Biles withdraws from all-around competition

Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic behind Biles and Sunisa Lee. International title. The American gymnastics superstar Gymnastics Federation rules limit countries to withdrew from Thursday’s all-around com- two athletes per event in the fi nals. Simone Biles, of the Unit- petition to focus on her mental well-being. The organization said Biles will be evalu- ed States, waits to perform USA Gymnastics said in a statement on ated daily before deciding if she will partici- on the vault during the ar- Wednesday that the 24-year-old is opting to pate in next week’s individual events. Biles tistic gymnastics women’s not compete. The decision comes a day af- qualifi ed for the fi nals on all four apparatus- fi nal at the 2020 Summer ter Biles removed herself from the team fi nal es, something she didn’t even do during her Olympics, on July 27, in following one rotation because she felt she fi ve-medal haul in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Tokyo. (AP) wasn’t mentally ready. Jade Carey, who fi n- The 24-year-old came to Tokyo as argu- ished ninth in qualifying, will take Biles’ place ably the face of the Games following the in the all-around. Carey initially did not qualify retirement of swimmer Michael Phelps and because she was the third-ranking American sprinter Usain Bolt. (AP)

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Djokovic keeps Golden Slam bid going Medvedev survives extreme heat at Tokyo Games TOKYO, July 28, (AP): Bent over in exhaustion before Ukraine. Ninth-seeded Belinda Bencic of partner Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 6-1 to keep serving. Resting on his racket between points. Grasp- will play 15th-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan his Golden Slam bid going. ing for a rubber tube blowing cool air next to his seat in the other semifi nal match. Djokovic’s quarterfi nal opponent will be Kei Ni- Euphoric Philippines, rewards on changeovers. Two medical timeouts and one visit After some rain a day earlier, the temperature rose shikori of Japan, who reached his third straight Olym- from a trainer. to 88 degrees F (31 degrees C) but the heat index pic quarterfi nal by beating Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 7-6 greet ‘Oly gold winner’ home Daniil Medvedev was struggling so much with the made it feel like a sizzling 99 degrees F (37 degrees (7), 6-0. suffocating heat and humidity at the Ariake Tennis C). Djokovic then won again with Serbian partner Nina MANILA, Philippines, July 28, on Wednesday and was whisked off Park on Wednesday that at one point the chair umpire, The problems the players faced raised questions Stojanovic in the opening round of the mixed doubles (AP): The rewards, the citations to a hotel for seven days of quar- Carlos Ramos, asked him if he could continue playing. over why organizers did not grant requests earlier in competition. They beat Marcelo Melo and Luisa Ste- and the nationwide parties are go- antine. Afterward, Medvedev said he felt “darkness” in his the tournament from Medvedev and other players - in- fani of Brazil 6-3, 6-4. ing to have to wait, for a week or “Gold at last!” read a banner eyes. In singles, Djokovic is attempting to become the so anyway. Philippine weightlifter at the airport as military person- Somehow, the second-seeded Medvedev still pulled fi rst man to achieve a Golden Slam by winning all Hidilyn Diaz, fresh from winning nel waved Philippine fl ags and ap- out a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 win over Fabio Fognini of to TENNIS four Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic gold in the her country’s fi rst Olympic gold plauded when Diaz landed. But not reach the quarterfi nals at the Tokyo Olympics. same calendar year. medal in nearly a century at the even her historic medal can eclipse Spanish player Paula Badosa was less fortunate. Djokovic has already won the Australian and French Tokyo Games, arrived in Manila coronavirus protocols in a country She left the court in a wheelchair after retiring from cluding top-ranked Novak Djokovic - to move all of Opens plus Wimbledon this year, so now he needs the grappling with continuing virus out- her quarterfi nal match against Marketa Vondrousova the tennis matches at the Games to the evening. Tokyo Games title and the U.S. Open trophy to com- because of heatstroke. As Wednesday’s play neared its conclusion, organ- plete the unique collection. Badosa also had to withdraw from a mixed doubles izers announced that matches would begin at 3 p.m. Out on Court 2, third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas WEIGHTLIFTING match later with partner Pablo Carreno Busta. starting Thursday to make it easier on the players. of Greece was far from his best in a 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 Vondrousova, the Czech player who eliminated Matches had been starting at 11 a.m. loss to 14th-seeded Ugo Humbert of France. Also, Naomi Osaka a day earlier, had won the fi rst set 6-3. Djokovic was fortunate to play later in the day after 12th-seeded Karen Khachanov of ROC eliminated breaks and an economic crisis. She’s now in the semifi nals and into the medal rounds Center Court was covered by shadows. The Serbian eighth-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina 6-1, The 30-year-old Diaz, who won and will next face fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina of great served nine aces and defeated Spanish training 2-6, 6-1. gold in the women’s 55-kilogram category on Monday in her fourth Olympic appearance, will be able to collect her rewards once she is released from quarantine. Philippine offi cials and business tycoons have offered more than 40 Hidilyn Diaz of Philippines cel- million pesos ($800,000) in cash. ebrates as she sets the new Others have pledged a residential world record and won the gold condominium unit in an upscale dis- medal in the women’s 55kg trict, a vacation house in a resort city weightlifting event, at the 2020 south of Manila, a new van and free Summer Olympics, on July 26, gasoline, as well as free commercial in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) fl ights for life.

