US ladies’s hoops cruises to gold, American wins remaining biking occasion

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Sue Chook and Diana Taurasi made historical past for each their group and themselves on the ultimate day of the Tokyo Olympics.

The U.S. ladies’s basketball group received its seventh consecutive gold medal with a 90-75 victory over Japan, and Chook and Taurasi turned the first basketball gamers – feminine or male – to win 5 Olympic gold medals.

Chook, 40, and Taurasi, 39, have been mainstays in worldwide ladies’s basketball for many of their careers since graduating from the College of Connecticut two years aside – Chook in 2002 and Taurasi in ’04. Every made their Olympic debuts on the 2004 Athens Video games.

Workforce USA ran its successful streak to 55 video games in Olympic play – its final loss got here within the semifinals of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics – and this system has received 9 of 12 gold medals since ladies’s basketball debuted on the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

Guard Diana Taurasi, center, and Sue Bird right, won their fifth Olympic gold medals in women's basketball.

Guard Diana Taurasi, middle, and Sue Chook proper, received their fifth Olympic gold medals in ladies’s basketball.

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Keyshawn Davis settles for silver after light-weight remaining vs. Andy Cruz

TOKYO — Keyshawn Davis, who predicted his gold medal match towards Cuba’s Andy Cruz could be an “straightforward’’ combat, must accept a silver medal.

Davis misplaced to Cruz within the light-weight remaining by break up determination, 4-1, Sunday on the Tokyo Video games, failing to avenge a loss to the Cuban from two years in the past.

Cruz, a two-time newbie world champion, defeated Davis on the 2019 newbie world championships by unanimous determination.

Davis, 22 and a product of Norfolk, Virginia, was one in every of three skilled boxers on the U.S. group. He turned professional in February and received three fights earlier than becoming a member of Workforce USA.

— Josh Peter

IAAF president on if marijuana ought to nonetheless be banned substance: ‘It’s a debate that must be had’

TOKYO – Sebastian Coe, president of the worldwide governing physique for monitor and discipline, addressed the problem of whether or not marijuana ought to be a banned substance throughout a information convention Sunday.

“It has been a kind of issues that’s been broadly mentioned. I used to be requested on the eve earlier than coming to the Olympics whether or not or not this was a well timed second for a assessment, and I feel it’s,” stated Coe, who leads the Worldwide Affiliation of Athletics Federations (IAAF). “The driving drive there would be the Athletic Integrity Unit and dealing alongside of WADA. It’s a debate that must be had.”

U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson examined optimistic for marijuana on the U.S. Olympic trials and was suspended for a month, forcing her to overlook the Olympics. Richardson’s suspension sparked a dialog about marijuana being a banned substance in sport regardless of some states permitting leisure use of the drug.

Coe addressed different subjects Sunday, together with the U.S. ladies’s 4×400-meter relay group. Sydney McLaughlin, the 400-meter hurdle gold medalist in Tokyo and world-record holder, led off the relay. She was joined by five-time Olympian Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu. Muhammad was second within the 400-meter hurdles in Tokyo, and Mu received gold within the 800 meters.

The quartet simply received gold Saturday operating a season-best 3:16.85.

“I discovered fairly fascinating that three out of the 4 athletes in that discipline weren’t truly flat 400-meter runners,” Coe stated. “You bought an 800-meter runner (Mu) in there and two 400-meter hurdle runners (McLaughlin and Muhammad). That was a reasonably efficient ingredient.

“You get the energy of the hurdles and the power to run 800 meters. They got here along with Allyson Felix, clearly the definitive 400-meter runner, and that was a reasonably heady combine.”

Coe went on to reward Felix for what she’s been in a position to accomplish. The 35-year-old runner added two Olympic medals in Tokyo, giving her 11 complete – probably the most by any feminine in monitor and discipline historical past.

“Felix is excellent. She has performed a lot in our sport and approach, approach past the game. I do know the influence,” stated Coe, who received 4 Olympic medals, together with gold within the males’s 800 and 1,500 in 1980 and 1984. “We’re very, very fortunate that she is from our sport…To say what she’s performed over 5 Olympic video games is frankly off the planet.”

— Tyler Dragon

US grabs one other gold as Valente wins monitor biking ladies’s omnium

TOKYO – Jennifer Valente has received gold within the ladies’s omnium, her second medal of the Tokyo Olympics.

Valente received bronze Tuesday within the group pursuit. She was a silver medalist on the Rio Olympics in 2016, additionally in group pursuit.

It’s the first gold for the U.S. within the omnium, after Sarah Hammer received silver in each Rio and London.

