Hirano ends without Tokyo medal

Ayumu Hirano is no stranger to the Olympics: “I have no regrets.” The multi-talented athlete from Japan has two The 22-year-old Hirano said he now plans silver medals from snowboarding at the 2014 to go back to the cold stuff. The 2022 Winter Ayumu Hirano of and 2018 Winter Games. Olympics in Beijing are only a few months away. Japan competes So competing on four polyurethane wheels “I’m going to switch to snowboarding soon,” in the men’s park under blazing sun in the skateboarding park at he said. “This is a beginning, too.” skateboarding prelims the Tokyo Games was a whole new thing for Hirano was Shaun White’s prime rival in at the 2020 Summer him. There was no medal this time, though. the past two Winter Olympics, in Sochi in Olympics, on Aug. 5, Hirano placed 14th in qualifying on Thursday, 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018. in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) missing out on the eight-man fi nal won by He fi rst expressed interest in making a run Keegan Palmer of Australia. at the Olympic debut of skateboarding in 2018 But Hirano said the experience was positive. after winning his second straight silver medal in “Skateboarding made me stronger,” he said. snowboarding. (AP)

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South Korea face Dominican Republic for bronze Alvarez a summer-winter medalist, US reach baseball fi nal YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug 5, (AP): Eddy baseball gold medal and fi rst since 2000, im- season when the Marlins’ roster was deci- taking notice of his minor league righty/lefty Alvarez became only the third American to proved to 4-1 and will play Japan (5-0) on mated by the coronavirus, hitting .189 with splits. Olympic Medalists earn medals at both the Summer and Winter Saturday night. no RBIs in 12 games. López, a 28-year-old infi elder promoted to Olympics when the United States beat de- Japan, which stopped its major league Eagen earned a gold in light heavyweight Triple-A Worcester by the Red Sox in May, fending-champion South Korea 7-2 Thurs- season to make top players available for the boxing in 1920 and a gold in the four-man lined a two-out RBI single in the second for day night to gain a berth into this weekend’s Olympics, defeated the U.S. 7-6 in 10 in- bobsled in 1932. Williams won silver in his fi rst hit in eight Olympic at-bats. López ATHLETICS gold medal game against host Japan. nings on Monday in the double-elimination the 100-meter sprint in is a nephew of former big league shortstop Men’s 110m Hurdles The former U.S. speedskater-turned-in- second round. 2004, gold in the 400 Onix Concepción. GOLD: Hansle Parchment, Jamaica fi elder wept in the dugout after the fi nal out South Korea (3-3) faces the Dominican relay in 2012 despite Westbrook homered about 20 rows into SILVER: Grant Holloway, United States as teammates patted him on the back and of- not running in the fi - the left-fi eld seats for a 2-0 lead in the fourth. BRONZE: Ronald Levy, Jamaica fered handshakes and hugs. nal and a silver in the The 26-year-old was demoted to Double-A Men’s 20km Race Walk After earning a silver in 2014 at Sochi as BASEBALL two-woman bobsled in Biloxi by Milwaukee in mid-May, then pro- GOLD: Massimo Stano, Italy part of the U.S. four-man short track team, 2014. moted back to Triple-A Nashville in early SILVER: Koki Ikeda, Japan he’ll get at least a silver in baseball. The Ryder Ryan (1-0), a June. BRONZE: Toshikazu Yamanishi, Japan other Americans with summer and winter Republic (2-3) for the bronze. 26-year-old right-hand- Park Hae-Min chased Ryan with an RBI Men’s 400m medals are Eddie Eagen (boxing in 1920, At the fi nal out, a line drive caught by er at Texas’ Triple-A single in the fi fth, and Ryan needed just two GOLD: Steven Gardiner, Bahamas SILVER: Anthony Jose Zambrano, Colombia bobsled in 1932) and Lauryn Williams (track reliever Anthony Carter, Alvarez raised his Round Rock, pitched 1 pitches to escape two-on trouble, getting BRONZE: Kirani James, Grenada and fi eld in 2004 and 2012, bobsled in 2014). right arm in triumph, then raised both arms 2/3 hitless innings for Kang Baek-Ho to ground into an inning- Men’s Shot Put Jack López drove in his fi rst two runs of and hugged shortstop Nick Allen. Alvarez the Americans’ second ending double play. GOLD: Ryan Crouser, United States the Olympics with RBI singles for his fi rst A 31-year-old infi elder with the Mi- win over South Korea American hitters batted around against SILVER: Joe Kovacs, United States two hits, Jamie Westbrook hit a solo homer, ami Marlins’ Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo following a 4-2 victory in the fi rst round. four relievers in the sixth. Kolozsvary and BRONZE: Tomas Walsh, New Zealand and Tyler Austin hit a two-run single as the Shrimp, Alvarez and his team came up U.S. starter Joe Ryan, a 25-year-old right- López had RBI singles, Alvarez’s RBI Men’s Triple Jump U.S. built a 7-1 lead with a fi ve-run sixth. 