![]() Twigg continued to extend her lead over the third 500, as Townley moved up on Lobnig. I'm very disappointed, but I did what I could." But, I definitely kept fighting and tried everything I had, but it was a little short today. I was dropped pretty quickly, so that was not a great place to start – so that was rough. ![]() The crosswind has challenged me, and it challenged me again today. ![]() "I've struggled to get off the line cleanly this regatta. At the same time, Twigg was pulling ahead of Lobnig and took just over a one-second advantage as the scullers crossed the midway point. Kohler sat in fifth position at the 500-meter mark before moving past Iran's Nazanin Malaei in the second 500. Austria's Magdalena Lobnig got off to the hot start, taking an early lead on the field, with four-time Olympian Emma Twigg of New Zealand sitting in second and Great Britain's Victoria Thornley in third. Racing in the second semifinal of the women's single sculls, two-time Olympian Kara Kohler (Clayton, Calif./University of California, Berkeley) missed a spot in the final by a half-second, finishing fourth. The Dutch boat clocked a 6:48.03, 0.01 seconds ahead of fourth-place Great Britain, to claim third. Italy crossed the line with a time of 6:47.54, 0.14 seconds ahead of France. The Netherlands held on to win the bronze medal. At the line, Italy was able to pull its bowball ahead, with France taking second. The Dutch crew made a strong move in the third quarter of the race to extend its lead, with Great Britain moving into second position.īut over the final 500 meters, the field continued to tighten as they tried to chase down The Netherlands. ![]() boat of Michelle Sechser (Folsom, Calif./University of Tulsa) and Molly Reckford (Short Hills, N.J./Dartmouth College) got off the line in sixth position, the six crews were all within 1.5 seconds of each other as they hit the 1,000-meter mark with The Netherlands holding a small advantage over France and Italy. lightweight women's double sculls came up just short of a medal, finishing fifth in Thursday's final at the Sea Forest Waterway at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. And there are surely nightmares expected for judges at the artistic swimming after the Russian Olympic Committee team transformed, a little too realistically, into a pair of spiders for their gold-medal winning routine.With less than two seconds separating the entire field, the U.S. The shot-put podium finished with exactly the same line-up as at Rio in 2016 – the first time in the 125-year history of the Olympics that it has featured the same athletes in the same spots in an individual event in consecutive Games. In the skateboarding, Australian Kieran Woolley took out a cameraman filming the men’s park event, before offering him a fist-bump, while 46-year-old Dallas Oberholzer, once Janet Jackson’s chauffeur, revealed he was once nearly eaten by a jaguar. At the Kokugikan Arena British boxer Galal Yafai ensured he will take home at least a silver medal on Saturday, after a thrilling flyweight semi-final victory over Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan.“It’s insane, it’s like a dream,” Yafai told the BBC after the bout.Įlsewhere, there was a wealth of eyebrow-raising oddities to enjoy.
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