Valente completed with a complete of 124 factors Sunday, successful by 14 factors. Japan’s Yumi Kajihara, the reigning world champion within the omnium, took silver Sunday regardless of a crash late within the factors race, the finale of the four-race collection. Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands received the bronze medal, making up important floor within the factors race.

The omnium is a four-race, points-based collection. Valente took the utmost 40 factors within the first race, the scratch, which awards factors based on a rider’s end. Her ends in the following two races – the tempo and elimination – have been sufficient to maintain her forward of Kajihara heading into the factors race.

— Nancy Armour

US beats Japan for seventh straight gold in ladies’s basketball

TOKYO – Even because the U.S. ladies’s basketball group navigated by way of some uneven stretches at these Olympics, they’d an identification that they have been assured would carry them to a seventh straight gold medal. It was constructed across the easiest factor in basketball: Feeding the put up and letting huge gamers beat little gamers.

And towards Japan in Sunday’s gold medal recreation, it was actually all Workforce USA wanted to complete off the event with a drama-free 90-75 victory.

Led by put up gamers Brittney Griner and A’Ja Wilson, who towered over a frontcourt with no participant taller than 6-foot-1, the U.S. merely couldn’t be stopped from getting the proper photographs for the proper gamers.

It ended with Griner scoring 30 factors on 14-of-18 photographs, Wilson including 19 and 5 blocked photographs and the People as a group taking pictures 54 p.c. Breanna Stewart was additionally a serious mismatch drawback on each ends with 14 factors, 13 rebounds, 5 assists and three blocks.

Guards Sue Chook and Diana Taurasi every scored seven factors of their fifth and sure remaining Olympics, closing the chapter on a run of historic dominance with USA Basketball.

— Dan Wolken

U.S. males’s water polo group finishes sixth in Tokyo

The U.S. males’s water polo group completed the event in sixth place after dropping to Croatia 14-11 on Sunday.

Whereas the ladies’s water polo group has received three consecutive gold medals, the lads’s group has not medaled for the reason that 2008 Beijing Video games, once they took the silver.

— Jace Evans

US put up gamers dominating Japan after three quarters

TOKYO – It was solely a matter of time earlier than the U.S. ladies’s basketball group broke this recreation open, and now with a 75-56 lead after three quarters, they’re 10 minutes away from a seventh straight gold medal.

Give full credit score to the U.S. group for understanding its benefits on this recreation and going to them relentlessly, attacking the rim and ensuring one in every of their put up gamers will get a contact on just about each possession.

Towards a reasonably small group from Japan, it makes the sport awfully straightforward for the U.S. once they can depend on their bigs to catch the ball close to the rim, flip and rating. And it’s occurred again and again, as middle Brittney Griner is as much as 24 factors and A’Ja Wilson has 17.

Although Workforce USA’s protection has damaged down a number of instances within the third quarter, it actually hasn’t mattered. After Japan bought inside 52-43, the U.S. reeled off an 18-6 run to make issues very tough for the host nation.

— Dan Wolken

Griner unstoppable as US takes 11-point halftime lead

TOKYO – No surprises thus far within the ladies’s basketball gold medal recreation, because the U.S. leads Japan 50-39 at halftime.

Heart Brittney Griner has 18 factors at halftime on 9-of-10 taking pictures with ahead A’ja Wilson including 10.

Japan is a good story, having constructed up this program to the purpose the place it will get a shot on the highly effective U.S. group in these Olympics. However sadly for them, the matchups are simply brutal towards the People, who’re simply a lot larger on the entrance line.

Japan has truly performed a good job on this recreation on the offensive finish producing seems and made 6-of-15 threes. However with a middle taking part in at 6-foot-1, Japan simply can’t get stops when Workforce USA is decided to get the ball inside, and the U.S. made 22-of-35 discipline targets within the first half together with 69% taking pictures contained in the 3-point line.

Megan Rapinoe, the U.S. ladies’s soccer star, was within the enviornment to look at her fiancée Sue Chook play for her fifth profession gold medal.

— Dan Wolken

US takes management early in ladies’s basketball gold-medal recreation

The USA, aiming for its seventh consecutive gold medal in ladies’s basketball, jumped out to a 23-14 lead over Japan after the primary quarter. Jewell Loyd got here off the bench to make a 3-point shot to shut out the primary 10 minutes after Brittney Griner led the way in which with 10 factors.

The U.S. is using a 54-game successful streak in Olympic play. Its final loss got here within the semifinals of the 1992 Barcelona Video games.

