Tokyo 2020: Daily Pac-12 guide to the Olympic Games (July 31)

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Paul Casey (ARIZONA STATE) began spherical three of the Olympic males’s golf competitors 4 pictures off the tempo set by 36-hole chief Xander Schauffele. By the conclusion of play, Casey, representing Nice Britain, had reduce two pictures off his deficit, inserting himself properly inside putting distance of a gold medal with a 5-under 66. 

“It is motivated me, it is impressed me,” Casey mentioned after his spherical. “It is already been a win. I simply hope it is a actually large win.”

Casey is aiming to grow to be the second consecutive British golfer to win gold within the not too long ago renewed males’s golf competitors. Fellow countryman Justin Rose captured the primary gold medal in Olympic golf competitors in over a century at Rio in 2016. 

The duty won’t be straightforward, as Casey must prime a congested leaderboard that options 12 gamers inside 5 pictures of Schauffele’s lead at 14-under. Casey will tee off within the ultimate group with Schauffele and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama at 7:09 p.m. PT.

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» Katie Ledecky (STANFORD) made it a three-peat in her prime occasion, the 800-meter freestyle, with one other gold medal efficiency. Ledecky grew to become the third feminine swimmer to win gold in an occasion at three consecutive Video games, becoming a member of Hungary’s Krisztina Egerszegi (200-meter backstroke) and Australia’s Daybreak Fraser (100-meter freestyle). The 800 freestyle was the final particular person occasion for Ledecky at these Video games, and eventually she conquered Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who had bested her within the 200 and 400 free finals. 

» Kelly Claes (USC)  and Sarah Sponcil (UCLA) capped off an undefeated run by means of pool play in girls’s seaside volleyball competitors with a 2-1 set victory over Brazil. The third-ranked pair could have a primetime matchup Sunday evening with Canada within the Spherical of 16 which can start at 5 p.m. PT.

» Nico Mannion (ARIZONA) supplied 14 factors off the bench for Crew Italy in an 80-71 victory over Nigeria that secured a spot for Italy within the males’s basketball quarterfinals. The victory marks the fifth consecutive Olympic berth for Italy with an look within the quarterfinals. 

Wanting Forward: The swimming competitions will conclude Saturday evening, with finals within the males’s and ladies’s 50 free, males’s 1,500 free and males’s and ladies’s 4×100 medley relays. It was a profitable week within the pool for the Pac-12. Of the Convention’s 43 whole particular person medals by means of Day 9, 18 got here within the pool throughout a wide range of races.

Quote of the Day: “I really like the coaching, I really like the day-to-day. I’m simply going to maintain doing it till I really feel prefer it’s time. Clearly the Olympics in 2028 are in L.A. in order that’s form of on the market and interesting additionally.” – Katie Ledecky (STANFORD) on her future as an Olympian 

Jack Johnson is a journalism scholar at Arizona State College. This story is a part of a collaboration between the Pac-12 Convention and ASU’s Walter Cronkite College of Journalism and Mass Communication.