Tuesday, July 27 Olympic Roundup

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Published on July 28 2021 5:58 am
Last Updated on July 28 2021 5:59 am

TOKYO OLYMPICS:

-- It was announced early this morning that Simone Biles won’t compete in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday, with a statement from USA Gymnastics saying she’s withdrawing “to focus on her mental health.” Jade Carey will take her place. It wasn’t revealed whether she’ll compete in the four event finals later in the Olympics.

-- The Russian Olympic Committee women won the team gymnastics gold Tuesday after Simone Biles withdrew from the competition. The three remaining women -- Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum -- won silver for the U.S. and Great Britain won bronze. Biles withdrew after she botched the first event, the vault, saying afterward she’d felt lost in the air. She said she knew she wasn’t in the right mental place and pulled out to avoid injury and to keep from damaging the rest of the team’s prospects to win a medal.

-- The U.S. men’s basketball team came back from its loss to France in its first game of the Tokyo Games to beat Iran 120-66. They’ll play the Czech Republic next.

--  U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky finally won her first gold of the Tokyo Games in the 1,500-meter freestyle and teammate Erica Sullivan won silver. Ledecky, who won four gold medals and a silver at the 2016 Rio Games, had finished in fifth place in the 200-meter freestyle hours earlier. She’d also come in second in the 400-meter freestyle, losing to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who also won the 200-meter. 

-- Japan beat the U.S. 2-0 to win the gold in softball for the second Olympics in a row. That earlier gold was in the 2008 Beijing Olympics -- also won in the final game against the U.S. -- since softball wasn’t in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics.  The U.S. won silver and Canada won bronze by beating Mexico a day earlier.

-- Medal Count: (As of 3:30 a.m. ET) - The U.S. is in first place with 30 medals, followed by China with 24 and Japan with 20. In the gold medal count, Japan and China are tied in first with 11, followed by the U.S. with 10, and the Russian Olympic Committee with seven.