Some nations requiring Olympians to quarantine upon return

Olympians from Australia and New Zealand will quarantine for 2 weeks upon coming back from Tokyo. The 2 nations have fared effectively in comparison with others throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with New Zealand having a complete of lower than 3,000 virus instances for the reason that pandemic started.

“I suppose I’ll attempt to take it as a extremely good break on the finish of the season, and attempt to recuperate and carry on prime of some rehab – and keep wholesome after which come out refreshed and able to go,” stated Linden Corridor, an Australian 1500-meter runner.

Even after that, athletes who dwell in South Australia might must quarantine an extra two weeks based on their state’s guidelines relating to journey from different states.

Athletes from New Zealand will keep in a government-managed resort facility the place they will be offered train gear throughout their keep. Equally, non-vaccinated Canadian Olympians will spend three nights in a resort earlier than being cleared by native well being authorities.

Many different nations, together with the US, will merely require a unfavorable COVID-19 check outcome or proof of vaccination upon athletes’ arrival again.

— Emily Leiker and Rachel Axon

Summer season Olympics put together to shift to Paris in 2024

The closing ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics continues to be hours away however the buzz is already beginning for the following Summer season Video games in Paris in 2024.

A number of new sports activities have been launched in these Olympics, and there might be a minimum of one occasion making its debut in Paris. Breakdancing will be part of skateboarding, browsing and sport climbing as Worldwide Olympic Committee officers try to draw a youthful viewers to the Video games. Sadly for softball and baseball – which returned to the Olympics in Tokyo – and new Olympic sport karate, the Paris Video games will go on with out these occasions, a minimum of for now.

A brand new sport isn’t the one factor to sit up for in 2024. Paris has some fairly well-known landmarks and followers of the Olympics ought to anticipate these websites to be included into the 2024 Video games. Think about it: Seashore volleyball on the Eiffel Tower, skateboarding on the Place de la Concorde, equestrian on the Chateau de Versailles.

— Alyssa Hertel and Rachel Axon

Jrue Vacation a ‘tremendous champion’ after gold-medal win

Whereas his USA basketball teammates have been taking part in exhibition video games in July, Jrue Vacation was taking part in for an NBA title with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Vacation and Khris Middleton, who additionally performs for Milwaukee, have now joined an elite membership of gamers to win an NBA title and Olympic gold in the identical calendar 12 months. They’re the primary pair to perform the feat since Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen received in 1992. Lebron James and Kyrie Irving have every earned each titles in the identical 12 months, too.

It was the US’ fourth consecutive gold medal, and Vacation scored 11 factors in about half-hour to spice up the People to a win. Milwaukee’s win was its first NBA championship in franchise historical past.

He nonetheless would not have bragging rights in his personal home, although. That proper goes to his spouse, Lauren Vacation, a former USWNT participant who received two Olympic golds and a World Cup.

— Chris Bumbaca

Kipchoge cruises to gold in males’s marathon

TOKYO – Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge turned the primary Olympic males’s marathon repeat champion in 40 years Sunday, successful in Sapporo on the ultimate day of the Tokyo Video games.

Kipchoge, 36, the marathon world report holder (2:01.39), bolted away from the lead pack simply previous 30K and breezed to a win in 2:08.38, greater than a minute forward of the remainder of the sphere.

He’s the primary to win consecutive Olympic males’s marathon titles since East Germany’s Waldemar Cierpinski on the 1976 and 1980 Video games. Earlier than that, Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila received twice in a row in 1960 and 1964 in Tokyo.

In a aggressive end for the remaining two medals, Abdi Nageeye of Netherlands received in a kick for silver over Belgium’s Bashir Abdi (bronze) and Kenya’s Lawrence Cherono.

Galen Rupp, a four-time U.S. Olympian, was the highest American finisher, taking eighth in 2:11.41. Rupp was the marathon bronze medalist on the 2016 Olympics and 10,000-meter silver medalist at London in 2012.

The opposite U.S. runners have been Jacob Riley and Abdi Abdirahman, ending twenty ninth and forty first, respectively, with instances of two:16:26 and a pair of:18:27. Abdirahman was competing in his fifth Olympic Video games, having run the ten,000m in 2000, 2004, and 2008, and the marathon in 2012.

The lead pack went by way of the halfway level in 1:05 with Stephen Mokoka of South Africa main.

The marathons and distance strolling occasions have been held in Sapporo, web site of the 1972 Winter Olympics, as a substitute of Tokyo hoping for extra average temperatures.

