Gold in surfing, fourth shooting medal

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Day four at the Tokyo Olympics will probably be headlined by some of the anticipated occasions of 2021 — the ladies’s gymnastics group closing.

Nevertheless, an upset win for Alaskan teen Lydia Jacoby within the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke supplied an early spotlight in Tuesday’s motion. Jacoby edged U.S. teammate Lilly King, the defending champion within the occasion from the 2016 Video games in Rio. King ended up getting bronze, one in every of three on the day for American swimmers.

One other upset occurred on the Ariake Tennis Park Centre Courtroom as No. 2 seed and Olympic cauldron lighter Naomi Osaka lost in straight sets to Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-4. Osaka had dominated within the first two spherical of the Video games, however racked up 32 unforced errors in her loss on Tuesday.

After a not-so impressive qualifying round, the Simone Biles-led U.S. ladies’s gymnastics group will look to reclaim its standing as heavy favorites and win a 3rd consecutive group gold medal early Tuesday within the U.S. (6:45 a.m. ET).

Group USA may also safe one other gold medal in softball after a walk-off win towards Japan on Monday — the identical group they will face in the gold medal game at 7 a.m. ET. U.S. softball may also look to avenge a gold-medal loss within the 2008 Olympics to Japan, the final time the game was a part of the Summer season Video games.

In the meantime, the outside occasions may all face climate implications as tropical storm Nepartak is anticipated to hit Japan on Tuesday.

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Tokyo reported a report variety of new COVID-19 circumstances Tuesday, 4 days after the opening ceremony on the Tokyo Olympics.

The two,848 new circumstances introduced by authorities officers Tuesday eclipsed the earlier report of 2,520 circumstances, reported on Jan. 7. Tokyo is beneath a state of emergency for the rest of the Video games.

Olympic organizers, in the meantime, introduced seven new circumstances amongst their stakeholders Tuesday — together with 4 residents of the Olympic Village and two athletes. Not one of the optimistic circumstances included Individuals, in response to a separate announcement by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

— Tom Schad

CHIBA, Japan – American Carissa Moore, the top-ranked ladies’s surfer on the earth, discovered a brand new technique to validate her spot on the apex of the game.

She won an Olympic gold medal – the primary for ladies’s browsing.

With the game making its Olympic debut on the Tokyo Video games, Moore defeated Bianca Buitendag of South Africa on Tuesday within the gold medal match at Tsurigasaki Browsing Seashore.

— Josh Peter

TOKYO — For the primary time in a very long time, the U.S. ladies’s basketball group got here to the Olympics dogged by some doubts.

Not about whether or not it will fall wanting a gold medal, which remains to be within the realm of believe-it-when-you-see-it. However the stress stage it’d take to get there may be an open dialogue for Group USA, which has six first-time Olympians, depends closely on a 40-year-old and a 39-year-old and didn’t precisely look primed for a traditionally dominant run throughout its coaching camp in Las Vegas.

Primarily based on Tuesday’s 81-72 win over Nigeria in its Olympic opener, these questions are nonetheless legitimate.

— Dan Wolken

TOKYO — The U.S. taking pictures group is having a standout efficiency on the Olympics.

William Shaner obtained issues began on the Asaka Capturing Vary when he won gold in the 10-meter air rifle on Sunday. Shaner’s 251.6 broke an Olympic report.

The record-breaking gold medal taking pictures performances didn’t cease there.

A day later, Amber English and Vincent Hancock gained gold within the men and women’s skeet taking pictures.

English set an Olympic report with 56 hits. Hancock, who is nice associates with English, gained gold on the identical day, setting a males’s Olympic report with 59 hits.

Three golds and three Olympic information within the matter of two days. No stress for Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky who proceeded the three within the 10-meter air rifle blended group competitors on Tuesday.

Tucker and Kozeniesky certified for the gold match after two phases of competitors, ending the sequence with a rating of 418.0. The American duo solely trailed China’s Qian Yang and Haoran Yang, who had a complete of 419.7, heading into the gold-medal match.

Within the battle for gold, the Chinese language shooters have been extremely correct. The pair didn’t have a single particular person shot rating under a 9.8. The Chinese language group’s accuracy via the rounds was an excessive amount of for the Individuals to beat, as they defeated the American duo 17-13 to win the gold medal.

Tucker and Kozeniesky have been awarded the silver to provide U.S. taking pictures 4 total Olympic medals.

“U.S. taking pictures is enhancing in all of our facets and we have gotten a greater group,” Tucker stated. “We’re successful medals collectively. I hope this retains getting individuals within the sport. There isn’t numerous curiosity in taking pictures within the U.S. Hopefully us bringing our medal rely to 4, and we nonetheless obtained per week to go – hopefully that can assist.”

— Tyler Dragon

TOKYO — The American diving duo of Delaney Schnell and Jessica Parratto took silver in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform on Tuesday, marking the primary time the U.S. has medaled within the Olympic occasion.

Schnell, 22, and Parratto, 27, completed with 310.80 whole factors, which was 52.98 factors behind first-place China and 11.1 factors forward of third-place Mexico. Because the occasion was launched on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, China has taken gold at every subsequent Summer season Video games.

— Olivia Reiner

CHIBA, Japan — American Caroline Marks, at 19 the youngest qualifier within the ladies’s Olympic browsing competitors, missed out on an opportunity to win a bronze medal Tuesday.

Marks, a local of Florida, misplaced to Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan at Tsurigasaki Browsing Seashore within the bronze medal match.

Earlier within the day, Marks gained her quarterfinals warmth towards Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica. She then misplaced to Bianca Buitendag of South Africa, relegating her to the bronze-medal matchup.

