Duffy earns Bermuda’s 1st gold

Bermuda has been sending athletes to the the smallest contingent Bermuda has ever Olympics since 1936. Until Tuesday, the At- sent to the Summer Games. lantic island’s highest honor was a bronze Bermuda hadn’t medaled at the Olympics Gold medalist Flora Duffy medal won 45 years ago. since Clarence Hill’s bronze in heavyweight of Bermuda celebrates Flora Duffy changed that in just under boxing in Montreal in 1976. after winning the women’s two hours, swimming, cycling and running Duffy, 33, had never fi nished higher than individual triathlon compe- tition at the 2020 Summer through the wind and rain around eighth in her previous three Olympic tries. Olympics, on July 27, in Bay to win the Olympic women’s triathlon But the two-time former world triathlon se- Tokyo, . (AP) for Bermuda’s fi rst gold medal. ries champion was one of the favorites for A self-governing British overseas territory gold and was among the leaders Tuesday with a population under 65,000, Bermuda for the entire race. She closed out the vic- has only two athletes competing in Tokyo: tory with a dominant fi nal leg to fi nish in 1 Duffy and men’s rower Dara Alizadeh. It is hour, 55:36 minutes. (AP)

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BASEBALL/SOFTBALL Fiji & Britain GOLD: Japan (Yukiyo Mine, Saki Yamaza- ki, Yuka Ichiguchi, Yu Yamamoto, Nodoka Harada, Sayaka Mori, Hitomi Kawabata, Eri Yamada, Mana Atsumi, Minori Naito, Yamato reach semis Fujita, Yukiko Ueno, Nayu Kiyohara, Haruka Agatsuma, Miu Goto) TOKYO, July 27, (AP): The Olym- SILVER: United States (Aubree Munro, Ali pic rugby sevens podium will feature Aguilar, Ally Carda, Amanda Chidester, Kel- at least one new team in Tokyo after sey Stewart, Haylie Mc Cleney, Janie Reed, Argentina upset 2016 bronze medalist Monica Abbott, Michelle Moultrie, Valerie South Africa in the quarterfi nals Tues- Arioto, Rachel Garcia, Dejah Mulipola, Cat day immediately after silver medalist Osterman, Bubba Nickles, Delaney Spaulding) Britain rallied from a 21-point defi cit BRONZE: Canada (Kelsey Harshman, Na- to edge the United States. talie Wideman, Erika Polidori, Joey Lye, Jenn Defending champion Fiji capped Salling, Victoria Hayward, Janet Leung, Dan- Day 2 of competition with a 19-0 win ielle Lawrie, Sara Groenewegen, Emma En- over Australia to continue its unbeat- tzminger, Jen Gilbert, Larissa Franklin, Jenna en run in Olympic competition since Caira, Lauren Regula, Kaleigh Rafter) rugby sevens made its debut in Rio de CANOE SLALOM Janeiro. Women’s Kayak The Fijians will next play Argen- GOLD: Ricarda Funk, tina, which rebounded to beat South SILVER: Maialen Chourraut, Africa 19-14, and Britain will have to BRONZE: Jessica Fox, Australia contend with top-ranked New Zealand. DIVING “We are suffering a lot with the Women’s Synchronised 10m Platform pandemic right now and that’s what GOLD: China (Yuxi Chen, Jiaqi Zhang) matters to us,” Fiji captain Jerry Tu- SILVER: United States (Delaney Schnell, Jes- wai said. “As the world knows, rugby sica Parratto) is the national sport of Fiji. Defending BRONZE: Mexico (Alejandra Orozco Loza, Left to right: Silver medals Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell of the United States, golden medalists Yuxi Chen and Jiaqi Zhang of China the gold would be something else - I Gabriela Agundez Garcia) and bronze medalists Gabriela Agundez Garcia and Alejandra Orozco Loza of Mexico pose for a photo after the women’s synchronized 10m think we would forget about the pan- platform diving fi nal at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 27, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) demic. Women’s Épée Team GOLD: (, Katrina Russia bounce back to beat Argentina Lehis, Erika Kirpu, Irina Embrich) US earn silver RUGBY SILVER: South Korea (Injeong Choi, Hyein Lee, Young Mi Kang, Sera Song) BRONZE: (Federica Isola, Rossella Fi- TOKYO, July 27, (AP): “Everyone would be shouting and amingo, Mara Navarria, Alberta Santuccio) US women hand China 2nd straight loss happy. But we have a big task ahead. China won another gold Our focus is on Argentina in the semi- ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS medal in Olympic diving. TOKYO, July 27, (AP): The expected Olympic show- damage in this tournament.” fi nal at the moment.” Women’s Team down between the top two women’s teams The biggest question for China now is the health of The All Blacks sevens team was GOLD: ROC (Liliia Akhaimova, Viktoriia Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi won the women’s 10-meter synchro- in