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About 5 1/2 minutes after the six finalists left the starting line, everything had changed. Germany had picked up another silver, Great Britain had to settle for bronze, and the Kiwis had emphatically proven that they hadn’t caught lightning in a bottle in Tokyo; they really are that fast. New Zealand’s golden time of five minutes and 24.64 seconds edged the Germans by slightly less than a second, beat the defending champion by slightly more than a second, and more than two seconds clear of the United States, which finished fourth. Canada tops new-look podium in women’s eights At Rio 2016, the U.S. women’s eight captured its third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the event, with Great Britain earning silver, Romania bronze. ....
The New Zealand men s eight team has won the country s first gold medal in that event since 1972. It was a golden hour for New Zealand rowers - the men s eight team won New Zealand s second gold medal at the Olympics this afternoon, following Emma Twigg s earlier triumph. Twigg took out the gold in the women s single sculls final, while the women s eight team won silver. Meanwhile, swimmer Lewis Clareburt has finished 8th in the 200m individual medley in the Olympic pool this afternoon. Follow live updates here: ....
MEDAL ALERT Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first track and field gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with victory in the men’s 10,000 meters. Barega won in 27 minutes, 43.22 seconds to upset world champion and world-record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda. Cheptegei took the silver medal and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda was third. Barega won at a largely empty Olympic Stadium. It was the only medal event on the first day of track action.
MEDAL ALERT The top-seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic won Olympic gold in men’s doubles tennis. Mektic and Pavic beat Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in an all-Croatian final. ....
WHIZ News Olympics Latest: An San of South Korea wins 3rd archery gold
MEDAL ALERT An San of South Korea has won her third straight archery gold medal at the Tokyo Games. She won during a shoot-off in the final of the women’s individual event. An beat Elena Osipova of ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee, by a 6-5 score Friday. She scored a 10 in the shoot-off Osipova recorded a 8 to help her nation remain perfect in archery in Tokyo. An had a part in the mixed and women’s team gold medals as well, with the men’s team also winning. The last archery event will be the men’s individual competition Saturday. ....
Der Deutschland-Achter hat in Tokio Olympia-Silber geholt. Foto: Jan Woitas/dpa Freitag, 30. Juli 2021 - 03:39 Uhr Nach neun Jahren wollte der Deutschland-Achter wieder Gold bei Olympia holen. Doch nach längerer Zeit der Dominanz scheitert das Paradeboot ausgerechnet im Olympia-Finale an Neuseeland. Tokio (dpa) - Als bei den Hünen des Deutschland-Achters die erste Enttäuschung über das gescheiterte Projekt Olympia-Gold verflogen war, gab Schlagmann Hannes Ocik noch in der Bucht von Tokio den Party-Befehl. „Im Rahmen unserer Möglichkeiten werden wir das Maximum rausholen. Der Rahmen ist das Olympische Dorf und die Abreise ist für übermorgen geplant. Mal gucken, ob uns die Japaner früher nach Hause schicken“, sagte der Rostocker nach der überraschenden Niederlage gegen den neuen Olympiasieger Neuseeland. ....