— Josh Peter

Canada defeated Mexico, 3-2, within the bronze-medal sport in softball to seize the nation’s first-ever Olympic medal within the sport.

Canada opened the scoring within the second inning on a two-out, two-run single by Emma Entzminger. After Mexico tied the sport within the prime of the fifth inning, Canada obtained the successful run within the backside half of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Kelsey Harshman that scored Janet Leung.

The USA will face Japan within the gold-medal sport Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET (on NBC Sports activities Community). In 2008, the final time softball was competed on the Olympics, Japan defeated the U.S. within the gold-medal sport. Earlier than that setback, the U.S. had gained three straight gold medals courting again to the game’s Olympics debut in 1996.

— Jim Reineking

TOKYO – Two issues appeared clear via the primary two days of Naomi Osaka’s quest to win an Olympic gold medal. The primary was how a lot it meant to her to be representing Japan, which bestowed her the consideration of lighting the Olympic flame on the Opening Ceremony. The second was that her tennis appeared as much as the event.

However that’s the wonderful factor about sports activities. Every part we predict we all know can change within the blink of a watch.

Identical to that, Osaka’s run is over after a shocking 6-1, 6-4 loss to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, persevering with the pattern of excessive seeds bowing out early within the ladies’s singles draw.

Primarily based on practically each issue conceivable, it will have been arduous to see this coming. Vondrousova, a 22-year outdated lefty, surprisingly made the French Open closing in 2019 however has only one WTA title to her identify. Her kind recently has been inconsistent at finest, having fallen to No. 42 after a stint within the prime 20.

This was Osaka’s first match since withdrawing from the French Open, citing the necessity to take a break for her psychological well being. Her focus now will flip to defending her U.S. Open title later this summer time, however in some ways, her whole 12 months had been constructed round attempting to win a gold medal in Tokyo.

Now that dream is gone, opening up the sector paying homage to the 2016 Olympics when longshot Monica Puig took gold.

— Dan Wolken

American surfer Carissa Moore will compete for an Olympic gold medal Tuesday after successful her semifinals warmth.

Moore, a four-time world champion, defeated Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan by a skinny margin.

She’s going to face South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag, who defeated American Caroline Marks within the different semifinals warmth.

The highest-ranked ladies’s surfer on the earth, Moore, 28, entered the competitors as the favourite.

Earlier within the day, she gained her quarterfinals warmth towards Silvana Lima of Brazil.

— Josh Peter

American surfer Caroline Marks will compete for an Olympic bronze medal Tuesday after developing quick in her semifinals warmth.

Marks, 19, misplaced to Bianca Buitendag of South Africa at Tsurigasaki Browsing Seashore.

Marks, a local of Florida, will face the loser of the semifinals warmth between fellow American Carissa Moore, a four-time world champion, and Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan.

Earlier within the day, Marks gained her quarterfinals warmth towards Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica.

— Josh Peter

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TOKYO – Alaskan teen Lydia Jacoby pulled off the upset in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, changing into the primary American girl to win gold in swimming in these Olympics.

She beat U.S. teammate Lilly King, who was chasing her second consecutive Olympic gold medal within the breast.

Jacoby gained in 1:04.95 adopted by Tatjana Schoenmaker from South Africa and King, who took bronze.

King, 24, brashly predicted eventually month’s U.S. Olympic trials that American ladies may win each particular person race at these Olympics.

She additionally famously referred to as out Russia’s twice-suspended Yulia Efimova, slapping the water in celebration after defeating her in Rio in 2016.

— Christine Brennan

The U.S. males’s rugby group fell to South Africa 17-12 to complete second in Pool C after posting a 2-1 report in round-robin play.

The U.S. will play Nice Britain within the quarterfinals Tuesday at 5 a.m. ET (on NBC Sports activities Community). Nice Britain gained silver within the 2016 Olympics, which marked the return of rugby sevens to the Olympic docket after 92 years.

The opposite quarterfinal matches are New Zealand-Canada (4:30 a.m. ET), South Africa-Argentina (5:30 a.m. ET) and Fiji-Australia (6 a.m. ET).

Fiji are the reigning gold medal winners. The U.S. didn’t qualify for the quarterfinals in 2016.

— Jim Reineking

TOKYO — Ryan Murphy fell wanting his aim of repeating as Olympic champion within the males’s 100 meter backstroke as Russian Olympic Committee swimmers Evgeny Rylov (51.98 seconds) and Kliment Koleskinov (52.00) took gold and silver forward of him on Tuesday.

Murphy swam a 52.19 to claim bronze, regardless of coming into the ultimate with the highest time of 52.24, 5 one-hundredths of a second forward of Koleskinov.

The College of California-Berkeley graduate additionally gained gold within the 200-meter again and the 4×100 medley relay in Rio, his first Olympics. He can nonetheless repeat within the 200-meter backstroke as qualifying heats start on Wednesday.

— Chris Bumbaca

TOKYO – American Regan Smith, the previous world-record holder within the ladies’s 100 backstroke, gained the bronze medal Tuesday morning on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Present world-record holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia won gold in 57.47 seconds adopted by Canadian Kylie Masse in 57.72. McKeown’s time was an Olympic report.

Smith was third in 58.05.

Smith, 19, one in every of 11 youngsters on the U.S. Olympic swimming group, probably the most since 1996, set the Olympic report in qualifying Monday in 57.86 seconds. She was the third swimmer to do it right here, following Masse and McKeown. They’re the one three swimmers in historical past to interrupt 58 seconds.

— Christine Brennan

TOKYO – The second-seeded U.S. ladies’s seashore volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman stay undefeated (2-0) in pool play on the Tokyo Olympics.