2021 Olympics Updates – Alison Felix holds the USA record and Nelly Korda men’s gold rings

2021 Olympics Updates – Alison Felix holds the USA record and Nelly Korda men’s gold rings

Brian Rodriguez,

Kevin Durant: Two-time NBA Finals MVP, three-time Olympic gold medalist. Alison Felix is ​​now the most decorated female track runner in American history. She won the gold with Sidney McLaughlin, Athing Mo and Delilah Muhammad. Awarded a medal with Felix 11 and a tiebreaker with Carl Lewis.

In basketball, Durant scored a game-high 29 points, while Jason Tatum added 19 points from the bench to defeat US team Rudy Gobert and France 87-82 for his fourth consecutive gold medal.

The United States responded to France, which defeated the Americans in team play. Team USA went 9-2, capping with Tatum 3, pushing the difference to double.

Here’s the best of Tokyo:

The relay went and scored for Felix

Legend Alison Felix’s Olympic career ended on Saturday with a gold medal in the 4x400m race as part of the star-studded US team.

With 11 medals, Felix is ​​now the most decorated American track and field athlete in Olympic history – surpassing Carl Lewis. She broke the record for most Olympic medals by a woman in the sport on Friday by winning the bronze medal in the 400 metres.

She was joined on the team by Sidney McLaughlin, Delilah Muhammad and Thing Mo, as Mo crossed the finish line in 3:16.85 minutes – about 4 seconds ahead of second place Poland. McLaughlin, who won gold in the 400-meter hurdles earlier this week, gave the US an early lead in the first leg and increased Felix to become the second runner.

Jamaica won the bronze medal.

Japan wins gold in baseball

In an ingenious game of throwing and hitting the ball, Japan defeated the United States 2-0 to win the gold medal in baseball. It is the country’s first gold medal in baseball.

Japan may retain the crown for some time. The return of the sport to the Olympics was temporary. Baseball will not be played at the 2024 Games in Paris.

American basketball remains on top of the podium

Kevin Durant reappeared in the gold medal match.

Durant led the US team with 29 points, while Jason Tatum scored 19 as the Americans continued to beat France 87-82 to win the Olympic gold for the fourth year in a row.

The US moved up 14th, but saw the bullets drop to three with 10 seconds left. That’s when Durant iced the game with two free throws.

Johnny Holiday and Damien Lillard each scored 11 points for the Americans, who avenged their loss to France in the pool.

Athletics final

4 x 400 men’s relay

Moments after Felix and the American women dominated their race, their male counterparts followed suit and also took home the gold in the 4×400 race.

The team of Michael Sherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Dedmon and Ray Benjamin finished in 2:55.70 – nearly a second and a half ahead of the silver-medal and national record-setting Netherlands. Botswana won the bronze medal.

10000m women

Dutchman Sivan Hassan’s quest to win the “triple” ended on Friday with third place in the 1,500 metres, but her Olympics ended on Saturday with a gold medal in the 10,000 metres.

Hassan, the 5000-meter champion, also left Tokyo with two gold medals and a bronze medal. After crossing the finish line in 29:52.32 on Saturday, Hassan raised her arms in victory and then fell to the ground. After logging more than 25 miles of competition during the races, Hassan had to crawl off the track and then lie on the side covered in bags of ice.

She was candid about her counting three races with her body when she spoke to the media on Friday.

“The past two days have been very stressful and cost me a lot of energy,” she said.

The 28-year-old is the 10,000m world champion and was part of a leading group of three runners for most of the race. She used her trademark in the final stage to separate herself from Bahraini silver medalist Kalkidan Gezahini and bronze medalist from Ethiopia Letsenbet Gedi.

Hassan is the second woman in history, and the first since 1948, to win a medal in three individual races in one Olympic Games. – Darcy Min

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Jessica Springsteen talks about her silver medal win with the US Equestrian Team.

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Nelly Korda hopes to stay fit after winning the Olympic gold.

Korda wins gold in the last road race

Even a tropical storm can’t stop Nelly Korda from winning a gold medal at the Olympics. Not even Japanese Mone Inami, New Zealand Lydia Ko, and Indian Aditi Ashok.

Korda, who kept her cool and pretty through all four rounds of the Women’s Golf Championship, finished the Under-17 race. The American smiled and waved at her gold medal shot – not a huge celebration, but an acknowledgment that she deserved to be there. to be.

But she wasn’t the only one at Kasumigaseki Country Club to argue the case. After Korda cheats on the seventh hole, making it a three-stroke tie with Ko and Ashok, she resets – resets the three birds – to advance by three strokes.

Korda maintained the U-17 lead, but with two slots to play, tournament officials blew the horn and halted play due to thunderstorms. Inami was one stroke behind by one second, while 2016 silver medalist Ashok and Kou were 15 below third.

The delay lasted for 45 minutes, and when play resumed, Inami cleared her flying throw at 17 to share the lead with Korda. But this didn’t last long as the last hole stunned Korda finished the same way.

Inami took silver in a playoff match and Kou took bronze. – Charlotte Gibson

Medal of surprise for Team USA

Team USA athlete Molly Seidel ran her first-ever marathon in February 2020 – during the US Olympic Trials. A year and a half later, she took the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing the race in 2:27:46. Kenya went 1-2 – Perris Jepshireshire won gold with a time of 2:27:20, followed by Brigid Kosgei. The women’s marathon was moved early Saturday morning in Sapporo, Japan, due to the heat and humidity.

Seidl is the third American woman to win a medal in the Olympic marathon, along with Dina Castor (bronze, 2004) and Joan Benoit Samuelson (gold, 1984).

Three American Water Polo Grass

USA women’s water polo won its third consecutive Olympic Games gold. Rock star Ashley Johnson was in goal when Team USA beat Spain 14-5. It is the largest winning margin for a gold medal event in Olympic history.

On the way to her third gold medal, Maggie Stevens reset the record. She now holds the record for her Olympic career of 56 goals.

Pursuing redemption?

The US men haven’t had a great run in Tokyo, but the men’s 4x400m relay final (8:50 a.m. ET) gives Team USA a chance to make up for it. In the playoffs, the US preliminary team consisting of Trevor Stewart, Randolph Ross, Bryce Dedmon and Vernon Norwood finished at 2:57.77 to win the playoffs and automatically advance to the finals. They face Jamaica, the Netherlands and Italy, who are all looking for the podium.

Repeat the sequence?

For the women’s 4×400 race, defending champions USA advances to the relay finals (8:30 a.m. ET) as the favorite, winning the playoffs with a time of 3:20.86, the fastest time of the entire qualifying. Ten-time Olympic medalist Alison Felix is ​​expected to join the team for her 11th Olympic medal.

went into the field

Brazil, the defending champions, will face Spain at 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday for the gold medal. Spain beat Japan 1-0 in the semi-finals, while Brazil beat Mexico 4-1. In 2016, Brazil won the gold medal in a penalty shootout against Germany.

Does gold exist in the family?

23-year-old American high jumper Vashti Cunningham, daughter of Philadelphia Eagles and former Minnesota Vikings star Randall Cunningham, will be a contender for the medal when the women’s high jump final begins (6:35 a.m. ET). Her 1.95-meter jump in the preliminary round automatically qualified her for the final. She placed first at the US Olympic Trials in June and a month earlier had achieved a personal best with a jump of 1.80 metres.

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