![]() The favourite there is USA’s Gabby Thomas, who set a world lead in each round at the trials, followed by the Jamaican duo of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson. We’ll also see the semi-finals for the women’s 200m in a year in which six women have run the distance in under 22 seconds for the first time in history. ![]() The pre-competition favourite, Russian Nikita Nagornyy, stumbled out of bounds on his opening tumble and finished seventh.In a busy day of track and field, there will be five medals up for grabs: men’s long jump, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s discus, men’s 3,000m steeplechase and, at 9.40pm Tokyo time, the women’s 5,000m. Israel's only Olympic gold medal until now was for windsurfer Gal Fridman at Athens 2004. One of the first people to congratulate him was his country's prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who phoned him as well as tweeting: "How we waited to see the Israeli flag raised." He posted a score of 14.933, the same as Spain's Rayderley Zapata, but the Israeli won the title because his routine had a higher degree of difficulty. Meanwhile, Artem Dolgopyat won Israel's first Olympics gymnastics title and only their second ever gold medal with victory in the men's floor exercise by the slimmest of margins. Great Britain's Max Whitlock retained his Olympic title with a sublime performance to win gold in the men's pommel horse, with Lee Chih-kai of Chinese Taipei taking silver and Japan's Kazuma Kaya the bronze medal There was also a first for Belgium, with Nina Derwael sealing the uneven bars title to become the first woman from her country to win Olympic gymnastics gold.Īnastasiia Iliankova of the Russian Olympic Committee took silver, and American Sunisa Lee got bronze. Every day she's been laughing, giggling, super supportive," she added.īiles' absence has handed opportunities to other gymnasts like Skinner and vault champion Andrade, who became the first female Brazilian gymnast to win an Olympic gold. "She's handling it better than I thought. Skinner added that Biles was "one strong cookie" but that the situation "has definitely hit her really hard". USA Gymnastics said Biles would make a decision about the beam final later in the week.īiles, who arrived in Tokyo with the chance to win six gold medals, has been suffering from the "twisties", which gymnasts describe as a kind of mental block which means that they lose the ability to orient themselves in mid-air. "I don't know for sure, it's kind of up to her," she said. Times and channels for BBC's live coverageīiles has pulled out of Monday's floor final but Skinner said she thought her team-mate would "probably" carry on competing but it was unclear whether she was referring to Tuesday's beam final or more generally. ![]() ![]() She's definitely one strong cookie, and she's definitely inspired me in so many ways." I'm like, 'How are you so strong after all of this?' I'd be in my room bawling every single night. ![]() "After everything she's gone through, it's really cool to see how strong she's been. "I knew she was going to be the loudest one because she like, 'I want you to medal'. "It's so weird because I'm not used to seeing her in the stands, so it's seriously cool to see her love and support," Skinner said. Biles watched on as Skinner scored 14.916 to finish behind Brazilian gold medallist Rebeca Andrade, with Yeo Seo-jeong of South Korea taking the bronze. ![]()
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