But. The U.S. women's gymnastics team has a shaky start and Team USA continues to pick up gold medals.WATCH the ABC News Live Stream Here: https://www.youtube.com. ET Thursday morning. “I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job and I don’t want to risk the team a medal.”, Simone Biles pulled out of the women’s gymnastics team final earlier. Photo highlights from the Tokyo Olympics. Get latest News Information, Articles on Tokyo Olympics Highlights Updated on June 29, 2021 18:33 with exclusive Pictures, photos & videos on Tokyo Olympics Highlights at Latestly.com - Page 13 (And the third for Tina Charles, who we interviewed last month. Daily highlights from the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The end of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case has left a bitter taste for those who wanted to see more accountability for members of the Sackler family. Legal shield for Purdue Pharma owners is at heart of appeals, Louisiana 1 week after Ida: Widespread power outages persist, death toll mounts. Team USA held its first four opponents to just one run on six hits and also had a walk-off victory in the eighth inning. When the two teams finally met in the final round of pool play, it had already been determined they would battle for gold the following night. On the men's side, Xander Schauffele was the star. Korda had a four-stroke lead at the midpoint of the tournament, led by three shots after 54 holes and ended up just one stroke ahead of both Lydia Ko and Mone Inami—thanks to Inami bogeying her final hole. KD had 29 points in the quarterfinal win over Spain, 23 against Australia in the semifinal and another 29 with gold on the line against France. And they are batting 1.000 in the medal department, each reaching the podium in every single year that they have competed, including gold medals in 25 of 30 tries. Found inside – Page 162They submitted an extensive report titled as "Preparation of 2020 Tokyo ... Action Plan for next three Olympic Games constituted Highlights of the extensive ... Annie Drews scored 21 of the 75 points for the Americans, and it felt like even more than that. Taken together with the other three events—men's park and men's and women's street—there were four skateboarding medalists under the age of 14 in Tokyo. But it wasn't quite enough to bypass Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha. Six of the 10 top-ranked women in the world are teenagers; three of them are younger than 16. She had a run of 57.40 in the preliminaries and a top score of 56.47 in the finals. Photos: Highlights Of The Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. I want to achieve the 43 seconds in the 400m and maybe to do my best and maybe one day 1:40 in the 800m and maybe a world record.". Below are top video highlights from Day 7 of the Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics produce some of the best moments in sports. Earlier in these Games, Japan's Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest Olympic gold medalists of all time, winning the women's street skateboarding event at an age of 13 years and a little under 11 months. https://t.co/Q1pXpnU1gE pic.twitter.com/jefGiX36m3. Found insideThe film Running Brave highlights Mills' performance in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He was portrayed on screen by the then very popular Robby Benson (a ... Share Copy Link. 1: Arlen Lopez and Julio Cesar La Cruz head up Cuban resurgence. Updated: 2:29 PM PDT Aug 1, 2021 By NBC Olympics Maja Hitij . Transcript for Highlights from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. For those who don't follow the sport closely, it may have come as a surprise during the Olympics that most of the world's top-ranked female skateboarders aren't even old enough to have their driver's licenses yet. Olympic Replays From Usain Bolt's gold-medal sprints to Nadia Comaneci's perfect scores, watch how Olympic legends were created and discover historic moments from past Games in our replays & highlights library Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia wins Olympic gold in the Men's 400 Freestyle.pic.twitter.com/9yTZfeYTJt. 