Russia Sweep Gymnastics; Japan Win Second Straight Softball Gold Jacoby Knocks Off Defending Champion King, Mckeown Gives Australia Another Swimming Title
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ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021 16 Egypt’s Omar Assar com- petes during the table tennis men’s singles round of 16 match against Taiwan’s Chuang Chih-Yuan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com SWISS DOMINATE MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE, GERMANY BEAT U.S., BRITAIN AGAIN Russia sweep gymnastics; Japan win second straight softball gold Jacoby knocks off defending champion King, McKeown gives Australia another swimming title TOKYO, July 27, (AP): Angelina Melnikova, a cel- ebrated gymnast from Rus- sia, was gliding around the parallel bars when break- ing news started rocket- ing around the world: her competitor, American su- perstar Simone Biles, was scratched from the compe- tition. Melnikova stuck the landing. She clenched her fi sts near her heart. They weren’t yet halfway through one of the most anticipated events of the Olympic Games, and the result had become a near certainty: the team from OLYMPICS Russia would soon dethrone the Amer- icans, who just days before seemed unbeatable. In the end, they beat the Americans by 3.5 points, a signifi cant margin in the sport. They were inspired by the Russian Chad le Clos of South Africa swims in a men’s 200-meter butterfl y semifi nal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) men, who just a day earlier claimed the same victory in the team fi nals. ver in 52.00. The defending Olympic Italy beat China 23-21 to win the The country - barred at the Olympics champion, American Ryan Murphy, bronze. from using its name, fl ag or anthem settled for the bronze in 52.19. Germany’s Ricarda Funk won a sur- Medals Table over a systemic doping scandal - swept It was the fi rst backstroke defeat for prise gold medal in women’s kayak the gymnastics team gold medals, the U.S. men at the Olympics since the slalom. Heavy favorite Jessica Fox of among the most coveted at the Sum- 1992 Barcelona Games. They won 12 Australia slipped to third when she mer Games. straight golds at the last six Olympics, touched two gates on the fi nal run. TOKYO, July 27, (AP): Olympic It was the fi rst time either Russian Games medals table on Tuesday. including Murphy’s sweep of the 100- Funk took the lead from Spain’s de- G S B T team won gold at the Olympics since and 200-meter backstroke at the 2016 fending gold medalist Maialen Chour- shortly after the fall of the Soviet Un- United States 9 7 8 24 Rio Olympics. But the streak fi nally raut of Spain with a time of 105.50 sec- ion. China 9 5 7 21 Their performance Tuesday wasn’t ended at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. onds on a clean run. Then she had to Japan 10 3 5 18 Seventeen-year-old U.S. high wait for Fox, who came to the Olym- ROC 7 7 4 18 perfect: two of them, back to back, Britain 4 5 3 12 fell off the balance beam. But they re- schooler Lydia Jacoby won gold in pics as the favorite to win gold in both Italy 1 5 6 12 covered and became the fi rst team in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, the kayak and canoe slalom events. South Korea 3 2 5 10 knocking off teammate and defending Fox, the top-ranked paddler in the Australia 3 1 5 9 11 years to beat the Americans in any Canada 2 3 3 8 event. Olympic champion Lilly King. world, struggled from the start when France 2 2 3 7 They became the fi rst team in 11 Jacoby was the fi rst swimmer from she touched the fourth gate of 25 for Taiwan 1 2 3 6 years to beat the Americans in any the state ever to make the U.S. Olym- an immediate 2-second penalty. She Brazil 1 2 2 5 pic swimming team. was still ripping through the course Switzerland 1 2 2 5 event Japan won their second straight Pakistan’s Mahoor Shahzad plays Germany 1 0 3 4 Olympic softball gold medal, beating Britain’s Bianca Walkden, (right), Now, she’s heading back to Anchor- against Britain’s Kristy Gilmour dur- and her splits were ahead of Funk until Serbia 1 1 1 3 the United States 2-0 in an emotional attacks during Poland’s Aleksandra age with a gold medal, rallying to win ing their women’s singles group she again touched gate No. 24 to earn Slovenia 1 1 1 3 in 1 minute, 4.95 seconds. play stage badminton match at the another penalty. Netherlands 0 3 0 3 repeat of their 2008 victory in Beijing Kowalczuk the taekwondo women’s Spain 0 2 1 3 that again left the Americans in tears. 