0.271 seconds short of the Russians in the hander obtained by the Twins in last month’s grounder made it 5-1 and Austin, in his home GOLD: Pedro Pichardo, Portugal Alvarez and Mark Kolozsvary also drove in 5,000-meter relay in 2014. He’s hoping this trade that sent Nelson Cruz to Tampa Bay, ballpark of the Central League’s Yokohama SILVER: Yaming Zhu, China BRONZE: Hugues Fabrice Zango, Burkina Faso runs. time to fi nish the job against another host na- allowed four hits in 4 1/3 innings and left DeNA BayStars, followed with a two-run The U.S. team of prospects and released tion. with a 2-1 lead. South Korea stacked its bat- single that gave him seven RBIs in the tour- Women’s Pole Vault GOLD: Katie Nageotte, United States veterans, seeking the Americans’ second Alvarez made his major league debut last ting order with six left-handed hitters, likely nament. SILVER: Anzhelika Sidorova, ROC BRONZE: Holly Bradshaw, Britain French top Argentina BOXING Men’s Feather (52-57kg) ROC men’s volleyball GOLD: Albert Batyrgaziev, ROC US men’s ‘hoops’ breeze past SILVER: Duke Ragan, United States BRONZE: Lazaro Alvarez, Cuba ‘stun’ Brazil in semis BRONZE: Samuel Takyi, Ghana TOKYO, Aug. 5, (AP): The focus for CANOE SPRINT the Russian men’s volleyball team had started to shift to the fourth set Men’s Kayak Single 200m GOLD: Sandor Totka, Hungary Aussies to play for more gold of the semifi nals when it fell behind SILVER: Manfredi Rizza, Italy by a big defi cit to powerhouse Brazil BRONZE: Liam Heath, Britain in set three. Men’s Kayak Double 1000m That ended up relaxing the players GOLD: Australia (Jean van der Westhuyzen, Thomas Green) and led to an epic third-set comeback SILVER: Germany (Max Hoff, Jacob Schopf) that sent them into the gold medal BRONZE: Czech Republic (Josef Dostal, Radek Slouf) match. Women’s Canoe Single 200m The Russians rallied from eight GOLD: Nevin Harrison, United States points down to win the third set and SILVER: Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canada BRONZE: Liudmyla Luzan, Ukraine went on to deny Brazil its fi fth con- secutive trip to the gold medal game Women’s Kayak Single 500m GOLD: Lisa Carrington, New Zealand with an 18-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23 SILVER: Tamara Csipes, Hungary victory on Thursday. BRONZE: Emma Aastrand Jorgensen, Denmark The Russians will play France for the gold medal on Saturday. The CLIMBING French swept Argentina 25-22, 25- Men’s Combined 19, 25-22 in its fi rst Olympic semifi - GOLD: Alberto Gines Lopez, Spain SILVER: Nathaniel Coleman, United States nal appearance ever. BRONZE: Jakob Schubert, Austria Brazil will play Argentina for the bronze after failing to make it to the CYCLING TRACK gold medal game for the fi rst time Men’s Omnium since 2000. GOLD: Matthew Walls, Britain This marked the third straight SILVER: Campbell Stewart, New Zealand Olympics that Brazil faced a team BRONZE: Elia Viviani, Italy from Russia in the medal round, with Women’s Keirin the Russians winning the gold medal GOLD: Shanne Braspennincx, Netherlands SILVER: Ellesse Andrews, New Zealand match in fi ve sets at the 2012 London BRONZE: Lauriane Genest, Canada Games and the Brazilians sweeping the semifi nal on the way to gold at DIVING home in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Women’s 10m Platform These countries have dominated GOLD: Hongchan Quan, China the Olympics in recent years, with SILVER: Yuxi Chen, China BRONZE: Melissa Wu, Australia the Russians making the semifi nals in seven straight Olympics and the HOCKEY Brazilians making the previous four Men fi nals. GOLD: Belgium (, John-John Dominique M Dohmen, , Sebastien Dockier, Cedric Daniel An- dre Charlier, Gauthier Boccard, Nicolas de Kerpel, Augustin Jean J Meurmans, Alexander Robby P Hendrickx, , Felix VOLLEYBALL Veronique B. Denayer, Vincent Vanasch, Simon Pierre F Gougnard, France’s Rudy Gobert, (right), reaches over Slovenia’s Luka Doncic (77) for a rebound during a men’s basketball semifi nal round game Arthur Anne-Marie Thierry de Sloover, Antoine Sylvain T Kina, Loick