Judoka refuses to fight Israeli and is disqualified +++ German saber fencers disappoint: Hartung and Szabo outside +++ Olympic news at a glance.
18 days of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, 18 days full of top sporting performances, happy and tragic moments, curious events and unrelated occurrences. Olympic news of all kinds at a glance:
July 24th: German gold ambitions: Eighth directly in the final
The Germany eight underpinned his gold ambitions with the direct entry into the finals at the Olympic Games and, like the other German boats, convinced on the second day of racing in Tokyo. The parade boat of the German Rowing Association passed the long leading US rowers on Saturday in the last few meters of the run on the Sea Forest Waterway in again stifling heat and high humidity. They secured first place for themselves. “You have to be at a very high level and in good shape to burn something like we did today. That was certainly a very, very good performance,” said coach Uwe Bender.
July 24th: Judoka at Olympia refuses to fight Israeli and is disqualified
Algerian judoka Fethi Nurine has to leave the Olympics early after refusing to fight an Israeli athlete. The Algerian Olympic Committee recognized Nurine and his trainer Benichlef on Saturday the accreditation and ordered their return trip. The International Judo Federation announced that Nurine’s behavior was “in total contrast to the philosophy” of the association.
Nurine had told an Algerian television station on Thursday evening that he could not run against an Israeli because of his political support for the Palestinians in the Middle East conflict. Nurine had already been disqualified from the World Judo Championship in 2019 for refusing to fight an Israeli athlete.
July 24th: Badminton-Mixed: Narrow defeat against favorites from China
The German badminton mixed Isabel Herttrich and Mark Lamsfuß started the Olympic tournament with a narrow two-set defeat. The duo lost 22:24, 17:21 against the Chinese Huang Dong Ping and Wang Yi Lyu, who were seeded in second place. In the first round, the Germans had given away a set ball. “We were at a very high level. It’s a shame we couldn’t take the chance,” said Lamsfuß after the game. He was a little nervous in the first sentence. Like Isabel Herttrich, Lamsfuß is taking part in the Olympic Games for the first time.
July 24th: German saber fencers disappoint: Hartung and Szabo outside too
The German saber fencers around athlete spokesman Max Hartung missed the individual medal they had hoped for at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Hartung lost in the round of 16 to Iranian Ali Pakdaman in Makuhari Messe Hall B on Saturday at 9:15. His teammate Matyas Szabo lost in the round of 16 with 13:15 against the Russian Kamil Ibragimow. He had already defeated the third German starter, Benedikt Wagner, in the sixteenth finals.
July 24th: Table tennis duo Solja and Franziska in the quarter-finals against Japan
The duo Petrissa Solja and Patrick Franziska gave the German table tennis team a successful start in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. At the Olympic premiere of the mixed team competition, the 27-year-old from Berlin and the 29-year-old from Saarbrücken reached the quarter-finals without any major problems. Against Cubans Daniela Fonseca and Jorge Campos, the duo prevailed 4-0 in the round of 16 in Tokyo on Saturday. It was the first appearance for the German table tennis team at the games. In the quarter-finals, the German team will play against fellow favorites Japan on Sunday for their medal chance.
July 23: Prosthetic long jumper Rehm is not allowed to start at the Olympics
Prosthetic long jumper Markus Rehm is not allowed to take part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This has been decided by the International Sports Court (CAS), as announced by Rehm’s consultancy agency. The 32-year-old three-time Paralympics winner failed with his attempt to start at the summer games for the non-disabled. The German Athletics Association had proposed Rehm to the German Olympic Sports Confederation for nomination for participation in the games in a separate evaluation.
July 23: First corona case in the German Olympic team – cyclist positive
There is a first corona case in the German Olympic team in Tokyo. The cyclist Simon Geschke had tested positive for the virus and will therefore not be able to take part in the road race on Saturday, the German Olympic Sports Confederation announced on the opening day of the Games.
July 23: Beach volleyball players Ludwig / Kozuch have already won a victory
The German beach volleyball players Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch already have a victory in the preliminary round and only have to play two games. The Czech duo Barbora Hermannova / Marketa Slukova cannot participate because of the positive Corona test at Slukova and get all games with a “DNS” for “Did not start” (not started). This was announced by the organizers of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament. The game Ludwig / Kozuch against Hermannova / Slukova would have been the last preliminary round game in Group F on July 28th. If they made it to the round of 16, the German duo would have a long break.
