U.S. beat Japan 86-69 within the girls’s basketball event.The U.S. has now gained 51 consecutive video games relationship again to the bronze medal recreation within the 1992 Olympics, though the crew has appeared removed from sharp in its first two video games on the Saitama Tremendous ArenaBMX RacingGreat Britain’s Bethany Shriever has spoiled Colombian Mariana Pajon’s bid for a 3rd straight gold medal in BMX racing.Shriever jumped out to an early lead and held off Pajon on the end in her first Olympics. Dutch rider Merel Smulders took bronze.Pajon turned the primary rider to win two BMX racing gold medals along with her victory on the 2016 Rio Olympics.Niek Kimmann of the Netherlands gained the lads’s race, edging Nice Britain’s Kye Whyte on the end line. Carlos Ramirez Yepes of Colombia took bronze. American BMX racer Connor Fields was awake, secure and awaiting additional medical analysis on the hospital after a violent crash on the primary lap of his qualifying warmth.The reigning gold medalist slammed into the flip coming off a soar and was hit by two different riders.Medical personnel raced onto the course to take care of him earlier than carrying him away on a stretcher to an ambulance at Ariake City Sports activities Park.The 28-year-old from Las Vegas certified for the finals regardless of the crash however was not in a position to race. RowingCanada’s rowing crew ended the U.S. run of three consecutive gold medals within the girls’s eight and New Zealand claimed three medals, together with Emma Twigg’s long-awaited victory within the girls’s single sculls and a win within the males’s eight, to dominate the final day of rowing.With the U.S. ending fourth in each the ladies’s and males’s eight, the American rowers depart Japan empty-handed.Canada toppled the Individuals with a commanding start-to-finish win forward of New Zealand and China. The U.S. boat discovered itself dropped by the leaders early within the race and was by no means in medal rivalry.Canada gained its first gold medal in girls’s rowing since 1996.Water PoloU.S. girls’s water polo captain Maggie Steffens broke the Olympic scoring document when she scored within the third interval towards the ROC, because the Russian crew is named.Steffens was on their lonesome in entrance for her forty eighth profession objective within the Olympics, snapping a tie with Tania Di Mario of Itlay for the highest spot. Steffens scored once more on the subsequent possession to assist the U.S. open a commanding 13-3 lead. The Individuals gained the match 18-5.Girls’s water polo was first launched to the Olympic program for the 2000 Sydney Video games.The 28-year-old Steffens goes for her third consecutive gold medal.Seaside volleyballAmericans April Ross and Alix Klineman have moved on to the Olympic seashore volleyball knockout spherical after having just a bit little bit of bother towards the Netherlands.Beginning in a drizzle and ending in a downpour, the No. 2 seeded Individuals misplaced the opening set of the match 22-20. It was the primary set they’ve misplaced within the Tokyo Video games. They trailed 12-9 within the second earlier than scoring 4 straight factors and 7 of the subsequent eight to make it 21-17.Within the tiebreaking set, they pulled away to beat the winless Dutch pair of Sanne Keizer and Madelein Meppelink 15-5.Up subsequent: Girls’s soccerThe U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer crew has superior to the quarterfinals in Japan.The Individuals face the Netherlands — the crew’s opponent within the 2019 World Cup closing in France — on Friday in Yokohama. In the event that they lose, they’ll go house.
The Tokyo Video games bought their first swimming particular person world document and a quick begin to the observe competitors on Day 7 of the Olympics.
Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa gained the ladies’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of two minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of two:19.11 set by Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark on the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.
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America claimed the opposite two medals. Lilly King set a blistering tempo early within the race and held on for silver in 2:19.92. Annie Lazor grabbed bronze in 2:20.84.
“I wasn’t anticipating that in any respect,” mentioned Schoenmaker, who added to her silver within the 100 breast. “It couldn’t have been a greater race. It nonetheless simply doesn’t sink in, perhaps sooner or later.”
It was the third world document on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with the primary two coming in girls’s relays.
Monitor and subject is underway on the Olympics, with the ladies laying down some very quick instances within the 100 meters heats.
There have been no main surprises within the opening session on the Olympic Stadium, aside from these early instances in what guarantees to be a good girls’s 100 battle.
Defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah gained her warmth in 10.82 seconds and fellow Jamaican and favourite Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce cruised house in 10.84 to win hers. Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Ivory Coast laid down the quickest time of the heats in a stunning 10.78 seconds.
“I’m in shock, really,” Ta Lou mentioned. “However I do know I’m prepared.”
