August 5 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

China’s Quan Hongchan, who at age 14 is the country’s youngest athlete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, saw off compatriot Chen Yuxi to secure a stunning gold in women’s 10 meter platform diving on Thursday.

The diving sensation produced two perfect-10 dives in a dominant display.

Quan becomes the second-youngest female ever to win gold in the event after her compatriot Fu Mingxia took the title at the 1992 Barcelona Games at the age of just 13.

Quan’s victory on Thursday extends China’s dominance in women’s diving.

China has now claimed gold in all women’s diving events at four successive games -- Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

The last time a non-Chinese woman won an Olympic diving event was when Australia’s Chantelle Newbery secured women’s 10 meter platform gold at the 2004 Games in Athens.

15-year-old reigning world champion Chen collected the silver medal with Australia’s Mellisa Wu claiming bronze.

America's Grant Holloway had looked completely dominant in the 110 meters hurdles heats and cemented his place as the favorite to take gold in the event with a couple of blistering runs.

In the final, however, Jamaican Hansle Parchment stunned Holloway to claim the Olympic title by just 0.05 seconds.

After the race, the newly-crowned Olympic champion said he'd been keeping an eye on his opponent and knew he needed to make some adjustments to stand any chance of winning.

“It was an amazing race," Parchment said. "I was watching Grant from the first round -- and at home as well during the season -- and I had to make some changes to my style, I knew I had to be closer to him from the start if I wanted to do better than him.”

At just 23, Holloway is eight years Parchment's junior and suggested that nerves on the big occasion may have got the better of him.

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India's men's hockey team -- the most successful in the history of the Olympics with eight gold medals -- is dedicating its bronze medal to the doctors and frontline workers of the coronavirus pandemic, team captain Manpreet Singh said.

Several players in the team acknowledged the tough times they have been through as they trained in the southern city of Bangalore away from their families.

“For the past two years, we have helped each other a lot and we’ve put all of our trust in each other, and we’ve had to work really hard," Mandeep Singh said.

"We’ve stayed away from our families because of Covid, we’ve stayed in a camp in Bangalore, but we had an aim and we’ve fulfilled that aim today.”

With Thursday's historic win, the team ended a 41-year winless run stretching back to Moscow 1980, when they won the last of their golds.

Goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh called this victory "a rebirth."

Shunsuke Shirakawa closed his bar the first three times the government asked.

When the authorities again requested that Tokyo's restaurant and pub owners shut down during a fourth state of emergency due to the pandemic, Shirakawa refused. He said he questioned why he must sacrifice his livelihood as the government welcomed thousands of visitors for the Tokyo Olympics.

However, with cases in Tokyo and the rest of the country skyrocketing, public health experts and doctors are worried that once the Games end, coronavirus cases could overwhelm Japan's health care infrastructure.

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The thousands of athletes competing in Tokyo at the Olympics may not have family and friends there to cheer them along, but they do have a dedicated 57-year-old Japanese man's support.

Every morning since the eve of the Games, the office worker gets up, goes to a street corner near the Olympic Village and holds a sign that says: “Even if you don’t get a medal, you’re still the BEST!! So believe in yourself!"

Then, he goes to work.

The man, who declined to give his name, told CNN he decided to cheer on all the athletes because he thought the media coverage of the Games that he saw was too focused on the winners.

The man said he's gone out every morning in the hopes of motivating competitors from around the world.

"Some athletes react to my placard with a thumbs-up. I feel connected to them and it makes me really happy," he said.

The American men's basketball game will play in its fourth consecutive gold medal game at the Olympics after beating Australia 97-78.

The game started off close, and Team USA looked in danger during a second quarter that saw them down by as many as 15 points. However, the Americans ended the half with an 8-0 run to bring the game within two.

Then they came out swinging in the second half, looking like the gold medal-favorite most expected them to be, outscoring the Australians 32-10 in the third quarter.

The Americans, on Saturday Japan time, will play the winner of the other semifinal, France vs. Slovenia.

American track and field legend Carl Lewis excoriated some of Team USA's men's sprinters on Twitter, calling their performance an "embarrassment."

Though Lewis did not name which relay he was referring to, his tweet came at about the same time the US team failed to qualify for the final of the men's 4x100 meters relay.

The Americans have won that event a record 15 times at the Olympics, but have not medaled since Athens in 2004.

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Lewis won two of his Olympic gold medals as a member of the US' 4x100 meters relay teams at the Los Angeles 1984 and Barcelona 1992 Games.

Fans arrived at the Izu Velodrome in Shizuoka prefecture in shuttle buses on Wednesday to catch the action at the track cycling venue roughly two hours from Tokyo. 

Since Monday, they've been among the first at these Summer Games to watch sessions at a closed-door venue.

With Tokyo under a state of emergency due to the pandemic, all events in the Japanese capital are being held without fans. In all, spectators are banned from attending 97% of all Olympic events, forcing most of the Japanese public to watch the Games at home.

But Shizuoka is not under a state of emergency, so it is allowing fans to fill up 50% of the 3,600-seat velodrome.

Many at the venue Wednesday waved Japanese flags and snapped photos. They said they were excited to experience the Olympic spirit in person.

Others, however, weren't as lucky. 

Kazuyoshi and Hiroko Fujita missed out on tickets. They said they booked seats on a shuttle bus taking people to the velodrome as they hoped to enjoy the Olympic mood around the venue. However, they could only gaze at the velodrome from a distance.

Hong Kong won bronze in women's team table tennis with victory over Germany in Tokyo on Thursday.

It's the city's fourth medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, adding to its biggest haul of medals from a single Games.

Fencer Edgar Cheung took home the city's first gold medal in 25 years with his win in the men's foil final, while swimmer Siobhan Haughey won two silver medals.

Hong Kong had four Olympic medals in total heading into the 2020 Olympics.