Monday, July 26 Olympic Roundup

TOKYO OLYMPICS:

-- Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has been eliminated in an upset, losing her third-round match to the Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-4. Osaka, ranked second in the world, won her first two matches in straight sets. 

-- The Russian Olympic Committee won the team gold in men’s gymnastics, edging out Japan, which won silver, and China which took bronze, in a tight contest. Russia last won gold in the team competition in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The U.S. team came in fifth place, after Great Britain in fourth.

-- U.S. swimmer Lydia Jacoby of Alaska won the 100-meter breaststroke in an upset, the 17-year-old beating teammate Lilly King, who won gold in 2016 in Rio. King came in third this time, after South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker.

-- The U.S. men lost their first Olympics swimming backstroke race since 1992 in Barcelona. Russian Evgeny Rylov won gold in the 100-meter and teammate Kliment Kolesnikov took silver, while defending champion Ryan Murphy of the U.S. settled for third. They U.S. men had won 12 straight golds in the backstroke events at the past six Olympics. -- Flora Duffy won the women’s triathlon, giving Bermuda its first-ever Olympic gold medal. Georegia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain won silver and American Katie Zaferes  took bronze. Duffy’s is only Bermuda’s second Olympic medal of any kind, after a 1976 boxing bronze for Clarence Hill.

-- Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. Diaz, competing in the 55-kilogram weight class, also set an Olympic record of 224 kg, lifting 127 kg (280 lbs) in the clean and jerk after managing 97 kilograms (about 214 pounds) in the snatch lift.

-- The U.S. women’s basketball team beat Nigeria 81-72 in their opening game. The win was the Americans’ 50th straight in the Olympics, dating back to the 1992 Barcelona Games.

-- Medal Count: (As of 4 a.m. ET) -- The U.S. and China are tied in first place with 19 medals, followed by the Russian Olympic Committee with 16 and Japan with 13. In the gold medal count, the U.S. and Japan are tied in first place with eight, followed by China with seven and the Russian Olympic Committee with five.