However it was sizzling sufficient Saturday for the ladies’s marathon time to be pushed up an hour. The boys started their 26.2-mile trek on the repeatedly scheduled 7 a.m. begin time with overcast skies, temperature at 79 and 78 p.c humidity. In Tokyo on the similar time, there was heavy rain.

— Jeff Metcalfe

Aliphine Tuliamuk finds pleasure with daughter after dropping out of marathon

Molly Seidel might have completed with bronze within the ladies’s marathon – making her the very best putting American within the race and solely the third American lady ever to medal in an Olympic marathon. However American Aliphine Tuliamuk received in different methods, regardless of not ending the occasion.

Tuliamuk, who positioned first on the U.S. Olympic trials, was compelled to drop out of the Tokyo ladies’s marathon due to a hip harm that had been bothering the runner for weeks. That was okay for Tuliamuk, although, who was greeted by her husband and daughter, Zoe, on the aspect of the course.

The 32-year-old mom was allowed to deliver her youngster to Tokyo as a result of she was nonetheless nursing; Zoe was solely born in January and Tuliamuk appealed to the Olympic Committee to alter their stance on not permitting household to journey to the Video games.

Tuliamuk joins a handful of different moms within the Olympics. Observe star Allyson Felix and her lovable daughter took the world by storm when Cammy joined her mother on the monitor in Eugene, Oregon after the U.S. monitor and discipline trials.

— Alyssa Hertel

Richard Torrez Jr. desires to avenge viral YouTube knockout

Standing – actually – between U.S. boxer Richard Torrez Jr. and a gold medal might be a competitor the 22-year-old has a historical past with.

In 2019, Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan knocked Torrez unconscious for over a minute and a half earlier than he was faraway from the ring. The knockout, which occurred on the AIBA World Championship, went viral on YouTube with virtually 1,000,000 views. It is a second USA Boxing coach Invoice Walsh stated Torrez was embarrassed by.

Torrez can have an opportunity to avenge his loss towards Jalolov within the tremendous heavyweight boxing remaining, one of many final occasions of the Tokyo Olympics, Sunday at 2:15 a.m. ET. Whereas Torrez, the No. 3 seed, had a powerful semifinal efficiency, No. 1 Jalolov has additionally wowed.

— Josh Peter

U.S. volleyball vying for first-ever Olympic gold

Presently No. 1 on the planet, the US ladies’s indoor volleyball group has an opportunity to win its first Olympic gold medal.

The U.S. performs Brazil – a really famiiliar nemesis – at 12:30 a.m. Sunday within the title match after sweeping Serbia 3-0 within the semifinals. Since volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964 – the primary time Tokyo hosted the Summer season Video games – the U.S. has earned silver thrice and bronze twice. In 2016, it completed third whereas Serbia took silver and China received gold in Rio.

Brazil has bested the U.S. in its two most up-to-date gold-medal matches in 2008 and 2012, beating the People 3-1 in each Beijing and London.

U.S. opposite Andrea Drews spikes the ball during a quarterfinal match at the Tokyo Olympics.

U.S. reverse Andrea Drews spikes the ball throughout a quarterfinal match on the Tokyo Olympics.

American center blocker Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, who sat out the US’ 2016 semifinal with a knee harm, performed her greatest attacking match of the Olympic event towards Serbia. That is the 33-year-olds third look on the Video games, however first as a mom after giving beginning in 2019.

— Emily Leiker

Kenyan runner trying to develop into third man to win back-to-back Olympic golds

Eliud Kipchoge can have a shot at defending his 2016 Rio Olympics marathon title when the lads’s marathon begins at 6 p.m. ET Saturday.

Solely two different males have efficiently received back-to-back Olympic marathons. Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila did so in 1960 and 1964, and East Germany’s Waldemar Cierpinski received in 1976 and 1980.

Kipchoge had claimed 10 consecutive marathon victories, together with his Rio gold, in a seven 12 months span earlier than dropping the 2020 London marathon. He is the primary man to interrupt the two-hour mark in a marathon (in a non-open competitors in 2019), however the world report that he holds – 2:01:39 – was set on the 2018 Berlin marathon.

Galen Rupp, the U.S. males’s marathon champion, might be one of many challengers to 36-year-old Kipchoge. A longtime American long-distance runner, Rupp received bronze in Rio. Additionally representing the US is 44-year-old Abdi Abdirahman, who will develop into the oldest American man to run an Olympic marathon.

— Emily Leiker

This text initially appeared on USA TODAY: Olympics 2021 dwell updates: US wins hoops gold once more; monitor biking

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