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USA wins first Tokyo Olympics medals with gold, silver finish in men s 400-meter individual medley
From CNN’s Seamus Fagan and Kevin Dotson
Chase Kalisz of Team United States celebrates after winning the Men s 400m Individual Medley Final on July 25. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
The United States has won its first medals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland finished first and second in the Men’s 400-meter Individual Medley.
Chase Kalisz won gold with a time of 4:09.42, while Litherland finished just behind him with a time of 4:10:28. Brendon Smith of Australia won bronze with a time of 4:10.38.
USA Basketball defeated by France for first Olympic loss since 2004
France s Evan Fournier goes for the basket past United States Draymond Jamal Green during a basketball game on Sunday, July 25. (Eric Gay/AFP/Getty Images)
The United States men’s basketball team was defeated by France 83-76 in the team’s opening game of group play.
The loss snaps a 25-game win streak dating back to the 2004 Summer Games in Athens when Team USA lost to Argentina.
France ended the game on a 16-2 run to seal the win, behind Evan Fournier’s team-leading 28-point effort.
Team USA will next play Iran on Wednesday.
Iranian defector playing under Olympic Refugee team to face off against athlete from Iran
From CNN s Artemis Moshtaghian and Sugam Pokharel; previous reporting by Vasco Cotovio
Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin of the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates during the Women s -57kg Bronze Medal Taekwondo contest in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on August 18, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
An Iranian athlete playing under the Olympic Refugee team is competing against an Iranian player representing Iran in the taekwondo qualifying round in Tokyo on Sunday.
Kimia Alizadeh, who left Iran in 2020, will face off against Nahid Kiyani Chandeh in the 57kg category of taekwondo in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Top-seeded Ashleigh Barty knocked out of Olympics in first round
From CNN s Kevin Dotson
Ashleigh Barty of Team Australia plays a forehand during her Women s Singles First Round match on July 25. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
Australian tennis star Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Olympic women’s singles tournament in Tokyo in the first round by Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Barty was the tournament’s top seed and the number one ranked woman in the world coming off a championship at Wimbledon.
Sorribes Tormo defeated Barty in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.
Meanwhile, British tennis player Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s singles tennis tournament due to a quad strain, Team GB announced. He will continue to compete in the men’s doubles tournament.
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