Caleb Dressel and Bobby Fink win gold medals

There is good news and bad news for American athletes in Tokyo, is there good news? It was a big night in the pool for the American swimmers, as Caleb Dressel added two more golds to complete the Tokyo Olympics with five by winning the 50m freestyle and then shortly thereafter helping the men’s 4x100m medley relay team set a world record. Bobby Fink used a frantic dash in the late sprint to win the gold medal in the men’s 1500m freestyle. Those are two distance golds for Finky, who also won the 800m freestyle. It’s starting to look like the chances of seeing Simone Biles compete again in Tokyo are dwindling. Biles withdrew from another sporting event. Subscribe to Olympic transcripts to get exclusive access to GamesTEAM USA MEDAL COUNT: The complete list of every American who has acquired equipment in Tokyo Tuesday in the women’s hammer throw, but her best throw was more than 25 feet shorter than she achieved at the Olympic trials in June. Price said she broke the ankle bone in her right foot, near the ankle, during her throw last month and the injury prevented her from training for three weeks. “I just hope to put other things together, and display it well.” Price said the injury was mentally difficult to function in the run-up to Tokyo, and it was still excruciating physically. She said she was taping her foot but the pain was inevitable, because it’s the foot she uses for driving and generating power. You just smile and bear and you’ll keep pushing through it.” “Fortunately, the pain isn’t as bad as it used to be, to me, it really is a blessing.” Our fellow American hammer throwers Brooke Anderson and Gwen Perry also advanced to the final. Team USA didn’t win No Olympic medal in that event ever.–Tom Shadtukio–The chances of seeing Simone Biles competing again in the Tokyo Olympics are dwindling, and Biles announced her withdrawal from the last exercise on Sunday, a day before her contested date. In addition to the vault and uneven shafts event finals, which is scheduled for Sunday, the final event, for the balance beam, is Tuesday, but no decision has yet been made on availability. Biles to Tokyo as the biggest star of these Olympics, expected to win a record five gold medals.She withdrew from the team competition Tuesday after one event, saying mental health concerns were showing up in “fluctuations”, a loss of aerial consciousness.—Nancy Armorto QUO – US men continued their dominance in the 4×100 medley relay as Americans set a record at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday led by Caleb Dressel, who finished off the impressive Tokyo Olympics with a fifth gold medal in the butterfly swim in the final relay of the meet. He won the gold in the 50-meter freestyle earlier in the day, and the American men finished in 3:26.78, beating the previous world record by 0.50 seconds. He opened the relay with Ryan Murphy on his back, followed by Michael Andrew, who finished his leg breaststroke with the Americans second behind Great Britain. Dressel then regained the lead and Zach Apple closed the bout to prove the free swimming leg, and the United States never lost the men’s medley relay at the Olympics. The only time it didn’t win a gold medal was in 1980 when the entire team boycotted the Moscow Games, where the United States finished the swimming competition with more medals than any other country, including 30 total medals and 11 gold. Australia won 20 overall and nine gold medals. -Peter Barzilay: The American women couldn’t hold out against Australia in the multicolored 4×100 relay, as Kate Campbell raced for gold in the freestyle final to win in 3:51.60, and the United States won the silver. , .13 of a second behind the Australian. Abby Wetzel fought to the finish but touched second with a time of 3:51.73, and Emma McKeown, who swam the return leg on Sunday, won her seventh Olympic medal in Tokyo with four golds and three bronzes. She is the first swimmer to win seven medals in a single session. TOKYO – American Bobby Fink made it a stunning double in his first Olympics, winning gold in the men’s 1500m freestyle. The first time an American has won Olympic gold in the event in 37 years, the 21-year-old University of Florida swimmer won a surprising gold medal earlier this week in the men’s 800 freestyle. On Sunday morning, Finke used a late push to win the 1500 in 14:39.65, followed by Ukrainian Mykhailo Romanchuk, who took the silver, with 1.26 seconds. In the Olympic swimming competition, where he won the men’s 50-meter freestyle for his third individual gold medal in these games, Dressel won in 21.07 seconds, setting an Olympic