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A Belarus track sprinter alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday evening at Tokyo’s main airport.
An activist group supporting Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said she believed her life was in danger in Belarus and would seek asylum with the Austrian embassy in Tokyo.
Tsimanouskaya said in a filmed message distributed on social media she was pressured by Belarus team officials and asked the International Olympic Committee for help.
"I was put under pressure and they are trying to forcibly take me out of the country without my consent,” the 24-year-old runner said.
Italy's Lamont Marcell Jacobs outshone a field of unusual suspects to claim a shock Olympic gold in the men's 100 metres on Sunday, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt's 13-year hold on the blue riband event.
Jacobs, 26, timed a European record of 9.80 seconds, with American Fred Kerley taking silver in 9.84 sec in one of the most understated major championship 100m races of recent times.
Kenya's Ferguson Rotich cruised into the 800 metres final with the fastest run of the semi-final on Sunday, setting himself up as a strong contender to succeed compatriot David Rudisha as the new king of the event.
Double Olympic gold medallist Rudisha's persistent injuries denied him the chance to defend his title, opening the way for a new champion to emerge.
Rotich, the 2019 world bronze medallist, clocked 1:44.04 and was so confident as he approached the end of his race that he looked behind to encourage those trailing him to keep up as he crossed the line.
Runners are certainly on track to setting personal, Olympic and possibly even world-record times over the next week at the Tokyo Games.
China's Chen Yufei claimed women's badminton singles gold on Sunday, denying Taiwan a second straight night of success in the sport.
Taiwan had bagged its first-ever Olympic badminton medal the previous night with gold in the men's doubles competition.
But Chen ensured there would be no repeat in the women's singles, beating world number one Tai Tzu-ying 21-18, 19-21, 21-18 to capture the title.
The Indian men's hockey team defeated Great Britain 3-1 in a quarterfinal match to qualify for the semifinals of Olympics Games after 49 years here on Sunday.
India scored three field goals through Dilpreet Singh (7th minute), Gurjant Singh (16th) and Hardik Singh (57th) to seal the win for the eight-time Olympic champions.
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Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri ended his second Olympic campaign at Tied 42nd after carding a one-over 72 in the fourth and final round here on Sunday.
Lahiri, who began the week with a superb 67 and was inside Top-10, slid down the ladder thereafter with rounds of 72-68-72 over the next three days for a total of 5-under 283. He had finished at 57th spot in 2016 Rio Olympics.
The other Indian in fray, Udayan Mane, who got into the field later as a result of some withdrawals, also shot one-over 72 in the final round after earlier rounds of 76-69-70. He was 3-over for the week and ended 56th.
The Indian women's hockey team's grit will be put through a severe test when it takes on Australia in the Olympic quarterfinals here on Monday, hoping to add another unexpected win to a dream run that has seen the side reach the last-eight stage for the first time.
India finished their Pool A proceedings in the fourth place with six points, riding on back-to-back wins over Ireland and South Africa. The top four teams from each pool made it to the knockout stage.
The Indian women hockey team's best finish at the Olympics came on debut in Moscow back in 1980 when it ended up at the fourth position among six teams.
In that edition, only six teams participated out of which India finished fourth in a round-robin format competition with no classification or elimination matches.
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
Zverev won the final 6-3, 6-1.
Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova defeated Switzerland's Belinda Bencic and Viktorija Golubic in straight sets 7-5, 6-1
Xander Schauffele won the gold medal for the United States at the Olympicgolfon Sunday.
Rory Sabbatini won silver for Slovakia, while bronze will be decided by a playoff. (Reuters)
The Chinese shuttler defeated his Indonesian opponent 21-16, 21-11
Axelsen won in straight games 21-18, 21-11
Dressel's medal includes four golds, while McKeon has three golds and three bronze medals
Emma Mckeon of Australia won the gold medal in the women's 50m freestyle at the TokyoOlympicson Sunday.
Sarah Sjoestroem of Sweden won the silver and Pernille Blume of Denmark took the bronze.
(Reuters)
Caeleb Dressel of the United States won the gold medal in the men's 50m freestyle at the TokyoOlympicson Sunday.
Florent Manaudou of France won the silver and Bruno Fratus of Brazil took the bronze. (Reuters)
Streaking down the track, with only six steps to go until she reached the finish line, Elaine Thompson-Herah stuck out her left arm and started pointing at the clock.
A Swiss tennis player won gold in singles at the Olympics and it’s not Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka. Belinda Bencic accomplished something Saturday that her better-known fellow Swiss players never managed.
And she’s not done yet.
The 12th-ranked Bencic beat Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 at the Tokyo Games for the first major title of her career and she’ll also contest the women’s doubles gold medal match on Sunday.
(AP)
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