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Private ceremony TeamNL on sports beach in The Hague

sport">5:22 p.m. The ceremony of the Dutch Olympic team will take place on Tuesday in The Hague without an audience. “Due to the corona measures, the ceremony has a private character,” sports umbrella organization NOC * NSF says. The venue is the site of the TeamNL Olympic Festival on the sports beach of The Hague.

sport">The support act starts at 6 pm, after which the first athletes from Tokyo per branch of sport will take the stage at 6.30 pm. They first answer some questions after which they walk a lap of honor through the stadium and then take a seat in the stands. After that, the Dutch medal winners per branch of sport are called up to the podium.

sport">The entire program in The Hague will take approximately 2 hours.

Football players Canada take Olympic gold

sport">5:30 pm Canada’s soccer players have won Olympic gold for the first time. That was at the expense of Sweden on Friday. The team of English coach Beverly Priestman triumphed in Tokyo on penalties: 3-2. After regular time and extra time, the score was 1-1.

sport">Stina Blackstenius opened the score on behalf of Sweden after more than half an hour. In the 66th minute, Jessie Fleming equalized from a penalty kick. In the nerve-racking penalty series, Sweden missed four times. Julia Grosso shot Canada to the Olympic title in the sixth round.

sport">Canada won Olympic bronze in both 2012 and 2016. Sweden also had to settle for silver at Rio 2016. Germany was 2-1 too strong in the final at the time.

sport">Canada had eliminated world champions United States in the semifinals. The American team defeated the Orange in the quarterfinals in the penalty series. The United States still took Olympic bronze in Japan.

Italy surprisingly wins 4×100 meters relay in the men

sport">4:10 p.m. Italy won the 4x100m final at the Tokyo Olympics. The quartet, consisting of Filippo Tourzou, Lorenzo Patta, Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Hillary Wanderson Polanco Rijo, trumped the favorites with a time of 37.50 seconds.

sport">Great Britain won the silver one-hundredth of a second, Canada won the bronze, ahead of China (4th) and Jamaica (5th).

sport">The Dutch sprinters were unable to qualify for the final battle due to a failed substitution. At the 2016 Rio Games, the men also missed the final. In 2012 at the Games in London, the Netherlands came sixth.

Cheptegei takes gold at 5000 meters

sport">2:53 pm Joshua Cheptegei has become Olympic champion in the 5000 meters. The 24-year-old Ugandan athlete finished after 12 minutes and 58.15 seconds. He was almost half a second ahead of Canadian Mohammed Ahmed.

sport">The bronze went to American Paul Chelimo, who, like Kenyan Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli, also managed to stay within 13 minutes. Cheptegei has been the world record holder since August last year with 12.35.36.

Mexico soccer players take bronze

sport">13:43 o’clock Mexico’s soccer players exit the Olympics with a bronze medal. They were too strong for Japan (3-1) in the battle for third place.

sport">Sebastián Córdova was the big man for Mexico with a goal and assists on hits from Johan Vasquez and Alexis Vega. Kaoru Mitoma scored for Japan. The final of the Olympic football tournament will be played on Saturday between Brazil and Spain.

sport">Marathon in the women hours earlier because of the heat

sport">13:03 o’clock The start of the women’s Olympic marathon, which was to start at 7 a.m. (local time) on Saturday morning, has been brought forward by an hour. The reason for this is the unexpected heat and high humidity, officials report.

sport">The Olympic marathon for women now starts on Saturday at 6 am, Friday evening at 11 pm Dutch time, in Sapporo. The starting time of the men, Sunday at 07:00 in the morning, has not yet been changed.

sport">The International Olympic Committee decided in 2019 to move the marathon to the northern city of Sapporo to escape Tokyo’s worst summer heat. But in Sapporo it was just as hot on Friday as in Tokyo with a temperature of 35 degrees.

UCI suspends German coach after racist comment

sport">10.59 am: The international cycling union UCI has suspended German cycling coach Patrick Moster until the end of the year. Statements made by Moster had previously been judged to be discriminatory by the UCI disciplinary committee. The UCI condemns any form of racist and discriminatory behavior and wants to ensure integrity, diversity and equality.

sport">Moster had already been provisionally suspended by the UCI. The German Olympic committee sent Moster home for a racist remark during the time trial at the Tokyo Games. He encouraged his driver Nikias Arndt from the support vehicle with a racist statement. The insulting comment was captured by a TV camera, prompting a storm of criticism.

sport">Moster crossed the line when he urged Arndt to catch up with “that camel driver.” Two Africans had started for the German rider: Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier from Eritrea and the Algerian Azzedine Lagab.

sport">Moster did apologize immediately after the incident. “We are sure that he has done so with full conviction,” the German Olympic Committee said. “That does not alter the fact that his behavior does not fit in at all with our Olympic values ​​of fair play, respect and tolerance.” Moster had been heard extensively by the team management before the measure was taken.

sport">Lagab also responded to the insults to him. “Unfortunately, camel riding is not Olympic, so I went cycling. At least then I can still participate in the Olympics.”