67kg match at the 2020 Summer South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmak- 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin defeat- Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Yukiko Ueno took a one-hitter into Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) er claimed the silver in 1:05.22, while Japan. (AP) ed Russians Artem Chernousov and Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 the sixth inning fi ve days after her 39th King gave the Americans another Vitalina Batsarashkina to earn gold in Ukraine 0 0 3 3 Fox fi nished 1.23 seconds off the medal by taking the bronze in 1:05.54. claimed bronze. 10-meter air pistol mixed team. Kosovo 2 0 0 2 birthday. Japan snuffed out an Ameri- Takanori Nagase won Japan’s fi fth Hungary 1 1 0 2 can rally attempt with an acrobatic lead and held her face in her hands at Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi won the Pang and Jiang won the gold medal Tunisia 1 1 0 2 the fi nish line, knowing she had lost women’s 10-meter synchronized plat- gold medal in judo at the Tokyo Olym- match 16 rounds to 14, each earning Austria 1 0 1 2 double play in the sixth inning that will pics, beating Mongolia’s Saeid Mol- Croatia 1 0 1 2 long be replayed. the gold medal. Chourraut took silver. form, giving the diving powerhouse its their second medal of the Tokyo Olym- laei in the fi nal of the men’s 81-kilo- Estonia 1 0 1 2 Before 34,046 mostly empty seats Tom Dean captured the gold in 1 second gold of the Tokyo Games. pics. Pang and Jiang each took bronze in Georgia 0 2 0 2 minute, 44.22 seconds, while team- Chen and Zhang totaled 363.78 gram division. Nagase improved on his the individual 10-meter air pistol. China South Africa 0 2 0 2 Yokohama Stadium, second-ranked Belgium 0 1 1 2 Japan pushed across the fi rst earned mate Duncan Scott picked up the silver points over fi ve rounds on Tuesday. bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro with a has won seven medals in eight shooting strong performance all day at the Bu- Czech Republic 0 1 1 2 runs off the top-ranked Americans in in 1:44.26. The bronze went to Brazil’s They received two perfect 10s for ex- events, including two golds. Indonesia 0 1 1 2 the six-game tournament. The U.S. of- Fernando Scheffer at 1:44.66. ecution on their second dive. dokan. The 2015 world champion had Ukrainians Oleh Omelchuk and Egypt 0 0 2 2 fense sputtered as it did throughout the American Kieran Smith settled for a Jessica Parratto and Delaney Sch- a history of falling short on judo’s big- Olena Kostevych beat Serbia’s Zora- Mexico 0 0 2 2 gest stages, but he completed a waza Turkey 0 0 2 2 Olympics, totaling just nine runs. sixth-place showing after capturing a nell of the U.S. took silver in just their na Arunovic and Damir Mikec in the Bermuda 1 0 0 1 Earlier in the day, Canada beat Mex- bronze in the 400 free. second competition as a pair. They to- ari 1:43 into golden score to claim the bronze medal match. Ecuador 1 0 0 1 ico 3-2 for softball bronze. Kaylee McKeown gave the Austral- taled 310.80. Olympic title. Yang Haoran and Yang Qian beat Hong Kong 1 0 0 1 Belgium’s Matthias Casse and Iran 1 0 0 1 Jolanda Neff won the women’s ian women another swimming gold Gabriela Agundez Garcia and Ale- Americans Lucas Kozeniesky and Norway 1 0 0 1 mountain bike race, leading a Swiss medal. jandra Orozco Loza of Mexico earned Austria’s Shamil Borchasvili claimed Mary Tucker in 10-meter air rifl e. Philippines 1 0 0 1 sweep of the medal stand while cap- McKeown backed up her status as bronze at 299.70. bronze medals. Austria hadn’t won a Yang and Yang won the gold medal Thailand 1 0 0 1 judo medal since 2008. Uzbekistan 1 0 0 1 ping a long comeback from a career- the world record-holder in the wom- France’s Clarisse Agbegnenou won match 17-13, giving China its eighth Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 threatening crash in the North Carolina en’s 100-meter backstroke with a win- her fi rst Olympic gold medal in judo, Estonia have their fi rst Olympic medal in nine shooting events at the Colombia 0 1 0 1 mountains. ning time of 57.47 seconds.