00:01:33, 27/07/2021 at 21:16. Laban Pilipinas ♥️ #UnitedByEmotion A historic moment for the Philippines at #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/qNHaob13Ae. Perhaps best known for the sideways glances he shared at the end of the 200-meter final in Rio with Bolt, Canada's Andre De Grasse is a known quantity, frequently on the medal stand but never in the top position. But thanks to 19-year-old Yosozumi Sakura scoring a 60.09 on her first run of the finals, Hiraki took silver and Brown had to settle for bronze. Muhammad got out to an incredible start. Photos: Highlights Of The Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. He won gold by swimming the 100-meter butterfly in 49.5 seconds on Saturday, breaking a world record he set just the day before. In doing so, she became the sixth American woman and first Asian-American woman to win the event. Sports Tokyo Olympics: Highlights, Day 13. Video Transcript. However, in the final, he shocked the world when he surged to gold with his time of 3:43.36. Beach volleyball first became an Olympic sport in 1996, and Brazil has consistently been one of the best in the world at that discipline. She grabbed silver in the women's 49kg weightlifting event. McLaughlin is only 21 years old, so don't expect this to be the last time she bests her own record at the Olympics. (In the men's street final, the medalists were aged 22, 27 and 20. United States vs Canada Highlights || Tokyo Olympics 2021 Women's Football#unitedstatesvscanada#unitedstatesvscandahighlights#unitedstatesvscanadalive#islinf. The Brazilians doubled down on that gold with a flawless, albeit quite dramatic, run through this year's tournament. Watch some of the 2020 Olympics highlights, including Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic flame and Simone Biles’ triumphant return to competition. 17-year-old American swimmer Lydia Jacoby pulled off an upset win over Lilly King, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder in the event. Crouser set an Olympic record (22.83 meters) with his first throw, and no one came close to matching it. In the final days of competition at the Tokyo Olympics, it looked as though China would triumph on the medal count with the most gold, even as the U.S. had a comfortable lead in overall medals. 'Hey everybody, there's big news happening over here!' Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher made two phenomenal saves (on top of blocking another penalty kick in the 81st minute) to lift her team to a 4-2 win on penalties. Allison Schmitt also improved to 10 career Olympic medals (four gold, three silver, three bronze), earning silver in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay and bronze in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay. Their biggest competition, it turned out, was themselves. For years on end, we've heard that the rest of the world is catching up to USA in hoops, and yet the men just won their fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal, followed by the women winning their seventh straight gold and stretching their overall Olympic winning streak to 55 games. This project critically examined youth perceptions of the relevance and significance of the Olympic Games, and the Youth Olympic Games. EJ Obiena wrapped up his first Olympic campaign as he crashed out of medal . Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' possible defense strategy claiming that her ex-boyfriend and former business partner abused her could benefit her in a high-stakes criminal fraud case. This is a big achievement. Stewart finished with a game-high 23 points while Brittney Griner added 15 points and eight rebounds in a convincing 79-55 victory—their 53rd straight in Olympic play. Jacoby — a bluegrass performer from Seward, Alaska (population: 2,773) — has also put her tiny town on the map. As the world's elite athletes gather in Tokyo 2020, so do the best photographers to capture all . The aim of this book is to present, in a simple and practical way, the current knowledge of management that has been developed by and for Olympic Sport Organisations (OSOs) worldwide. Finally, in another historic first, the U.S. women's indoor volleyball team managed to stave off dominant Brazil, which beat them in the gold-medal games in 2008 and 2012, to earn the nation's first women's volleyball gold. Kenneth Snowden joins us flag and they came out we know there was a lot of tension in Tokyo ahead of . Japan opened the baseball tournament with a dramatic 4-3 victory over the Dominican Republic in which the Japanese scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning on five singles with a game-tying suicide squeeze in the middle of that comeback. But her path to making history wasn’t easy. In softball, both the Americans and the Japanese started out 4-0 in pool play on the strength of near-unhittable pitching. Twitter. After two-time gold medalist David Rudisha withdrew from competition in May because of several injuries, the men's 800-meter field was left without its favorite. Houston native Brittney Griner led the team in points scoring 30 during this gold medal game. But when Biles made the decision to withdraw from the team final because of what she would later reveal were the "twisties," an inability for a gymnast to place his or her own body in space, Lee had to step in to keep the Americans in medal