Olympic Medalists

3X3 BASKETBALL Men’s Quadruple Sculls Men GOLD: (Lucas Theodoor GOLD: Latvia (Nauris Miezis, Karlis Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Lasmanis, Edgars Krumins, Agnis Tone Wieten, Koen Metsemakers) Cavars) SILVER: Britain (Harry Leask, Angus SILVER: ROC (Stanislav Sharov, Al- Groom, Thomas Barras, Jack Beau- exander Zuev, Ilia Karpenkov, Kirill mont) Pisklov) BRONZE: Australia (Jack Cleary, BRONZE: (Aleksandar Ratk- , , ov, Dejan Majstorovic, Mihailo Vasic, Luke Letcher) Dusan Domovic Bulut) Women’s Four Women GOLD: Australia (, GOLD: United States (Kelsey Plum, Rosemary Popa, , Jacquelyn Young, Stefanie Dolson, Annabelle McIntyre) Allisha Gray) SILVER: Netherlands (Elisabeth SILVER: ROC (Yulia Kozik, Anasta- Hogerwerf, Karolien Florijn, Ymkje Luke Fleurs of South Africa, (left), and Mexico’s Eduardo Aguirre go for a header during a men’s soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 28, siia Logunova, Olga Frolkina, Evge- Clevering, Veronique Meester) in Sapporo, Japan. (AP) niia Frolkina) BRONZE: Ireland (Aifric Keogh, BRONZE: (Shuyu Yang, Zhit- Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, Emi- ing Zhang, Jiyuan Wan, Lili Wang) ly Hegarty) Women’s Double Sculls CYCLING ROAD GOLD: Romania (Ancuta Bodnar, Men’s Individual Time Trial Simona Radis) GOLD: Primoz Roglic, Slovenia SILVER: New Zealand (Brooke Argentina, France and SILVER: Tom Dumoulin, Nether- Donoghue, Hannah Osborne) lands BRONZE: Netherlands (Roos de BRONZE: Rohan Dennis, Australia Jong, Lisa Scheenaard) Women’s Individual Time Trial Women’s Quadruple Sculls GOLD: Annemiek van Vleuten, Netherlands GOLD: China (Yunxia Chen, Ling SILVER: Marlen Reusser, Switzer- Zhang, Yang Lyu, Xiaotong Cui) eliminated from Olympic soccer land SILVER: (Agnieszka Kobus- BRONZE: Anna van der Breggen, Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko, Maria Netherlands Sajdak, Katarzyna Zillmann) BRONZE: Australia (Ria Thompson, DIVING Rowena Meredith, Harriet Hudson, Egypt through to quarters with win over Australia Caitlin Cronin) Men’s Synchronised 3m Springboard GOLD: China (Siyi Xie, Zongyuan RUGBY SEVENS SAITAMA, Japan, July Wang) Men 28, (AP): No third gold for SILVER: United States (Andrew Ca- GOLD: Fiji (Josua Vakurunabili, pobianco, Mike Hixon) Iosefo Masikau Baleiwairiki, Kalione Argentina. No return to the Japan’s fi eld hockey teams still winless BRONZE: Germany (Patrick Haus- Nasoko, Jiuta Wainiqolo, Asaeli fi nal for Germany. No de- ding, Lars Rudiger) Tuivuaka, Meli Derenalagi, Vilimoni TOKYO, July 28, (AP): It was an- Japan women’s coach Xavier The Japan women played domi- Botitu, Waisea Nacuqu, Jerry Tuwai, fensive ability for France. other rough day for Japan’s fi eld Arnau Creus considered how well nant defense - Australia didn’t even EQUESTRIAN Semi Radradra, Aminiasi Tuimaba, Some of soccer’s biggest nations hockey teams. Australia had been playing when get a shot off in the fi rst quarter, Napolioni Bolaca, Sireli Maqala) The Olympic hosts have had he assessed his team’s result. The which ended in a scoreless tie. Dressage Individual SILVER: New Zealand (Scott Curry, have fallen at the fi rst stage in the GOLD: Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, Tim Mikkelson, Tone Ng Shiu, Etene good moments on both the men’s Hockeyroos opened the Olympics Australia threatened in