Tokyo Olympics Day 9 live: news, results, schedule: Four gold in record day; ‘Flying Mullet’ run ends; Bol storms into 800m final
Australia’s biggest day has seen two pool gold and one apiece in BMX and sailing. Tonight, Peter Bol strode into 800m finals history.
- Bolt in the blue as Jacobs wins 100m final
- Starc bows out of high jump in fifth
- Aussie Bol storms into historic 800m final
- Furious Clay sends warning to Paris rivals
- Flying mullet’s run ends
- Wearn’s sailing gold finally official
- ‘Cheating’ storm as US fans cry foul
- McKeon, the nation’s greatest
- Swim team set new standard
- BMX freestyle gold for Australia
- Aussie sprinter turns heads
Here's how day 9 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics played out:
COMPLETED: Equestrian — Cross Country Team and Individual (Andrew Hoy 7th, Shane Rose 9th, Kevin McNab 15th)
COMPLETED: Athletics — women’s 3000m steeplechase heat 1 (Georgia Winkcup 13th, Genevieve Gregson 6th, Amy Cashin 11th)
COMPLETED: Athletics — long jump heats (Brooke Stratton 8th)
COMPLETED:BMX — women’s freestyle final (Natalya Diehm 5th)
COMPLETED:Swimming — women’s 50m freestyle final — GOLD to Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell 7th
COMPLETED:Athletics — men’s 400m heats (Alex Beck 6th, Steven Solomon 2nd)
COMPLETED:Swimming — women’s 4x100m medley relay final — GOLD to Australia
COMPLETED:BMX — men’s freestyle final — GOLD to Logan Martin
COMPLETED: Swimming — men’s 4x100m medley relay final (Australia 5th)
COMPLETED:Hockey — men’s quarter-final (Australia beat Netherlands on penalties)
COMPLETED:Sailing — men’s dinghy laser — GOLD to Matt Wearn
COMPLETED:Diving — 3m springboard final — Esther Qin 12th
COMPLETED:Athletics — men’s high jump final — Brandon Starc 5th
COMPLETED:Athletics — men’s 100m semi-finals — Rohan Browning 5th
COMPLETED:Athletics — women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals — Liz Clay 3rd
COMPLETED:Athletics — men’s 800m semi-final — Peter Bol 1st, Charlie Hunter, 7th, Jeffrey Riseley 5th
COMPLETED: Athletics — men’s 100m final — Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) GOLD; Fred Kerley (USA) silver; Andre de Grasse (CAN) bronze.
• Top story: ‘Cheating’ storm as Aussies shade US; swim team set new mark
Scott Gullan11.11pm:Bolt in the blue as Italian Jacobs takes out 100m final
This wasn’t how the script was supposed to play out in the search for Usain Bolt’s replacement.
For the first time since 2004 a name which isn’t Bolt’s sits on top of the world but not many would have predicted it would Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs.
In one of the biggest boilovers in Olympic history, the 26-year-old former long jumper ran 9.80sec to defeat American Fred Kerley (9.84sec) with Canada’s Andre de Grasse (9.89sec) relegated to bronze for the second time.
Jacobs wasn’t in the conversation leading up to Tokyo about who would be the new sprint king to replace Bolt.
He didn’t even make the final at the 2019 world championships and his only previous gold medal came at this year’s European indoor championships over 60m.
In keeping with bizarre times there was all sorts of craziness around the men’s 100m.
Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes created more drama by breaking and being disqualified from the final which interestingly had no Jamaicans in it.
There were two Americans - but not the favoured one - and runners from Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, Italy and China.
The drama started in the semi-finals when China’s Su Bingtian, 31,blew the field away by clocking an Asian record of 9.83sec, becoming the first Asian man to reach the Olympic 100 metres final for 89 years.
The biggest casualty was pre-Games favourite America’s Trayvon Bromell who was sluggish in the heat and struggled again, finishing third in 10.00sec to miss a spot in the final.
Jacobs did put his stake in the ground in the semi-finals when he became the first Italian to make the Olympic final after blasting a European record of 9.84sec.
Underlining the bizarre nature of the event without Bolt, Su Bingtian and Jacobs weren’t even mentioned in a lengthy preview of the race by the sport’s governing body, World Athletics, in the lead-up to Tokyo.
The focus coming in had all been about Bromell after he blitzed the US trials to back up his world-leading 9.77sec in June in Florida, the seventh-fastest time in history.
There was always going to be a transition period in sprinting to fill the enormous hole left by Bolt who won the 100m and 200m titles at the past three Olympic Games.
The world record holder was a shining light through various drug scandals and the jockeying to be his replacement after his retirement in 2017 had been erratic.
No-one seemed to want to put up their hand and only time will tell whether Jacobs is capable of having sustained success or if Tokyo was just a strange aberration.
Joe Barton10.43pm:Starc matches season best but bows out
Australian high-jumper Brandon Starc matched his season best, but it wasn’t quite enough to snatch an unlikely medal on a warm Tokyo night.
Starc bowed out in fifth place, having cleared 2.35m.
Debbie Schippt10.38pm:Starc finsihes fifth in men’s high jump
He took us along for a hell of a ride for the night, but Brandon Starc couldn’t quite get amongst the medals.
The Australian finsished fifth in the men’s high jump after missing two jumps at 2.89m.
Earlier, he had cleared 2.35m: the highest ever by an Australian.
He missed his first attempt at 2.37m.
Ultimately, the event was s shared gold medal,, with Mutaz Barshin and Gianmarco Tamberi, of Qatar and Italy respectively deciding to share the win.
They both jumped 2.37 but could not clear 2.39, which would have been an Olympic record.
Ellen Whinnett10.27pm:Aussie athletes weren’t at wild village party: AOC
Australian athletes have been mingling with others in the athletes village but were not at the wild, all-night party in the village that ended when police were called, the Australian Olympic Committee has clarified.
There was confusion about several gatherings in the village on Friday and Saturday nights.
On Friday an all-night party in the village park ended when police were called amid reports of injuries.
On Saturday, another late-night party took place, and while Australian athletes did spend some time mingling with other athletes, in a COVID protocol breach, there were no serious incidents and no disciplinary action will be taken.