contention. #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/gU536XvyHg. Gold medal, check. Thursday will see the conclusion of the decathlon, with the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500 meters to be completed. Japan held its first four opponents to a combined total of three runs and twice won games in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the eighth inning. The U.S. baseball team pounded South Korea and will take on Japan for the gold medal. Again, even the more anticlimactic days of sport in Tokyo showcase the greatest athletes in the world at their absolute best. In addition to this gold medal, Korda also won the Women's PGA Championship in late June and finished top three at the ANA Inspiration twice in the past year, so she's on quite the tear of late. Felix has now medaled in five consecutive Olympics. Women's skating progressed especially quickly given all the opportunity in the new infrastructure. Finke's own coaches were astonished. JULY 29: Sunisa Lee of the United States poses with her gold medal at the women's individual all-around artistic gymnastics medal ceremony . #TokyoOlympics x @TeamUSA : NBC: https://t.co/Hne9Yk1CKr: NBC Sports App pic.twitter.com/rG6IhWUzt7. How about Bobby Finke's come-from-behind win in the men's 800-meter freestyle? Not only had Brazil medaled at each of the previous six Games, it also entered Tokyo having won at least two medals in beach volleyball in every year it was held. Found inside – Page 228THE TOKYO OLYMPICS AS A PLATFORM FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY While inveigling ... There is, however, an antecedent to the Tokyo Olympics, one that highlights how ... Hafnaoui, meanwhile, had the slowest time of any swimmer who qualified for the final, at 3:45.68. In Tokyo, though, an American led at the end of each of the second, third and fourth/final rounds of both tournaments. Here are some of the highlights from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which took place in 2021. LANE. Those world-record runs in the 400-meter hurdles were incredible, but they were merely the tip of the track and field iceberg. Day 10 of the Tokyo Olympic Games saw Puerto Rico bag its first-ever track gold medal when Jasmine Camacho-Quinn beat American world record holder Kendra Harrison to win the women's 100-meter hurdles Monday.The big picture: There was better news for the U.S. in the basketball, where the women's team beat France 93-82. Going for gold: best team USA wrestling gold medal reactions. Though some medals were given out Monday—notably in gymnastics, long jump and the women's 100-meter hurdles—Day . Korir, 26, is the sixth-fastest of all time in the 800 meters and ran the two laps in one minute, 45.06 seconds, a good but not blazing time historically speaking, while Rotich sneaked in just behind him at 1:45.23. Highlights from Tokyo. Bill Chappell. Wesley Martinez Da Costa/EyeEm via Getty Images Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. Crews are cleaning up the slick, which spread at least 10 miles. ), Loud and proud. Tokyo Olympics Closing Ceremony Highlights: The 2020 Games officially came to a close.© AFP The Tokyo… When skateboarding was added to the Tokyo program in 2016, nations around the world immediately began building up their national teams and pouring resources into developing their top athletes. Carissa Moore became the first woman to win a gold medal in the new Olympic sport. And she finished strong with a time of 51.58 seconds, well ahead of her previous best of 52.16 and more than three-tenths of a second better than the previous world record of 51.90 seconds. Day 13 of the Tokyo Olympic Games saw U.S. men's basketball team beat Australia 97-78 on Thursday to advance to the gold medal game. tied his own decathlon world record in the 100-meter dash (10.12 seconds) and broke the decathlon long jump world record (8.24 meters), a distance that would have garnered a bronze in this year's regular long jump competition. He also orchestrated a come-from-behind win in the men's 1500-meter final, where his winning time of 14:39.65 was 9.05 seconds faster than his previous top time in the event this year. Everyone on social media is a critic, so when something happens in the zeitgeist that almost universally delights people, it's notable. Schauffele had been a "close but no cigar" regular in PGA majors over the past half-decade, finishing second at The Open in 2018, finishing second and third in the 2019 and 2021 Masters, respectively, and placing top seven in the U.S. Open in each of the past five years. Lee closed out her Tokyo coronation by earning bronze in the uneven bars final. Also on Saturday, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency, which has an outsized influence on the Taliban, made a surprise visit to Kabul. Found insideGenerously illustrated with photographs and given context by an overview of the history of LGBTQ+ athletes in Canada, this book will make all young sports enthusiasts and competitors proud to play. Set to compete on uneven bars and balance beam only, Lee also replaced Biles on the floor exercise. Found insideIn this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women’s World Cup, and the upcoming men’s tournament in Qatar. 