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Sideris Tasiadis is aiming for a medal
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
A false start in the triathlon, a purely teenage podium in the female skateboarders and a surprising gold medal in the Aquatics Center that drove a coach into ecstasy: more than one unexpected event occurred in Tokyo on the third day of the Olympic Games.
That was important
Kristian Blummenfelt
from Norway is an Olympic
triathlon champion
. Blummenfelt picked up the pace well before the finish line. So he avoided a final sprint - and made it earlier out of the Japanese heat into the shade after the competition had initially been delayed: Large parts of the field of participants had already jumped into the water of the swimming section when a boat had blocked it for other starters . So it was said: command back, the start was repeated.
Speaking of
swimming
: medals were also celebrated in the Aquatics Center:
Margaret McNeil
won gold in the 100 meter butterfly for Canada, while the Brit
Adam Peaty
won the 100 meter breaststroke as he did in Rio in 2016. The USA prevailed in the men's 4x100 meter freestyle relay. The most spectacular was the duel between
Ariarne Titmus
from Australia and US superstar
Katie Ledecky
, which Titmus won as narrowly as surprisingly. Titmus' trainer Dean Boxall celebrated the gold moment with a wild dance in the stands.
13, 13, 16: The
Skateboarders
Podium Street competition
is insanely young.
The Japanese
Momiji Nishiya celebrated
gold
, her compatriot Yuto Horigome had already triumphed in the men's race the day before.
The respective preliminary round games for the German hockey players and handball players brought opposite signs: In
hockey
there was an opening win against outsiders Canada, the second game of the Olympic tournament was now lost 1: 3 to world champions Belgium.
In
handball
, the DHB team had still missed the win against Spain, but now prevailed 33:25 against Argentina - even when captain Uwe Gensheimer saw the red card.
This does not result in a ban for the further tournament.
That will be important
It will be a while before the first precious metal is awarded
in
tennis
.
For
Jan-Lennard Struff
, however, a game with final character is already waiting from 8
a.m
.: The German's second-round opponent is none other than Dominator
Novak Djoković
, who this year is hunting for the "Golden Slam" of four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold power.
The first German chance for a medal of the day follows around 8.45 a.m .: Then there
is gold, silver and bronze
in the
canoe slalom
.
In the Canadier One,
Sideris Tasiadis,
as the world number
one, has
good prospects of winning his second Olympic medal after silver in 2012 in London.
For the
gymnast
standing
team final
on the program, off we go from 12 noon.
The German team around
Lukas Dauser
is part of the game, in qualifying it was sixth.
The German
beach volleyball players Laura Ludwig
and
Margareta Kozuch
are under pressure
.
The duo must come in tournament form after their opening defeat, from 12.50 p.m. there is a chance against host country Japan.
In the early afternoon, the
foil fencers are
about gold.
Until the final duel there are still some elimination rounds, in which the four-time world champion
Peter Joppich also
competes.
However, Joppich's greatest successes were more than ten years ago, so a medal would be a surprise.
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