In badminton, it was a tough day for China’s mixed doubles teams. “This game has given us confidence in playing the Chinese team”, said Mizutani. You see, every medal also comes with a cash prize.
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To no one’s surprise, the competition wasn’t even close.
It took Britain’s medal tally to 38, with 15 gold 16 silver and seven bronze, putting the Brits well on their way to the pre-Games target of 47 medals, and more than halfway to their monstrous haul of 29 gold medals at the London Games. Majlinda Kelmendi, 25, carried the Kosovo flag in the Parade of Nations at the Rio opening ceremonies and made her country proud by beating Italy’s Odette Givffrida in the final of the -52 kilogram division of women’s judo.
Si Yajie and Ren Qian went 1-2 in the preliminaries Wednesday, setting themselves up to challenge Thursday for China’s sixth diving gold medal at the Rio Olympics. Attempting to add both this and the 200m to his gold medal collection, the Jamaicans have dominated this event winning gold medals in each of the last two Olympics. “But now I’m extremely exhausted”, said Wlodarczyk, who broke the record by 1.21 meters.
“I always have things that I think I can improve on”. Those who knew what to look for before the race could tell it was in the bag.
Other top track events include the women’s 800 meters and 400 meter hurdles and the men’s 400 meter hurdles, the decathlon and shot put.
SIMONE MANUEL: Freestyle sprinter Simone Manuel has written her name into the history books by becoming the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in swimming. “She’s like, ‘Eh, give me one more gold, ‘” said one of the Olympics commentators. The US rowing team even invested in antimicrobial suits.
Elsewhere, Nick Dempsey took silver in the windsurfing.
“We never thought we’d get anywhere near it here, but we’ve turned up and done the business again”, said Kenny about Britain’s progress in the recent three Olympics.
First Wimbledon victor in 77 years, inspiring a first Davis Cup win in 79 years, a British record 11 Grand Slam final appearances – the list of achievements for Murray is already impressive.
France’s Dimitri Bascou took bronze in 13.24.
The Netherlands finished top of Pool A, while the British – third at London 2012 – led Pool B with a 100% record, beating Australia and Argentina.
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And with her age, Ito could be expected to launch a very long-time confrontation against China, whose core players of Rio squad Li Xiaoxia, now 28, has already announced to retire after the Olympics, with Ding Ning turning 30 years and Liu Shiwen 29 at Tokyo 2020.