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Transcript for Highlights from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Pictograms were first introduced at the Tokyo 1964 Games and play an important role in making sure each sport can be understood across cultures and languages. Watch Rowing highlights from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (23 Jul - 8 Aug, 2021). Aug 3, 2021 9:32 AM PHT. Neither baseball nor softball was played in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, and neither one is on the docket for 2024 in Paris. The final medal table is below; then, we'll take a look back at the most emotional, most dominant and most memorable highlights of the Tokyo Olympics. "I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a backseat, work on my mindfulness and I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job and I didn't want to risk the team a medal," she said pic.twitter.com/o9uhkg1EPu. In photos: Tokyo Olympics day 13 highlights Rebecca Falconer Team USA's Kevin Wayne Durant (C) runs with the ball past Australia's Chris Goulding (L) and Nic Kay in their men's Olympic semifinal basketball match at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama on Aug. 5. Then his split of 26.39 allowed him to surge ahead for the win, 1.65 seconds faster than Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri, the defending world champion who was in first place. The swimming world was astonished. The skaters in the other disciplines aren't exactly collecting Social Security (for the Americans, anyway), but women's park skateboarding in particular is an astonishingly young discipline. Found inside – Page 144the Olympic Torch Relay was due to begin, despite opposition from locals (Reuters ... “to lead to the cancellation of this summer's Olympics in Tokyo”, ... Tokyo Summer Olympics 2021: Day 10 Highlights. Rappler.com. Ida, which is tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland in history, killed at least 10 in Louisiana, dumped more than 13 inches of rain in some southern regions and left whole neighborhoods underwater. Found insideFilmed Olympic highlights to be offered TV Stations, p. ... The 1940 Tokyo Games: The missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic movement. Tokyo Summer Olympics 2021: Day 12 Highlights. Both 13 years old. By joining you accept KCM Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. And Warholm's time of 45.94 seconds broke the world record he set in July of 46.70 seconds, as he became the first person to break 46 seconds. He had won six bronze medals and two silvers in Olympic and World Championship play, including a bronze in the 100-meter final earlier this week. Van Rouwendaal took silver and Australia's Kareena Lee earned the bronze medal. Olympics Opening Ceremonies tend to be full of pomp and circumstance, but Tokyo's had to be pared way down with no spectators in attendance because of the pandemic. HIGHLIGHTS: Tokyo Olympics - July 28. The Brazilian men also had two of the top four pairs in the world, but they, too, got bounced before the final four. Tokyo Olympics. Considering they had two of the four highest-ranked pairs in the world, few could have possibly guessed they would both be gone before the semifinals. In the following round against Team USA, Canada won 1-0 on a penalty kick. Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Enlarge this image. In the men's decathlon, Canada's Damian Warner set an Olympic record with a score of 9,018 points. Nicole Werbeck. Tokyo Olympics: Luka Doncic outscores Team USA starting lineup, highlights power of clear offensive hierarchy A loosely defined pecking order is proving problematic for the Americans, which was . Canada took bronze in softball and the Dominican Republic did the same in baseball. Cunha finished almost a full minute behind van Rouwendaal in 2016—and took fifth place in this event as a 16-year-old in 2008—but she pushed ahead of Germany's Leonie Beck in the final lap and was able to ward off van Rouwendaal down the stretch to win gold by 0.9 seconds. Taliban fighters quickly captured most of Afghanistan last month and celebrated the departure of the last U.S. forces after 20 years of war. Found inside – Page 189United States , as eight - oared shell winner , 133 , 134 ; at Olympics ... Clas , 92 Tisdall , Bob , 130 , 144 Tokyo Olympics ( 1964 ) , 158-76 Tolan ... Our Best Olympics Photos. Enlarge this image. Found insideGoldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) ... Marco Storel. MANILA, Philippines. Found inside – Page 246... 