Month: July 2021

In its first Olympic appearance since the 1989 Montreal Games, host Japan pulled off a bit of a stunner in group play Tuesday at Yoyogi National Stadium.

U.S. boxer Delante Johnson advanced to the men’s welterweight boxing quarterfinals with a 4-1 decision win Tuesday.

China’s Yang Qian and Yang Haoran defeated Americans Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky 17-13 in the first-ever Olympic mixed team air rifle final.

Brazil’s Italo Ferreira defeated Japan’s Kanoa Igarashi 15.14 to 6.60 in the first Olympic surfing gold medal match. Ferreira posted a 7.77 and a 7.37 on his two highest-scoring waves.

Delaney Schnell and Jessica Parratto receive the first women’s synchronized 10m platform Olympic medals in American history following their second place performance.

Blake Govers scored twice as Australia scored at least five goals for the third straight match, sending Argentina to its first loss. Germany and Belgium picked up big wins as well.

Swiss riders Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand crushed a treacherous women’s mountain course for one of the most dominant performances of the Games.

Switzerland made history on Tuesday afternoon in Tokyo, as Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand completed a clean podium sweep in women’s mountain biking.

Alejandra Orozco of Mexico won her second Olympic medal in the women’s synchronized 10m platform, joined by first-time Olympian Gabriela Agundez.

In slippery conditions, two-time reigning world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France falls while ascending a rock incline in the Chopsticks section of the women’s mountain biking Izu MTB Course; she’d finish 10th.

Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff wins women’s mountain biking gold by more than a minute and is joined on the podium by compatriots Sina Frei and Linda Indergand who complete the discipline’s first-ever Olympic sweep.

Results from day four of tennis competitions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The Chinese duo of Chen Yuxi, 15, and Zhang Jiagi, 17, were in a different class in the women’s synchronized 10m platform event, executing all five dives with stunning precision to win gold.

Great Britain’s Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury are on to Round 3 in men’s Olympic doubles tennis, defeating Germany’s Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz 6-2, 7-6.

A broken surfboard slows down Italo Ferreira in the gold medal matchup.

U.S. shooters Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky took silver in the Olympic debut of mixed team air rifle on Tuesday.

The American pair of Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell executed their five-dive list with poise to earn silver in the women’s synchronized 10m platform. It was the United States’ first medal of any color in the event.

Brazilian Italo Ferreira’s surfboard broke in half in the opening seconds of the first-ever Olympic surfing gold medal match. Ferreira’s coach ran down the shoreline to bring a new one.