More track and field medals for USA

Wednesday was a glory-filled day for the USA track team, and Thursday was the first track and field gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics for American men. Ryan Crozier set an Olympic record for men’s shot put win, with teammate Joe Kovacs taking the silver. However, there was also a disappointment when the men’s 4×100 relay team finished sixth in the semi-finals and did not qualify for the final. In addition, the favorite in the men’s 110-meter hurdles – American Grant Holloway – was upset in the final. Hold the silver. The day got off to a positive start for the US as April’s “A Team” beach volleyball duo Ross and Alex Kleinman looked after Switzerland in straight sets for a place in the gold medal match. Despite Canada’s devastating semi-final loss, USWNT still has a chance to leave Tokyo with a medal as they face Australia in the bronze medal match at 4 AM ET. United States men’s basketball team. After an impressive second half in Tuesday’s 95-81 quarterfinal win over Spain, Team USA will take on Australia, who defeated them in an exhibition match last month, at 12:15 a.m. ET for a place in Wednesday’s gold medal recap: Sidney McLaughlin sets a world record in women’s hurdles Latest from Tokyo: Subscribe to the Olympic newsletter to get exclusive text alerts from Olympic: We’ll be your guide to the games with the inner scoop sent directly to your phone. On the first try, American shot put world record holder Ryan Crozier walked into the perfect shot circuit and as normal as one could have in an Olympic final. The reigning Olympic champion stepped into the ring in a sports cap and headgear in the USA. Taking a deep breath, and performing a popular Olympic record spin-and-boost shot, Crozer threw 74 feet 11 inches to break his 2016 Olympic record of 73 feet 10 inches. The 6-foot-7 putter threw a monster 75-foot-2, and the competition for the top spot ended after two attempts, but Croeser saved his best for last. The Oregon native threw 76 feet 5 inches in his last attempt to break the Olympic record for the third and final time of the competition. Joe Kovacs was second (74′ 3′) and New Zealand’s Thomas Walsh (73′ 8′) came third, and with his victory, Crozier became the American man to win a gold medal in track and field at the Tokyo Olympics. Additionally, Crozier is the first American to win consecutive Olympic gold in the shot since Barry O’Brien did it at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. – Tyler Dragon Tokio – American Sakura Kokumai advanced to one of two Olympic bronze medals in karate matches in Kata Thursday, karate making debut His Olympics in Tokyo. Kata is an illustrative event that can be compared to gymnastics floor exercises, Kokomai, 28, finished third in her five-woman pool as she advanced to the rankings round, finishing third again in Nippon Budokan, and this puts her in the bronze medal match later. On Thursday against Italian Viviana Botaro, who finished second after the classification round in the other group, Kokumai was born in Honolulu but has family and friends in Japan, where she lived and trained before returning to the United States to train for these games. Jeff MetcalfeNevin Harrison earns a rare medal in canoe for the United States with gold in the women’s 200m. The 19-year-old from Seattle finished off Canada’s Lawrence Vincent Lapointe and Ukraine’s Lyudmila Lausanne in the final. The United States hasn’t won a men’s or women’s canoe medal since 1992, and Harrison’s medal is only Team USA’s fifth in the sport. . – Jess Evans TOKYO – The US men’s team had little luck taking gold on the track, 110-meter hurdles favorite Grant Holloway narrowly lost to Jamaican Hansley Parchman in the event final. To win the Olympic gold medal. Holloway finished second with a time of 13.09. His best season of 12.81 is only a hundredth of a second of the world record. Ronald Levy of Jamaica took the bronze, clocking 13.10. – Tyler Dragontokio – In a stunning development, Team USA failed to qualify for the final in the men’s 4×100 relay at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, as the Americans sent four of the fastest sprinters – Trayvon Brommel, Fred Curley, Ronnie Baker and Crayvon Gillespie – and took the place Sixth in the preliminary round. The top three finalists qualified automatically, with the next two fastest leading in time, and the United States finished behind China, Canada, Italy, Germany and Ghana in their time, with a time of 38.10. Violations of poor deliveries. This time around, poor deliveries proved costly, with the United States last winning the gold medal in the event in 2000. – Tom Shadtukio – The park’s skateboarding comes with its fair share of sweeps. At the pre-Olympics Tokyo, someone came up for the leader and photographer, and Australian Kieran Woolley was finishing a big run when he went for a rail ride over the bowl. It is not clear how he intended to get out of it, because at the head of the track he bumped into a cameraman from the Olympic Radio Services. In one replay, Woolley’s helmet was shown hitting the camera lens before the photographer’s feed went into the frame, both looked intact and, luckily for Woolley, it didn’t seem to matter, scoring 82.69 to take the overall lead during the third preliminaries. – Rachel Axontokio – American beach volleyball duo April Ross and Alex Kleinmann head to the gold-medal match after beating Switzerland 2-0 from Anouk Verg Debre and Joanna Heydrich in the semi-finals. The pair made quick work of the Swiss, defeating them 21-12, 21-11. They went 7-1 at the end of the first set to win and 5-1 at the end of the second set. Ross finished the match scoring 15 attack points while Kleinman contributed nine attack points and