The AOC was initially unsure of the timing of the incident involving the Australians, and the IOC also first identified the party as happening on Saturday, before clarifying it was on Friday night.
Games officials have confirmed a group of athletes and delegates had been busted with booze in an outdoor drinking session at the village park on Friday night.
Tokyo2020 chief Toshiro Muto said: “Athletes and members of the delegations were at the park in the village and they were drinking alcohol.
“Currently we are investigating the situation and based on the results … will take appropriate action.
“Regarding the police, after the incident occurred, we had heard they came. We haven’t learnt about the details yet.’’
An AOC spokesman said: “No Australians have been injured or involved in any incidents involving the police.’’
Alcohol is allowed to be consumed in individual’s rooms, but not in public.
With summer temperatures in Tokyo not dropping below about 26C all night, it seems the party went all night with loud music heard until after 4am Saturday.
Such parties are a regular occurrence in athletes village as mainly young sportsmen and women who have trained for years let off steam when their competition ends.
It can be disruptive for other athletes who still have to compete.
And with Tokyo under a state of emergency and most restaurants not serving alcohol – due to a government request to limit it because “loud talking’’ can spread COVID – officials had been keen to keep things sedate at the village. Athletes have also been required to leave the country within 48 hours of their competition ended.
On unrelated matters, Mr Muto said six people associated with the Games had had their accreditation revoked.
This included two Georgian judo competitors who snuck out of the village to see a friend.
Another eight people had had their accreditation suspended and 10 people had received “strict warnings’’ for breaches of the COVID-safe rules.
Joe Barton9.59pm:Furious Clay sounds warning to Paris rivals
A furious Liz Clay has issued a warning to her Paris Games rivals after a frustrating night of false starts cost her a start in the women’s 100m hurdles final.
Clay ran a blistering personal best of 12.71 to finish third behind Jamaica’s Britany Anderson and American Kendra Harrison in her semi-final – but, agonisingly, finished 0.04s outside of the qualifying times to feature in the eight who will go for gold on Monday morning.
The semi-finals were hotly contested, with Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn’s shaving .06s off Australian Sally Pearson’s nine-year-old Olympic record.
But the 26-year-old Olympic debutant’s heat was plagued by three false starts – one caused by loud applause in reaction to the men’s high jump on the other side of the Olympic Stadium – and she said if not for them she would’ve taken even more time off her PB.
“I’m gutted. I would’ve been in that final if it wasn’t for those false starts,” Clay said.
“It was pretty frustrating to finally get going on the fourth one.
“I still think I held my own really well but I know I’m good enough to be in the final and a PB by .01 but it’s nothing compared to making that final so I’m pretty upset.”
But the Tokyo disappointment hasn’t dulled Clay’s enthusiasm for the Olympic Games.
If anything, it’s simply whet the appetite for the late-blooming speedster, who declared nothing will stop her making the Olympic final in 2024.
“It’s just not my day today. (But) I’ll be back in Paris, in that final, definitely,” she said.
It’s inevitable for Clay’s achievements to be drawn to those of champion hurdler Pearson, who won silver in her Olympic debut and backed it up with gold at London 2012.
But Clay doesn’t believe the shadow hangs too heavily over her head.
“Sally and I had a really different path to our success. I feel I deserve to be out there just as much as she did,” Clay said.
“I want to paint my own path. Sally was a prodigy from when she was 18. I like to be an inspiration to those who might be a late bloomer as well.
Erin Smith9.50pm:Stingers all business in 14-1 demolition. Bring on Russia
The Aussie Stingers have punched their ticket to the Olympic quarterfinals in spectacular fashion.
With two wins from their three games Australia had already secured a spot ahead of their clash with South Africa tonight.
But the Aussie women proved they mean business in Tokyo, dominating the South African’s in all four quarters finishing ahead 14-1.
Australia will face Russia in the quarterfinal to be played from 2pm on Wednesday.
Gadiel Notolovitz9.42pm:Boomers quarter-final showdown with Argentina
There’ll be no easy route to a first-ever Olympic medal for the Australian Boomers despite Brian Goorjian’s team finishing atop their group in Tokyo.
While three wins established Australia as a real contender, it also booked them a tough quarter-final showdown against Argentina on Tuesday, with the winner of Team USA vs. Spain waiting for them in the semi-final if they get that far.
Australia discovered their fate on Sunday night when the newly-implemented draw system to decide the knockout stages proved somewhat unhelpful to an undefeated Boomers team.
After working their way into the desired first pot, Australia was ultimately hurt by the fact Italy and Germany also secured passage to the quarter-final stage. Unable to be drawn against a nation from their group, the Boomers were left with two options – either Argentina or Spain.
And while Argentina, who finished behind Slovenia and Spain in Group C, was probably who the Boomers were hoping for, they certainly aren’t a traditional third-place team. On the other side of the bracket, France drew Italy, while Slovenia will face Germany.
Australia beat Argentina last month when a Patty Mills buzzer-beater proved the difference in a Las Vegas warm-up game.
In Tokyo, Argentina has struggled; albeit against tough opposition. After being thrashed by new boys on the block Slovenia, they were then beaten by Spain, before booking their place in the quarter-finals with a win over Japan.
While the Boomers are 3-0 in tournament play, they’ve been far from perfect. Against Nigeria, things were tough until the fourth quarter. Italy pushed them all the way in their second game, before Australia struggled at times against Germany, before pulling away.
Australia will need to be at their very best from this point on, beginning on Tuesday.
Debbie Schipp9.40pm:Bol storms into 800m final for Australia
Australia’s Peter Bol will lead the charge for Australia into the 800m final tomorrow after a stunning semi-final win tonight.
He’s the first Australian since 1968 to make the final of the 800 metres.
“It was a weird race but I backed myself in,” he said post-race. “I put myself in the best position to qualify. Even if I didn’t, I would have been happy with it. It pays off.”
Debbie Schipp9.15pm:Bitter disappointment as Liz Clay misses hurdles final
Aussie Liz Clay ran the fastest time of her career to finish third in her 100m hurdles semi-final, but it just wasn’t enough. Her time of 12.71 seconds saw her just miss out on the final by an agonising 0.02 seconds.
Clay had to weather three restarts before the race proper went ahead.