114 Time Warner 177 The Times 62 Times Democrat 23–24 Tirico, Mike 164 Todaro, Frank 169 Tokyo Olympic Games (1964) 116–118 Tolan, Eddie 79, 202 Toner, ... Found inside – Page 71Tokyo. and. Beijing. Olympics. Description ... or Primetime Plus broadcasts each night, and real-time video highlights throughout each competition day. The United States qualified second to the final of . In men's park, they were 18, 26 and 22.) On the women's side, Nelly Korda also had a sensational second round, shooting a 62 in spite of a double bogey on 18. July 23, 2021 Opening ceremony kicks off. Cuba returned to the summit in Tokyo, winning four golds and a bronze in men's boxing. They'll need her to continue spiking the opposition into oblivion if those two stars remain unavailable. HIGHLIGHTS: Tokyo Olympics - August 7. Follow the best moments on Eurosport. She was also part of the gold-medal-winning 4x100-meter relay team, becoming the first woman to pull off the 100/200/4x100 triple since Florence Griffith Joyner (better known as Flo-Jo) in 1988. The stands may have been almost empty at the Tokyo Games, but these performances deserve to be seen. In the first ever women’s street skateboarding competition, two 13-year-olds ended up on the podium. On the baseball diamond, Triston Casas mashed a two-run home run to dead center in the first inning, Tyler Austin added a solo shot in the fifth and Scott Kazmir logged five scoreless innings en route to a 3-1 victory over Dominican Republic. Impossible for a reason. Diaz lifted a whopping 224 kilograms (nearly 494 pounds) to set an Olympic record and end her country’s gold-medal drought. By the time the final event (1,500-meter race) was held, pretty much all Warner needed to do was finish to win the gold. Team USA's Ryan Crouser darn near did something similar in the men's shot put. Marco Storel. Likewise in baseball, Team USA and Japan were undefeated with the exception of the two games played against each other. Even though she didn’t collect a medal, the New Zealand weightlifter made history just by participating, becoming the first out transgender woman to compete at the Games. Nearly one week on, Louisiana is struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida’s devastating blow. And the U.S. had to play the gold-medal match without leading scorer Jordan Thompson, who injured her ankle in the fourth pool-play match against the ROC and did not return. It is the sixth indoor volleyball medal the U.S. has won in the past 10 Olympic Games. The showdown between Norway’s Karsten Warholm and American Rai Benjamin in the 400-meter hurdles is already being called the “greatest race in Olympic history.” The two men both broke the previous world record of 46.7 seconds, though Warholm narrowly edged out Benjamin with a time of 45.94 seconds. Every women's park skateboarding medalist was under the age of 20, from gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi (19) to silver medalist Kokona Hiraki (12!) 1 - Ariarne Titmus' 400m freestyle victory. Even Hafnaoui seemed surprised by the result: “I just can’t accept that — it is too incredible.”, FROM. ET through Tuesday p.m. In the men's race that year, the gap between gold and silver was just 0.7 seconds. Highlights content. Finke's own coaches were astonished. She then had a pair of sensational runs in the finals, posting scores of 58.05 and 59.04. Found inside – Page 561st issue 2021, with January–September 2020 Statistics Food and ... Meanwhile, catering industry prospects for the 2021 Tokyo Olympic remain opaque because ... Muhammad was still in the lead after eight hurdles. Kayla discovers that basketball is magical, and gives many gifts along the way! Written in rhyme, this book is inspired by the true story of a young Canadian girl who used an orange basketball to live out her dreams. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Even before she arrived in Tokyo, gymnast Sunisa Lee had made headlines around the world. The Egyptian table tennis star […], If this year’s Paralympic Games, which start today, are anything like this year’s Olympic Games, it won’t only be the athletes taking center stage. In case you can't wait for the drama… Found inside – Page 369The official website for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, ... watch highlights, and stay up to date with the latest Olympic News and. The Olympics produce some of the best moments in sports. They had won 13 medals, and Team USA (10) was the only other country with more than three beach volleyball medals. That's because in the