Wilimovksy will get another shot at a medal in an even more demanding event – the 10-kilometer open water race at Fort Copacabana on Tuesday.
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The US has won its 1,000th Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games.
Whereas previous medal-winning athletes at the Olympics were handed a bouquet of flowers when they climbed the podium for their award, the winners at the Rio Games have rather been handed a odd and brightly colored figurine.
The Team GB men’s 4x100m medley relay team, led by newly-crowned Olympic champion Adam Peaty, are also in with a fantastic shout after finishing first in their heat, the women’s quartet will also race for a medal.
Elsewhere, Nick Dempsey was pipped to the post on a gold medal in the men’s RS:X windsurfing final, but the Weymouth-born athlete managed to secure his second successive silver medal – a day after his 36th birthday.
Compared to the Chinese men’s and women’s teams in Rio, who are all in their mid-to-late twenties, half of the Japanese six player-strong team is in their early twenties alongside the teenage Ito. Team management insisted it must be informed if athletes were planning to remain away from the Village overnight, and that a compulsory security briefing had been instigated for all athletes who had finished competing.
Men’s Coxless Lightweight Four: Switzerland landed a gold medal with a time of 6:20.51, followed by a silver medal for Denmark and their 6:21.97 time, and France took home bronze with a 6:22.85 finish.
The women’s rowing eight claim their first ever medal with an unexpected silver. The United States finished in 5 place.
Gong Jinjie, left, and Zhong Tianshi, right, of China hold their gold medals on the podium of the Women’s team sprint finals at the Rio Olympic Velodrome. Team USA came in fourth at 7:24.77.
“The Chinese people have made progress, we don’t need gold medals to boost our confidence and are no longer as harsh on our athletes”, said one user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.
Also, although the medal payments have declined, the commercial rewards have grown, The performance of the national athletes at the Olympics is not representative of the overall level of sports participation and health condition of the entire country.
(From L to R) China’s Ma Long, Xu Xin and Zhang Jike attend the awarding ceremony for the men’s team gold medal match of Tabel Tennis at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 17, 2016.
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/James, who also won silver in the keirin, was the fastest qualifier but two-time former world champion Vogel used all her experience to prevail in the best-of-three final. It seemed as though it was all over for Farah midway through the race as he was accidentally tripped up by his training partner Galen Rupp with 16 laps to go, but he was on his feet nearly immediately, easily surging past Kenya’s Paul Tanui to take the gold medal.