Scott Gullan8.47pm:‘I left myself too much work to do’: Browning
Rohan Browning knows he has learnt a crucial lesson about mixing it with the big boys on sport’s toughest stage.
What he also knows is he’s alerted the world about a serious player from Australia in the 100m ranks after finishing fifth in his first Olympic semi-final.
Browning was hampered by a slow start yet still ran 10.09sec. The 23-year-old Sydney University law student was disappointed he was unable to replicate his 10.01sec heat win from Saturday night.
“I had a better run in me than 10.09sec but I gave the field too much ground early on and you can’t do that in the semi-final of the Olympics,” Browning said.
“That is just championship racing, sometimes you nail it and sometimes you don’t. It’s just a sport where small margins really matter and you’ve got to be better on the day.
“It is tough. I just never got out and then I had my work cut out for me. I feel like I came back well through the end of the race but I left myself with too much work to do and it is only 100m.
“I’ve been consistent this year, knocking on the door of sub-10 and a big breakthrough. Hopefully it comes later in the year in Europe.
“Ultimately I have learnt a lot from this, that is the main thing.”
Browning, who moved past Matt Shirvington to second on Australia’s all-time list, became an overnight sensation when he burst through to win his 100m heat from lane one, taking down former world champion Yohan Blake in the process.
He was immediately labelled Australia’s Flying Mullet and was even compared to Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron.
Browning is the pin-up boy Australian athletics has been crying out for since the retirement of Olympic hurdles champion Sally Pearson.
It had been 17 years since the green and gold was on display in the blue-riband event at an Olympic Games.
He has charisma, looks, intelligence and a burning desire to defy the odds in the toughest gig in world sport.
And on what he displayed in Tokyo, the message was clear — bring on Paris 2024.
Scott Gullan8.38pm:Flying mullet Browning out, but not down
Australia’s ‘Flying Mullet’ Rohan Browning showed he’s not out of place with the world’s fastest men despite failing to make the Olympic 100m final.
Browning couldn’t back up his form of his heat victory in the semi-final and was hampered by a slow start to finish fifth in 10.09sec.
The 23-year-old from Sydney battled strongly to the line but couldn’t catch Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes who took the semi-final in 9.98sec.
Browning announced himself on the world stage in Saturday night’s heats.
He went from relative unknown to the toast of Tokyo when he took down former world champion Yohan Blake.
Running from lane one, the Sydney University student stunned an empty Olympic Stadium by effectively leading all the way to win in a career best 10.01sec.
The look on Blake’s face when he turned to his left and saw a white Aussie ahead of him told a story.
He had no idea who he was but that was Browning and his coach Andrew Murphy’s plan.
Instead of travelling to Europe in the lead-up, the pair stayed home in Australia and ticked all the boxes they deemed necessary.
It proved to be a genius move with Browning putting two years of training and dedication into a brilliant Olympic debut.
The performance moved him to second on Australia’s all-time list, going past Matt Shirvington and charging towards Patrick Johnson’s 9.93sec national record.
Debbie Schipp8.33pm:Browning’s run over with fifth in mens 100m semi
Australian Rohan Browning’s Olympic medal chase is over after he finished fifth in the second semi-final of the men’s 100m in Tokyo tonight.
Browning had posted a blistering run in Saturday night’s heats and was looking to break 10 seconds, but finished fifth in a time of 10.09 seconds.
In the first semi-final, Fred Kerley (USA) clocked 9.96s to win ahead of favourite Andre DeGrasse (CAN) (9.98s).
Erin Smith8.29pm:Water-polo team through, but still needs a win tonight
The Aussie women’s water polo are through to the quarterfinal in Tokyo, but a win tonight is still crucial to avoid coming up against some of the world’s toughest competitors in the next round.
Stingers have won two of their three pool games and are sitting third on the ladder going into tonight’s clash with South Africa.
South Africa are yet to record a win in their first outing at an Olympic Games.
Australia’s Bronwen Knox said they won’t be underestimating South Africa.
“This is South Africa’s first time at the Olympics, we have played them before at some round tournaments in the World League, you just don’t know what they are going to bring,” Knox said.
“You know they are going to do something and they do the complete opposite.”
Australia are in Pool A and will likely make the quarterfinals along with Netherlands, Spain and Canada.
In Pool B, the USA, Hungary and China have punched their ticket to the quarterfinals.
The game will start at 8.50pm.
Callum Dick8.10pm:Aussie Smith misses playoff, keeps the mullet
He had walked up and down the 18 holes of Kasumigaseki Country Club four times in as many days, but it was a simple six feet that brought Aussie Cameron Smith unstuck in his quest for bronze.
Less than a day after discus thrower Matt Denny missed bronze by “the length of a beer can”, Cameron Smith’s inches-wide putt on the 18th hole left him agonisingly close to joining a historic seven-player playoff for third.
Smith bogeyed the Par 5 18th to finish 14-under and one shot shy of the eventual seven-player logjam for bronze, which was won by C T Pan of Chinese Taipei.
American Xander Schauffele survived a few nervous moments on the back nine, including a lost ball from the tee, to claim gold at 18-under, one shot ahead of silver medallist Rory Sabbatini of Slovakia.
He may not be taking home a medal but Smith says his mullet is “here to stay” regardless after an oh-so-close charge on the final day.
With the ‘feels like’ temperature tipping over 42 degrees, the Aussie said the long hair made him “10 degrees hotter” on a day when the logjam atop the leaderboard applied a blowtorch to everyone chasing a coveted medal.
Smith shot a five-under 66 in the final round to finish 14-under and, agonisingly, one shot shy of the bronze medal playoff benchmark.
“I think that bogey on 12 … I made such a good drive down there in the middle of the fairway, to (then) make a pretty soft bogey like that was pretty crappy,” Smith said.
“Then I missed a short putt on the next hole and I knew it was going to be tough from there to get back into the swing of things.
“Twelve I wouldn’t say was deflating (but) it was a step backwards obviously.
“I kept giving myself chances to get to that 16-under par but the putter just let me down.”
Agencies7.55pm:Brazil’s Andrade vaults to gymnastics gold
Rebeca Andrade, the all-around silver medallist, went one better when succeeding the absent Simone Biles as women’s vault champion at the Olympics on Sunday.