U.S. Olympic Trials in June, Lee managed to post a one-day all-around score (58.166) on the second day of competition that bested Simone Biles', the first time anyone could claim that since 2013. That's three-of-three in golds and five-of-nine on the overall medal board with one event (men's park) still to come. Rappler.com. Relative to the thunderous, world-shaking finals of the past week-plus, Day 12 was a lower-key day in Tokyo. Facebook. @usabasketball x #TokyoOlympicspic.twitter.com/uQV6igpS7I. That's 1,800 drones up in the sky #TokyoOlympics x #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/PooGQTdnsf, After a dazzling opening ceremony in Tokyo, the Paralympics have officially begun. France certainly caused problems for Team USA's men this year. BMX - Tokyo 2020 - Olympic Highlights. – Sarah W., age 9, Clinton, New York Does your dog bark a lot? "I said to my coach to win this race will be very difficult for my opponents because I want it so hard, so much, and I'm really well prepared," said Cunha after the nearly two-hour-long swim, per Beth Harris of the AP. (Only Finland's Paavo Nurmi has more career medals with 12, and he did it in the 1920s.) It's not necessarily a surprise there are so many more young female than male skateboarders. Sports Tokyo Olympics: Highlights, Day 9. After opening up a 21-6 lead just six minutes into the game, the Americans never let the Australians get the margin back below nine points. Rappler.com. In fact, both silver medalists in the men's and women's 400-meter hurdles finals were Team USA hurdlers. “I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a backseat,” she said. Post-race, Korir exclaimed his happiness, saying: "It's amazing, I mean I'm so happy and grateful. In other words, they only scored two goals in their final three matches and they both came via a penalty kick, but they were good enough on defense to turn that into the nation's first gold medal in soccer since the men won all the way back in 1904. The pictograms used in the Tokyo Olympics were created by Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura, totaling 73 in all. Others, like silver medalist Allyson Felix, were less pleased, even though Miller-Uibo's dive was perfectly legal. For the host country of Japan, that contender was Hiraki Cocona, who won't turn 13 until later this month. Stewart scored 11 of Team USA's first 14 points and sparked a 17-0 run in the first quarter. Among the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New York’s fire department, left a uniquely complex legacy that continues to evolve 20 years after his death. Wrestling. Yuka Saso climbed to joint 34th place after the second round of the women's individual . “I just lost it.”, Ariarne’s coach Dean Boxall sums it up perfectly! BRILLIANT BRONZE: A week after she took herself out of several competitions to focus on her mental health, gymnastics superstar Simone Biles stuck the landing to earn her seventh career Olympic medal. It was a blessing because they didn’t need to get to know one another and could be brutally honest with one another. With warm and humid weather expected for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, the athletes and spectators will likely be subjected to thermal stress. From midnight through 2:15 a.m. on the East Coast in the United States, it was a "get out as many screens as possible" type of viewing window of team sports at the Olympics, as the Americans were simultaneously competing in the quarterfinals of women's volleyball, women's basketball, men's baseball and men's water polo. Highlights from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics July 26, 2021, 7:28 AM The U.S. women's gymnastics team has a shaky start and Team USA continues to pick up gold medals. Sports Tokyo Olympics: Highlights, Day 14 The Olympics produce some of the best moments in sports. Looks at the historical context in which the modern Olympic Games have taken place, covering the highlights of each competition along with information on site selection, economic impact, and political controversies. After a long year of delays and uncertainty, the Olympic torch has finally been lit to kick the Games off. Elsewhere, the U.S. added to its gold medals count, with shot putter Ryan Crouser and canoeist Nevin . After playing the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw in the quarterfinal, the U.S. women’s soccer team went to penalty kicks. 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya, of Japan, won gold, while Rayssa Leal, also 13, of Brazil, captured silver. As the world's elite athletes gather in Tokyo 2020, so do the best photographers to capture all . But with the individual events left on her slate, Lee wasn't done earning medals. 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