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Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo won gold in the men’s triple jump final.
Pichardo’s 17.98 meter jump is a new national record. China’s Zhu Yaming jumped a personal best 17.57 meters to win silver.
Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango won bronze in 17.47 to claim his country’s first-ever Olympic medal.
American Will Claye, who won silver in this event at the 2012 London Games and 2016 Rio Games, missed out on the podium by 3 centimeters.
This post has been updated to correct Hugues Fabrice Zango’s nationality.
Ryan Crouser has won the gold medal in shot put, smashing his own Olympic record that he set at the Rio 2016 Games in the process.
Crouser threw 23.30 meters, just 0.07 meters short of the world record he set in June. He set the previous Olympic record at Rio 2016 with a 22.52 meter throw.
Fellow American Joe Kovacs took silver and New Zealand’s Tomas Walsh claimed bronze.
All three men claimed the same medals in the event five in Rio five years ago.
Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment upset American Grant Holloway to win the men’s 110 meters hurdles at the Tokyo 2020 Games, earning gold with a time of 13.04 seconds.
Parchment, a bronze medalist at London 2012, becomes the eighth athlete to win two Olympic medals in this event.
Holloway, who was the favorite to win gold, narrowly took silver with a time of 13.09. Jamaica’s Ronald Levy clinched bronze in 13.10.
Jamaica is now the second nation to win the 110 meters hurdles in two successive Olympics.
The United States has won the men’s 4x100 meters relay a record 15 times at the Olympic Games — but not since 2000 in Sydney. And the American men haven’t medaled in this event since winning silver in Athens in 2004.
That drought will continue. The Americans finished sixth in their heat Thursday and did not qualify for the final, extending their longest run ever without an Olympic medal in this event.
The US men failed to finish the race in 2008 and were disqualified at the past two Olympic Games (2012 and 2016).
Jamaica, anchored by Usain Bolt, took gold in the event at Rio 2016.
Tokyo 2020 organizers reported 31 new coronavirus cases linked to the Olympics on Thursday. This is the highest number of daily new infections linked to Games, bringing the total to 358.
One new athlete and resident of Tokyo’s Olympic Village tested positive and was identified as another member of Greece’s artistic swimming team. Six of its members have now tested positive for the virus, including one team official, according to the Hellenic Olympic Committee.
There have been 33 cases reported from the village as of Thursday.
The Games is in its 13th day of official competition.
Karate has made its Olympic debut in the country where it was invented.
The Olympics’ first karate competition began Thursday morning in Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan. Karatekas will compete in two disciplines: kata, a choreographed demonstration of karate forms and moves against an imaginary opponent, and fighting, which is called kumite, for different weight classes.
Karate competition will continue through Saturday.
Athletes aren’t the only people putting their bodies on the line at this year’s Tokyo Olympics.
Australia’s Kieran Woolley was spotted accidentally skating into a cameraman during his first qualifying heat in men’s park. The cameraman appeared uninjured after Woolley checked on him.
Woolley scored a 82.69 during the heat.
The men’s park final is expected to begin at 12:30 p.m. Tokyo time.
Germany’s Florian Wellbrock and Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri have become the second and third athletes in Olympic history to medal in both swimming and marathon swimming at a single Olympic Games.
Wellbrock, a bronze medalist in the men’s 1,500 meter freestyle, won gold in the men’s marathon swimming 10 kilometers event, the Olympics’ longest swim, by upwards of 25 seconds, with a time of 1:48:33.7.
The German swimmer also becomes the first male marathon swimmer to win an Olympic medal as the reigning world champion in the event.
Paltrinieri, a silver medalist in the 800 meter freestyle, took bronze in 1:49:01.1. The Italian swimmer becomes the first Italian man to claim an Olympic medal in marathon swimming.
Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky earned silver in 1:48:59.0.
