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in Asia PacificPerseverance and a father’s steering: Akari Fujinami’s journey to gold
Akari Fujinami, the 20-year-old wrestling juggernaut who clinched the gold medal within the girls’s 53-kg freestyle occasion Thursday, owes a lot of her success to the relentless coaching she underwent along with her father, Toshikazu. Fujinami, who entered the Games with a 130-0 file, achieved her long-awaited victory within the Olympics on the Paris Games […] More
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in Asia PacificFrom the Bronx to Paris: Breaking set for its Olympic close-up
Breaking, a dance model created by Black and Puerto Rican teenagers at events in New York within the Nineteen Seventies, and a foundational piece of hip-hop tradition, is about to have its Olympic second. B-boys and B-girls from throughout the globe will compete in dance battles that characteristic intricate steps, acrobatic strikes and loads of […] More
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in Asia PacificTears and damaged hearts: Japan’s feminine volleyball followers react to powerful Olympic loss
Japan’s legions of feminine volleyball followers have been left in tears after Japan misplaced to Italy within the males’s volleyball quarterfinals on the Paris Olympics on Monday. Fans who didn’t make it to Paris have been glued to their tv at round 8 p.m. in Japan. Some opted for a communal viewing expertise, just like […] More
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in Asia PacificAustralia’s Trew, 14, wins skateboard park gold forward of Japan’s Hiraki
Paris – Australian teenage skateboarding sensation Arisa Trew gained the ladies’s park occasion on the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to develop into her nation’s youngest-ever gold medallist. Trew, 14, nailed a high-risk and high-speed last spherical in her trademark pink helmet to leap to the highest of the rankings, bringing the gang to their ft […] More
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in Asia PacificJapan’s Shinnosuke Oka wins third gold at Olympics on horizontal bar
Paris – Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka gained his third gold medal of the Paris Games on Monday with a robust and exact routine on horizontal bar in a last riddled with errors. Colombian teenager Angel Barajas took silver and Taiwan’s Tang Chia-hung and China’s Zhang Boheng shared bronze regardless of botched performances. Oka, brimming with confidence […] More
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in Asia PacificHow a grassroots push helped Japan’s fencers turn into world-beaters
Japan bagged 5 fencing medals in Paris to place it atop the medal desk within the sport, the primary time a non-European nation has performed so. More
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in Asia PacificMatsuyama avenges Tokyo heartbreak with bronze in Paris
Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama received the bronze on Sunday within the Paris Olympics, avenging a slim miss three years in the past in Tokyo and securing the nation’s first medal in males’s golf. “I aimed for the gold, however I’m extraordinarily completely happy to have received this one after struggling on the Tokyo Olympics and […] More
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in Asia PacificAmerican Scheffler basks in nationwide satisfaction after Olympic golf triumph
Paris – Scottie Scheffler mentioned he felt “proud to be an American” after a dramatic triumph within the last spherical of the boys’s golf occasion to win Olympic gold on Sunday. Great Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood took silver whereas former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama earned bronze for Japan. The world No. 1 was 4 photographs off […] More
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in Asia PacificJapan wins historic gold in males’s foil workforce occasion in Paris
Paris – Japan gained the Olympic males’s foil workforce title for the primary time, beating Italy in an exhilarating bout on the Paris Games on Sunday. Takahiro Shikine opened the scoring in opposition to Italy’s Tommaso Marini, and Kazuki Iimura, who completed fourth within the particular person occasion on Monday, delivered the ultimate touches in […] More
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in Asia PacificGymnastics and skateboarding spotlight a stable first half of the Paris Olympics for Japan
Paris – The Japanese Olympic Committee set a aim of successful 20 gold medals on the Paris Olympics. Gracenote, a sports activities knowledge agency that publishes medal desk predictions earlier than every Games, predicted Japan would win 13 golds and end sixth on the medal desk. After eight days of medals being awarded within the […] More
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in Asia PacificGeorgian Bekauri retains judo title over Japan’s Murao
PARIS – Georgia’s Lasha Bekauri retained the lads’s under-90 kg judo title he received in Tokyo three years in the past, whereas Croatia’s Barbara Matic received her nation’s first gold medal of the Paris Games on Wednesday within the under-70 kg class. Bekauri, now a double Olympic champion on the age of 24, beat Japan’s […] More
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in Asia PacificHow Japan’s gymnasts picked one another up and toppled China
Paris – Daiki Hashimoto was the one on the horizontal bar. He was the particular person spinning round and round performing intricate actions and twisting by means of the air when he let go of the bar earlier than catching it once more to renew along with his routine. He was one of many solely […] More
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