Hardly half a day passed before politics, the pandemic and blistering heat impacted events across the Tokyo Olympics.
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China바카라s Yang Qian, at least, stayed right on target.
Yang overtook Anastasiia Galashina of Russia to win the first gold medal of the Tokyo Games in the women바카라s 10-meter air rifle Saturday. Her last shot was her worst of the finals but still rallied her past Galashina with an Olympic-record score of 251.8. Switzerland바카라s Nina Christen took bronze.
바카라It바카라s unbelievable that I can be here,바카라 Yang said through an interpreter. 바카라I was really nervous. The competition was really tight, but I바카라m so happy that I could win.바카라
Galashina led Yang by 0.2 points when they fired almost simultaneously on their last shots. The limited crowd at Asaka Shooting Range let out gasps as the scores posted a split second later.
Yang, a 21-year-old who qualified sixth of the eight medal competitors, missed the innermost circle on her final shot, a 9.8 that she figured would cost her gold.
She looked up to see Galashina missed the two center rings. The Russian바카라s 8.9 meant IOC President Thomas Bach would present Yang the gold medal on a tray 바카라 per pandemic protocols 바카라 instead of Galashina.
COVID-19 CANCELATION
The first event of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament was canceled because a Czech player tested positive for COVID-19. Markéta Sluková, who tested positive earlier this week, and partner Barbora Hermannova were eliminated from the tournament.
Already empty because of a ban on fans, the venue at Shiokaze Park was eerily still when the match was supposed to start at 9 a.m. on Saturday, the only sound coming from the incredibly loud cicadas in the nearby trees.
The Japanese team of Megumi Murakami and Miki Ishii earned the win by default after qualifying for the tournament via the entry reserved for the host country. Officially, the Czechs were marked as 바카라Did Not Start,바카라 and their three round-robin opponents will be awarded victories.
Sluková is one of at least three members of the Czech team who have tested positive since their arrival in Japan, including men바카라s beach volleyball player OndÅÂej PerušiÄÂ. The team has said it바카라s investigating if the outbreak of COVID-19 is linked to its charter flight to Tokyo.
PALESTINIAN PASS
An Algerian judo athlete will be sent home after he withdrew from the competition to avoid potentially facing an Israeli opponent.
Fethi Nourine and his coach, Amar Benikhlef, told Algerian media they were withdrawing to avoid a possible second-round matchup with Israel바카라s Tohar Butbul in the men바카라s 73 kg division on Monday. Nourine was to face Sudan바카라s Mohamed Abdalrasool in the opening round, with the winner facing Butbul, the fifth seed.
The International Judo Federation바카라s executive committee has temporarily suspended Nourine and Benikhlef, who are likely to face sanctions beyond the Olympics. The Algerian Olympic committee then withdrew both men바카라s accreditation and made plans to send them home.
Nourine and Benikhlef attribute their stance to their political support for Palestinians.
SWELTERING START
Tennis player Daniil Medvedev wants organizers to move matches to the evening after players slogged through their opening matches in heat that reached 91 degrees F (33 degrees C) and a heat index that made it feel like 100 F (38 C).
Medvedev called it 바카라some of the worst바카라 heat he바카라s played in after eliminating Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 6-4, 7-6 (8).
바카라I바카라m not going to lie. But you have to play,바카라 the Russian said. 바카라That바카라s the Olympics, you go for the medal. You are not here to cry about the heat.바카라
French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova grasped for an air tube during a medical timeout and shoved bags of ice up her skirt during a changeover as she routed Sara Errani of Italy 6-0, 6-1.
바카라You바카라re just not feeling great,바카라 Pavlyuchenkova said. 바카라So I wasn바카라t enjoying it at all.바카라
ON THE BOARD
Naohisa Takato won Japan바카라s first gold medal, beating Taiwan바카라s Yang Yung-wei in the men바카라s 60-kilogram judo final.
The charismatic Takato바카라s success could provide a much-needed jolt of excitement for a nation still feeling profoundly ambivalent about these Olympics and discouraged by the scandals and coronavirus setbacks surrounding them.
The 28-year-old Takato atoned for his disappointing bronze-medal performance in Rio de Janeiro five years ago with a hair-raising run to the Tokyo final at the venerable Nippon Budokan arena, the site of judo바카라s introduction to the Olympics in 1964.
ALREADY DONE
The youngest competitor at the Tokyo Games has been eliminated, and so has an Olympic great.
Hend Zaza of Syria lost in straight sets to Liu Jia, ending the 12-year-old바카라s hopes of making noise as the youngest table tennis player in Olympics history.
Zaza told Olympics.com that she was pleased with her performance and learned from the loss 바카라 and she바카라s hoping for another shot at the next Olympics, in Paris.
Two-time Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura바카라s Olympic career ended when the 32-year-old Japanese gymnast fell during qualifying on high bar.
Considered by many the greatest of all time, the 2012 and 바카라16 all-around gold medalist was midway through his set when he peeled off while doing a complicated connection. He picked himself up and finished his routine, drilling his dismount.
His score of 13.866 placed him outside of the top eight, meaning he will not make the finals.
