Simone Manuel and Natalie Hinds of the U.S. after the race.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
TOKYO The United States, with Simone Manuel swimming the anchor leg, won the bronze medal in the women’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Sunday.
Australia, the heavy favorite, won gold with a time of 3:29.69, and Canada took the silver. The Americans finished in 3:32.81.
Manuel was making her first appearance at the Tokyo Games, and much earlier than some had expected. She did not swim in the semifinal on Saturday and will not swim again until the individual 50-meter freestyle this weekend.
The Aerials, Slides And Wipeouts Of Skateboarding s First Olympics
The men s street competition began Saturday, and photographers captured every grinding moment of it.
Skateboarders have their first-ever chance for an Olympic gold.
The men’s street competition began Saturday, giving audiences their first taste of the rebel “anti-sport” on the global athletics stage. Women’s street begins Sunday, and the park competition for women and men debuts August 3 and 4.
Two of the Olympic’s youngest stars will participate in park Great Britain’s 13-year-old Sky Brown and Kokona Hiraki of Japan, who is 12.
The street course was created to model real-world obstacles like stair cases and railings. The park course has the giant bowls and half-pipes seen in skateparks. Check out these incredible images of Olympic Street Skateboarding’s debut.
Yuto Horigome, of Japan, reacts after skating during the men s street skateboarding finals at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 25 in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport is often frowned upon.
The first skateboarding silver went to Brazilian Kelvin Hoefler, who used to sleep with his board when he first fell in love with skating as a young boy.
U.S. skater Jagger Eaton took bronze, the Arizona native adapting best among the Americans to the extreme heat at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. Blazing sun softened rubber joints on the boards’ wheel axles, making them harder to control.
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TOKYO Jagger Eaton was born and bred to win an Olympic medal. But he didn t expect it to happen like this.
He grew up in a gymnastics-crazed family, where handsprings and round-offs had been both a love and a way to make a living. His grandfather, Stormy, ran a training facility and was an assistant coach on the U.S. women s gymnastics team. His dad, Geoff, qualified for three U.S. championships. His mom, Shelly, was a seven-time all-American.
Surely, then, when Jagger made it to the Olympics, he would be flipping on rings and swinging around a high bar. Right?