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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 . (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com SWISS DOMINATE MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE, BEAT U.S., BRITAIN AGAIN sweep gymnastics; win second straight softball gold Jacoby knocks off defending champion King, McKeown gives Australia another 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 , 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 , 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 beat 23-21 to win the The country - barred at the Olympics champion, American , 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 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 . 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. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 in nine shooting events at the Colombia 0 1 0 1 mountains. ning time of 57.47 seconds. That’s just beating Slovenia’s Tina Trstenjak in gold medal in 13 years after Katrina Tokyo Olympics. Denmark 0 1 0 1 off the mark she set this year of 57.45. the 63-kilogram fi nal at the Budokan. Lehis sealed a tense 36-32 victory over Russians Sergey Kamenskiy and India 0 1 0 1 Sina Frei and Linda Indergand tried Jordan 0 1 0 1 to chase down their countrywoman but The silver went to Canada’s Kylie Agbegnenou won silver in Rio South Korea in the fi nal of women’s Yulia Karimova won the bronze medal Macedonia 0 1 0 1 never had a chance. They were left bat- Masse in 57.72, while former world re- de Janeiro, but the fi ve-time world team épée fencing. match 17-9 over South Korea’s Kwon 0 1 0 1 tling among themselves, at one point cord-holder Regan Smith of the United champion cemented her dominance Individual bronze medalist Lehis Eunji Nam Taeyun. Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 Cuba 0 0 1 1 riding side-by-side, before Frei pulled States settled for the bronze at 58.05. atop the sport with a waza ari to fi nish was up against No. 2-ranked Choi In- Brazilian surfer Italo Ferreira won Ivory Coast 0 0 1 1 ahead to take silver and left Indergand Russian athletes swept the top two Trstenjak. Agbegnenou, a dual citizen jeong in the last bout with scores tied gold against Kanoa Igarashi of Japan, Israel 0 0 1 1 with bronze. spots in the 100-meter backstroke, of Togo, also has won four European and won 10-6 to take the gold. despite crashing off an air to land on a Kuwait 0 0 1 1 The previous time Estonia won an New Zealand 0 0 1 1 Neff took the lead when world with claiming the gold championships. broken board. Note: Table reads as gold, silver, champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot medal in 51.98 seconds and teammate Italy’s Maria Centracchio and Can- Olympic event was in 2008 when Gerd Igarashi, the hometown hero who bronze and total crashed on a slippery section of rocks Kliment Kolesnikov taking the sil- ada’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard Kanter took the men’s discus throw. surfed a career best earlier in the day, on the fi rst loop in the mountains southwest of Tokyo. won silver. The German dressage team won Australian took home their ninth gold medal in the past 10 bronze after a close match against top- Olympics by beating the United States rated . and Britain for the second straight American won gold time. in women’s surfi ng. Isabell Werth earned her seventh She beat Bianca Buitendag of South gold and equestrian-record 11th medal Africa, who won silver. The 17th- overall. She had the second-best indi- ranked Buitendag pulled off upset after vidual score in the competition. She upset to deliver some of the contest’s trailed only teammate Jessica von biggest moments in her path to the Bredow-Werndl. Olympic podium. Dorothee Schneider of Germany Japan’s Amuro Tsuzuki took home also rode well three months after a bronze after handily winning her heat horse she was riding collapsed and against American . died. That left her with a broken col- Milica Mandić of Serbia won her larbone. second gold medal in women’s 67-kil- The Germans have 13 Olympic ti- ogram heavyweight taekwondo, beat- tles in team dressage since the event ing Lee Dabin of South Korea 10-7 was introduced at the 1928 Amsterdam with a last-minute rally. Games. They have won medals in 16 Mandić also won Olympic gold straight Olympic team competitions. Gold medalist team Japan celebrate on the podium during the medal cere- Russian Olympic Committee’s women’s team, from mony for softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Yokohama, Japan. (AP) right, Liliia Akhaimova, Viktoriia Listunova, Angelina Melnikova and Vladis- in London but was eliminated in the The United States edged Britain for quarterfi nals in Rio de Janeiro. silver fi ve years after fi nishing third lava Urazova celebrate after winning the gold medal at the 2020 Summer behind the Brits. Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Medalists — See Page 15

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