is looking for its fourth Olympic softball gold medal. 2.Īnd sure enough, Japan and the United States are both 4-0 so far in group play and sit atop the standings entering their head-to-head matchup Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.Īfter softball was removed from the Olympic program for the 20 Summer Games, it has made its triumphant return, along with baseball, to the Tokyo Olympics. ET Sunday night with the qualification matches, and the medal events will begin Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. South Korea leads the medal table with 19 total medals and 12 gold China is next with 10 total medals and seven gold.Ĭompetition will begin at 9 p.m. has won nine total medals but just two gold. Since the sport debuted at the 1988 Seoul Games, the U.S. McPherson is not a podium favorite in the event, but it's still a notable achievement for one of the United States' weaker Olympic sports. She won bronze in the women's 67 kg taekwondo event at the 2012 Games, a run which included an upset over Team Great Britain's Sarah Stevenson in the first round. She then qualified for the 2016 Rio Games but lost her first match against Farida Azizova. Paige McPherson will become the first American woman to compete in taekwondo at three Olympics. In the taekwondo women's welterweight event Sunday, we have another opportunity to see a woman make Olympic history. If she advances to the final, you can watch Salukvadze shoot at 10:15 p.m. In so doing, they became the first mother-son duo to compete at the same Olympics. Salukvadze also holds another bit of fun Olympics trivia her son, Tsotne Machavariani, also competed at the 2016 Rio Games. Georgia and Russia were at war, but the two women embraced on the podium in a gesture of peace. When Salukvadze competed in the 10-meter air pistol competition and won bronze, Russian shooter Natalia Paderina won silver. Those 2008 Games were notable for another reason. She has competed in all the Summer Games held since, earning another medal in the 2008 Beijing Games. Salukvadze made her Olympic debut at the 1988 Seoul Games, where she won two medals for the Soviet Union. This year, Salukvadze becomes the first woman to compete at nine Olympics in any sport, according to NBC Sports.
ET Sunday, even if she does not advance to the final, Georgian Nino Salukvadze will make history. When she competes in the 10-meter air pistol women's qualification at 8 p.m. That will undoubtedly amplify a storyline that has been surrounding him since he qualified for the Games: He has publicly said he's unvaccinated ( around 100 of the 613 Team USA athletes have not received a COVID-19 vaccine).
"But in the 200 IM, I'm that guy, and they're chasing me."Įven if Andrew doesn't beat Peaty, he will in all likelihood land on the podium. "You look at the 50 and 100 breast, it's like I'm going up against guys that are-I feel like people think they're unbeatable, so it gives me a lot of freedom just to race," Andrew told KSHB. American swimmer Michael Andrew isn't the gold-medal favorite-that would be Great Britain's Adam Peaty, who won the event at the 2016 Rio Games-but you can pencil this one down as a potential upset special.Īndrew won his first heat Saturday with a time of 58.62 seconds Peaty won his, in 57.56.Īndrew, whose speciality is the 200-meter individual medley, gleans a sense of calm from the lack of pressure. The top eight skaters from the four prelim heats will participate in the final.Īlso set for late Sunday night, at 10:12, is the men's 100-meter breaststroke final.
They will perform two 45-second runs and five individually scored tricks, and will be judged on a scale of zero to 10 with their top four scores counting. ET on Sunday, following the prelims, we will get to see the top competitors attempt to skate their way onto the podium.
Team USA's Mariah Duran-with her signature hardflip in the best-trick segment and an impressive repertoire for her runs-could be a contender as well.Īt 11:25 p.m. 1 Pamela Rosa, 13-year-old Rayssa Leal and veteran Leticia Bufoni. But Team Brazil will be nipping at their heels with world No. And that preparation to rack up medals at its own Games bore out Saturday night, as Yuto Horigome took the first men's street gold medal.Īori Nishimura, with her rails prowess, is the gold-medal favorite in the women's event, and 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya is threatening the podium as well (the two finished 1-2 at the Street World Championships in June). That means Japan had five years (with the postponement of the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic) to develop a roster of talented skateboarders who could contend for gold in the street event. The nation won its bid to host these Olympics in 2013, and in 2016 the International Olympic Committee approved skateboarding as a new sport that would be added to the Tokyo program. It's no surprise Japan has produced some of the world's top skateboarders.
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