Australia swam away with the women’s 4×100 relay, and the United States, with Simone Manuel swimming the anchor leg, won the bronze medal.
Simone Biles made her debut, but the American women’s gymnastics team was overshadowed by Russia.
title with the Milwaukee Bucks, scored 18 for the United States less than 24 hours after landing in Tokyo.
Last week, Zach LaVine was forced to miss the team’s flight to Tokyo and had to join the group later in the week after being placed in virus-related protocols himself.
Coach Gregg Popovich had indicated leading into the tournament that he would have to be ready to adjust playing time based on how players were dealing with jet lag and fatigue.
Before those losses, the men’s national team had lost only two games in total out of 56 played since 1992.
But her failure to qualify in the individual event for Tokyo had been a shock, given that Manuel is the American record-holder in the event.
TOKYO — After an opening day without a medal, the United States swim team got two in the first event of the day on Sunday.
When 38-year-old Annamiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands crossed the finish line of the women’s cycling road race on Sunday, she threw her arms in the air, broke into a wide smile and celebrated her first gold medal.
That was Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer, who had broken away much earlier in the race and coasted to a stunning, surprise victory.
Later, in a blur of tactics and racing and fatigue, they reeled in one rider after another as they drove for the finish.
Van Vleuten, who had crashed spectacularly while leading late in the 2016 road race in Rio de Janeiro, burst away from the pursuing pack on Fuji International Speedway and set her sights on completing a career-defining comeback.
Unlike other top events on the professional circuit, riders in the Olympic road race are not allowed to communicate with their teams using radios.
Each athlete performed two timed runs through the skate park, hustling for 45 seconds on their own path through a vast course of ramps, stairs and rails.
Nerves seemed to jangle several top competitors at the start of the final, and clean runs were hard to find.
Eaton, too, calmly planted two strong scores.
Hoefler stumbled too many times to stay in contention for a gold medal, but hung on to silver.
France also had two finalists, Vincent Milou and Aurelien Giraud, who had the best score in the preliminary heats.
Skateboarding has worked for decades to get into the Olympics, and the men’s street contest was the first of four at the Ariake Urban Sports Park.
Just two weeks after winning her first title at Wimbledon, the No.
Under a broiling sun that combined with high humidity and temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, Barty never found her rhythm against the 24-year-old Spaniard.
She has often spoken about how there is so much depth on the women’s tour that every player can be pushed from the first match in any tournament.
That is exactly what happened Sunday at the Olympics, which can sometimes seem like the most random of all tennis competitions.
Facing two set points and trying to draw even in the opening set, Barty pasted the sideline with a high crosscourt backhand, then blasted another backhand on the next point onto the back edge of the baseline.
It was more of the same in the second set as Barty kept spraying balls wide and long and into the net, even on her patented slice backhand.
1 and the two-time gold medalist, pulled out of the singles competition with a nagging strain of his right quadriceps.
After Barty was finished, Osaka, another favorite in this tournament and fresh off her star turn lighting the Olympic cauldron, took center court and did not disappoint.
It was an impressive comeback match for Osaka, who has not played since her first-round win at the French Open.
Osaka said she had kept the cauldron-lighting a secret since March, when officials asked her if she would do it.
Because of Australia’s strict rules related to travel during the coronavirus pandemic, she has been on the road since March and will not return home until the fall.
With uncharacteristic mistakes, including many by Biles, the best gymnast in history, the United States team finished behind Russia in qualifying.
The team has not lost a world championship or an Olympics team event since 2010, and is trying to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal.
“This might be a great awakening for us, and we’ll take advantage of it,” Tom Forster, the women’s national team coordinator, said after congratulating Russia for its performance.
She and Amandine Buchard of France, who was ranked second in the world in the under 52 kilogram category, fought to a draw in the first four minutes.
About 30 minutes later, Hifumi Abe beat Vazha Margvelashvili of Georgia for the gold medal in the under 66 kilogram category.
They grew up in Kobe, where their father is a firefighter and their mother owns a cafe.
By junior high school, he was practicing up to six hours per day and soon became a national champion.
She took up the sport at the age of 5 because she wanted to practice with her brothers.
Uta’s self-confidence grew after she became a world champion in 2018.
The American golfer Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 U.S.
In June, Rahm was forced to pull out of the Memorial Tournament with a six-stroke lead after a positive test.
So far, at least 160 people with Olympic credentials, including 21 athletes, have tested positive for the coronavirus in Japan.
