TOKYO (AP) — The quest for gold medals for U. S. women’s basketball and volleyball groups is all about the U. S. U. S. It is very advanced after completing the most sensible groups in billiards games.
The U. S. women’s soccer team says the same thing.
Jessie Fleming scored on a penalty kick in the 74th minute and Canada prevailed 1-0 in the semifinal against the United States in the Women’s Soccer Olympic Competition on Monday.
Canada will face the winner of the semi-final win in Yokohama between Sweden and Australia. The gold medal game is scheduled for Friday at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium.
This is the time in the consecutive Olympics when the United States has been removed from the festival for the gold medal game.
The Americans were eliminated from the 2016 Games via Sweden in the quarterfinals. The United States will play the bronze medal game in Kashima on Thursday.
Canada had opposed the United States since 2001.
In basketball, A’ja Wilson scored 22 points and Breanna Stewart added 17 as the United States beat France 93-82 in its final billiards game.
The victory is the 522th consecutive U. S. victory since the bronze medal game at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The United States went undefeated in the organizational and complex adjustment to the quarterfinals. The Americans (3-0) haven’t lost an organizing game since. women’s basketball added to the Olympics in 1976.
“It wasn’t an essential win, but we still have to win,” Stewart said. “To have that momentum towards the quarter-finals, that’s where we started to reach the peak. “
While the U. S. women’s basketball teamRuled the Olympics, the women’s volleyball team will win its first gold medal.
The Americans have had a smart start after beating Italy in five sets on Monday to win their group despite missing a moment to start due to an ankle injury. Jordyn Poulter joined Jordan Thompson on the bench, but the U. S. still stepped up 4-1.
“They stayed together,” coach Karch Kiraly said. I look back and our team of substitutes feels very alone there. There are only 3 or 4 players there. So it fits a bit of adventure. But our team played with a lot of center and we played together.
BALLS ON THE BEAM
Simone Biles returns to the Tokyo festival.
The 2016 Olympic champion will compete in the final on the beam on Tuesday, just over a week after withdrawing from the festival because of her intellectual health.
Biles, 24, won bronze on the beam in Rio de Janeiro years ago.
He retired from the ultimate team on July 27 after unstable functionality in the vault of the first rotation. She watched as her 3 American teammates ended the festival without her; The United States won silver behind the team known as the Russian Olympic Committee.
Biles later said he suffered from air awareness-like problems, called “twisties” in his sport. Biles qualified for all five singles finals, but withdrew from 4 of them.
In the rest of the gymnastics, American gymnast Jade Carey won the gold medal in exercise, South Korea’s Shin Jeahwan won the men’s jump and China’s Liu Yang won the men’s motionless rings.
AMAZING RECOVERY
World champion Sifan Hassan recovered after a fall in the final bell to win her 1,500-meter heat.
Hassan then surrendered with Kenyan runner Edinah Jebitok at the start of the final lap. She accelerated straight into the back and ended up crossing the line in four minutes, 5. 17 seconds to qualify for the semiultimates.
This kept alive the Dutch driver’s bid for a three-pointer at the Tokyo Games.
Hassan qualified to reach the 5,000-meter high later on Monday at The Olympic Stadium, when the power he spent on that final-round run in the 1,500 heats could catch up with it.
GO FOR GOLD
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico won gold in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, ahead of American Keni Harrison.
This kept the U. S. U. S. Out of the column of victories on the Olympic track and the boxing festival during the session.
Camacho-Quinn finished in 12. 37 seconds for a 0. 15-second victory over world record holder Harrison, while Jamaica’s Megan Tapper was third.
“That’s what I was looking for this year. I was looking to be a gold medalist,” Camacho-Quinn said.
Puerto Rico, a U. S. territory that competes with its own flag at the Olympics, has a gold medal on track more than the most powerful team at the Games, as the festival approaches the halfway point.
Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou beat Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria for the gold medal in the men’s long with a victory on the last attempt.
Move forward
April Ross and Alix Klineman complete the quarterfinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.
The U. S. A team defeated Cuba 21-17, 21-15. The victory came a day after two other Americans were ousted in the first knockout round.
Then, for the Americans, protective gold medalist Laura Ludwig of Germany and his wife Maggie Kozuch.
“We have a lot of respect for them and obviously for Laura’s success,” said Klineman, who also played against Kozuch on the Italian indoor volleyball tour. “We know they’re going to come out motivated. Just like us.
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