Allyson Felix Wins 10th Track Medal, Jamaican Women Win 4×100 Relay

In the women’s race, the Jamaican team, with all three medalists from the 100 meters, outran the U.S.

In the women’s 1,500, Faith Kipyegon of Kenya foiled Sifan Hassan’s bid for a 1,500-5,000-10,000 triple; Hassan finished third.

By winning her 10th Olympic medal in the 400-meter final, she has matched Carl Lewis as the most decorated American athlete in track and field.

For Felix, this Olympic berth — her fifth — meant something more than medals, though.

The Jamaican team featured the three medalists in the 100 meters, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson, with Briana Williams running the leadoff leg.

But there were no holdovers from that side to the one that ran the finals in Tokyo, and the team featured just one other woman who had won a medal at these Games, Gabrielle Thomas.

Andre De Grasse of Canada, the 200-meter champion, blazed an anchor leg and got his group to the finish line beating out China for the bronze medal.

Julia Grosso clinched Canada’s victory by converting her team’s sixth attempt in a shootout that featured more misses .

Sweden’s players, who had taken an early lead on a goal by Stina Blackstenius in the 34th minute and created far more chances to score in regulation and extra time, collapsed to the turf, some of them in tears, after the shootout.

Canada’s victory over Sweden delivered the first major international championship for Sinclair, one of her country’s most decorated and celebrated athletes.

In the men’s competition, Mexico beat host Japan, 3-1, to win the bronze medal.

She came into the Tokyo Games as the favorite to win the women’s sport climbing event in its Olympic debut, and said she had felt immense pressure to win.

In speed climbing, the first of the three climbing segments in the final, the competitors sprint to the top of a wall, using memory and sheer power.

She then finished first in bouldering, which requires climbers to problem solve as they ascend multiple climbing walls without a rope, and she reached the top of two of the three walls.

At times hanging on only by her red, chalk-covered fingernails, Garnbret, 22, also was No.

Not only did the volunteers in the stands applaud Nonaka and Noguchi, but groups of fans who had gathered on one big walkway next to the arena also leapt up and down in exhilaration.

Laura Muir of Britain finished second for her first medal at a major international outdoor championship, and Hassan finished with the bronze — no small consolation for an athlete who already won the 5,000 meters and has raced through hot, grinding heats since the start of the track and field competition.

She returned to win the silver medal at the 2019 world championships, and ran the fourth fastest time in the history of the event at a meet in July: 3:51.07.

They lead the tournament in scoring, assists and field goal percentage — and also in star power with the likes of Bird, A’ja Wilson and Diana Taurasi.

They had a comeback win over China in the quarterfinals and are the reigning EuroBasket champions; they are noted for a grinding if not flashy offense and a tough defense.

But the Americans, who are ranked No.

“The winning team is going to come out extra aggressive, but we have to fight through that,’’ Sylvia Fowles said.

The Americans won, 21-15, 21-16 over Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia on a blisteringly hot day at Shiokaze Park.

Ross, a two-time Olympic medalist, was watching.

Without fans in the stands in Tokyo, it was easier to catch the pair’s enthusiasm and communication in the stadium.

“I just can’t believe it,” Klineman said minutes after they earned their spot in the final.

They had an extraordinary run at the Tokyo Olympics, winning gold without dropping a set in any of their four matches in sweltering heat.

“When you’re working for something like this, you need someone who is going to work their butt off every day,” Ross said.

For Ross, the gold medal is the culmination of a career that at times was lost in the long shadow of the greatest U.S.

In her first Olympic trip, Ross won silver in 2012 with Jennifer Kessy, losing the final to the legendary duo.

But as the bell sounded, Cheptegei did what he was expected to do, moving to the front and opening up just enough of a gap on the back stretch to make it a race for second and third place.

Mayor Takashi Kawamura of Nagoya apologized after biting the gold medal of Miu Goto, a member of the Japanese national softball team, during a ceremony on Wednesday as he stood in front of a backdrop promoting coronavirus safety precautions.

Local news reports said Mr. Kawamura had visited Toyota to deliver a letter of apology, but he waited in the car while his aides went inside.

As average temperatures rise across the globe, scientists warn, more cities will struggle — as Tokyo has — to host the Olympics in the summer months.

A team of researchers predicted that by 2085, under a worst-case emissions scenario, where emissions of greenhouse gases aren’t brought under control in coming decades, just 33 of 645 major cities in the Northern Hemisphere would be able to host the Olympics in July and August in a climate safe for athletes.

Tord Kjellstrom, an environmental and occupational health scientist, who handled the team’s data analysis, ran the same analysis for The New York Times using a more moderate emissions scenario — one that assumes the nations of the world will take enough action to stabilize planet-warming emissions shortly after 2100.

They focused on the marathon as the most demanding endurance event, and used a WBGT of 26 degrees Celsius, or about 79 degrees Fahrenheit, as a low-risk limit for the event.

They examined cities with a population of more than 600,000, the lower limit among Olympic host cities in the postwar period.

Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor at Arizona State University who has studied the effects of extreme heat on athletes, cautioned that long-term predictions were challenging, and pointed to recent research that has started to show that worst-case scenarios are unlikely.

Summer heat has added a new dimension to the Olympics’ climate concerns.

