Tokyo Olympics 2020 Titmus beats Ledecky to gold Peaty wins Team GBs first gold live
Meanwhile at Oi Hockey Stadium, the Hockeyroos are on the verge of an emphatic Pool B win over China, up 4-0 in the fourth and final quarter after two goals to Emily Chalker and one apiece to Ambrosia Malone and Brooke Peris, the cousin of Nova.
As more risks are taken, more zeros are recorded. It is a fine balance to strike, because one big trick can win it but so can a decent one that actually comes off. Case in point is Zwetsloot, who was leading but fails to land the last four of her five attempts. There are only three possible medallists now in Nishiya, Leal and Funa Nakayama, we just don’t know in what order yet. Leal is up, and she falls! Nishiya has her chance, and she jumps and completes a lip trick nobody has whipped out before this very moment. Pressure is on her compatriot now, and when Nakayama falls Nishiya is confirmed as the gold medallist at the age of. It’s fist pumps all round. Japan owns the street. Pretty cool really.
Would you look at this! The other 13-year-old, Japan’s Momiji Nishiya (15.5k followers) lands a whopping move and moves to the top ahead of Leal. Two 13-year-olds lead the race for gold with one trick remaining. Here’s Nishiya a little earlier.
gabb ðŸ' (@tegomass)13 year old nishiya momiji being the coolest at the olympics i love her 🥺ðŸ'•pic.twitter.com/QhZOypzSTJ
July 26, 2021The skateboarding is getting tense. We are into the fourth of five tricks and Leal knows how to crescendo. After failing to complete her first attempt, she scores 3.91 and then 4.21 which, combined with her solid scores from the run section, has her in first. Alexis Sablone of the US is second and Zwetsloot third.
Here is Leal with Tony Hawk, the skateboarding great who spotted her on Instgram as an eight-year-old. Now she has two million Insta followers and is ranked second in the world.
Aniket Mishra (@aniketmishra299)Rayssa Leal is just 13
She makes her Olympic skateboarding debut tomorrow
Oh, and this is her talking to one of the sports biggest legends - Tony Hawk earlier today 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Yy2OqdghCh
July 25, 2021Quick round-up of the morning session of the men’s rugby sevens. Argentina edged Australia 29-19 to move up to second spot in Pool A. Australia are in third after one match with New Zealand leading and the top two teams automatically progressing. Also through will be the top two third-placed teams across the three pools. Great Britain and Fiji are ranked one and two in Pool B and South Africa and the US are thus in Pool C.
We’re into the tricks section of the street skateboarding final now, which means ... go hard or go home! Zwetsloot opts for the former and it comes off. She sails smoothly down a long, rather thin rail. The kind of you wouldn’t dare rest more than a hand on while climbing the stairs. She scores 4.12. Momiji Nishiya stacks it on the same one, and she is not the only one. Quite a few falls in this tough section. But Zeng is upright. She slides down a thicker rail but flips her board on her way up, and the cute routine earns her a score of ... 4.93! Shut the front door! She jumps to second behind Zwetsloot.
Quick peek at the archery, where Great Britain’s men’s team have booked a quarter-final berth against the Netherlands after a 6-0 rout of Indonesia. The other match-ups are:
Korea v India
USA v Japan
China v Taiwan
Taiwan knocked out Australia in a tightly contested 5-4 win in the 1/8 elimination.
It’s 16-year-old Zeng Wenhui from China who is on song. In her second and final run she completes a flawless 50/50, flips her board underneath her feet and finishes with a flourish. She is outscored by Japan’s Aori Nishimura, who pulls off a field-high 3.46 but a poor first run of 0.46 means she sits only in fourth. And oh, look at this! Roos Zwetsloot has a 3.80! The Dutch athlete, who had to choose between skateboarding and hockey, may be happy she went with the former because she could walk away with a gold medal.
What a swimming session. I watched it all from the comfort of my couch and fortuitously replace Jonathan as soon as the chaos is over. So I will take you away from the pool now and to Ariake Sport Park, where the women’s street skateboarding final is under way. There are a couple of 13-year-olds in this. The youngest is Brazil’s Rayssa Leal (a friend of Tony Hawk, if you don’t mind), who starts her first run audaciously on some rails and gets on a roll before misjudging a lip slide and falling. She scores 2.94.
Thanks everyone for tolerating me for the past few hours. That was a ride, wasn’t it? A superb morning in the pool comes to a close, and it’s time for me to pass you on to Emma Kemp for more from Tokyo 2020.
Swimming: Here’s Kieran Pender’s latest report from poolside on a superb morning’s racing, especially for Australia.
Tennis: Just as she likes it, Naomi Osaka is quietly progressing through the women’s singles draw.
Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol)Naomi Osaka reaches the third round in Tokyo with another simple win, beating Viktorija Golubic 6-3 6-2.
