August 7 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

The United States won gold in women’s water polo for the third-straight Olympics after routing Spain 14-5 behind Madeline Musselman’s hat-trick on Saturday. 

Here are the impressive stats accompanying that victory:

"I have the chills right now. I don't think it's fully sunk in yet. I'm just proud of this moment," said Steffens.

Second-placed Spain, meanwhile, is the second nation to lose multiple finals in women’s water polo tournament after the US in 2000 and 2008.

Hungary claimed bronze by beating the Russian Olympic Committee 11-9.

The men's marathon is perhaps the headline event on the final day of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The pre-race favorite is 2016 champion and world record holder Eliud Kipchoge, a man who some say has redefined the realms of human potential over 26.2 miles.

Having set the world record of two hours, one minute and 39 seconds at the 2018 Berlin Marathon, Kipchoge went on to run the first ever marathon in under two hours in Vienna in 2019. That feat, part of the INEOS 1:59 challenge, isn't recognized as an official record due to the use of a race car and pacemakers, alongside other performance-enhancing technology.

Kipchoge, one of Kenya’s six gold medalists in 2016, has been hailed for his determined, dedicated mindset when it comes to marathon running.

One filmmaker who spent time with the 36-year-old even likened his lifestyle to that of an ascetic monk. You can read more about that here.

A win in Sapporo on Sunday would cement Kipchoge’s legacy as the greatest marathon runner of all time, but he will have to overcome hot weather and a field that includes the reigning marathon world champion Lelisa Desisa and last year’s London Marathon winner Shura Kitata.

China’s Cao Yuan won gold in the men’s 10-meter platform diving, securing victory with a total score of 582.35.

The Chinese diver is now the first athlete to win Olympic gold medals in three different diving events -- he previously won the 10m synchronized in London 2012 and 3-meter springboard in Rio 2016.

Cao narrowly edged fellow Chinese diver Yang Jian, who took silver with a score of 580.40. China now holds the most Olympic medals in this event.

Great Britain’s Tom Daley, who took gold in the men’s synchronized 10m platform earlier in these Games, earned bronze with a score of 548.25.

Daley becomes the first British athlete to win at least four Olympic medals in diving and the second British athlete to win multiple medals in diving at a single Olympics.

China now has 84 medals -- including 38 golds -- at the Tokyo Games.

Norwegian duo Anders Mol and Christian Sørum won the country's first medal in men's beach volleyball on Saturday, defeating the Russian Olympic Committee's Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy 21-17, 21-18 to win gold.

The win gives Norway its third gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics and its sixth medal overall.

“It feels unreal, we have been working so hard for so long and this has been our dream for so many years," said Mol.

"To be the youngest Olympic champions (in beach volleyball), this is really a dream come true. I don’t think we’ve realised what we have done, right now it's surreal.”

Sørum is 25, while Mol turned 24 in July.

"Three years ago, I took a screenshot of the Olympic Gold medal from Rio and I have put it on my phone and watched that medal every day since," aded Sørum.

"To stand here with a gold medal, to get it with Anders and the team, it’s just amazing.”

The No. 1 ranked men's team in the world, Mol and Sørum spoke to CNN ahead of the Olympics about their rise through the ranks. You can read more from them here.

Qatar's Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan took home bronze, winning the country's first Olympic medal in the event.

The Olympics in Tokyo demonstrate how the Covid-19 pandemic can be managed, says a medical adviser to the Games' organizers.

The former director of Global Health for Public Health England, Dr. Brian McCloskey said he feels that organizers' efforts to keep the event safe were "very successful."

McCloskey said the data gathered in the past few weeks will be shared so other organizations and governments can learn from what took place in Tokyo.

Concerns still abound

Though the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have, by and large, gone about as well as could be hoped for a major sporting competition held in the middle of a pandemic, the situation throughout the Japanese capital is getting worse, with new cases surging to record levels and doctors warning of a medical system that risks being overwhelmed.

Olympic organizers and Japan's leaders, including Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, have previously said they do not believe the Olympics have contributed to the surge in cases.

However some medical professionals and public health experts disagree. They see people gathering outside venues like Tokyo's Olympic Stadium and worry that a corresponding, post-Games spike in Covid-19 cases is coming.

Five members of Australia's field hockey team have been punished for leaving the Olympic Village early Thursday to buy beer, a violation of the strict protocols put in place to prevent Covid-19 from infecting athletes and other people involved with the Games.

Ian Chesterman, the chef de mission for Australia's Olympic delegation, told reporters a group of three athletes left the village at 3 a.m. in search of beer and went to a local convenience store. They were out of the village for about 20 minutes, he said.

Another group left at 6 a.m. but returned without purchasing anything.

The field hockey players are not the first Australian representatives to make headlines for bad behavior during the Games. Other Olympians were criticized for "excessive alcohol consumption" and "loud and disruptive" behavior on their flight home.

Japan’s Mone Inami has won the silver medal in women's golf after beating New Zealand's Lydia Ko in a one-hole playoff.

Both Inami and Ko had finished the tournament 16-under, one shot behind gold medal winner Nelly Korda.

Inami's silver gives the Olympics host its 52nd medal of the Tokyo Games. Japan has had its most successful Summer Games ever this year, winning a record 24 gold medals.

It's all gold for the McGee family.

With Team USA's men's basketball victory against France in Saturday's final, backup center JaVale McGee will now, just like his mother Pamela, have a gold medal on his resume.

Pamela McGee won gold at the 1984 Olympics. She was a college basketball star at USC and later played professionally for the Los Angeles Sparks.

Here's what JaVale said about the family's success after the win:

Nelly Korda is an Olympic champion.

The world's top-ranked female golfer took home the gold medal in the Olympic women's competition, winning Team USA its 33rd gold medal.

Korda, who won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for her first major title in June, finished 17-under for the tournament.

Both golds in golfing were won by Americans. Xander Schauffele won the men's gold earlier in Tokyo.

Japan's Mone Inami and New Zealand's Lydia Ko both finished 16-under. They will go to a playoff to determine who wins silver and bronze.