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As athletics records continue to fall at the Olympics, adulation and incredulity at such extreme examples of human endeavour are being followed by more sober reflection as fans try to quantify the impact of carbon shoe technology and the Tokyo track. Endurance athletes on the road have spent the last few years insisting that it is their training and dedication, not their carbon-plated, thick-soled shoes, that are the key factors in a series of amazing records, and now it is the turn of track athletes over the shorter distances. The two 400 metres hurdles races in Tokyo this week have given the most dramatic indication that "something odd is going on."
Galal Yafai is guaranteed at least silver in Saturday’s men’s flyweight boxing final.
Jack Carlin qualified for men’s sprint semi-finals but Katy Marchant crashed in the quarter-finals of the women’s keirin.
TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States women's team won the Olympics bronze medal with Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd scoring two goals each in a 4-3 win over Australia in Kashima on Thursday. The Americans, World Cup winners in 2019, had gone into the Tokyo Games as heavy favourites for gold but after some underwhelming displays were beaten by Canada in the semi-finals. Rapinoe fired the U.S. ahead in the eighth minute direct from a corner which Aussie keeper Teagan Micah flapped at.
Flyweight boxer Galal Yafai also booked his place in the men’s final in Tokyo.
Jason Kenny was earlier deposed as the men’s sprint champion after making his exit at the quarter-final stage.
Bev Priestman’s road from County Durham to Olympic final with Canada. First English coach in an Olympic football final for 73 years left her north-east comfort zone and emigrated to pursue a dream
The tournament has been postponed a year to 2022 after Australia and New Zealand pulled out.
The 16-year-old exceeded her expectations with a consistent series of dives.
Lauren Price can also book her place in the women’s middleweight boxing final.
Australian Olympians who prompted a complaint over "excessive drinking" on their flight home from Tokyo have hit back by saying: “Who cares who f------ threw up, it’s not World War III?"
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She battled back from a ruptured Achilles to compete in the Olympics but suffered a calf injury on day one of the heptathlon.
Jason Kenny's hold on the Olympic sprint title is over after the British track cycling great was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Dutch flier Harrie Lavreysen on Thursday. The 33-year-old Kenny had battled his way through to the last eight after he needed a repechage win in the previous round, but was no match for world champion Lavreysen who powered past him for comfortable wins in both races. Kenny, who won three gold medals in Rio, became Britain's most decorated Olympian when he took a silver behind the Dutch in the team sprint earlier this week.
The combined age of teenagers Sky Brown, Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki topping the podium at the women’s park skateboarding final on Wednesday was a mind boggling 44. But while most of us must have looked at that statistic in awe at the incredible athletic ability of these youngest of competitors, for those in the men’s version of the same event it must have been a chastening bit of maths.
Brazil's hopes of retaining their Olympic men's volleyball title were crushed on Thursday after they lost a thrilling four-set semi-final to the Russian team at the Tokyo Games. The Russians had beaten Brazil in straight sets in the preliminary round and advanced to the final after a 18-25 25-21 26-24 25-23 victory over the world's top ranked team. Maxim Mikhaylov led the way for the Russians with 22 points and two blocks while Egor Kliuka added 15 points and Ivan Iakovlev 12.
Dutch medal contender Laurine van Riessen was carried off on a stretcher after a high-speed crash involving Britain's Katy Marchant in the women's Olympic keirin event at the Izu Velodrome on Thursday. The crash occurred during a quarter-final heat when Van Riessen lost control of her front wheel and slid across into the path of Marchant, before both riders fell. Van Riessen received medical treatment for several minutes on the track before she was put on a stretcher and taken down the tunnel for further assessment.
After days of work, the most eagerly anticipated piece of Olympic clothing is complete.
The United States will play for a third consecutive women's water polo Olympic gold medal after edging a determined Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team 15-11 on Thursday to set up a possible revenge match against Hungary. After demolishing the ROC 18-5 in group play, the U.S. were expected to waltz into Saturday's final but the Russians gave the reigning champions a fright before fading at the end. Deadlocked at 11-11 late in the final quarter, the U.S. showed their gold medal pedigree down the closing stretch by scoring four unanswered goals, including two from Madeline Musselman.
TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. men continued to sputter on the athletics track at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, while kayaker Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/canoe-sprint-hungarys-csizmadia-briton-heath-ease-into-final-2021-08-05 Olympian and American Ryan Crouser broke https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletics-crouser-united-states-wins-gold-mens-shot-put-2021-08-05 his own shot put world record three times. Jamaica's Hansle Parchment stunned https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletics-jamaican-parchment-wins-mens-110m-hurdles-gold-tokyo-2021-08-05 viewers and himself with an upset win over the overwhelming favourite, Grant Holloway from the United States, in the 110 metres hurdles.
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