In silver came Mykayla Skinner, who took Biles’s place in the final after the American superstar pulled out with “the twisties”, a condition where gymnasts lose the ability to orientate themselves in mid-air.
The bronze went to Yeo Seo-jeong of South Korea. — AFP
Agencies7.55pm:America’s Schauffele wins golf gold
Xander Schauffele won the Olympic men’s golf tournament on Sunday by one shot from surprise silver medallist Rory Sabbatini of Slovakia.
Taiwan’s C.T. Pan then took the bronze more than an hour later after an epic seven-man playoff which stretched over four agonising extra holes.
The American world number five finished on 18-under par 266 after carding a 67 while veteran Sabbatini, 45, shot a stunning, course-record 10-under par final round of 61.
Overnight leader Schauffele got off to a fast start and had reached 18-under by the turn, but struggled to extend his advantage on the back nine.
He dropped a shot at the par-five 14th to fall into a tie with Sabbatini, the clubhouse leader, but restored his slender advantage at the 17th.
A wayward drive at the difficult 18th left him with only a lay-up out of trees before he got up and down under immense pressure from 80 yards to secure the gold.
“I was trying so hard to just stay calm,” said Schauffele.
“Hit a terrible drive on 18, had to make a sort of sloppy par and fortunately hit it close enough to sort of have a high percentage putt at roughly four, five feet.
“But, man, it was stressful. And I made that putt and it was just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and just very relieved and happy.” The South African-born Sabbatini came into the Olympics ranked 204 in the world and with little form this year, having missed his last four cuts on the US PGA Tour.
“It doesn’t sound like it belongs to me,” admitted Sabbatini of his silver medal.
He had not won an event on the PGA Tour since the 2011 Honda Classic and his best showing in a major was tied second at the 2007 US Masters.
He is one of only 41 athletes in the Slovakian team and the only golfer. His Slovakian wife Martina was his caddie this week.
There was agony for home supporters in the bronze playoff when Japan’s US Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama fell at the first hole, the 18th, along with Paul Casey.
Three more players were eliminated on the third play-off hole, the par-four 11th, including former world number one Rory McIlroy, leaving British Open champion Collin Morikawa and Taiwan’s Pan to go head-to-head back down the 18th.
Pan was in the left rough off the tee and could not find the green but Morikawa fared worse, burying his approach into the steep face of a greenside bunker for an almost impossible ‘fried egg’ lie.
He did explode it onto the green but was left with 25 feet for par which he could not make.
Pan chipped on to 12 feet and sunk the putt, punching the air in delight before being doused in watery celebration by his ecstatic Taiwanese team-mates. — AFP
Agencies7.45pm:Qin comes unstuck on second dive in Olympic final
Germany’s Alexander Zverev brushed aside Karen Khachanov in straight sets on Sunday to seal the Olympic men’s singles title.
The fourth seed, who ended Novak Djokovic’s Golden Grand Slam bid in the semi-finals, produced a dominant display to win 6-3, 6-1 after just 79 minutes on court.
Zverev becomes only the second German to win an Olympic singles gold after Steffi Graf in 1988.
In the women’s doubles final Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova (CZE) bt Belinda Bencic and Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 7-5, 6-1. — AFP
Erin Smith5.08pm:Qin comes unstuck on second dive in Olympic final
An Olympic podium finish in the women’s 3m springboard remains elusive for Australia with Esther Qin finishing 12th in the final today.
It was Qin’s second time competing in an Olympic final for this event. She finished sixth in Rio.
Qin put on a stunning dive in round one, registering a score of 67.5 for her inward two-half-somersaults. It placed her third, behind Chinese divers Tingmao Shi and Han Wang.
It came unstuck in her second dive where Qin failed to complete her rotation not entering the water vertical, causing a big splash and earning a score of 29.45 points.
Qin redeemed herself in her third dive with a score of 61.50 but it was not enough to bump her off the bottom of the leaderboard.
She had another low scoring fourth dive with just 42 points.
The Australian wasn’t the only one who had trouble sticking her dives. Canada’s Jenifer Abel, who won silver in the 3m synchronised event in Tokyo, scored just 39 points in her third dive after making a similar error to Qin.
Qin didn’t go down without a fight pulling off a great final dive scoring 61.50.
Shi finished in first place with an impressive score of 383.50, followed by Han Wang and Kyrsta Palmer.
Qin said despite the disappointment in the pool today she was still proud of her achievement.
“I was happy with how I started and finished, but I obviously didn’t produce the performance I know I am capable of,” she said.
“But I am proud to have made my second Olympic final in two Games appearances.
“It has been tough having no international competition for over 18 months, but my coach Chava (Sobrino) and all the assistant coaches from NSW Institute of Sport had me as prepared as I could be.
“I feel grateful to have had the opportunity to finally compete in Tokyo and even though I will be heading home to Australia tomorrow I will be watching and cheering for my team-mates who are competing across the rest of this week.”
Amanda Lulham4.14pm:Gold becomes a reality for WA sailor Matt Wearn
Games debutant Matt Wearn, a sailor virtually unknown outside his sport until last week, can now officially boast he is an Olympic champion two days after actually clinching the title.
He is the second man to win a gold for Australia today after Logan Martin’s entertaining win in BMX freestyle.
The 25-year-old comeback king is Australian sailing’s 12th gold medallist and the first at the Tokyo Olympics, where there are high hopes of another gold medal from the 470 team of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan this week.
Wearn, who only needed to do a victory lap to secure his gold in Enoshima on Sunday, raced the double-point scoring medal race to finish with a second place.
He was handed a flag and raced round the course waving it to the cheers of rivals and support crew.
The result was moot, with Wearn racking up such a hefty lead last week he had secured the Olympic crown with a race in hand on Friday.
The Olympic debutant started the regatta with a 28th and 17th – results which would normally have doused any hopes of a medal for the single-handed sailor.
But he fought back with a series of wins and top four placings across a variety of conditions to win his first medal.
Wearn has already confirmed he bid to defend the gold in Paris in 2024.
Agencies3.45pm:Britain, Australia out to own the velodrome
After months without opponents or competition, Tokyo 2020s track cyclists take to the start line on Monday with almost no idea what to expect, AFP reports.