Not everyone is capable of immediately performing after not competing for two months, but this has been a constant feature Osaka's past year. Good start.
July 26, 2021Swimming: The USA led from the second Caeleb Dressel leapt off the blocks. How many medals will he leave Tokyo with, and how many of them will be gold?
Comprehensive from the USA, Italy hold on for silver, Australia snatch bronze! Incredible final leg from Chalmers!
Swimming: Still the USA in the lead, Italy close behind, but now Canada are in third. Australia relying on some Kyle Chalmers magic.
Swimming: Maybe I pressed send too soon. Dressel tightened up in the final 25m and it’s an even top three with USA, France, and Italy at halfway.
Swimming: Lol - Dressel absolutely smashes the first leg, giving the USA an early lead.
Swimming: The final medals of the session will be awarded shortly with the final of the men’s 100m freestyle relay coming up. Can Caeleb Dressel (USA) secure his first gold of the meet? Will Italy back up their superb qualification? Can Australia continue their superb morning?
Swimming: Canada’s Kylie Masse wins the second women’s 100m backstroke semi, followed close behind by a pair of Aussies, Kaylee McKeown and Emily Seebohm. The Olympic record streak is broken.
Swimming: For the fourth consecutive race in the women’s 100m backstroke the Olympic record has fallen. Regan Smith (USA) has retaken possession of the mark for the second time this meet after winning the first semi-final. Rhyan Elizabeth White (USA) came second, Kathleen Dawson (GBR) third.
Speaking of the softball, Paul has just dropped me an email.
“Hi, I live in Yokohama and have to say that I find it really odd that Japan has just played USA at Yokohama Stadium with no crowd allowed, but just 5k down the road, two high-school baseball teams are playing at a stadium with crowds allowed.â€
Justin McCurry has been on the ground in Japan for a while, filing dispatches on this most peculiar of Games experiences. Here’s his latest.
Softball: USA end the group phase unbeaten with a narrow victory over Japan. The two nations meet again in tomorrow’s gold medal match.
Team USA (@TeamUSA)Undefeated.
Up next âž¡ï¸ gold medal game.@USASoftballWNT x #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/94JkBPRfwb
July 26, 2021Surfing: Relief for Australia as Sally Fitzgibbons progresses to the quarterfinals of the women’s surfing. Stephanie Gilmore suffered a huge upset in heat one, but Fitzgibbons prevailed in a tight heat eight, 10.86 v 9.03 against Pauline Ado (FRA).
We have our first viral moment of Tokyo 2020. Dean Boxhall, enjoy your 15-minutes.
Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano)when i get home and see the taco spot cooked the tortillas exactly like i like them pic.twitter.com/fDpBKlx0fj
July 26, 2021Swimming: Australian Isaac Cooper finished seventh in the second semi of the men’s 100m backstroke. Kliment Kolesnikov led an ROC one-two. Team USA’s Joseph Armstrong was tied fifth.
Skateboarding: 13-year-old Rayssa Leal (BRA) has joined 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya (JPN) in the women’s street final. They are currently the second and third highest-ranked qualifiers.
Swimming: Back to the action and Ryan Murphy (USA) has led home Mitch Larkin (AUS) in the first semi-final of the men’s 100m backstroke.
Swimming: It’s rare that any sporting event lives up to the hype, but that 400m free final delivered in spades. Even the coaching on the sidelines.
SHOUT AHT DEAN BOXALL #Tokyo2020 #Olympics
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July 26, 2021Swimming: 20-year-old Ariarne Titmus is now a World and Olympic Champion. “I can’t believe it, I’m trying to contain my emotions... More than anything it’s relief to do the job... I wouldn’t be here without her (Ledecky) setting the standard. I’ve just been trying to chase her. She’s really fun to race... I can’t believe I actually pulled it off!â€
Swimming: What a race for Ariarne Titmus! That will dominate Australia’s Olympics for the remainder of the competition. 3.56.69 from the Australian to set a new PB and national record. The great Katie Ledecky has to settle for silver after leading for 300m, only to find Titmus power past on the final two laps. Incredible sporting theatre.
Li Bingjie from China took bronze.
WOW! Titmus beats Katie Ledecky!
Swimming: 300m - Titmus coming back hard...
Swimming: 200m into the women’s 400m free final, and as expected it’s a race between two swimmers. At the halfway mark Ledecky has the edge over Titmus, and she’s not far off WR pace.
Swimming: How good is Ledecky? How significant is the rise of Titmus?