at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 5, in Saitama, Japan. (AP) Fanny A Luypaert, Victor Nicky B Wegnez, Tom Alain Boon) Brazil took the fi rst set 25-18 SILVER: Australia (Lachlan Thomas Sharp, Thomas William thanks to a strong blocking defense Craig, Tom Joseph Wickham, Matthew Dawson, Joshua Beltz, up front led by the masked middle Edward Clive Ockenden, Jacob Thomas Whetton, Blake Govers, France outlast Slovenia to reach final Dylan Martin, Joshua Simmonds, Tim Howard, Aran Zalewski, blocker Lucas Saatkamp, known by Flynn Andrew Ogilvie, Daniel James Beale, Trent Grant Mitton, Brazilians as Lucão. Tim Brand, Andrew Lewis Charter, Jeremy Thomas Hayward) SAITAMA, Japan, Aug. 5, (AP): Kevin Durant pic men’s basketball semifi nals after falling into a 15-point hole. The Russians did a much better BRONZE: India (, Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender With their gold-medal streak looking in jeopardy midway through the job on the attack in the second set Kumar, Manpreet Singh, , Gurjant Singh, Simranjeet and the Americans still have their grip on gold and and won it 25-21 on a spike by Egor Singh, Mandeep Singh, , Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, second quarter, the Americans overwhelmed the Australians with a 48- Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, , , Shamsher it’s going to take more than a few bad minutes for 14 stretch that gave them a 74-55 lead after three periods. Kliuka. That led to some heated talk Singh, Varun Kumar, , , Vivek Sagar anyone to take it away from them. The U.S. missed its fi rst 10 3-point attempts and didn’t hit one until among the Brazilian players between Prasad) late in the second quarter, then it felt as if the Americans hardly missed sets as they tried to regroup. KARATE They were awful early, then awesome afterward against Aus- again, with Booker making three 3-pointers. It seemed to work as Brazil went Men’s Kumite — 67kg tralia. Jrue Holiday had 11 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the up 20-12 in the third set before GOLD: Steven da Costa, France Durant scored 23 points, Devin Booker had 20 and the U.S. blew past U.S., which will play European champion Slovenia or France for a the Russians rallied. Back-to-back SILVER: Eray Samdan, Turkey and eventually blew away the Aussies 97-78 on Thursday in the Olym- fourth straight gold medal Saturday. The French beat the Americans 83- blocks by Ivan Iakolev tied the set BRONZE: Darkhan Assadilov, Kazakhstan at 23 and then Ilyas Kurkaev ended BRONZE: Abdel Rahman Almasatfa, Jordan 76 in their Olympic opener. it at the net on the Russians’ second Women’s Kumite — 55kg That was part of a 2-3 start to the summer for set point. GOLD: Ivet Goranova, Bulgaria the U.S., which included a loss to the Austral- The Russians played from ahead SILVER: Anzhelika Terliuga, Ukraine US, Spain set for fi nal ians in an exhibition game in Las Vegas. in the fourth set thanks to a string of BRONZE: Bettina Plank, Austria The Americans don’t look like that team any- BRONZE: Tzuyun Wen, Taiwan TOKYO, Aug. 5, (AP): four service errors on fi ve attempts by more. thinks about it all the time. Playing on the Brazil. They then closed it out on an Women’s Kata They look like the best team in the world, like GOLD: Sandra Sanchez Jaime, Spain talented U.S. women’s water polo team, attack point from Kliuka and started SILVER: Kiyou Shimizu, Japan those that used to win gold with ease. celebrating, with some players falling Musselman is constantly debating whether she Patty Mills scored 15 points for Australia, BRONZE: Mo Sheung Grace Lau, Hong Kong should pass or shoot the ball. to their knees in disbelief. BRONZE: Viviana Bottaro, Italy which still needs a win for its fi rst Olympic bas- While the fi rst semifi nal featured She decided to shoot Thursday, and it ketball medal. MARATHON SWIMMING worked out quite well for the Americans. two of the sports’ heavyweights, the Men’s 10km Musselman scored four of her five goals in France 90, Slovenia 89 teams in the second matchup didn’t GOLD: Florian Wellbrock, Germany the second half, rallying the U.S. to a 15-11 Game on the line, chance for gold on the line, have the same kind of pedigree. SILVER: Kristof Rasovszky, Hungary and Slovenia’s Klemen Prepelic thought he had France had never made it this far BRONZE: Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy victory over the Russian team in the semifi- nals at the Tokyo Olympics. Did it ever. a layup that would have given Slovenia the win. in four previous Olympic trips but