Britain’s Olympic domination could finally be curtailed but the team that won 12 medals in Rio, including six golds, have a knack of peaking when it matters most.
Last year’s world championships in Berlin anointed Denmark as kings of the team pursuit and the Netherlands as all-powerful in sprints, but those victories came in February 2020. A lot can change in 18 months.
At the Izu Velodrome, teams have been gossiping about times and spying on sessions, desperate for an inkling of what might be required.
“Everyone is eavesdropping and looking at each other and wondering how fast they’re going,” Rasmus Pedersen, part of the Danish team pursuit, told AFP. “There’s a lot of talk in dark corners.”
Britain have previously set the standard but managed only one gold medal at the world championships, where they finished a deflating seventh in the medal table.
The feeling is the “marginal gains” Britain extracted to clean up in Beijing, London and Rio are now common-place.
Australia, the Netherlands, US and Denmark are among those hoping to take charge.
“You always want to beat the Brits for sure,” Australia’s sprint rider Matthew Glaetzer said. “They always come up for the Olympics. They never look too fast leading in but you know they’re going to deliver.”
The talk of the velodrome is the Australians have been rapid in practice but they have a point to prove themselves, after a disappointing return in Rio and another poor showing at the world championships.
— Agencies
Brianna Travers3.10pm:US fans cry foul over relay defeat
Outraged American swimming fans have blasted Australia’s golden relay team, accusing them of cheating.
Australia narrowly defeated the USA in the women’s 4x100m relay in a nail biting race for the ages but have been accused of breaking in the last changeover between Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell.
Punters have flooded social media with their angst.
“Australia straight up cheated,” one said.
“Should have been a disqualification. Shameful.”
Australian left the block way too early! 😡
— Debbie B 💙 (@tweetmedebbieb) August 1, 2021
That was BS!!! How early did Aust's final swimmer leave the top?!?!
— NewSaintsEra (@twittmanola) August 1, 2021
The allegations of cheating were unfounded however, with official timing results showing her reaction time was 0.04 seconds.
Campbell said her changeover was “very quick” but within the rules.
“I sort of turned around and saw a number one next to our names and I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, that’s incredible’,” she said.
“I looked up and the girls were celebrating and I thought ‘my changeover was very quick, we’ve either just won an Olympic gold medal or we’ve just been disqualified’.
“So I was like we have to wait until the results are official. And they were official and we are Olympic gold medallists.”
Christy Doran3pm:Shoot-out sends Kookaburras into semis
Revenge at last.
Five years after being sent home from Rio at the quarter-finals by eventual goal medallists the Netherlands, the Kookaburras have atoned for the defeat in a dramatic penalty shootout with goalkeeper Andrew Charter proving the hero.
They won 3-0 on penalties after finishing 2-2 at the end of regulation.
Charter stopped the first penalty shot, forced the second wide and then put pressure on the Dutch to foul and allow Tim Brand to fire home and see the Kookaburras through to the semi-finals, where they will meet Germany.
Colin Batch had hoped the defeat would be the “driving force to make sure that didn’t happen again” and his gold medal favourites did not let their coach down.
A goal in each half to striker Tom Wickham looked like proving the difference, but twice the Dutch hit back first through Mink van der Weerden and later by Jeroen Hertzbergen from a penalty.
It’s hard to imagine tensions being higher than the temperature, but that’s how it felt.
After cruising through the pool rounds undefeated without needing to play the big three – the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium – Sunday’s encounter always beckoned to be a nervy encounter.
Those tensions reached Covid temperatures when the Dutch scored early in the second half to draw level and dominated the proceedings.
But Wickham’s second, where he fooled goal-keeper Pirmin Blaak after being left unmarked once again put the Kookaburras in front.
Danger was at every turn though and when the Kookaburras illegally stopped a certain goal, the Dutch hit back.
Flynn Ogilvie had two late opportunities for the Kookaburras, but could not find the back of the net forcing the match into a cruel penalty shootout.
Charter stopped the first shot Jeroen Hertzberger, before Blake Govers managed to beat Pirmin Blaak with a diving effort to give the Kookaburras the lead.
And when Robbert Kemperman went wide with the Netherlands’ second from a reverse shot, it was Australia’s to lose.
Olgilvie fired home with his second attempt just before the allocated eight seconds to score.
Agencies2.30pm:Gong sounds shot of brilliance
China’s Gong Lijiao has lived up to her pre-Olympics form by winning gold in the shot put, AFP reports.
Gong managed a personal best of 20.58 metres on her sixth and final attempt in blazing sunshine in the Olympic Stadium, having led from her opening effort of 19.95m.
American Raven Saunders took silver with 19.79m, while New Zealand veteran Valerie Adams, in her fifth Olympics, was left delighted as she claimed bronze with 19.62 to go with golds in 2008 and 2012, and silver in 2016.
Gong, who has topped the world lists in three of the last four seasons, totally dominated the field to shut down any prospect of Adams making history with three consecutive gold medals.
“This is a special day for me,” 36-year-old Adams said. “It means everything, more than a gold medal as I’ve been juggling motherhood and athletics.
“Being able to achieve this as a mum, and a mum of two at that, is phenomenal. I’ve come back from motherhood and can still be at the top of the game. I’m testament to that.”
The bid for three individual titles now falls to Poland’s world record holder hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk, who needed just one throw to advance to Tuesday’s final.
The 35-year-old Pole, a four-time world champion, will be gunning for a third consecutive gold after triumphing at the 2012 and 2016 Games.
— Agencies
Agencies2pm:Biles exits another competition
Gymnastics great Simone Biles has withdrawn from the Olympic floor final, leaving the American with just one more chance of competition at the Tokyo Games, USA Gymnastics said on Sunday, AFP reports.
“Simone has withdrawn from the event final for floor and will make a decision on beam later this week. Either way, we’re all behind you, Simone,” USAG tweeted.
Biles, the four-time Olympic champion widely considered to have pushed the sport to new limits, has said she is struggling with the “twisties”, a condition where gymnasts lose the ability to orientate themselves in mid-air.
The 24-year-old came to Tokyo seeking five gold medals to equal the Olympic all-time gymnastics career record of nine, but dramatically withdrew during her first event, the women’s team competition.