American basketball players to Olympic final

sport">8.42 am: The United States basketball players are back in the Olympic final. The defending champion was much too strong for Serbia in the semi-final (79-59). The big favorite for the gold medal already led 41-23 at halftime.

sport">The United States scored more points in all four periods than Serbia, the reigning European champions. They will meet France or Japan in the final on Sunday. The American Brittney Griner was good for 15 points. Her teammate Chelsea Gray scored 14 points.

Good third round of golf star Anne van Dam at Games

sport">07:31 am: Anne van Dam has delivered a good performance in the third round of the Olympic golf tournament. She needed just 69 strokes, two below the track average, and climbed to 55th overall.

sport">Van Dam needed 74 strokes in the first round and went round in 78 in the second. The Dutch has not had a good season so far. She occupies 123rd position in the annual ranking of the women’s golf association LPGA and has dropped to 155th in the world ranking. At her last tournament before the start of the Games, two weeks ago at the Amundi Evian Championship in France, she finished at the bottom.

sport">American Nelly Korda leads the standings after three rounds with 198 strokes.

American volleyball players convincingly to final

sport">07:30 am: The American volleyball players have convincingly qualified for the Olympic final. They settled with Serbia in the semi-final: 3-0 (25-19 25-15 25-23)

sport">The United States did not let Tijana Boskovic, the star player of Serbia, come into her best game, especially in the first two sets. They will meet Brazil or South Korea in the final on Sunday.

sport">Serbia took silver at the previous Games in Rio. The United States had to settle for bronze.

American couple win gold in beach volleyball

sport">5:39 a.m.: United States beach volleyball players April Ross and Alix Klineman have won gold at the Tokyo Olympics. They defeated the Australian women Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy in the final: 21-15 21-16.

sport">Bronze went to Anouk Vergé-Dépré and Joana Heidrich from Switzerland. They won the match for third place against Latvia.

sport">The Americans, placed second, were superior in Tokyo. Madelein Meppelink and Sanne Keizer also lost to the duo in the group stage, but at least won another set.

Japanese PM does not exclude spectators at Paralympics

sport">05:15 am: For the time being, it cannot be ruled out that spectators may be present at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in a few weeks. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he would discuss the options with the organizing committee.

sport">Due to the risk of contamination with the corona virus, the emergency still applies in parts of Japan, including in the Olympic city of Tokyo. The Olympic Games currently being held in the capital are not allowed to be attended by the public.

In Tokyo 29 infections related to Games

sport">4:21 am: 29 coronavirus infections related to the Olympics were reported in Tokyo on Friday. On Thursday there were 31 infections, on Wednesday there were 29. The total now stands at 382. Among the 31 corona infections on Friday, there was not a single athlete.

sport">Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he does not believe that the Olympic Games will increase the number of corona infections in Japan. On Thursday, authorities declared a state of emergency in eight of Japan’s 47 regions due to increasing pressure on health care. The state of emergency has already been in effect in six of Japan’s 47 regions and will remain in effect there until the end of August.

Former Russian champion Isinbayeva wants to lead athletes committee

sport">03.28 am: Former Russian top athlete Yelena Isinbayeva wants to become chairman of the athletes’ committee of the International Olympic Committee. According to insiders in Olympic circles, she has already officially submitted her candidacy. She is to succeed the retiring Kirsty Coventry.

sport">Isinbayeva, 39, was a world-class pole vaulter and Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008. She was elected to the Athletes Committee in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, although she was not allowed to participate in the event herself due to her country’s doping suspension.

sport">Also in Tokyo, the Russian athletes participate under a neutral flag.

Pool Dawid Tomala wins 50km race walk

sport">3:26 am: Dawid Tomala has won the 50km race walk in Sapporo at the Olympics. The 31-year-old Pole took the lead after 30 kilometers and did not relinquish it. He crossed the finish line after 3 hours, 50 minutes and 8 seconds.

sport">German Jonathan Hilbert won silver 36 seconds behind the winner, ahead of Canadian Evan Dunfee. The Frenchman Yohann Diniz, holder of the world record and world champion of 2017, got out after about 30 kilometers. It was his last race. “I ran one race too many,” he concluded afterwards.

sport">Like the marathon for women and men, the race walk will take place in Sapporo, because the organization had hoped that it would be a little less warm there than in Tokyo. This turned out to be hardly the case, if at all.

sport">Sapporo, city of the 1972 Winter Games, is located about 1000 kilometers north of the Japanese capital.

sport">Tomala is also the last Olympic winner in the 50 km race walk. The part will be replaced in Paris 2024 by a mixed race for the walkers.

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