Synchronized diving — which retains its name despite synchronized swimming becoming artistic swimming — requires the skills of individual diving but also the impeccable timing to match a teammate move for move.
While a few teams stayed in touch on the first two dives, China pulled away once the maneuvers grew more difficult.
After every event, after the Olympic champion’s national anthem is played, the winners of the silver and bronze medals are welcomed to the top step of the medals stand.
But they, and the photographers, need to be quick about it.
In 2016, she became a teenage hero in her home country after becoming the first woman to win an Olympic medal for Iran.
Alizadeh, who had once complained about being forced to wear a head scarf, marched confidently into the auditorium, wearing her hair loose and showing her fist to a television camera that was trained on her.
Alizadeh, the taller of the two, dominated throughout before recording an 18-9 victory.
In her second contest on Sunday, Alizadeh scored an impressive victory, defeating Jade Jones, the two-time defending Olympic champion from Britain, 16-12.
Alizadeh’s medal in Rio instantly turned her into an overnight celebrity in Iran, where female sports stars are a rarity.
Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me,” she said in the post, which was accompanied by a black-and-white photo of herself in a head scarf, holding her head in her hands while sporting her taekwondo uniform.
A few months before her defection, Saeid Mollaei, a judoka, also left Iran for Germany after claiming he had been pressured to throw a bout to avoid the possibility of facing an Israeli opponent.
She had little response to the flurry of punches from Nina Radovanovic, 29, of Serbia.
Yet after the fight, Bujold, the 11-time Canadian flyweight champion, declared victory anyway.
Bujold, 34, was unable to win a spot in the Tokyo Games because the qualifying tournaments were canceled because of the coronavirus.
To the surprise of many Olympic-watchers, Bujold won, allowing the Canadian Olympic Committee to add her to the national team, which it did.
Radovanovic, who had fought as recently as June, quickly took control, landing a series of blows that knocked Bujold off balance.
But Bujold also seemed at peace with the result, perhaps even relieved that what she called a “really big roller-coaster” ride was over.
During an interview with a Canadian television network, Bujold put her hands together in the shape of a heart, a signal to her absent daughter in lieu of blowing a kiss.
Ross, 39, has a silver medal from the 2012 Games, when she partnered with Jennifer Kessy, and a bronze medal from 2016 with Kerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time Olympic champion.
An early ace by Ross, one of the most powerful servers in the sport, set the tone for the match, and the Americans were in control for most of the morning.
Ross and Klineman pumped each other up, yelling “Alix!” and “April!” after big plays.
Xue and Wang hung in during the second set, and a block by Wang put the Chinese up 19-18.
There is no rule in women’s gymnastics against unitards, and some athletes wear them for religious reasons.
About 17 million people watched NBC’s telecast of the opening ceremony, the network said on Friday, in what is believed to be the lowest number of viewers on record for an opening ceremony for a Summer Olympics.
The Olympics join practically all professional sports in seeing significant viewership declines during the coronavirus pandemic.
They were both standing on the podium of the world championships in China to collect their medals — a gold for Biles, a silver for Iordache — when the bee buzzed in Biles’s bouquet.
But the clip, which has been viewed more than three million times, showed something more than a funny scene.
And as recently as last year, it looked as though Iordache’s gymnastics career had peaked on that podium in Nanning, China, 0.466 of a point short of gold.
Katie Ledecky tried for her first gold medal in Tokyo when she swam in the 400-meter freestyle final on Monday morning.
Expect some familiar faces and some new ones, many of them Americans, on the medals stand.
Competition gets underway on Saturday night, July 24, in Tokyo, which is Saturday morning in the United States.
She could in theory win five golds this year, because the 1,500 freestyle has been added to the program as well.
Three more this year would tie her with the swimmer Jenny Thompson for the most by an American woman.
He was part of two winning relays in Rio but truly burst onto the scene with five gold medals at the 2019 world championships.
In a surprise, she failed to qualify for that event this year, but she will swim the anchor leg for the United States in the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay on Saturday evening Eastern time, July 24.
On the men’s side, Daiya Seto of Japan won a bronze in the 400 individual medley four years ago, but with significant improvement in recent years and swimming in his own country, he could win both the 200 and 400 I.
The Netherlands team announced that the rower Finn Florijn had tested positive after his Olympic debut on Friday.
Others have tested positive before their departure to the Games and are not included in the chart below.