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July 30, 2021 Joseph Schooling sharing a warm embrace with his swim coach, Sergio Lopez, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Instagram/Sergio Lopez SINGAPORE - President Halimah Yacob and other public figures paid tribute to the efforts and sacrifice of swimmer Joseph Schooling and his fellow national athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics and urged Singaporeans to support them in both good times as well as bad ones. Madam Halimah wrote on Facebook on Friday (July 30): "I feel sad looking at how unkind we can be towards each other. "One moment, we carry people to the highest pedestal with our wor...

China returns to top of medal tally By WANG XU in Tokyo and SUN XIAOCHEN in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-30 07:19 Share   Team China members celebrate after setting a world record and winning gold in the final of the women's 4x200m freestyle relay swimming event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan on Thursday. MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS The Chinese swim team helped put the nation back on top of the medal table at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, securing two golds in less than two hours on Thursday. After breaking an Olympic record...

FOCUS: Coronavirus threat rises as Japan cheers Olympic gold medal rush By Junko Horiuchi and Ayano Shimizu, KYODO NEWS - 4 hours ago - 09:30 | Sports, News, All, Coronavirus A week since the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, fraught with many difficulties, the gold medal rush of Japanese athletes has lifted the spirits of a public that remains largely worried about staging the multinational sporting event amid a once-in-a-century pandemic. Behind the festive mood, however, the number of daily coronavirus cases ...

Some of Japan's victorious Olympic athletes have been subjected to a storm of online abuse from Chinese nationalists following the defeat of their Team China opponents in Tokyo. As of Friday afternoon in Japan, China and the hosts occupied the top two places in the medal table, with a number of events pitting Chinese athletes directly against their longtime rivals for places on the podium. And that's raised temperatures on social media. On Wednesday, Japan's Daiki Hashimoto won gold in the men's all-around gymnastics final, edging out China's Xiao Ruoteng by 0.4 points. At just 19 years old, ...

Yu Mengyu falls short in winning Singapore's first medal of Tokyo 2020 9h 8h Singaporean paddler Yu Mengyu's brave charge in the table tennis women's singles at the Olympics Games was ultimately not enough to garner her country's first medal of Tokyo 2020, as she lost 4-1 to Japan's Mima Ito in Thursday evening's third-place playoff. Yu had produced a remarkable charge to reach the semi-finals after seeing off top-10 opponents Cheng I-Ching and Kasumi Ishikawa in previous rounds, but her fairy-tale run ended earlier on Thursday when she lost to top seed Chen Meng of China. Singaporean Yu Meng...