the sec- Germany Tokyo Olympics men’s tourna- Nanai-Seturo, , Ngarohi ment, failing to advance from the and women’s sides, but neither has ond quarter, but Japan goalkeep- SILVER: Isabell Werth, Germany McGarvey-Black, Amanaki Nicole, won a match at the Games, and er Sakiyo Asano blocked Kaitlin BRONZE: Charlotte Dujardin, Britain Andrew Knewstubb, , group stage Wednesday. time is running out. FIELD HOCKEY Nobbs’ penalty stroke. The match , , Sione Mo- If only like they weren’t Japan’s men lost 4-1 to Spain on was scoreless at halftime. lia, William Warbrick) blocked by clubs from selecting the Wednesday to likely fall out of con- Australia fi nally broke through Men’s Sabre Team BRONZE: Argentina (Rodrigo Isgro, strongest players for this extra com- with two wins and outscored their GOLD: (Sanguk Oh, Lucio Cinti, German Schulz, Ignacio tention for a quarterfi nal spot. Ja- with 12 minutes remaining in the Junho Kim, Junghwan Kim, Bongil Mendy, Rodrigo Etchart, Santiago petition squeezed into the calendar. pan’s women dropped a 1-0 decision opponents 9-1. third quarter when Madison Fitzpat- Gu) Alvarez, Lautaro Bazan Velez, Gas- Even with stars from the team’s to No. 4-ranked Australia for their Arnau Creus also considered the rick scored on a penalty corner. SILVER: Italy (Luca Curatoli, Luigi ton Revol, Matias Osadczuk, Santia- run to the European Championship third consecutive one-goal loss. growth on his team. Australia’s Renee Taylor got a Samele, Enrico Berre’, Aldo Mon- go Mare, Luciano Gonzalez, Marcos semifi nals earlier this month, Spain yellow card in the fourth quarter tano) Moneta, Felipe del Mestre) BRONZE: (Aron Szilagyi, was held 1-1 by Argentina in the fi nal and had to sit for fi ve minutes, but Andras Szatmari, Tamas Decsi, group game. Japan could not take advantage. Csanad Gemesi) Men’s 200m Butterfl y But it was still enough to top Group Australia expected a tough match given the circumstances. GYMNASTICS GOLD: Kristof Milak, Hungary C and set up a quarterfi nal meeting SILVER: Tomoru Honda, Japan with Ivory Coast on Saturday. Japan’s women have matches Men’s All-Around BRONZE: Federico Burdisso, Italy Mikel Merino, one of three per- remaining against Argentina and GOLD: Daiki Hashimoto, Japan Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Spain. They need to fi nish in the SILVER: Ruoteng Xiao, China GOLD: Britain (Matthew Richards, mitted players older than 24, swept in Spain’s goal in the 66th minute in top four out of six teams in their BRONZE: Nikita Nagornyy, ROC , , Tom pool to reach the quarterfi nals. JUDO Dean, ) Saitama after being set up by Marco Japan’s men took a 3-1 lead on Men — 90 kg SILVER: ROC (Mikhail Dovgalyuk, Asensio. Aleksandr Krasnykh, Ivan Girev, No. 1 Australia in their Olympic GOLD: Lasha Bekauri, Mikhail Vekovishchev, Martin Malyu- opener before losing 5-3. They fol- SILVER: Eduard Trippel, Germany tin, Evgeny Rylov) lowed that with a 2-1 loss to Argen- BRONZE: Davlat Bobonov, Uzbeki- BRONZE: Australia (Alexander SOCCER stan tina before scoring their only point Graham, Mack Horton, Elijah Win- in the standings with a 2-all draw BRONZE: Krisztian Toth, Hungary nington, Zac Incerti, Kyle Chalmers, Women — 70 kg Thomas Neill) with New Zealand on Tuesday. There was an equalizer in the 87th The team regressed on Wednes- GOLD: Chizuru Arai, Japan Women’s 1500m