InsightLane (@insightlane)Fastest 33 times in the history of the women's 400M freestyle:
26x K Ledecky 🇺🇸 (#1, 3-8, 10-14, 16-17, 19-20, 23-29, 31-33)
5x A Titmus 🇦🇺 (#2, 9, 18, 21, 22)
2x F Pellegrini 🇮🇹 (#15, 30)
0x Everyone else#Swimming #Tokyo2020
Swimming: Caught your breath? Nope, me neither, nonetheless we’re off to the women’s 400m free final and that titanic clash between Australia and USA. Kieran Pender has been all over this:
Ledecky v Titmus is finally here. The rivals are expected to face off for individual gold at least two more times later this week â€" in the 200m and 800m freestyle â€" along with several expected relay match-ups. But the blockbuster 400m race has a special cachet, arising from its beguiling middle distance. Too long to sprint, too short to settle into an endurance rhythm â€" the 400m strains the sinew and exacerbates the pain. It is the race that crowns the queen of the pool. On Monday, there can only be one.
Swimming: Peaty’s time was 57.37. He was pushed hard in the closing stages by Kamminga, who ended on 58.00, but there was never any doubt where the gold medal was going.
Was there any doubt? Peaty goes back-to-back, leading from the first stroke to the last. The two-time Olympic champion and world record holder is a rockstar.
Arno Kamminga (NED) takes silver, Nicolò Martinenghi (ITA) bronze.
Swimming: Next up is the men’s 100m breaststroke final. Can anyone come close to Adam Peaty? Andy Bull doesn’t think so.
Forget death and taxes, in Tokyo it’s queues, health questionnaires, and the men’s 100m breaststroke. There are not supposed to be any certainties in sport, but Adam Peaty’s chances of winning a second gold in the event here in Tokyo feels as close to inevitable as you can get. His dominance is unprecedented. He has won it at the last three world championships, as well as the Rio Olympics, has broken the world record five times in five years, and swum the 17 fastest times in history, four of them this spring and summer. There isn’t another man in the field who has got within a second of his personal best.
Swimming: Lilly King (USA) finishes second behind Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA) in the second semi of the 100m breaststroke. Team GB’s Sarah Vasey faded to finish fifth.
Another Australian misses a final by the barest of margins, this time Chelsea Hodges.
Skateboarding: 13-year-old - THIRTEEN! - Japanese skateboarder Momiji Nishiya is going through to the finals of the women’s street event. She currently has the second highest qualifying mark.
Swimming: Lydia Jacoby (USA) wins the first women’s 100m breaststroke semi. Australia’s Chelsea Hodges came in fifth. Not a blistering heat, won in 1.05.72.
Rugby 7s: Australia fought back but Argentina took the honours 29-19.
Swimming: Duncan Scott of Great Britain wins the second semi of the men’s 200m freestyle ahead of American Kieran Smith. It was a faster race, meaning Team GB’s Tom Dean, who finished fourth, will qualify. But that also means 19-year-old Australian Thomas Neill misses out by three one-hundredths of a second.
Rugby 7s: Argentina are leading Australia 24-0 in the first hit-outs for both sides.
Swimming: The first semi-final in the men’s 200m freestyle featured Australia’s Tommy Neill, and he finished fourth, the USA’s Townley Haas fifth. The top four were split by just 0.29 seconds in an even race. Neill will have to wait on the second semi to see if he makes the final.
Swimming: Apologies for any misplaced enthusiasm for Australian followers. It was bronze for Emma KcKeon, not silver, despite the on-screen graphic. Give your page a quick refresh and you’ll be back up to date.
That was a quick race. Zhang, Huske and Wattel turned in world record pace, but the second 50 saw a series of comebacks, led by Maggie MacNeil in lane 7. The Canadian won with a new Commonwealth record. Zhang Yufei ended in silver, and Australia’s Emma McKeon broke the Australian record for bronze. It was originally registered on-screen as silver, but it’s bronze for the Aussie.
Swimming: Ok, action in the pool is imminent. The women’s 100m butterfly final is up first.
1. Louise Hansson (SWE), 2. Torri Huske (USA), 3. Emma McKeon (AUS), 4. Zhang Yufei (CHN), 5. Marie Wattel (FRA), 6. Sarah Sjöström (SWE), 7. Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 8. Anastasiya Shkurdai (BLR).
Rugby 7s: South Korea had a conversion attempt in the shadow of half-time to move level at 7-7 with mighty New Zealand. They missed, the Kiwis stopped messing around, and powered home 50-5.
“I know there’s a lot of attention on Ledecky/Titmus, but spare a thought for NZ’s 17 year old Erika Fairweather who qualified 4th fastest, beating her PB and seeing a new NZ record by 4 seconds,†emails Leonie Short. “Her shock and delight when she saw her time last night is why I watch the Olympics. She’s an unlikely medallist, and it’s been 25 years since NZ won a medal in the water rather than on it, but imagine her thoughts on lining up in the race of the Games.â€
Excellent call. The disbelief on her face yesterday was delightful.
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