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Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first track and field gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with victory in the men’s 10,000 meters.
Barega won in 27 minutes, 43.22 seconds to upset world champion and world-record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda. Cheptegei took the silver medal and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda was third.
Barega won at a largely empty Olympic Stadium. It was the only medal event on the first day of track action.
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The top-seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic won Olympic gold in men’s doubles tennis.
Mektic and Pavic beat Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in an all-Croatian final.
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Olympics Latest: An San of South Korea wins 3rd archery gold
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An San of South Korea has won her third straight archery gold medal at the Tokyo Games.
She won during a shoot-off in the final of the women’s individual event.
An beat Elena Osipova of ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee, by a 6-5 score Friday. She scored a 10 in the shoot-off Osipova recorded a 8 to help her nation remain perfect in archery in Tokyo. An had a part in the mixed and women’s team gold medals as well, with the men’s team also winning. The last archery event will be the men’s individual competition Saturday.
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MEDAL ALERT
Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first track and field gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with victory in the menâs 10,000 meters.
Barega won in 27 minutes, 43.22 seconds to upset world champion and world-record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda. Cheptegei took the silver medal and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda was third.
Barega won at a largely empty Olympic Stadium. It was the only medal event on the first day of track action.
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The top-seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic won Olympic gold in menâs doubles tennis.
Mektic and Pavic beat Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in an all-Croatian final.
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Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina has won her second gold and third medal of the Tokyo Olympics, beating Koreaâs Kim Minjung in a shootoff in womenâs 25-meter pistol.
Batsarashkina tied Kim with 38 points and won the shootoff 4-1. Chinaâs Xiao Jiaruxuan took bronze.
Batsarashkina also won gold in 10-meter air pistol and teamed with Artem Chernousov to take silver in 10-meter mixed team air pistol. She also took silver in 10-meter air pistol at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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American BMX rider Connor Fields is âawake and awaiting further medical evaluationâ after he crashed in the third semifinal run and had to be removed from the course at Ariake Urban Sports Park on a stretcher.
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TOKYO American Connor Fields, a medal favorite in BMX cycling, was awake and awaiting further medical evaluation after crashing during a semifinal heat Friday at the Olympics, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. BMX racing team.
There was no information on Fields’ injuries, said Angelina Palermo, the spokesperson.
Sports Illustrated reported that Fields father, Mike, said his son was “alert, answering questions and moving all his limbs.”
Fields, 28, was taken off the course on a stretcher, loaded into an ambulance and transported to a hospital.
The crash took place on the first turn of the race. Fields was in second place when his front wheel appeared to catch the back wheel of the leader, France s Romain Mahieu.