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Cheung Ka-long en finale du fleuret face à l'Italien Daniele Garozzo. | Source : Getty Images
Pour récompenser les performances de leurs athlètes olympiques lors des JO de Tokyo 2020, certains pays ont décidé de leur offrir une prime à la médaille.
Comme la plupart des 11 000 athlètes participant aux JO de Tokyo 2020,
Cheung Ka-long a dû surmonter de grandes difficultés. L’escrimeur hongkongais est arrivé aux Jeux classé 19
e au fleuret, et son chemin n’a pas été de tout repos : il a dû affronter le champion du monde 2018,
Alessio Foconi en huitième de finale avant de se frotter au champion olympique en titre,
NorwayMalaysiaKazakhstanAustraliaTaiwanJapanTokyoPhilippinesUnited-statesBrazilTaipeiT-ai-peiRowers win first Tokyo 2020 gold medals for New Zealand, Ireland
Xinhua
30 Jul 2021, 04:18 GMT+10
TOKYO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The first gold medals for New Zealand and Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics both came in the rowing regatta here on Thursday. Two-time world champions Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast of New Zealand came from behind to win their first Olympic gold in the women's pair competition. The duo were part of the New Zealand team that finished fourth in women's eight at Rio 2016, and this time they bagged home a gold medal in six minutes and 50.19 seconds. Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia finished 1.26 seconds behind to win the silver for the Russian Olympic Committee. Canada's world champions Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens, who beat the New Zealanders at the 2018 World Championship, had to settle for bronze in 6:52.10, despite leading the first 1,000m.
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MEDAL ALERT
Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova has set an Olympic record in women’s trap to deny the United States a third-straight shotgun gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Rehak Stefecekova hit 43 of 50 targets on a breezy day at Asaka Shooting Range, beating American Kayle Browning.
Alessandro Perilli took bronze to earn the first medal in San Marino’s 61-year Olympic history.
Americans Vincent Hancock and Amber English opened the shotgun events by sweeping skeet on Tuesday.
A 37-year-old police officer, Rehak Stefecekova took silver at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games, and missed Rio in 2016 due to the birth of her son.
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MEDAL ALERT
Australiaâs Jessica Fox has made Olympic history at the Tokyo Games as the first gold medalist in womenâs canoe slalom.
Fox made the last run of the final and crushed it, beating rival and silver-medalist Mallory Franklin of Britain with a winning run of 105.04 seconds through the rapids of of the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center.
It was a clean run without the mistakes and penalty seconds that prevented her from winning gold in the kayak slalom two days earlier, when she won bronze.
The womenâs canoe slalom is one of 18 new events introduced to the Olympics this year in a push for gender equity. It replaced the menâs double canoe slalom.
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