Biles then skipped her all-around title defence and on Saturday it was announced she was dropping the vault and uneven bars.
She has documented her struggles with mental health during the Games in regular posts on her social media accounts.
—Agencies
Madeline Crittenden1.20pm:On your bike, it’s time to celebrate
Queensland BMX star Logan Martin has cemented himself as a cult Australian Olympian, winning gold in the sport’s debut at the Games in an incredible freestyle performance.
Martin, 27, was the hot favourite going into the final of the BMX freestyle at Ariake Urban Sports Park, after scoring in the 90s in his first Olympic run on Saturday.
After his incredible performance in the seeding event, Martin promised better, and more technical tricks were to come in the final – and he did not disappoint.
Flying through the air on his bike with backflips and tail whip combinations, Martin had the crowd on its feet in his first run.
Dubbed “extreme gymnastics on a bike” the competition was tight, but Martin managed to pull off a huge score of 93.30 in the first run — narrowly beating Venezuela’s Daniel Dehrs, who scored 90.10.
The score meant he didn’t even need to finish his second run to win gold.
An Olympic gold was all that was needed to complete the trophy cabinet for the two-time World Champion, three-time national champion and star of the X Games circuit.
Tom Crystal1.13pm:Another triumph for Australia
Logan Martin has held on for gold in the men’s BMX freestyle competition. Martin’s first run, which scored 93.3, was good enough to edge out Venezuela’s Daniel Dhers (92.05) and Great Britain’s Declan Brooks (90.80) to give Australia its 13th gold medal of these Olympics.
Brianna Travers1.05pm:Campbell opens up on ‘dream come true’
Cate Campbell said she was “so proud” to have anchored the winning 4x100m medley relay.
“Where do you even start with that,” she said moments after her race.
“Full credit to the incredible job that all the Australians have done this week. I am so proud to be a member of this team. It’s still sinking in. I cannot believe we went out and did that.”
When asked if she would be happy to finish her Olympic career on that swim, she said it would be a good way to go out.
“That’s pretty good,” Campbell said. “It’s a little bit more special being able to get a win from behind over the Americans. I’ve been in some incredibly close battles with them over the years where they’ve got me. To do it on the world’s biggest stage is a dream come true.”
Chelsea Hodges said she was elated with her breaststroke leg of the relay.
“I knew I had to literally swim out of my skin and gave it everything I’ve got,” Hodges said.
“That time showed that I did. These girls are amazing.”
She described Cate Campbell as “one of the best relay swimmers” of all time.
“It’s great we have someone like her (Cate) to back it up, it’s great to know if you’ve swum well you’ve got someone behind you swimming even better.”
Madeline Crittenden1pm:Aussie eyes gold in BMX
Aussie BMX star Logan Martin is in the gold medal position after an incredible first run in the freestyle finals.
Martin, 27, finished with a score of 93.30 after his first run, putting him at the top of the leaderboard.
The stands at Ariake Urban Sport Park erupted as the two-time world champion impressed on the course after qualifying at the top of the seeding event.
After the seeding round Martin promised a more impressive performance with insanely technical tricks – and he did not disappoint.
Gadiel Notelovitz12.55pm:Solomon mines well of confidence in 400m
He’s still got it.
Australia’s Steve Solomon ran a personal best time to make a statement and book a place in the men’s 400m semi-finals nine years on from his London fairy tale.
In sweltering Tokyo conditions, Solomon kept his cool on Sunday as he charged home to finish second in his heat with a best-ever time of 44.94 seconds.
After missing out on the Games altogether in 2016, Solomon came in behind Colombia’s Anthony Zambrano inside the Olympic Stadium, but in front of South African track star Wayde Van Niekerk to automatically qualify for the next stage.
“I was most impressed with being able to execute my race and I’m really proud I was able to do that,” Solomon told News Corp as he donned an ice vest.
“I’ve come into the competition quite under-raced, with a rocky 12 months of injury, so that was always going to be a test for me.
“I knew physically I was in good shape but being able to execute physically is a different skill to being physically fit. The fact I was able to do that today has given me great confidence heading into tomorrow’s semi-final.”
The 28-year-old believes he was in the best condition of his career in April of last year, before the Games were postponed. He showed on his Olympic return that he’s in pretty good nick right now.
And he knows exactly what lies ahead after making the final in 2012.
“It’s a huge thing,” Solomon, co-captain of Australia’s track and field team, said of his London experience.
“The first time I did it I was 19. Nothing was expected of me and there’s a certain tailwind that comes with that.
“This time around it’s going to be a little different, but I know I’ve got the confidence to do it. I’ve just shown I’m in personal best shape.”
Fellow Australian Alex Beck also ran a PB (45.54 seconds), but missed out on qualification.
Julian Linden12.30pm:Campbell signs off in style
Cate Campbell, you bloody beauty.
The Queen of Australian swimming – in possibly her last race at the Olympics – has done it again, but never as dramatically as this.
She has anchored Australia to the gold medal in the women’s 4x100m medley final after one of the most heart stopping races ever witnessed.
Second when they turned for home on the last lap, the 29-year-old Australian flag-bearer dug deep when all seemed lost to get her fingernails on the wall first in an Olympic record time of 3: 51.60, just ahead of the United States.
It gave Campbell her fourth Olympic gold medal of her career and even more records for her teammates.
Emma McKeon – who swam the butterfly leg – won her seventh medal in Tokyo and her fourth gold to become Australia’s greatest Olympian.
She is only the second woman in 125 years – in all sports – to win seven medals at a single Olympics.
She is the only Australian to win four gold medals at an Olympics.
Kaylee McKeown – who swam the backstroke leg – won her third gold medal in Tokyo after winning the individual backstroke double.
Breastroker Chelsea Hodges, the unsung hero, won her first gold.
Australia now has nine gold medals in swimming in Tokyo – breaking the record of eight set in 1956.
The team’s total of 20 matches the record from Beijing in 2008.
Tom Crystal12.23pm:Aussie women win gold in women’s medley relay
Cate Campbell has powered home in the freestyle leg to seal another gold medal for Australia, in the 100m medley relay. Campbell helped the Australian team, which also featured Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges and Kate McKeon, clock a time of 3min51.6sec, just ahead of the US (3min51.73) and Canada (3min52.6).