four blocking points. Ross and Kleinman play in the final on Friday, August 6 against Australian Maria Artacio del Solar and Talico Clancy, who beat Tina Graudina/Anastasia Kravchinuka of Latvia. The US team has been paired together since 2018 and ranked second in the world at the Tokyo Olympics. Ross and Kleinman have won once and twice finished third on the World Tour in 2021. Together they have six FIVB victories, Ross has competed in two previous Olympics – she won silver in 2012 with Gene Casey and bronze in 2016 with Keri Walsh Jennings. With her third-place finish in 2016, she became the fourth female beach volleyball player of any gender to win multiple Olympic medals in the sport (Walsh Jennings, Misty May Trainor and Karch Kiraly are others). – Olivia Reiner – captain of the semi-finals. Match against Switzerland, the American beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alex Kleinman, better known as “Team A”, received support from a member of the first team, Mr. T. Debre and Joanna Heydrich at 8 p.m. ET for a place in the gold medal match appear to be the first Americans since Misty Mae Trainor and Keri Walsh Jennings in 2012 to win the gold medal in beach volleyball. – Jordan Mendozastamford, Connecticut – In 2011, NBC while looking for a place to set up a store for its sports section stumbled upon a Clairol shampoo warehouse in this quaint eastern Connecticut town about 40 miles northeast of New York City. No one imagined it would play such an important role in the network’s wide array of sporting properties, and ten years later, the warehouse space was transformed into a single floor full of multiple control rooms and studio space, complete with an existing loading dock so television trucks could even though there were nearly With 1,600 NBC Olympics employees on site in Tokyo, most of the behind-the-scenes work takes place in Stamford, including the aforementioned production trucks helping viewers watch volleyball, golf, basketball and swimming events. “The biggest part is how impressive and how large the operation is and continues to grow in the United States, and that is just a product of changes in technology and the importance of figuring out a simple system for creating television,” Sam Flood, executive producer and president, production, NBC & NBC Sports Network, told USA TODAY Sports. . – Scooby AxsonTOKYO – Getting an Olympic medal is very difficult. Winning an Olympic gold medal is very difficult, especially in individual sports such as track and field. The gold medal winner should really be the best in the world. To put things into perspective, the global population is approaching 7.9 billion, according to Worldometer. What happened on track and field for the U.S. men’s team sums it up exactly. “It’s really tough. It’s just a lot of hard, hard work,” Kenny Bednarek said moments after winning the men’s 200m silver. It is not easy. You should make sure you drink water, hydrate every day, make sure you stretch every day and use all the equipment you have… It’s not easy, but you can do it if you put in a hard effort. “Unfortunately for the US men’s team none of them were able to ultimately achieve their gold dreams, after six days of competition the US men’s team had five total medals – four silver and one bronze. Zero gold medals. Still the men of track The Americans lead all participating countries in total medal counts with five.However, at the conclusion of the Sixth Track and Field Olympic Day, 10 countries had at least one gold medal in track and field, including Germany and Italy in the lead with two each. You shouldn’t stay too long.Ryan Crozer, world record holder and current Olympic champion, is the favorite in Thursday’s men’s throw final.On the track on Thursday, Grant Holloway runs the final 110m hurdles.First in the world and in better shape. than any of his competitors. There could be two gold medals imminent, perhaps more, in a matter of hours. But that does not remove the daunting challenge of being the best in the world in an event Individually. KASHIMA, JAPAN – Bronze medal games aren’t really a thing for American ladies. groups. However, for the outstanding team in the game, it has always been either gold or bankruptcy. They have won the last two World Cups, and were runners-up in the tournament before that. In the first five Olympic tournaments, they won either a gold or a silver, but when the choice is a bronze or a bust, well, bronze doesn’t look so bad. “We are fortunate to be here to play,” USWNT goalkeeper Adrianna French said Wednesday. We are competitors. We are here to win. We are here to take home a medal. Everyone is trying to get a medal. We didn’t make it for gold or silver, but bronze is just as important (because) it’s what we have to fight for.” Per USWNT success, This is the second Olympic Games in a row where the first team in the world failed to make the gold medal match. Playing Australia on Thursday for the bronze is actually an improvement over 2016, when the Americans were knocked out in the quarter-finals, having won the World Cup in 2019, and having an extra year to recover from the celebrations that followed, the Americans seemed to be the better. Favorite gold in Tokyo. But they never looked well, losing to Sweden in their opening match and losing in two of their three group matches, needing penalty shootouts to beat the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, and then losing to Canada – for the first time in 20 years. , no less – after the Canadians converted a penalty in the 74th minute, this could also be the last game of some of the team’s biggest stars, and they don’t want to leave with a loss. A bronze won’t be good enough for the USWNT. But in this case, it’s better than the alternative. – Nancy Armor