Skateboarder struggles in isolation hotel

TOKYO – The Newest on the Tokyo Olympics, that are going down beneath heavy restrictions after a yr’s delay due to the coronavirus pandemic:

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Quarantined Olympic skateboarder Sweet Jacobs says she’s needed to take motion to be allowed to get recent air in an isolation resort in Japan.

The Dutch athlete was faraway from the Olympic Village after testing constructive for COVID-19 per week in the past.

Jacobs says in a video message posted on Instagram that “not having any outdoors air is so inhuman.”

She says she refused to maneuver on her seventh day of quarantine in a room the place the window doesn’t open.

After greater than seven hours, she says, officers agreed she might stand at an open window beneath supervision for quarter-hour a day.

Jacobs says “having that first breath of out of doors air was the saddest and greatest second in my life.”

The 31-year-old skateboarder missed the road occasion within the sport’s Olympic debut.

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Jacobs says watching the occasion on tv was “a super-cool distraction” from quarantine.

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Two world champions have been knocked out of the Tokyo Olympic boxing event within the spherical of 16. That blows open the brackets at males’s featherweight and males’s mild heavyweight.

Irish featherweight Kurt Walker pulled off one of many largest upsets of the event with a 4:1 win over Uzbek world champion Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov.

Two hours later, Russian mild heavyweight Imam Khataev stunned Kazakh world champ Bekzad Nurdauletov with a 4:1 victory. The 26-year-old Khataev has practically a decade of high-level newbie expertise, however no victories to check to this upset.

Walker managed the primary spherical and held on on the finish to get a 29-28 resolution on 4 of the 5 judges’ playing cards. Walker wouldn’t have been on the Olympics if that they had been held on time: His daughter, Layla, was born three months prematurely in Might 2020 and required months of hospital care earlier than she emerged wholesome.

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Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines and Italy’s Irma Testa additionally clinched their nations’ first Olympic girls’s boxing medals by advancing to the semifinals at featherweight.

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The U.S. males’s volleyball staff has improved to 2-1 in pool play on the Olympics by beating Tunisia 3-1.

The People bounced again from a loss to the Russians on Wednesday. They knocked off the lowest-ranked staff of their group 25-14, 23-25, 25-14, 25-23.

The victory retains the U.S. in good place to advance to the quarterfinals as one of many high 4 groups in Pool B. Tunisia has misplaced all three matches thus far in Tokyo.

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Annemiek van Vleuten has roared to an emphatic victory within the girls’s time trial on the Tokyo Olympics. That gave her a measure of revenge for some miscommunication that will have value her gold within the street race final weekend.

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The Dutch rider led by greater than six seconds on the first time test, then pushed it to an astonishing 28 seconds earlier than she put the hammer down to complete in half-hour, 13.49 seconds at Fuji Worldwide Speedway.

The sixth-from-last rider on the course, van Vleuten was pressured to sit down on the new seat for a number of minutes whereas those that began after her completed. None of them actually had an opportunity. Marlen Reusser of Switzerland completed greater than 56 seconds again to earn the silver medal and van Vleuten’s teammate Anna van der Breggen earned bronze.

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Worldwide Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Japanese baseball nice Sadaharu Oh are attending the opener of the Olympic baseball event and had been on the sphere for the ceremonial first pitch in Fukushima.

They had been joined by Tokyo Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto and World Baseball Softball Confederation President Riccardo Fraccari as a highschool baseball participant from the area threw out the primary pitch — a full windup from atop the rubber.

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Bach, sporting vivid white gloves on each arms, fist bumped the 14-year-old earlier than Group Japan took the sphere for its sport towards the Dominican Republic.

It’s the one Olympic baseball sport being held in Fukushima, which was devastated by an earthquake and an ensuing tsunami and nuclear accident in 2011. The remainder of the event shall be held at Yokohama Baseball Stadium in Tokyo.

Baseball was restored to the Olympic slate this yr for the primary time since 2008. The game shall be dropped once more for the 2024 Video games in Paris however is anticipated to once more be performed in Los Angeles in 2028.

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Britain has received the lads’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay on the Olympics for the primary time since 1908, however simply missed a world document.

With a powerhouse group that included the 1-2 finishers within the 200 freestyle, Britain blew away the sphere in 6 minutes, 58.58 seconds. That was simply off the world document set by the People (6:58.55) on the 2009 world championships.

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The 200-meter gold medalist, Tom Dean, led off for the British. James Man and Matthew Richards took the center legs earlier than 200-meter silver medalist Duncan Scott swam the anchor leg. It was the primary British gold within the occasion because it made its debut on the first London Video games.

Russia claimed the silver in 7:01.81, whereas Australia took the bronze in 7:01.84.

The four-time defending champion People completed fourth — the primary time they’ve didn’t win a medal within the occasion aside from the boycotted 1980 Moscow Video games.

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Katie Ledecky has finally collected her first gold medal of the Tokyo Video games.

Ledecky has received the 1,500-meter freestyle, which made its Olympic debut for ladies this yr. That helped the American star make up for what has thus far been the worst displaying of her Olympic profession.

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About an hour after ending fifth within the 200-meter freestyle, Ledecky held off teammate Erica Sullivan to win the metric mile in quarter-hour, 37.34 seconds.

Sullivan claimed the silver in 15:41.41, whereas Germany’s Sarah Kohler grabbed the bronze in 15:42.91.

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Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi has swept the ladies’s particular person medley on the Tokyo Olympics.

Ohashi rallied to win the 200-meter medley, beating People Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass. Ohashi had beforehand received the 400-meter particular person medley.

The profitable time was 2 minutes, 8.52 seconds. Walsh took the silver in 2:08.65, whereas the bronze went to Douglass in 2:09.04.

