Thursday, August 5, 2021

Day 14 Mid Day Japan time August 5 to Mid Day Japan time August 6

















The USA men's basketball team beat Australia 97-78 to advance to the gold medal match against France. Australia led the USA 45-42 at halftime. The USA was led in scoring by Kevin Durant with 23 points. Devin Booker added 20 points and Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton each had 11 points for team USA.

American Delaney Schnell finished 5th (340.40 points) at the women's 10M platform diving finals. Hongchan Quan of China wins gold with an Olympic Record 466.20 points that included 2 perfect 10 dives. Quan is 14 years old. Yuxi Chen of China wins silver with 425.40 points and Melissa Wu of Australia wins bronze with 371.40 points.

The USA women's soccer team wins bronze by beating Australia 4-3. The USA was ahead at halftime 3-1. Megan Rapinoe scored 2 goals (8th minute and 21st minute) and Carli Lloyd scored 2  goals (51st minute and 45th +1 minute) for team USA. Canada wins gold by beating Sweden 1-1 (3-2 on penalty kicks). Sweden wins silver.

Americans Garrett Scantling finished 4th in the men's decathlon with 8611 points. Zack Ziemek finished 6th with 8435 points and Steve Bastien finished 10th with 8236 points. Damian Warner of Canada wins gold with 9018 points, Kevin Mayer of France wins silver with 8726 points and Ash Moloney of Australia wins bronze with 8649 points.

Americans Kendell Williams finished 5th in the women's heptathlon with 6508 points, Annie Kunz finished 6th with 6420 points and Erica Bougard finished 9th with 6379 points. Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium wins gold with 6791 points. Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands wins silver with 6689 points and Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands wins bronze with 6590 points.

The USA baseball team beat Korea 7-2 to advance to the gold medal game against Japan. Ryan Ryder gets the win.

The USA women's water polo team beat ROC 15-11 to advance to the gold medal match vs Spain. Maddie Musselman had 5 goals to lead team USA and Maggie Steffens added 3 goals.

Katie Nageotte of the USA wins gold (16ft 3/4 in) in the women's pole vault. Anzhelika Sidorova of ROC wins silver by vaulting 15 Ft. 9 in. and Holly Bradshaw of Great Britain wins bronze with a vault of 15 Ft. 9 in. 

The USA women's 4 by 400 relay team of Kaylin Whitney Wadeline Jonathas, Kendall Ellis and Lynna Irby advanced to the finals.

Cole Hocker of the USA advanced to the men's 1500 finals.  American Matthew Centrowitz finished 9th in the other 1500 semifinals and did not advance to the finals.

Michael Cherry (44.21 seconds) and Michael Norman (44.31 seconds), both of the USA, finished 4th and 5th respectively, in the men's 400 finals. Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas wins gold in 43.85 seconds, Anthony Zambrano of Columbia wins silver in 44.08 seconds and Kirani James of Grenada wins bronze in 44.19 seconds.

American Cory Juneau wins bronze with a score of 84.13 in the skateboarding park final. Keegan Palmer of Australia wins gold with a score of 95.83 and Pedro Barros of Brazil wins silver with a 86.14 score.

American Nathaniel Coleman wins silver in sports climbing-men's combined. Alberto Lopez Gines of Spain wins gold and Jakob Schubert of Austria wins bronze.

American Thomas Gilman wins bronze by beating Reza Atrinagharchi of Iran 9-1 in freestyle wrestling 57kg bronze medal match

American David Taylor wins gold by beating Hassan Yazdanicharati of Iran 4-3 in men's freestyle wrestling 86kg class. Yazdanicharati wins silver.

American Helen Maroulis wins bronze by beating Khongorzul Boldsaikhan of Mongolia 11-0 in women's freestyle wrestling 57kg bronze medal match.

The USA women's beach volleyball team of Alix Klineman/April Ross wins gold by beating Artacho/Clancy of Australia 2-0, 21-15, 21-16. Artacho/Clancy wins silver. Verge-Depre/Heidrich of Switzerland beat Graudina/Kravcenoka of Latvia 2-0, 21-19, 21-15 to win bronze.


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Medal Count as of 11;55pm Eastern Time August 5

USA                 30 gold, 35 silver, 27 bronze - 92 total
China               34 gold, 24 silver, 16 bronze - 74 total
ROC                16 gold, 22 silver, 20 bronze - 58 total
Great Britain   16 gold, 18 silver, 18 bronze - 52 total
Japan               22 gold, 10 silver, 14 bronze - 46 total

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