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The Italian sprinters celebrate relay gold
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On the third to last day of competition of the Olympic Games in Tokyo it should have been
a golden day for the
modern pentathlete Annika Schleu
after
silver for walker Jonathan Gilbert
.
But it became a debacle for the entire sport.
It was also a disappointing day for the other German medal contenders - although the table tennis men have to be excluded.
Timo Boll, Patrick Franziska and Dimitrij Ovtcharov
lost the final against the overwhelming power from China 0: 3 - but the joy of winning the silver medal was enormous.
The disappointment with
javelin thrower Christin Hussong
after finishing ninth in the final was
all the greater
.
Karate fighter Noah Bitsch
, who narrowly missed the semifinals in his class, had a
similar
experience.
In the field of athletics, the relay competitions over 100 meters were scheduled in the evening.
While gold was to be expected for Jamaica for the women, it came to a sensational end for the men with the Olympic victory for Italy.
Farewell silver over 50 kilometers of walking
30 degrees, enormous humidity, 25 laps over two kilometers in front of them - the Olympic walkers said goodbye to their long distance in extreme conditions: In three years in Paris, the 50 kilometers will no longer be part of the Olympic program.
Jonathan Hilbert didn't care, the 26-year-old ran a tactically smart race and was happy about the silver medal in the end.
Gold went to the Pole Dawid Tomala.
DOSB calls for rule changes
For Annika Schleu a medal in the modern pentathlon was ready after fencing and swimming.
But then there was a drama on the riding course that not only destroyed Schleu's dream of an Olympic medal, but also brought an entire sport into disrepute.
What happened? The horse drawn from her, Saint Boy, refused, something like that happens in this sport because the horse and rider do not know each other. But Schleu was so desperate that she - after a discussion-worthy request from national coach Kim Raisner - grabbed the whip and rammed the animal into the side. Schleu fell far behind without points in this discipline, in the end it was 36th place in the Olympic victory of Brit Kate French.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation then demanded rule changes.
"Numerous recognizable excessive demands of horse-rider combinations should be an urgent reason for the international association to change the set of rules," wrote the association in a statement.
“It must be redesigned to protect horse and rider.
The welfare of the animals and fair competition conditions for the athletes must be the focus. "
Silver for the table tennis team
The Chinese supremacy in table tennis persists.
The German team around Timo Boll, Patrick Franziska and individual bronze winner Dimitrij Ovtcharov was ready for a sensation in the team final, but Ma Long, Fan Zendong and Xu Xin were just too strong.
“We played a big tournament, including in the final.
We had our small chance.
We are very proud of this tournament and more than satisfied with the silver medal, «said national coach Jörg Roßkopf.
Jacobs leads Italy to relay gold
In athletics, seven more gold medals were awarded after the early morning walker's race.
The two relay races over the 100 meters were outstanding.
As expected, Jamaica won the women's event with individual Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, her great rival Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Briana Williams and Shericka Jackson.
Their lead over the USA was 0.43 seconds.
It was much closer for the men - and in the end the Italians won sensationally.
Led by the winner of the individual race, Marcell Jacobs, who ran in second position, Lorenzo Patta, Eseosa Desalu and Filippo Tortu showed the race of their lives, relegating Great Britain and Canada to the places.
The USA missed the final, which annoyed the great Carl Lewis massively.
“You really did everything wrong that you can.
It's so embarrassing, "the 60-year-old wrote after the US season had ended:" They looked worse than amateur kids, something like that is completely unacceptable. " .
Hussong fell far short of expectations
The German Athletics Association would have liked to collect a medal, but javelin thrower Christin Hussong did not make it into the competition.
It stayed below 60 meters in all three attempts, and this year it had already approached 70 meters.
“I couldn't manage it technically at all, that was the worst competition of the year.
It's very, very shitty when something like this happens in the Olympic final, ”said Hussong after the competition.
Liu Shiying from China was Olympic champion with 66.34 meters ahead of Poland's Maria Andrejczyk (64.61) and world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber from Australia (64.56).
Hockey: Gold for the Netherlands
The hockey women from the Netherlands won gold again.
In the final, the team prevailed 3-1 against Argentina.
With a total of four Olympic victories, the Dutch women have become the most successful nation in their sport.
Great Britain secured bronze with a 4: 3 against India.
The British won the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
The German team failed in the quarter-finals against Argentina.
Canada wins the soccer final
Canada's female soccer players have won Olympic gold for the first time.
In an exciting final they won against Sweden 3-2 on penalties and celebrated the greatest success in Canadian football history after two bronze medals.
After 120 and 90 minutes the score was 1: 1.
The favored Swedes had to be content with silver, as they had in the final defeat against Germany five years ago - Julia Grosso converted the decisive penalty.
In regular time, Stina Blackstenius (34th minute) gave Sweden the lead, Jessie Fleming (67th, penalty kick) equalized.
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