the world turned out to be a one-sided affair. star Zhu Ting. She was subbed out twice in the open- eliminated in the quarterfi nals in Rio Listunova, Angelina Melnikova, Vladislava The U.S. women swept defending gold medalist ing match because of a right wrist injury, the only Urazova) nized platform on Tuesday, giving and is desperate to make amends in SILVER: United States (Simone Biles, Jordan China 29-27, 25-22, 25-21 on Tuesday in a pool-play time Kiraly said he could ever remember the MVP in the medal rounds on Wednesday. the diving powerhouse its second match that left the Americans at the top of Pool B and Rio being a “non-factor” in a match. The New Zealanders rebounded from Chiles, Sunisa Lee, Grace Mc Callum) gold of the Tokyo Games. BRONZE: Britain (Jennifer Gadirova, Jessica the Chinese seeking to win their fi rst set of the tourna- She played the entire match on Tuesday with tape a comeback win over Australia that Chen and Zhang totaled 363.78 ment after two straight sweeps to open the Games. on her wrist and led China with 18 points, but it wasn’t earned them fi rst place in their group Gadirova, Alice Kinsella, Amelie Morgan) points over fi ve rounds. They received “When we play them, it’s always a great competi- nearly enough to overcome an American attack led by to score the fi rst 21 points in a 21-10 two perfect 10s for execution on their win over Canada in the quarterfi nals. Men - 81 kg second dive. Jessica Parratto and Dela- tion,” U.S. captain said. “But ultimate- fi rst-time Olympian Jordan Thompson. GOLD: Takanori Nagase, Japan ney Schnell of the U.S. took silver in ly, I thought we controlled what we could on our side “Today she was much more back to what you The U.S. scored the fi rst 21 points SILVER: Saeid Mollaei, Mongolia just their second competition as a pair. of the net. I think it put them in a lot of trouble. Really might expect Zhu Ting to be,” Kiraly said. “I wish her with Danny Barrett getting the open- BRONZE: Shamil Borchashvili, Austria They totaled 310.80. proud of our team for imposing ourselves on them. the best of health, but I don’t know how her health is. ing try and Perry Baker touching down BRONZE: Matthias Casse, Belgium Schnell was the bronze medalist in But we know that the history of China and how they We can’t really worry about that. We just have to set twice against Britain, and appeared Women - 63 kg individual platform at the world cham- were in Rio, you just never know what could come.” up our game plan and be ready for all the great offense ready to enter the medal round but GOLD: Clarisse Agbegnenou, pionships in 2019. Parratto was seventh China was also swept by Turkey in the opener but that she can bring at us, along with the other phases conceded four straight tries to lose 26- SILVER: Tina Trstenjak, Slovenia in the same event fi ve years ago in Rio. showed fi ve years ago in Rio de Janeiro how little the of her game. She’s the bedrock of that team. She’s the 21. BRONZE: Maria Centracchio, Italy Gabriela Agundez Garcia and Ale- pool-play matches can mean after losing three of fi ve reason why they won fi ve years ago in Rio. Without Britain lost to Fiji earlier Tuesday to BRONZE: Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, jandra Orozco Loza of Mexico earned of them before rallying to win gold. her, I don’t see how they win a gold medal. But with fi nish second in Pool B and, for at least Canada bronze at 299.70. That’s similar to what happened in London in 2012 her, they are always capable of winning.” half of the quarterfi nal match, was on CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE the verge of another defeat. Women’s Cross-country when Brazil fi nished fourth in its pool before winning The Americans are seeking their fi rst gold medal in gold, as U.S. coach Karch Kiraly was quick to point the sport after winning bronze in 2016 and silver in “Pretty unreal when you’re down GOLD: Jolanda Neff, DIVING like that,” British player Robbie Fer- SILVER: Sina Frei, Switzerland out. the two previous Games. “It’s not unusual for a team to struggle in prelimi- gusson said. “We could have been BRONZE: Linda Indergand, Switzerland down and out at halftime, but the score China was comfortably in fi rst place nary and then catch fi re with a key win in the quar- SHOOTING going into the fi nal round. VOLLEYBALL before halftime and resilience in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team The second-place Americans led Ja- terfi nals,” he said. “I wouldn’t count China out at second half is what we’re all about. GOLD: China (Ranxin Jiang, Wei Pang) all right now. They don’t want to be down 2-0, but pan by a scant 2.1 points, with Mexico They are off to a fast start in Tokyo thanks in large “When our backs are against the SILVER: ROC (Vitalina Batsarashkina, Artem another 1.32 points behind in fourth. that doesn’t mean they’re not capable of doing major part to the play of the 24-year-old Thompson. She had wall, we seem to be at our best.” Chernousov) China, the U.S., Mexico and Japan The best the United States can fi nish BRONZE: Ukraine (Olena Kostevych, Oleh all did the same dive in the last round, a a game-high 20 points against France in the opener now is fi fth. Omelchuk) back 2 1/2 somersaults 1 1/2 twists pike and was even better against China, especially at the 10m Air Rifl e Mixed Team “That’s a heartbreak, especially to carrying a 3.2 degree of diffi culty. Only end of a momentum-changing tight fi rst set. lose a lead like that,” American player GOLD: China (Qian Yang, Haoran Yang) Canada performed a more diffi cult dive Thompson’s block gave the U.S. two set points SILVER: United States (Mary Carolynn Tuck- Joe Schroeder said. “That hurts.” during the competition. that the Chinese erased. Thompson then saved two That’s how South Africa captain er, Lucas Kozeniesky) set points with attacks at the net. Then after Larson’s BRONZE: ROC (Yulia Karimova, Sergey Ka- The Chinese earned 84.48 points, Siviwe Soyizwapi described his team’s menskiy) barely creating splashes as they knifed well-placed shot gave the U.S. a 28-27 lead, Thomp- loss to Argentina, too. SURFING into the water. The Americans scored son put it away with a spike that China couldn’t get It was yet another setback for a Men 78.72, earning marks from 8.0 to 8.5 for back. squad that had to play the Olympic GOLD: Italo Ferreira, Brazil synchronization. The Mexicans scored Thompson had 12 points in the set and American tournament without head coach Neil SILVER: Kanoa Igarashi, Japan 71.04, while Japan fell out of medal women’s Olympic record 34 in the match as China Powell, who was in quarantine out- BRONZE: Owen Wright, Australia contention by scoring 61.44. had no answer for her play at the net. Thompson’s 34 side Tokyo because of a pre-tourna- Women Chen and Zhang were making their points are tied for the third most ever by a woman at ment positive test for COVID-19. The GOLD: Carissa Moore, United States Olympic debuts, but already have a the Olympics. players, who were held at a quaran- SILVER: Bianca Buitendag, South Africa winning history. Chen, who is 15, won “She’s a baller,” Larson said. “She’s been caged tine facility after arriving in Japan BRONZE: Amuro Tsuzuki, Japan the individual 10-meter platform title at a little bit. She’s ready to come out and show what’s the world championships in 2019, when because of a positive coronavirus test SWIMMING up. I’m just really proud of her. But she consistently involving their fl ight, were divided Men’s 100m Backstroke she was 13. Zhang, who is 17, won the platform synchro title at the world meet China’s , (left), and China’s , shows up in practice, and that’s what you’re seeing into two smaller groups before relo- GOLD: Evgeny Rylov, ROC (right), try to block United States’ Michelle Bar- today. ... I think what sets true champions apart is cating to Tokyo. SILVER: Kliment Kolesnikov, ROC two years ago. China won its fi rst gold in Tokyo in tsch-Hackley during the women’s volleyball pre- people that can show up when the lights are on.” “It really hurt. It was a massive blow BRONZE: Ryan Murphy, United States liminary round pool B match between China and In other matches Tuesday, the Russians bounced to lose the coach - he’s the leader of Men’s 200m Freestyle women’s 3-meter synchro springboard and earned silver in men’s 10-meter United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on back from a loss in the opener to beat Argentina 3-0, the team,” Soyizwapi said. “We tried GOLD: Tom Dean, Britain to make it work without him, but un- SILVER: Duncan Scott, Britain platform synchro. July 27, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) Serbia swept Japan 3-0 and Italy beat Turkey 3-1. BRONZE: Fernando Scheffer, Brazil fortunately we couldn’t go all the Women’s 100m Backstroke way.” GOLD: Kaylee McKeown, Australia Nishikori, Tsitsipas cruise into last 16 United States coach Mike Friday SILVER: Kylie Masse, Canada said his players were “gutted” at the BRONZE: Regan Smith, United States loss but were on the right path after Women’s 100m Breaststroke placing ninth in Rio. GOLD: Lydia Jacoby, United