Freestyle - Tomas Belmonte’s header went in day. Xavier Lleonart scored two SILVER: Michaela Polleres, Austria GOLD: Kathleen Ledecky, United BRONZE: Madina Taimazova, ROC off goalkeeper Unai Simón’s right goals as Spain unleashed 20 shots. States knee - but Argentina lacked the time Japan only attempted fi ve shots BRONZE: Sanne van Dijke, Nether- SILVER: Erica Sullivan, United lands to conjure the required win to avoid and one fi eld goal, leaving the team States Japan’s Yuma Nagai (12) and Spain’s David Alegre Biosca (10) battle for BRONZE: Sarah Kohler, Germany early elimination. Instead, Egypt took with just a remote chance of reach- Women’s 200m Freestyle the ball during a men’s fi eld hockey match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, ing the quarterfi nals. Men’s Four second place in Group C after Yasser on July 28, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) GOLD: Ariarne Titmus, Australia Rayan and Amar Hamdi clinched a GOLD: Australia (, SILVER: Siobhan Bernadette , , Haughey, Hong Kong 2-0 win over Australia, which had this summer for Germany, which won minutes later from a free kick. on target for Japan, which was already ) BRONZE: Penny Oleksiak, Canada beaten two-time gold medalist Argen- the under-21 European Championship France leaves after another heavy leading 3-0 when France had Randal SILVER: Romania (Mihaita Tiganes- Women’s 200m Individual Medley cu, Mugurel Vasile Semciuc, Stefan tina in the opening game. last month. The 2016 Olympics silver loss, beaten 4-0 by Japan. The host Kolo Muani sent off with around 20 GOLD: Yui Ohashi, Japan Egypt’s quarterfi nal is against Berariu, Cosmin Pascari) SILVER: Alex Walsh, United States medalists are going home early. nation had the only perfect record minutes to go. BRONZE: Italy (, BRONZE: Kate Douglass, United defending champion Brazil, which Ivory Coast, who reached the in the group stage with three wins. Mexico recovered from losing to , , States sealed fi rst place in Group D with a ) 3-1 victory over Saudi Arabia. quarterfi nals at its previous Olympic France conceded the most goals - 11 Japan to beat South Africa 3-0 and Men’s Double Sculls WEIGHTLIFTING Richarlison, who was allowed to appearance in 2008, will be staying - across the four groups. secure a quarterfinal with South Ko- GOLD: France (Hugo Boucheron, Men’s 73kg come to Japan by Premier League longer as well this time. A 1-1 draw Takefusa Kubo, the 20-year-old rea, which routed Honduras 6-0 to Matthieu Androdias) GOLD: Zhiyong Shi, China club Everton despite not being man- with Germany was enough to take forward signed up to Real , is top Group B. SILVER: Netherlands (Melvin SILVER: Julio Ruben Mayora Per- second place in Group D. Benjamin having a dream Olympics. He netted New Zealand drew 0-0 with Roma- Twellaar, Stefan Broenink) nia, Venezuela datory, scored twice to add to his BRONZE: China (Zhiyu Liu, Liang BRONZE: Rahmat Erwin Abdullah, hat trick from the opening win over Henrichs scored an own-goal in the to the opener just like in the previ- nia to hold off its opponent on goal Zhang) Indonesia (AP) Germany. 67th minute to give the Ivorians the ous two matches. Hiroki Sakai, Koji difference to fi nish second and go There will be no second youth title lead. Eduard Löwen equalized six Miyoshi and Daizen Maeda were also through to a clash with Japan.