American Caeleb Dressel (in pic) equalled the Olympics file within the males’s 100m butterfly heats and compatriot Katie Ledecky certified quickest within the girls’s 800m freestyle to arrange one other showdown with in-form Australian Ariarne Titmus. Using on the adrenaline of his first particular person Olympics gold medal earlier within the day within the 100m freestyle, Dressel superior comfortably within the butterfly heats in a Video games file of fifty.39. In the meantime, China gained their first gold with Zhang Yufei profitable the ladies’s 200m butterfly, after which she returned to assist her crew beat the fancied Individuals and Australians to win the 4×200 freestyle relay.
American double world champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks and rival German Chiaraviglio of Argentina have been dominated out of the Olympics after testing optimistic for Covid-19, sending a chill by way of the Video games as infections spiked once more within the host metropolis. Each day infections hit a file 3,865. Each day circumstances nationwide topped 10,000 for the primary time, home media mentioned.
Novak Djokovic eased into the last-four with a commanding efficiency in opposition to Japan’s Kei Nishikori however world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev bowed out with a straight-set loss to Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta. Djokovic will subsequent play Germany’s Alexander Zverev, who beat Frenchman Jeremy Chardy. Carreno Busta will face Karen Khachanov, who edged Frenchman Ugo Humbert. Within the girls’s last, Swiss Belinda Bencic will face Czech Marketa Vondrousova.
World No. 1 Chen Meng gained the ladies’s singles desk tennis last main China to yet one more unbelievable run of claiming each gold medal in Olympics historical past. Chen overcame compatriot Solar Yingsha Sept. 11 11-6 11-4 5-11 11-4 11-9. Companies
