SYDNEY (AP) A strict four-week quarantine imposed on 16 athletes returning from the Tokyo Games has been criticized as “cruel and uncaring” by the Australian Olympic Committee. All travelers entering Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic are subjected to a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine, and members of Australia’s Olympic delegation have returned in groups to undergo two weeks of supervised isolation in various state capitals.
TOKYO (AP) After an Olympics of too little diversity in the swimming pool, and less on the medal podium, the sport's governing body is investing tens of millions of dollars to change that by 2024.
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) Patty Mills and Joe Ingles stood at center court locked in a long embrace, looking as if they might never let go. Eventually they had to move along, because the Australians had somewhere to be.
Olympics Latest: China women win table tennis again
August 5, 2021 GMT
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China’s women continued their table tennis dominance, winning their fourth straight gold in the team event with a 3-0 win over Japan.
First-time Olympians Chen Meng and Wang Manyu beat Kasumi Ishikawa and Miu Hirano 3-1 in the opening match, and then World No. 2 Sun Yingsha topped third-ranked Mima Ito 3-1 in the second match.
Wang closed out the sweep by beating mixed doubles silver medalist Shiwen Liu 3-0. China has taken ever gold in the women’s team event since it started at the 2008 Beijing Games. It didn’t drop a single match in this year’s tournament.