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TOKYO – The Latest connected the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking spot nether dense restrictions aft a year’s hold due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic:

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MEDAL ALERT

American Sydney McLaughlin has breached her ain satellite grounds to triumph the women’s 400-meter hurdles successful 51.46 seconds. She edged retired Dalilah Muhammad, who won metallic to marque it a U.S. 1-2 finish.

McLaughlin acceptable the erstwhile satellite grounds of 51.90 seconds successful June. Muhammad, who acceptable the satellite grounds doubly successful 2019 and won the satellite title golden medal that year, finished successful 51.58.

Femke Bol of the Netherlands took bronze successful 52.03.

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A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a nationalist feud with officials from her squad has boarded a level to Vienna.

It's not wide if Austria is Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's last destination. Several countries had offered to assistance her, and Poland has granted her a humanitarian visa.

She said successful an interrogation with The Associated Press that officials from her squad had “made it clear” she would look punishment if she returned location to an autocratic authorities that has relentlessly stifled immoderate criticism.

Tsimanouskaya has said she hopes she tin proceed her career, but for present her information is the priority. After she criticized the absorption of her squad connected societal media, she accused officials of hustling her to the airdrome and trying to enactment her connected a level backmost to Belarus.

She was seen successful Tokyo connected Wednesday greeting entering Narita International Airport surrounded by an entourage.

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Brazil is retired of the men’s formation volleyball tourney astatine the Olympics, and Latvia tin instrumentality the credit.

Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs bushed 2016 golden medalist Alison and his spouse Alvaro Filho 21-16, 21-19 connected Wednesday. The Latvians knocked retired the different Brazilian men’s squad -- with Alison’s spouse successful Rio de Janeiro, Bruno Oscar Schmidt -- successful the circular of 16 connected Monday.

Only 1 of the 2 Brazilian women’s teams has survived the quarterfinals, meaning the accepted formation volleyball powerfulness tin triumph astatine astir 1 medal successful Tokyo. That volition beryllium its worst show since the athletics was added to the Summer Games successful 1996.

In the different greeting quarterfinal, top-seeded Anders Mol and Christian Sorum of Norway eliminated Russia. The Norwegians finished atop the qualification points database but mislaid to Russians Ilya Leshukov and Konstantin Semenov successful the circular robin.

Norway won the rematch 21-17, 21-19.

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Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil won the women’s 10-kilometer marathon swimming event.

Cunha touched archetypal successful 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30.8 seconds connected Wednesday morning, finishing nine-tenths of a 2nd up of defending champion Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands.

Van Rouwendaal took metallic successful 1:59.31.7.

Kareena Lee of Australia earned bronze successful 1:59.32.5.

Cunha won her archetypal medal successful her 3rd Olympics. She was 10th 5 years agone successful Rio de Janeiro and 5th successful the 2008 Beijing Games.

American Haley Anderson finished sixth and her teammate, Ashley Twichell, was seventh.

The seven-lap people successful Tokyo Bay featured a backdrop of skyscrapers, the Rainbow Bridge and the adjacent floating Olympic rings.

The aerial somesthesia during the second stages of the contention was 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius), with 74% humidity that made it consciousness similar 95 degrees (35 C).

The h2o somesthesia was astir 84 degrees (29 C), nether the allowable bounds of 88 degrees (31 degrees C).

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