is on a good run after losing three of SKATEBOARDING Led by Musselman and clutch plays by fi ve matches in pool play, including a Men’s Park Alys Williams and , the fi ve-setter to Argentina. GOLD: Keegan Palmer, Australia U.S. stayed in the mix for a third consecutive BASKETBALL SILVER: Pedro Barros, Brazil United States’ Margaret Steffens, (left), The French beat Pool A winner gold medal. Next up is Spain, which advanced Poland in fi ve sets in the quarterfi nals BRONZE: Cory Juneau, United States with an 8-6 victory over Hungary. defends against Evgeniya Soboleva (10), of the Russian Olympic Committee, dur- France’s Nicolas Batum thought differently. and now is assured its fi rst medal in TABLE TENNIS Captain had three goals as ing a semifi nal round women’s water polo Batum reached over Prepelic to block the volleyball after winning the rematch Women’s Team the U.S. improved to 133-4 since it won gold match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on layup try with 2.4 seconds left, the last play in against Argentina. GOLD: China (Meng Chen, Yingsha Sun, Manyu Wang) at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. It has won Aug. 5, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) what became France’s 90-89 win over Slovenia Argentina has won only one medal SILVER: Japan (Mima Ito, Kasumi Ishikawa, Miu Hirano) three in a row since it lost 10-9 to Hungary in in the men’s basketball semifi nals at the Tokyo in the sport, a bronze in 1988 against BRONZE: Hong Kong (Hoi Kem Doo, Wai Yam Minnie Soo, Ho Ch- group play for its first loss at the Olympics ing Lee) finally got on the board when Dorottya Olympics on Thursday night - overcoming a Brazil, and made its only other semi- Szilagyi scored with 4:39 left in the first half. historic night from Luka Doncic. fi nal appearance in 2000. WRESTLING The U.S. beat the Russian team 18-5 last Doncic had the third triple-double in Olym- The French were in control for Men’s Freestyle 57kg WATER POLO week, but the Russian team was much more pic men’s history: 16 points, 10 rebounds and most of the match against Argen- GOLD: Zavur Uguev, ROC SILVER: Kumar Ravi, India engaged in the semifinal meeting. The U.S. 18 assists. But it wasn’t quite enough, and Slo- tina, winning the fi rst set 25-22 when BRONZE: Nurislam Sanayev, Kazakhstan had to rally after it trailed 7-4 with 48 seconds venia fell to 17-1 all-time when he’s in the na- Chinenyeze’s block capped a long BRONZE: Thomas Patrick Gilman, United States since the 2008 final against the Netherlands. left in the first half. tional team colors. rally on set point. Men’s Freestyle 86kg Spain is looking for its first gold medal. It Maria Bersneva had three goals on three He may be good as gold one day, but not yet. France kept up its strong play at GOLD: David Morris Taylor Iii, United States lost to the U.S. 8-5 in the 2012 final, and then shots for the Russian team, which won bronze France will play the United States on Saturday the net in the fi nal two sets and rolled SILVER: Hassan Yazdanicharati, Iran finished fifth at the Rio Olympics. It also lost in 2016. Anastasia Simanovich and Ekaterina (11:30 a.m. local time in Japan, 10:30 p.m. Fri- to the victory on Earvin Ngapeth’s BRONZE: Artur Naifonov, ROC to the U.S. in the final at the 2019 world Prokofyeva each scored twice, and Evgeniia day EST) to decide the gold medal at the Tokyo point at the net. A frustrated Argen- BRONZE: Myles Nazem Amine, San Marino championships. Golovina made 10 stops. The Russians shut Games. France has been this far at an Olympics tine player then kicked the ball high Women’s Freestyle 57kg Anni Espar, who played with U.S. attacker down the U.S. for much of the first half, forc- only once - losing to the Americans in the ti- into the mostly empty stands as the GOLD: Risako Kawai, Japan SILVER: Iryna Kurachkina, Belarus in college at Southern ing the Americans to go deep into the shot tle game at the 2000 Sydney Games. They’ve French celebrated. BRONZE: Helen Louise Maroulis, United States California, had three goals for Spain, and clock looking for an opening. Simanovich was won the last two meetings with the U.S., fi rst in Now they get to play the Russians BRONZE: Evelina Georgieva Nikolova, Bulgaria. (AP) 16-year-old Elena Ruiz scored twice. tough inside and Bersneva’s power-play goal the quarterfi nals at the Basketball World Cup in for the gold after beating them al- Spain posted the first three goals. Hungary made it 5-2 with 3:24 left. 2019, then to open group play in Tokyo. ready in group stage.