Olympic US BMX racer Connor Fields, who crashed in the third run of the men’s semifinals on Friday and sustained a brain hemorrhage, will be released from St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo on Thursday, according to Dr. Jonathan Finnoff, chief medical officer for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Fields has been under the care of the USOPC, USA Cycling and local physicians, according to a release from USA Cycling.
He will return home to Henderson, Nevada, to start his rehabilitation and will be with family and friends, the release said.
In an attempt to find cooler temperatures, the Olympic marathon events are taking place this weekend in Sapporo, roughly 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Tokyo. Unfortunately, the high temperatures that are impacting Tokyo are spreading throughout the entire country, even into Hokkaido.
The women’s marathon takes place Saturday morning while the men race Sunday. This weekend Sapporo will see morning low temperatures of around 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) and afternoon highs of 32-34 degrees Celsius (90-93 degrees Fahrenheit). These temperatures are 5-7 degrees Celsius (9-13 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal for early August.
Despite the fact that the races take place in the morning hours, temperatures during both races will likely be between 27-30 degrees Celsius (80-86 degrees Fahrenheit). In addition to the warm temperatures, relative humidity values between 70% and 80% will make it feel even warmer.
Tokyo reached 34.5 degrees Celsius (94 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday – the hottest day of the Olympics so far and just 0.2 degrees Celsius shy of their hottest day so far this year.
The hottest day so far in Tokyo this year was 34.7 degrees Celsius on July 19.
Heat warnings remain in place Thursday as the temperature will once again peak around 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) with high humidity levels making it feel like over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Temperatures are expected to be slightly lower Friday and over the weekend (32 to 33 degrees Celsius) thanks to increasing cloud cover and rain associated with Tropical Depression 14.
Simone Biles has tweeted thanks to a Japanese gym for allowing her to privately train while she attempted to regain her gold medal form after withdrawing during the women’s artistic gymnastics team final at the Summer Olympics.
While thanking those at the Juntendo University in a Wednesday tweet, Biles retweeted a story first published in the Wall Street Journal. The report says Biles and her team asked the facility if she could discretely use the gym in an attempt to overcome her struggle with “the twisties,” a mental block in gymnastics where competitors lose track of their positioning midair.
The Wall Street Journal reported that university professor Kazuhiro Aoki got a phone call about 12 hours after Biles removed herself from the team final, asking to use the school’s gym for a “gymnast.”
According to the report, during a four-day period, Biles practiced for hours behind locked doors working on moves she previously performed with precision.
Last week: Biles posted a series of videos on her Instagram account showing the four-time Olympic gold medal winner struggling to find her form and crashing into landing pads while practicing dismounts on the uneven bars.
Biles said Wednesday she would “forever be thankful” to Juntendo “for allowing me to come train separately to try to get my skills back.”
The Japanese, she wrote in her tweet, “are some of, if not the sweetest people I’ve ever met.”
After not competing as originally planned in four individual finals at the Tokyo Olympics – the all-around individual competition, the vault, the uneven bars and floor – Biles returned on Tuesday to claim the bronze medal in the women’s balance beam final. It was her second medal at these Summer Games and her seventh Olympic medal overall.
A developing tropical system near Okinawa, Japan, is likely to impact Tokyo and the Olympics over the weekend.
The system is currently known as Tropical Depression 14 and is likely to intensify into a tropical storm in the next 12 to 24 hours.
The system is expected to peak as a moderate tropical storm and should not become a typhoon (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic basin). Rain and wind are likely to impact the Tokyo area Saturday, especially by the afternoon, and last through early Sunday afternoon.
There is still uncertainty with the degree of the impacts. If the storm makes landfall near, or just west of Tokyo, the rain will be heavier, but the current forecast is for the storm to pass slightly south and east of Tokyo early Sunday.
The Olympics closing ceremony takes place Sunday at 8 p.m local time (7 a.m. ET).
