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Japanese fencing medal hopefuls Yuka Ueno and Masaru Yamada made their way to the round of 16, chasing Japan's first Olympic fencing medals in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Ranked seventh in the world rankings, Ueno was champion of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games' woman's foil individual event, and came sixth in the world championship a year later. Ueno steadily racked up points during her round of 32 match against Egyptian Nora Mohamed, ending 10 points ahead at 15-5.
The men's and women's quad sculls medal rounds were moved to Wednesday from Tuesday, along with the semi-finals for the men's and women's lightweight double sculls, and men's and women's pairs. Additionally, the executive committee said the men's and women's single sculls semi-finals would take place on Thursday instead of Wednesday. "Adverse weather is expected on Tuesday, ... which would bring high winds and strong gusts creating unequal and potentially unrowable racing conditions," the committee said in a statement, citing forecasts from the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games weather services.
Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito hugged each other and cried as they clung to victory against Germany on Sunday, while China's powerful pairing of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen said they will take a nap after winning the mixed doubles quarterfinals on Sunday. Mizutani, 32, and 20-year-old Ito got off to a strong start in the first game with an 11-8 win, but German paddlers Patrick Franziska and Petrissa Solja fought back against the Japanese duo to tie the match at 3-3.
A new wildfire burning in California’s Plumas County grew to 4,300 acres on July 24 and was just five percent contained, according to authorities.The Fly Fire, which is burning east of the 181,289-acre Dixie Fire, saw significant growth on Saturday. Fire authorities said the fire will continue to spread east, towards the town of Quincy and that evacuations could be ordered.Timelapse footage shows the fire getting close to a camera in Plumas County. Credit: Alert Wildfire via Storyful
Mexico took another step towards defending their CONCACAF Gold Cup title Saturday, scoring three first-half goals en route to a 3-0 rout of short-handed Honduras in a quarter-final match.
In the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, USA Gymnastics returns to the Olympic stage a changed team.
"In relation to yesterday's protests, can I say how absolutely disgusted I was. It broke my heart," Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of the country's most populous state, told reporters.There were 141 COVID-19 cases reported, down from 163 a day earlier. The outbreak, which began in June, is being driven by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus, and has now infected 2,081 people in New South Wales. There are 43 people in intensive care, up from 37 a day earlier.Numbers of such cases have stayed stubbornly high even after four weeks of lockdown in Sydney, now expected to be extended beyond July 30.Despite its struggle with spikes of infections, Australia has managed to keep its epidemic largely under control with a total of about 32,600 cases and 918 deaths.
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Finch missed the first two meetings with the West Indies in the three-match one-day international series and is likely to undergo surgery after completing 14 days of quarantine upon his arrival in Australia. "I'm extremely disappointed to be heading home," Finch said in a statement released by Cricket Australia.
Scores of wildfires continued to burn through the Western United States over the weekend.Video obtained by Reuters showed the Tamarack Fire ripping through a forest in Nevada on Saturday, after it spilled over from California. Local authorities say about four percent of it has been contained. The National Weather Service posted red-flag warnings in parts of Oregon, Montana and Idaho as fires raged across the three states.The fires have generated so much smoke that it turned the full moon orange on Friday evening, which could be seen as far as Washington D.C, after winds carried the smoke eastward. Officials over the weekend said that the amount of smoke being created has actually helped ground crews of more than 2,000 people battle the so-called Bootleg Fire in Portland, Oregon.It's the largest by far of more than 80 active wildfires burning in 13 states. Officials said that a "smoke shade" from California's fires is blocking sunlight, which in turn is creating cooler, more stable surface conditions in Oregon. The Bootleg Fire has so far burned through more than 400,000 acres of brush and timber - over half the size of Rhode Island. It's now the state's third largest wildfire on record since 1900. While the fire's spread has slowed in recent days, officials also reported that ground crews are battling an outbreak of COVID-19, with at least nine firefighters quarantined so far.
Intense heat and humidity could force competition schedule changes at the Tokyo Olympics and the International Olympic Committee said on Sunday it would back any such plans if needed. High humidity has added to discomfort, and athletes have failed to find much relief from ice bags and hoses blowing cool air, part of a series of contingency measures brought in by organisers' to battle the stifling heat. Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev - the world's top two men's tennis players - led calls to organisers on Saturday to move matches to the late afternoon for the rest of the competition to save players from the stifling conditions.
Reigning Pan American Games champions, the Grimalt cousins are Chile's pioneering beach volleyball players, and gave the Brazilian duo a tough fight in a 21-15, 16-21, 15-12 loss. Schmidt, who won gold in Rio in 2016, was the shortest man on court but kept the ball in play with an impressive 14 digs, combining power and finesse to score points with spikes and use deft touches at the net to evade blocks.
Russian male gymnasts will battle China and Japan as they look to win gold for the first time since 1996 in the team event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Anchored by reigning world champion Nikita Nagornyy, the Russians finished third in qualifications behind Japan and China, with all three teams finishing within 0.306 points of each other. The men competing as representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) - without their country's flag and anthem because of doping sanctions - will need another miraculous performance by Artur Dalaloyan for a chance at gold.
American Nyjah Huston, the favorite, failed to medal after missing four straight tricks.
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A number of firsts on Saturday night at the Olympics: the first gold medals for the US and the home country, and the first world record falls -- all in the pool.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese gymnast Mai Murakami quietly finished her qualifying rounds at the Tokyo Games on Sunday with almost no reporters waiting to talk to her. The day before, media swarmed Japan's men's team as they finished at the top of the pack. Murakami, 24, and described by some sports watchers as possibly Japan's best-ever female gymnast, takes it all in her stride, acknowledging that superior performances by the men's team over the years - gold or silver in every Olympics since Athens 2004 - make the difference in public and media interest.
Coffee prices surged this week to multi-year peaks, extending stellar gains this year after frost damaged crops in the world's biggest producer Brazil.
Govt has failed to control spread of Covid-19 and prevent more M'sians from becoming victims, the group said.