record, followed by France’s Florent Manaudou in 21.55 seconds. Brazilian Bruno Fratos won the bronze medal. Dressel, who won the 100-meter freestyle and 100 butterfly earlier in the week, also won the gold in the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He had another event left, the men’s 4×100 medley relay race, which the United States never lost at the Olympics. Kristen Brennan TOKYO – America’s Hannah Roberts won the Olympic silver on Sunday in the women’s motorcycle race at the Tokyo Games. Roberts, 20, cheered and cried after an amazing first run full of tough aerial tricks. She got a score of 96.10, which put her in the lead heading into the second and final round at Ariak Urban Sports Park. But Charlotte Worthington of Great Britain scored 97.50 in her second round and took the gold by the highest average in the finals. Early in her second round, Roberts abruptly stopped riding after an aerial bluff, thus ceding the win to Worthington. A native of Buchanan, Michigan, Roberts entered her first competition at the age of 12 and followed in the footsteps of her cousin Brett Panacevich, a retired professional BMX bike racer. She won the inaugural BMX Freestyle World Championship in 2017 and won it again in 2019. – Josh PeterTOKYO Sarah Spoonsell and Kelly Claes, the world’s No. 3 beach volleyball world number three, lost in the Olympic Round of 16 on Sunday at Shiokazi Park. Canadians Heather Bansley and Brandy Wilkerson, seeded No. 16, won 22-24, 21-18, 15-13 after trailing in the set and 10-4 in the second. “We created more than enough chances for ourselves to win,” Claes said. “They fought through that first, at the end and we let them in again. Everyone is fine here, so we let that door open a little bit and there we are, lost.” Canada led 12-11 in the third set when Sponcel’s serve was called. The US contested the call and was initially successful only to conduct another review to comply with Canada. Falling 14-11, Spoonsell and Claes settled two game points before losing the third with a Wilkerson winner. “I thought (sending spunshells) was there,” Claes said. “It’s bad, but you shouldn’t go down to that third set. We did well in the second and then let them in again.” – Jeff Metcalfe While the US has only one medal so far in athletics – bronze in the 4×400 mixed-gender relay on Saturday – the finals are just getting started. In the women’s shot put, which will be a final at 8:35 p.m. ET, the U.S. Raven Saunders are the favorites after finishing first in the standings in the playoffs. The Mississippi NCAA star Saunders successfully threw 19.22 meters to reach the finals and caught the attention of many on social media with her unique face mask. Sunday morning the American side will also see the men’s high jump, women’s triple jump and men’s 100m finals. Trayvon Brommel, who scored 9.80 percent in the US Olympic Trials, has a gold medal potential. Qualifiers for the event will take place shortly after the finals. UCLA and USC superstars Sarah Spoonsell and Kelly Claes of Team USA, respectively, blasted off in the women’s beach volleyball round of 16, the first qualifying round for the tournament. Canadian young duo Brandi Wilkerson and Heather Bansley face off at 8 p.m. ET. Neither American nor Canadian teams have faced each other in the playoffs. Spoonsell and Claes won all three of their preliminary matches. Controversy has arisen in Tokyo about the long-standing requirement in sports to wear bikini bottoms while playing. It’s not the only sport in the games that is critical of the dress code for women. On the men’s side, the action begins at 11 pm ET with American Phil Dalhauser and Nicholas Lucina against Qatari Ahmed Tejan and Sherif Younes. The American duo lost one game in the preliminary match against the Netherlands. Bump into Richard Torres Jr. in Olympic Village, and he’ll probably show you a magic trick. He was carrying a backpack with him to spark a conversation with the other athletes. The American super heavyweight boxer, who graduated from high school as a top student in his class, comes from a family of boxers. Both his father and grandfather were boxers, his father even fought for the US team, although he never made it to the Olympics. Torres Jr. was invited to train at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee training center in 2017. Terrell Bigs was the last boxer to win a Team USA medal in the heavyweight category in 1984. Torres Jr. is one round away from competing for the medal, outsmarting his opponent in the round Opening Thursday. He will head to the ring at 6:06 a.m. ET on Sunday for the quarter-final match against Cuba’s Daenerys Peru. – Josh Peter