


Baseball was restored to the Olympic slate this year for the first time since 2008. The rest of the tournament will be held at Yokohama Baseball Stadium in Tokyo. It’s the only Olympic baseball game being held in Fukushima, which was devastated by an earthquake and an ensuing tsunami and nuclear accident in 2011. Bach, wearing bright white gloves on both hands, fist bumped the 14-year-old before Team Japan took the field for its game against the Dominican Republic.
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They were joined by Tokyo Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto and World Baseball Softball Confederation President Riccardo Fraccari as a high school baseball player from the region threw out the first pitch - a full windup from atop the rubber. I needed to be ice cold," she said.International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh are attending the opener of the Olympic baseball tournament and were on the field for the ceremonial first pitch in Fukushima. "I did everything I physically could, I couldn’t do anything more. The Swede, competing at her fourth Olympics, had surgery for a broken elbow suffered falling on ice in February, leaving her out of the water for months. Sarah Sjostrom, the gold medallist in Rio and world record holder, finished seventh, 1:32 off MacNeil's time. I don't think it will sink in for a little while," added MacNeil, who also won silver on Sunday as part of Canada's 4x100m freestyle team. I touched the wall and heard my name so I think I did something good," said the Canadian, who won the event at the 2019 World Championships. Australias Ariarne Titmus beat defending champion and world-record holder Kathleen Ledecky from USA for the GOLD medal. Women 3m Springboard Women 10m Platform Women 3m Synchronised Women 10m Synchronised Men 3m Springboard Men 10m Platform Men 3m Synchronised Men 10m. In the women's 100 butterfly China's Zhang Yufei lead at the halfway mark with MacNeil trailing in seventh but the Canadian produced a brilliant turn to power away from her rivals and pip Zhang by five one-hundredths of a second.Īustralia's Emma McKeon was not far behind, taking bronze just 0.13 behind the winning time. it's not about a time its about a race," he said. Titmus lived up to the billing of her nickname the Terminator when she chased down Katie Ledecky in the 400 freestyle Monday to win one of the most anticipated races of the Summer Games. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the games were postponed to 2021. I'm not racing for a time, I'm racing myself. TOKYO (AP) Ariarne Titmus and Luka Doncic made memorable Olympic debuts. The swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were due to take place from 25 July to 6 August 2020 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre. "You can do whatever you want in your own pool, in your own nation, in your own race. TOKYO, JAPAN JULY 28: Ariarne Titmus of Team Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Women’s 200m Freestyle Final on day five of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Jin Tokyo, Japan. "I needed to put myself on edge.I needed to go my fastest. "I did feel a little pressure into the final but it's a good pressure," said Peaty. There was much less drama for Peaty, utterly dominant in the 100m breaststroke, whose time of 57.37 was well short of his own world record 56.88 but comfortably ahead (0.63) of silver medallist Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands.
