Month: July 2021

U.S. singles players got two wins on Day 2 after all four singles entrants who played on Day 1 lost.

Lee Kiefer became the first American woman to win a gold medal in individual foil Sunday in Tokyo.

USA’s Anastasija Zolotic won her first-ever Olympic gold medal by defeating Tatiana Minina of ROC.

Norway hangs on to beat South Korea 39-27 in women’s handball. Kari Brattset Dale led the way with 11 goals for Norway.

USA’s Lee Kiefer defeated ROC’s Inna Deriglazova, the reigning Olympic champion, in the gold medal match of women’s foil on Sunday. Kiefer becomes the first American to win gold in women’s foil.

Japanese siblings Abe Uta and Abe Hifumi became the first brother and sister duo to win gold medals at the same Olympics on Saturday.

Simone Biles and Suni Lee punch their tickets to the women’s gymnastics all-around final, Chase Kalisz wins the first U.S. medal of the Games and one of six U.S. medals in the pool, and the rest of the best of Day 2.

Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado finished her floor routine during the qualifications for women’s artistic gymnastics in Tokyo with a demonstration for social justice.

Germany’s Svenja Weger leads for nearly the entire second race of the women’s Laser Radial opening series, winning by 36 seconds; American Paige Railey, 10th in Rio, is disqualified after her boat breaks the start early.

Four-time Olympian Jean Baptiste Bernaz of France, fifth at the 2016 Rio Games, takes the men’s Laser opener over Finn Kaarle Tapper and Dane Hermann Tomasgaard, the race’s second- and third-place finishers.

Cristina Pujol of Spain holds the lead for a majority of the race in the opener of the women’s Laser Radial to earn the one-point victory; 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark finishes sixth.

Australia battled with the Nigerian men’s basketball team that upset the United States in a recent exhibition but eventually took control for a comfortable 84-67 win.

Chris Landers

For most events at the Tokyo Games there are no spectators. But not in the cycling road races where outside Tokyo restrictions are relaxed and crowds line streets. Overzealous fans, drummers, costumes – it’s all there.