Scott Gullan12.30pm: Gregson through to steeplechasefinal
The relief of a night final is the recipe Genevieve Gregson is looking for after a brutal 3000m steeplechase heat.
There was nowhere to hide despite the 10am start on Sunday morning with the mercury hovering around 39C inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
Gregson, 31, finished sixth in her heat (9min26.11sec) but made it through to her second Olympic final as one of the six next fastest qualifiers.
She had spent the lead-up to the Games in the Swiss Alps where conditions were obviously vastly different to the heat and humidity of Japan.
“We made a decision as we knew it was going to be hot and humid but we kind of wanted to do the trade-off of high altitude, hard training as the fitter you are the better you’re going to handle the heat,” Gregson said.
“That was our approach and I think I have more in me, particularly given the final is a night race I should be able to compete with the five to eight girls, that’s where I belong.”
The two other Australians in the steeplechase, Georgia Winkcup and Amy Cashin, failed to progress through to Wednesday night’s final.
Long-jumper Brooke Stratton is through to her second Olympic final, scraping through in the last qualification spot with a best jump of 6.60m.
Joe Barton12.10pm:Late stumble ends BMX campaign
Australia’s Natalya Diehm has fallen agonisingly short of an Olympic medal despite a brilliant performance in the women’s BMX freestyle final.
Diehm was in bronze medal position after her first round of 86, but was knocked out of the top three after an unbelievable second run by Great Britain’s Charlotte Worthington – which rocketed her to gold, ahead of USA star Hannah Roberts.
Diehm ultimately finished fifth, after being leapfrogged by American Perris Benegas in the penultimate run of the day.
Jacquelin Magnay11.50am:Medals galore for superstar McKeon
Wollongong superstar Emma McKeon has asserted her utter dominance in the pool, winning another gold in the 50m freestyle – ratcheting her burgeoning medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics to two gold and a bronze in individual events – and a couple of relay medals.
McKeon gritted her way in the dash to a new Olympic record of 23.81 seconds, despite being one of the slowest off the blocks. She was half a stroke ahead of minor placegetters, Swedish star Sarah Sjoestroem, and Pernille Blume, of Denmark.
Cate Campbell, swimming in lane eight, and possibly for the last time in an individual event at the Olympics, appeared to be in the medals hunt, but in the blanket finish was given seventh place in 24.36.
Australia has now won a gold medal every day at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre, with the golden haul now at eight golds, equalling the same hometown effort from 65 years ago at the Melbourne Olympics.
Both McKeon and Campbell have rushed off to prepare for the 4x100m medley relay, with McKeon to do the butterfly leg and Campbell the anchor freestyle leg
Tom Crystal11.40am:McKeon wins gold, sets new mark
Emma McKeon has now won the most Olympic Games medals in Australia’s history (10) after winning gold in the 50m freestyle in Tokyo, in an Olympic record time of 23.81 seconds ahead of Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom (24.07) and Denmark’s Pernille Blume (24.21).
Fellow Australian Cate Campbell (24.36) finished seventh in the race.
McKeon now has three gold and three bronze medals at these Games on the way to overtaking Ian Thorpe and Liesel Jones (nine medals) as the most prolific athletes in the nation’s history.
The 27-year-old won gold in the 100m freestyle and 4x100m freestyle relay in Tokyo, and bronze in the 100m butterfly, 4x100m mixed medley relay and 4x200m freestyle relay.
McKeon won gold in the 4x100m freestyle at Rio in 2016, along with silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay. She added bronze in the 200m freestyle.
With six medals in Tokyo, the Wollongong whiz now also has more medals at one Olympics than any Australian athlete, eclipsing Shane Gould (1972), Thorpe (2000) and Alicia Coutts (2012) who all managed five.
Tom Crystal11.30am:Minutes away from last hurrah in the pool
We have five finals this morning, and Australian interest in three of them.
The first event of the day is the men’s 50m freestyle final. Then we have the women’s 50m freestyle final, with Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell; the men’s 1500m freestyle final; the women’s 4x100m medley relay final (Australian entry) and, finally, the men’s 4x100m medley relay final (Australian entry).
Tom Crystal10.50am:Winkup wilts in oppressive conditions
Australia’s Georgia Winkcup has battled her way to 13th in the first heat of the 3000m steeplechase in a time of 9min59.29sec, almost 40 seconds behind race winner, Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi.
It’s hot out there in the Olympics main stadium, already in the high 30s, and it will be a balancing act for these runners to qualify safely and keep something in the tank for the final on Wednesday.
Agencies10.30am:US stars keep dream alive
Kevin Durant and Jayson Tatum turned on the style as the US men’s basketball team eventually shook off the Czech Republic to win 119-84 to reach the Olympic knockout phase, AFP reports.
Boston Celtics star Tatum scored 27 points and Brooklyn Nets forward Durant hit 23 points in a win that sent Gregg Popovich’s team into the quarter-finals.
The combative Czechs were just four points behind at half-time in Saitama, but Durant upped the tempo in the second half.
During the game Durant took two records from Carmelo Anthony, becoming both the US Olympic men’s all-time points and all-time field goals leader.
Having lost their opening game to France — the first US men’s basketball loss at an Olympics since Athens in 2004 — the victory against the Czechs guaranteed that the Americans will avoid any of the three group winners until at least the semi-finals.
They finished second behind France in Group A after the French eased past Iran 79-62 to seal top spot.
The draw for the quarter-final stage will be made on Sunday.
— Agencies
Agencies10am:Sprinters booted out over doping
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare and Kenyan 100m specialist Mark Odhiambo have been thrown out of the Tokyo Olympics after failing doping tests, AFP reports.
Okagbare, who was due to have run in the semi-finals of the women’s 100m on Saturday, tested positive for human growth hormone.
The 32-year-old, a silver medallist in the long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, failed the test on July 19, four days before Tokyo’s opening ceremony.
Odhiambo was to have lined up for the heats of the men’s 100m but he has been suspended after testing positive for anabolic steroids, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said.