Ludwig showed a lot of compassion. “It’s just sad. We know them very, very well, they are very good training partners. I get goose bumps again when I think about it,” she said. “That you can hold out the whole season so well, that you stick to everything and do everything to ensure that you are at the Olympics, hang on for a year and then have this misfortune. I do not wish anyone that.”
July 23: Shortly before the opening, more than 100 corona cases at the Olympics
Shortly before the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Tokyo, the organizers published 19 more corona cases in connection with the Olympics. This is the highest value since the tests began to be recorded on July 1st. This increased the number of positive tests to a total of 106. As the organizing committee announced in its daily report, those affected include three athletes who do not come from Japan. However, the organizing committee does not mention names or countries of origin.
July 22nd: Ludwig and Hausding lead the German Olympic team as flag bearers at the opening ceremony
Laura Ludwig and Patrick Hausding will lead the German Olympic team as the flag bearers to the Kasumigaoka National Stadium in Tokyo at the opening ceremony on Friday. The beach volleyball Olympic champion and the record European diving champion received the most votes in the election carried out by the German Olympic Sports Confederation.
July 22nd: The opening ceremony creative director fired the day before the ceremony
One day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, their artistic director was fired. Show director Kentaro Kobayashi stumbled upon an old sketch in which he made fun of the Holocaust, as the organizers of the games said. It turned out that Kobayashi had used words “that made fun of a tragic historical fact,” said Olympic chief organizer Seiko Hashimoto. The organizing committee has therefore decided to release him from his post. Previously, other Olympic makers had to take their hats.
July 21: Total loss of the Olympic boat of the German quad kayak
A total loss of their four-kayak on the trip to Tokyo shocked the German K4 crew around veteran Ronald Rauhe shortly before the Olympic Games. The parade boat of the German Canoe Association (DKV) was rammed by a forklift while loading in Luxembourg and badly damaged, according to a statement on Wednesday. The forks hit the K4 so badly and destroyed it, “that it was a total write-off.” A replacement boat for Max Rendschmidt, Rauhe, Tom Liebscher and Max Lemke is scheduled to go to Japan this Thursday.
“The trainer and we were pretty relaxed at first. The special thing is that this boat with this type of construction only exists twice in the whole world,” explained Liebscher. “One is now destroyed, the other we have currently used during the preparations in Duisburg. This boat must now go to Tokyo as quickly as possible,” said Liebscher.
July 21: IOC awards the 2032 Olympics to Brisbane
Brisbane will host the Olympic Games 2032. The metropolis in the Australian state of Queensland was awarded the contract for the Summer Games in eleven years from the 138th session of the International Olympic Committee in Tokyo. Brisbane had been declared a “preferred applicant” by the IOC in a new award process and was therefore the only candidate for the XXXV games. Olympics to choose from. For Australia it will be the third summer games after 1956 in Melbourne and 2000 in Sydney.
July 21: Five other athletes tested positive for Corona – including top shooter Amber Hill
Five other athletes tested positive for the corona virus before the Tokyo Olympics began. These are the Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs (31), the Chilean taekwondo fighter Fernanda Aguirre (23), the Czech table tennis professional Pavel Sirucek (28), the British shooter Amber Hill (23) and a beach volleyball player from USA. None of them can take part in the competitions. The hardest hit is the Olympic favorite and world number one Hill. “There are no words that can describe how I feel now,” she said. She was “absolutely destroyed” after the news of the positive test. All affected athletes should not show any symptoms.
July 21: Bear alarm to kick off the games
A furry fan almost succeeded in circumventing the ban on spectators at the Olympic Games in Japan, which was imposed due to the corona crisis. Shortly before the start of the first competition on Wednesday in Fukushima, a collar bear caused a stir inside the Fukushima stadium: As a police spokesman for the AFP news agency confirmed, the intruder could not be found until the start of the first competition. According to the paper, they even played music over the loudspeakers to scare the animal off and ignited firecrackers – but in vain. The bear was nowhere to be found. Regardless of the unwanted guest, the softball game went on without incident. It ended with an 8-1 win for the Japanese hosts.
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