Defending Olympic champion and world record-holder Katinka Hosszu of Hungary completed seventh. She was the oldest swimmer within the ultimate at age 32.

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China has wrapped a record-setting first day of rowing finals by smashing the world document in girls’s quadruple sculls and profitable gold.

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The Chinese language boat completed in 6 minutes, 0.13 seconds and shaved practically two seconds off the earlier mark set by the Netherlands in 2014. The race was by no means shut. Poland received silver greater than 6 seconds behind the Chinese language. Australia received bronze for that nation’s fourth medal of the day.

Windy situations produced a powerful tailwind for the rowers at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway, and new world or Olympic information had been set in every of Wednesday’s six medal races.

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Kristof Milak of Hungary has romped to a dominating victory within the males’s 200-meter butterfly on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Milak received the the gold by about two physique lengths, backing up his standing as one of many largest favorites on the Olympic pool. He touched in 1 minute, 51.25 seconds — some 2 1/2 seconds forward of the silver medalist, Japan’s Tomoru Honda, who completed in 1:53.73.

The bronze went to Italy’s Federico Burdisso in 1:54.45.

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South African star Chad le Clos completed fifth. He received the 200 fly on the 2012 London Olympics, upsetting Michael Phelps, however was no match for the Hungarian star.

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The Netherlands have set a brand new world document in males’s quadruple sculls with a dash over the ultimate 500 meters to win the gold medal.

Their time of 5 minutes, 32.03 seconds beat the earlier mark of 5:32.26 set by Ukraine on the 2014 world championships.

The Dutch boat was fourth after the primary 500 meters however had closed to second by the following marker. A late push overtook Nice Britain for the lead.

Nice Britain then held off a late cost by Australia to win silver. Australia’s bronze was the nation’s third medal of the day after profitable gold in males’s and ladies’s 4.

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Ariarne Titmus has overwhelmed Katie Ledecky once more on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Ledecky didn’t even win a medal — the primary time that’s ever occurred to her on the Olympics.

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Titmus gave the Australian girls their third particular person swimming gold with a victory within the 200-meter freestyle. Titmus set an Olympic document of 1 minute, 53.50 seconds to make it 2-for-2 towards the American star, following up an exciting victory within the 400m freestyle.

Within the longer race, Titmus conserved her vitality over the primary half of the race, then rallied to cross Ledecky with the second-fastest efficiency in historical past. Ledecky wasn’t even shut within the 200, making the primary flip in seventh place and by no means getting increased than her fifth-place displaying on the finish. She completed in 1:55.21 — practically 2 seconds behind the winner.

Ledecky is going through a grueling morning that additionally consists of the ultimate of the 1,500 free. She’s an enormous favourite for gold in that race, which is new to the ladies’s program this yr.

Italy’s Federica Pellegrini of Italy completed seventh in her fifth and ultimate Olympics. She received the gold in 2008 and remains to be the world-record holder.

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Australia has doubled its haul of Olympic rowing gold medals as the lads’s 4 charged to victory moments after the Aussie girls claimed their gold.

Australia had bolted to the entrance by the 500-meter mark and by no means had been challenged for the result in attain within the end line as Romania fought a late surge by Italy to assert the silver medal. Australia’s time of 5 minutes, 42.76 set a brand new Olympic document.

Italy received bronze.

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Australia’s girls’s 4 set a brand new Olympic-best time to win the gold medal in windy situations at Tokyo’s Sea Forest Waterway.

The Australian boat led at every marker however needed to struggle off the Netherlands over the past 50 meters to win in 6 minutes, 15.37 seconds, simply .34 seconds forward of the Dutch boat.

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Eire took bronze greater than 5 seconds again.

The windy situations pushing rowers on the waterpark noticed Olympic greatest occasions shortly fall as the primary three races all noticed new requirements set.

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The French staff of Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias has held off a late cost from the Netherlands over the ultimate 50 meters to win the lads’s double sculls by 0.2 seconds in Olympic document time of 6 minutes, 33 seconds.

China made a powerful transfer out of the beginning earlier than falling again even with the French and the Netherlands. The Dutch boat of Melvin Twellarr and Stef Broenink briefly held the lead at 1,500 meters.

Boucheron and Androdias shortly reeled within the Dutch with a robust push that was ok to carry off a late cost on the end line.

China Zhiyu Liu and Liang Zhang completed third for bronze.

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New U.S. seaside volleyball companions Jake Gibb and Tri Bourne can have some more time at the Olympics to get to know each other.

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The People had by no means performed collectively earlier than their first match in Tokyo on Sunday. They beat Switzerland 21-19, 23-21 on Wednesday to enhance to 2-0 within the round-robin. They’ve yet another match remaining, towards Qatar on Friday night time.

Gibb certified for the Tokyo Video games with Taylor Crabb as his accomplice. However Crabb examined constructive for COVID-19 and withdrew, permitting Gibb to interchange him. Bourne was on the third-place U.S. staff within the qualifying race; every nation is proscribed to a most of two spots.

Two wins ought to be sufficient to place the People within the knockout spherical. At worst, it might put go away them in a three-way tie for first and provides them a tiebreaker match.

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Romania’s Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis have received the primary rowing gold medal of the Tokyo Video games, in girls’s double sculls.

They bolted from the beginning and by no means let up in a dominating efficiency.

The rowing medal occasions had been delayed for a day due to unhealthy climate forecasts amid a tropical storm.

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As soon as again on the water, the Romanians had been by no means challenged and led by two boat lengths with simply 500 meters to go. Bodnar and Radis are each simply 22. Their dash to victory left the one struggle for the silver medal, the place New Zealand’s Brooke Donohue and Hannah Osborne edged the Dutch boat of Roos de Jong and Lisa Scheenaard.

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