“I think a lot of people feel misled,” said Shuhei Nomura, an associate professor of health policy and management at Keio University.

Of course, the International Olympic Committee could move the Games to cooler months.

Moving outdoor endurance events to cooler locations — as Tokyo organizers did with the marathon races taking place this weekend in the northern city of Sapporo — could also become necessary, experts say.

“One of the points we’ve made to the I.O.C.

The 50-kilometer racewalking world-record holder, Yohann Diniz of France, raced, er, walked the course of about 31 miles in three hours, 32 minutes and 33 seconds in 2014.

“We are working with the I.O.C.

The 50-kilometer’s demise has Elliott Denman upset.

The race, which was introduced in 1932 at the Los Angeles Games and held every Summer Olympics since then except the Montreal Games in 1976, is apparently too slow and tedious for younger sports fans.

The race, like the men’s and women’s marathons, was moved from Tokyo to Sapporo, on the northern island of Hokkaido, because it’s cooler there.

TOKYO — There is a lot of sand in Qatar but not a lot of beach parties.

A lack of tradition, though, has not stopped Qatar from assembling a top-flight beach volleyball team.

In Tokyo, Qatar has fielded 16 competitors — 13 men and three women — most of whom were drafted from other countries.

The case of the 200-meter specialist Kristina Timanovskaya, 24, briefly turned the Tokyo Games into the center of a major diplomatic conflict when Timanovskaya sought sanctuary from the police at Narita International Airport.

The International Olympic Committee had come under pressure over the slow progress of its investigation into the matter until, on Friday, the organization announced in a Twitter post that it had asked the coaches, Artur Shimak and Yuri Moisevich, to leave the Olympic Games.

She said the two men had come to her room at the Olympic Village to persuade her to recant the complaints she had made in her Instagram post and to go home.

Timanovskaya can be heard crying on the tape.

Targets of the crackdown also included a number of athletes, leading to the I.O.C.’s decision in December to bar the Lukashenkos from attending the Tokyo Games.

So far, at least 436 people with Olympic credentials, including 32 athletes, have tested positive for the coronavirus in Japan.

Olympic organizers on Saturday reported 22 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections in the Olympic bubble to slightly more than 400.

At least 409 people connected to the Games have tested positive since July 1, including 32 athletes, according to organizers.

The measures have done little to slow the spread of the virus, as Tokyo and Japan as a whole have had record numbers of daily cases in recent days and officials warned that the outbreak was severely straining the health system.

The ratings have been a disappointment, averaging 16.8 million viewers a night through Tuesday, a steep drop from the 29 million who tuned in through the same day of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.

Instead of the usual pageant of athletes smiling and waving to the crowd, there was a procession of participants walking through a mostly empty Tokyo Olympic Stadium, all wearing masks to protect against the spread of Covid-19 as a new variant raged.

The absence or early exits of popular athletes from some events, including the gymnast Simone Biles, the runner Sha’Carri Richardson, the tennis champion Naomi Osaka and the basketball star LeBron James, further dimmed expectations.

In baseball, the United States will try to earn only its second gold in the sport when it faces Japan, the only team it has lost to in this Olympics, at 6 a.m.

The track docket includes both 4×400-meter relays, always a highlight, plus the men’s 1,500 meters and the women’s 10,000 meters and high jump.

Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the women’s marathon on Saturday morning in Sapporo, Japan.

Unfortunately for karate fans, karate will not be included in the Paris Games in 2024.

When Bethany Shriever secured the gold medal in the women’s BMX racing final, it was in an event in which she was not even projected to be a finalist.

But it wasn’t just that Shriever, who was racing against the two-time defending Olympic champion Mariana Pajon of Colombia, was an unlikely contender to make the final, let alone claim gold.

“I would just be training with boys pretty much,” she said.

In a budget review after the 2016 Rio Games, UK Sport, the government body that invests in Olympic and Paralympic sports in Britain, cut funding to the women’s BMX program and announced it would finance only the men’s program in its journey to Tokyo.

“There were nights when I couldn’t put everything into training because I was just so knackered from work,” she said, adding that her employer was flexible with her schedule, giving her half days or allowing her time off for competitions.

She calculated what it might cost to hire a coach and to compete in various races before setting up a GoFundMe page for 50,000 pounds, or just about $70,000.

By midsummer 2019, Shriever had rejoined the British Cycling program.

Shriever won all three of her heats in Tokyo and then the final, screaming on her bike as she crossed the finish line.

Shriever is still the only woman on her six-member racing team, which includes Kye Whyte, who won the silver medal in the men’s event and was cheering from the sidelines as she made history.

Women have come a long way in BMX, Shriever said, with more getting involved despite the obstacles they have to overcome to get the same opportunities as men.

Fans can also catch the women’s 400-meter final, which concluded with Allyson Felix taking the bronze, her 10th Olympic medal.

CANOE/KAYAK Catch the semifinals in the men’s and women’s kayak four 500-meter events, followed by the men’s canoe single 1,000-meter and women’s canoe double 500-meter from the Sea Forest Waterway.

The win — by 25-19, 25-15, 25-23 — brought both joy and relief for the Americans, who lost to the Serbs five years ago in the semifinal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Karch Kiraly, the U.S.

The team in Tokyo now will have a chance to redeem itself from that loss when it plays Brazil in the gold medal match on Sunday.

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