Another day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is in the books. If you’re just reading in now, here are some of the highlights and key storylines from Wednesday’s Games:
Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze broke his own world record to win a stunning gold medal in the men’s +109kg weightlifting on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old set world and Olympic records in the snatch (223kg) and the clean and jerk (265kg) to post a new eye-watering total of 488kg.
Talakhadze’s total of 488kg at the Tokyo Games surpassed the previous record of 485kg which the Georgian set at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow in April.
The Georgian’s winning total was 47kg more than Iran’s Ali Davoudi, who took silver.
Man Asaad of Syria took the bronze with a total of 424kg.
Ever since winning gold in the +105kg division at Rio 2016, Talakhadze has won every title in the men’s super heavyweight category at European championships and world championships, collecting 12 European titles and nine world titles.
Poland’s Wojciech Nowicki won the gold medal in the men’s hammer throw with an 82.52m throw, a personal best, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday.
Nowicki took bronze in this event at the 2016 Rio Games.
The silver medal went to Norway’s Eivind Henriksen who finished the competition with a farthest throw of 81.58m.
Four-time men’s hammer throw world champion, Pawel Fajdek of Poland, claimed bronze with a throw of 81.53m.
Fajdek has won the most world titles in athletics without ever claiming a medal at the Olympic Games.
Americans Rudy Winkler and Daniel Haugh finished seventh and eleventh, respectively.
Nowicki’s win comes a day after Poland’s Anita Włodarczyk won the gold medal in the women’s event.
The Indian women’s hockey team was beaten 2-1 by Argentina in Wednesday’s semifinal and will now play Great Britain, who lost to the Netherlands, in the bronze medal match.
Back in India, the semifinal against Argentina had revived memories of a wildly popular Hindi movie in which the Indian women’s team wins the Hockey World Cup against all odds.
The movie — “Chak De! India” — is one of the few Indian sports film which has portrayed the misogyny and adversity that female athletes face in a largely conservative India.
The film follows a winding road as the players are taught to play as a team by their coach, a stance that was never shown to an earlier neglected group of women collected from across India.
In the film, they ultimately play the final against Australia to win the World Cup. Shahrukh Khan, one of India’s biggest stars, played the fictional coach of the hockey team and shared a light moment Monday with the actual coach, Sjoerd Marijne.
Olympic gymnast for Team GB, Max Whitlock, was greeted by his daughter Willow in a surprise reunion after returning from the Tokyo Olympics with a gold medal on pommel horse.
Now with six Olympic medals to his name, 28-year-old Whitlock became the first man to successfully defend the pommel horse title since 1980.
Tokyo 2020 was his third Olympic Games and his first as a father, with two-year-old Willow supporting him from home.
“What an amazing surprise, my family kept it a secret so I didn’t think they were meeting me at the airport,” Whitlock tweeted on Tuesday.
“Wow it feels good to be home,” he added.
Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse finally got his hands on an Olympic gold medal after winning the 200 meters final at Tokyo 2020.
The 26-year-old, who had one silver and three bronzes from Rio and Tokyo, made his move in the final 50 meters to storm past Americans Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek to set a personal and national best of 19.62 seconds.
Bednarek took silver in a personal best time of 19.68 and Lyles, one of the strong favorites for gold in this event coming into Tokyo, took bronze in 19.74.
Remarkably, five men ran under 20 seconds in the final.
Kenya joined Great Britain and the United States in winning the men’s 800 meters at four consecutive Games after Emmanuel Korir won gold at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Wednesday.
Korir, who came to Japan boasting this year’s second-fastest run, beat fellow Kenyan Ferguson Rotich to claim the title in a time of 1:45.06.
The 26-year-old’s victory ensures Kenya have now won the men’s 800 meter event at four straight games, after Wilfred Bungei won at Beijing 2008 and David Rudisha secured back-to-back titles at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Only Great Britain (1920-1932) and the United States (1936-1956) have equalled that record.
Patryk Dobek secured bronze for Poland — the country’s first ever Olympic medal in this event.
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