The 28-year-old Odhiambo, who has a best time of 10.05sec, has challenged the result and the case has been referred to the anti-doping division of the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Kenya is in category ‘A’ of the World Anti-Doping Agency watchlist of countries considered to be the highest doping risk and its athletes must undergo rigorous testing to be eligible to compete at the Olympics and world championships.
Doping has had a profound effect on Kenya’s most successful sport with over 60 athletes suspended in the last five years for offences that include failures to declare their whereabouts to anti-doping testers.
— Agencies
Agencies9.30am:Watch to watch for today in track and field
The third day of athletics has some standout events:
• Men’s 100m final: This is the first Olympics since Athens in 2004 to take place without Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, winner of eight golds.
The semi-finals and final have been blown open after American Trayvon Bromell, who owns the fastest time this year of 9.77sec, the seventh-quickest in history, scraped through as a fastest loser after finishing fourth in his heat.
US teammates Ronnie Baker and Fred Kerley have been left holding the baton while Canada’s Andre de Grasse and South African Akani Simbine are sure to offer some decent competition.
• Women’s shot put final: New Zealand veteran Valerie Adams, 36, is the first shot putter in history to reach five Olympic finals, and will bid to become the first woman to win a single individual Olympic field event three times.
• Women’s triple jump final: All eyes are on Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who has brought joy to her troubled nation with back-to-back world triple jump titles.
The 25-year-old is the only woman in the world to have jumped beyond 15m and has done so 17 times, including at all six of her competitions this year.
Having won silver in Rio, it looks like there is little to stop her going one better.
• Men’s high jump final: Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim will seek to shine in what promises to be a highly competitive event.
Barshim, 30, won Olympic bronze in 2012 (later upgraded to silver after Russia’s Ivan Ukhov was stripped of the gold for doping) and silver in 2016 before winning his two world titles.
He has cleared 2.40m 11 times since 2013.
But rivals for gold include authorised neutral athletes Ilya Ivanyuk and Mikhail Akimenko, plus Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi.
Australia will be watching Commonwealth Games champion Brandon Starc.
— Agencies
Tom Crystal9am:McKeon on verge of Olympics history
Australian swim star Emma McKeon has two events on the final day of competition in the pool with a bunch of records within her grasp.
McKeon has five medals in Tokyo (two gold, three bronze), equal with Ian Thorpe, Shane Gould and Alicia Coutts for the most at a single Games.
Her nine career medals also has her tied with Thorpe and Leisel Jones for the most ever by an Australian athlete.
Finally, the most Olympic medals by a swimmer at one meet stands at six, so all three milestones are in the firing line today.
Mckeon, 27, will contest the 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay with a chance to rewrite the record books after a phenomenal performance already.
Callum Dick8.30am:Aussie barely misses discus medal
Matthew Denny threw a lifetime best 67.02m with his final attempt of the final but fell an agonising 6cm from claiming bronze.
Denny – and everyone inside the Olympic Stadium – sat with bated breath waiting for his throw to register on the big screen.
It proved a bittersweet moment for the Queenslander, who set a personal best by almost 80cm to come within a whisker of the podium.
Swedish world champion Daniel Stahl took gold with a throw of 68.90, ahead of compatriot Simon Pettersson (67.39m), with Austria’s Lukas Weisshaidinger (67.07m) in the bronze-medal position.
Scott Gullan8am:World goes nuts for new Aussie sprint star
The look on Yohan Blake’s face said it all – who is this guy?
Well, the world certainly knows who Aussie Rohan Browning is and about his flowing mullet now after his blistering 100m heat.
Browning produced a personal best 10.01 secs in the heats to make himself one of the Aussies to watch on another huge day in Tokyo.
And it didn’t take long for Twitter to compare Browning and his flying mullet to Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron either.
Zac Efron or Rohan Browning? Either way, he won his 100m heat! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ntrgSyJLRz
— Olympics (@Olympics) July 31, 2021
Zac Efron in High School Musical 2 ran pretty fast there
— Tyler Maher (@tylermaher5) July 31, 2021
Rohan Browning in the 100m! And the mullet! Yes!! #tokyo2020#olympics#athletics
— Dylan Alcott (@DylanAlcott) July 31, 2021
The people’s mullet! Get around @Rohan_Browning 💪🽠ðŸƒâ€â™‚ï¸ #Athletics#Tokyo2020https://t.co/K1vR131Fry
— Lauren Wood (@LaurenHeraldSun) July 31, 2021
Rohan Browning FLYING thanks to the mullet! That, my friends, was a monster run! #AUS#athletics
— Kitch 🇦🇺 (@kitchtrips) July 31, 2021
Browning became Australia’s second fastest man and an Olympic semi-finalist when he blitzed the field in his heat.
In an extraordinary performance the Sydney University student stunned the world by winning his 100m heat in a personal best 10.01sec.
Browning now moves past Matt Shirvington on the all-time list and has Patrick Johnson’s 9.93sec national record in his sights.
Running from lane one, the 23-year-old started brilliantly and then held off former world champion Yohan Blake over the final stages.
“That’s what I was looking forward to today. I had a look at the start list, I thought I’ve got one of the stiffest heats. You’d rather do it the hard way, it is much more satisfying. You have to front up to everybody at some point,” Browning told Channel 7 after his historic run.
“About six weeks ago, I had three cortisone injections in my knee to try and fix up a problem I had off the back of the national championships. I had a lot of trust in my coach. He got me back in shape. I’m happy with that one.
“A lot of media pundits who were writing well-meaning stories about how great it would be for me to make a final. I’ve never been here just to make a final. No matter what the bookies say, the pundits or the punters. I hope there are a few more believers tonight.”
Shirvington was the last Australian to make it through to an Olympic semi-final in Sydney in 2000.
Hec Hogan is Australia’s only medallist winning bronze in 1956.
There was a major surprise in an earlier heat with the world’s fastest man this year, American Trayvon Bromell, finishing fourth and outside the automatic qualifying positions.
He did manage to progress through to the semi-finals – the first three in each heat are automatic – as one of three fastest losers.
There were plenty of impressive performances including a national record of 9.94 by Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs.
Canada’s Andre de Grasse who has long been anointed as Bolt’s replacement reminded everyone of his talent with a 9.91sec heat win.
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