Six girls completed in below 11 seconds. Teahna Daniels of america and Dina Asher-Smith of Britain additionally progressed. The ladies’s 100 closing is Saturday.
Swimming
Russian Evgeny Rylov has accomplished a backstroke sweep on the Tokyo Olympics. Rylov added the 200-meter backstroke title to his victory within the 100 again, successful with an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 53.29 seconds.
The silver went to American Ryan Murphy in 1:54.15, whereas Luke Greenbank of Britain grabbed the bronze in 1:54.72.
Murphy was a double-gold medalist on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games, extending America’s dominance of the backstroke occasions that went again to 1992.
Rylov ended the U.S. successful streak together with his two golds in Tokyo. Murphy settled for a bronze and silver this time.
Monitor & Subject
Usain Bolt could be lengthy gone from the dash scene. It doesn’t suggest Jamaica has slowed down one bit.
No one has, at the least not on the ladies’s aspect of the game.
A gap day on the Olympics that is supposed to supply little greater than a brisk jog for the world’s finest at 100 meters became one thing very completely different Friday.
Girls’s Basketball
A’ja Wilson scored 20 factors and Breanna Stewart added 15 to assist the U.S. beat Japan 86-69 within the girls’s basketball event.
The U.S. has now gained 51 consecutive video games relationship again to the bronze medal recreation within the 1992 Olympics, though the crew has appeared removed from sharp in its first two video games on the Saitama Tremendous Area
BMX Racing
Nice Britain’s Bethany Shriever has spoiled Colombian Mariana Pajon’s bid for a 3rd straight gold medal in BMX racing.
Shriever jumped out to an early lead and held off Pajon on the end in her first Olympics. Dutch rider Merel Smulders took bronze.
Pajon turned the primary rider to win two BMX racing gold medals along with her victory on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Niek Kimmann of the Netherlands gained the lads’s race, edging Nice Britain’s Kye Whyte on the end line. Carlos Ramirez Yepes of Colombia took bronze.
American BMX racer Connor Fields was awake, secure and awaiting additional medical analysis on the hospital after a violent crash on the primary lap of his qualifying warmth.
The reigning gold medalist slammed into the flip coming off a soar and was hit by two different riders.
Medical personnel raced onto the course to take care of him earlier than carrying him away on a stretcher to an ambulance at Ariake City Sports activities Park.
The 28-year-old from Las Vegas certified for the finals regardless of the crash however was not in a position to race.
Rowing
Canada’s rowing crew ended the U.S. run of three consecutive gold medals within the girls’s eight and New Zealand claimed three medals, together with Emma Twigg’s long-awaited victory within the girls’s single sculls and a win within the males’s eight, to dominate the final day of rowing.
With the U.S. ending fourth in each the ladies’s and males’s eight, the American rowers depart Japan empty-handed.
Canada toppled the Individuals with a commanding start-to-finish win forward of New Zealand and China. The U.S. boat discovered itself dropped by the leaders early within the race and was by no means in medal rivalry.
Canada gained its first gold medal in girls’s rowing since 1996.
Water Polo
U.S. girls’s water polo captain Maggie Steffens broke the Olympic scoring document when she scored within the third interval towards the ROC, because the Russian crew is named.
Steffens was on their lonesome in entrance for her forty eighth profession objective within the Olympics, snapping a tie with Tania Di Mario of Itlay for the highest spot. Steffens scored once more on the subsequent possession to assist the U.S. open a commanding 13-3 lead. The Individuals gained the match 18-5.
Girls’s water polo was first launched to the Olympic program for the 2000 Sydney Video games.
The 28-year-old Steffens goes for her third consecutive gold medal.
Seaside volleyball
Individuals April Ross and Alix Klineman have moved on to the Olympic seashore volleyball knockout spherical after having just a bit little bit of bother towards the Netherlands.
Beginning in a drizzle and ending in a downpour, the No. 2 seeded Individuals misplaced the opening set of the match 22-20. It was the primary set they’ve misplaced within the Tokyo Video games. They trailed 12-9 within the second earlier than scoring 4 straight factors and 7 of the subsequent eight to make it 21-17.
Within the tiebreaking set, they pulled away to beat the winless Dutch pair of Sanne Keizer and Madelein Meppelink 15-5.
Up subsequent: Girls’s soccer
The U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer crew has superior to the quarterfinals in Japan.
The Individuals face the Netherlands — the crew’s opponent within the 2019 World Cup closing in France — on Friday in Yokohama. In the event that they lose, they’ll go house.