States Osaka eliminated from Olympics tournament “Sevens is brutal ... little moments, SILVER: Tatjana Schoenmaker, South Africa little referee calls either go your way BRONZE: Lilly King, United States TOKYO, July 27, (AP): It wasn’t the ending that doubts for her. or don’t go your way and that’s the TAEKWONDO Naomi Osaka - nor her multitudes of fans across Then, after her fi rst-round victory in , she difference between being in the medal Men +80kg Japan and worldwide - had expected. skipped the mandatory news conference. rounds tomorrow,” he said. “Unfortu- GOLD: Vladislav Larin, ROC The start of the Tokyo Olympics, however, will Osaka was fi ned $15,000 and - surprisingly - nately we’ve just fallen on the wrong SILVER: Dejan Georgievski, Macedonia forever be a bright memory for the tennis super- publicly reprimanded by those in charge of Grand side.” BRONZE: Rafael Yunier Alba Castillo, Cuba star. Slam tournaments, who said she could be sus- BRONZE: Kyo Don In, South Korea Osaka herself said after lighting the Olympic pended if she kept avoiding the media. Women - 67kg cauldron during last week’s opening ceremony The next day, Osaka withdrew from Roland GOLD: Matea Jelic, Croatia that it was “undoubtedly the greatest athletic Garros entirely to take a mental health break, re- SILVER: Lauren Williams, Britain achievement and honor I will ever have in my vealing she has dealt with depression and anxiety. BRONZE: Ruth Gbagbi, Ivory Coast life.” She sat out Wimbledon, too. So the Tokyo BRONZE: Hedaya Malak, Egypt Games marked her return to competition. Women +67kg So maybe - just maybe - that will allow Osaka GOLD: Milica Mandic, Serbia to cope with her unexpected 6-1, 6-4 loss to for- The day wasn’t a complete loss for Japan since SILVER: Dabin Lee, South Korea mer French Open fi nalist Marketa Vondrousova Kei Nishikori, a bronze medalist in 2016, beat BRONZE: Althea Laurin, France Marcos Giron of the United States 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-1 to reach the last 16. BRONZE: Bianca Walkden, Britain Stefanos Tsitsipas, of Greece, plays Frances TRIATHLON TENNIS Third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece also Tiafoe, of the United States, during the second defeated an American, Frances Tiafoe, 6-3, 6-4. Women’s Individual round of the tennis competition at the 2020 GOLD: Flora Duffy, Bermuda of the Czech Republic in the third round of the And Novak Djokovic added another medal Olympic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Summer Olympics, on July 27, in Tokyo, Ja- event to his program by entering the mixed dou- SILVER: Georgia Taylor-Brown, Britain pan. (AP) BRONZE: Katie Zaferes, United States Not immediately, though. bles draw with Serbian partner Nina Stojanovic. As a four-time Grand Slam champion, the WEIGHTLIFTING Osaka won her opening two matches in straight Tsitsipas is also entered in mixed with Maria Women’s 59kg highest-paid female athlete in the world and the sets following a two-month mental health break. Sakkari, who lost to fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina GOLD: Hsing-Chun Kuo, Taiwan host country’s poster girl for the Games, the huge But conditions were different Tuesday with the of Ukraine in singles in three sets. SILVER: Polina Guryeva, Turkmenistan expectations were hard to handle. Svitolina’s quarterfi nal opponent will be Cami- The second-ranked Osaka, who was born in Ja- roof closed because it was raining outside. la Giorgi of Italy, who defeated Wimbledon fi nal- BRONZE: Mikiko Andoh, Japan Osaka had talked earlier this week about how Women’s 64kg pan and grew up in the United States, struggled ist Karolina Plisova. Fiji’s Aminiasi Tuimaba, center, tries GOLD: Maude G Charron, Canada with her usually reliable groundstrokes while the “happy” she was to be playing again. That came Also reaching the last eight were seventh-seed- to evade Australia’s Joe Pincus in SILVER: Giorgia Bordignon, Italy left-handed Vondrousova produced a series of after she announced in May going into the French ed Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain, No. 9 Belinda their men’s rugby sevens quarterfinal BRONZE: Wen-Huei Chen, Taiwan (AP) drop-shot winners and other crafty shots that drew Open that she wouldn’t speak to reporters at Bencic of Switzerland and No. 13 Anastasia Ser- match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, her opponent out of her comfort zone. that tournament, saying those interactions create geyevna Pavlyuchenkova of ROC. on July 27, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP)