July 25 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

Jon Rahm tees off at the 149th Open at Royal St George’s Golf Club on July 16, in Sandwich, England.

Spanish golfer Jon Rahm, the world No. 1 one of the favorites for Olympic gold, has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time, this time ending his chances to participate at Tokyo 2020.

Rahm tested positive on his third Covid-19 test prior to departing for Tokyo, according to the Spanish Golf Federation.

Rahm was required to undergo three tests in compliance with guidelines for those who have recently been in the United Kingdom.

In June this year, Rahm was withdrawn from the Memorial Tournament after testing positive for Covid-19, the PGA Tour announced.

The 26-year-old later won the US Open at Torrey Pines in June, his first major victory, after recovering from the virus. 

Rahm will not be replaced for the Games, the federation added, given the lack of time.

Adri Arnau will be the only member representing Men’s Spanish Golf.

Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer celebrates winning the women’s road race on July 25.

Austrian cyclist Anna Kiesenhofer put in the ride of a lifetime to stun a field of big names and take the gold medal in the women’s road race.

The 30-year-old broke away from the other two riders in the leading group more than 40 kilometers from the end, seemingly far too early to hold onto the lead she had established, but Kiesenhofer held firm to win Austria’s first cycling gold medal since 1896!

It’s not only on the road where Kiesenhofer excels, having also studied for a master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, England and a PhD in applied mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.

Remarkably, Kiesenhofer, who only took up the sport in 2014, doesn’t currently have a professional contract – that seems likely to change very soon.

According to the Olympics website, Kiesenhofer said her ambition was “to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.”

It’s fair to say she’s done a bit more than that.

Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten, who was one of the heavy favorites to win, took silver and Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini took bronze for the second Olympics in a row.

Kelvin Hoefler of Brazil competes in the street skateboarding finals on July 25.

Earlier on Sunday, Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever Olympic gold medal in skateboarding after the men’s street final, with Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler claiming silver and American Jagger Eaton taking bronze.

Below is list of tricks that the trio performed in the final.

And hat tip to the final’s skateboard commentators: half cab crooked grind, nollie 5-0 grind, nollie 180 feeble grind, tailslide to fakie, switch tailslide, kickflip backside tailslide, cab lipslide is quite a tongue twister.

Yuto Horigome

TRICK

1) nollie Cabellerial boardslide

2) nollie Cabellerial frontside lipslide

3) nollie 270 noseslide

4) nollie 180 switch backside 5-0 grind revert

Kelvin Hoefler

RUN 1 & 2 - half cab crooked grind, nollie 5-0 grind, nollie 180 feeble grind, tailslide to fakie, switch tailslide, kickflip backside tailslide, cab lipslide

TRICK

1) half cab crooked grind revert

2) Cabellerial backside noseblunt

Jagger Eaton

RUN 1& 2 - backside lipslide, backside tailslide, kickflip, halfcab blunt to regular, switch frontside crooked grind, switch backside lipslide

TRICK

1) switch backside 180 to 5-0

2) backside flip fakie nosegrind

Simone Biles of Team United States competes in the floor exercise during qualification on July 25.

Day two of the Tokyo Olympics and the action and headlines are coming thick and fast. 

A total of 18 gold medals will be won on Sunday – you can see the full schedule here.

Japanese world champion Yuto Horigome has been crowned the first Olympic skateboarding gold medallist – and it felt sad that no Japanese fans were there to witness it.

There has also been drama in the pool. Chase Kalisz wins the first US swimming gold in the men’s 400m medley, while Tunisia’s Kalisz Hafnaoui pulls off a major upset by winning the 400m freestyle.

Meanwhile, Japan’s Yui Ohashi won gold in the women’s 400m individual medley and Australia smashed the world record in women’s freestyle relay.

There has been a fascinating story emerging in taekwondo, where Iranian refugee Kimia Alizadeh is through to the quarter-finals in the women’s -57kg category after defeating Team GB’s two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones.

Some big names are crashing out of the tennis, including Andy Murray, who was forced to withdrew from the men’s singles with a thigh strain, but is set to remain in the doubles, while world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty has been knocked out of the women’s singles.

Simone Biles, widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time, starts her Olympic campaign Sunday in gymnastics qualifying.

Just before Tokyo 2020 got underway, the five-time Olympic artistic gymnastics medallist, became the first Olympic athlete to have a personalised Twitter icon – the hashtags #SimoneBiles or #Simone generates a goat in a leotard performing a split leap with a gold medal around its neck shows up.

Away from the action, 10 new games-related cases of Covid-19 have been reported, including an unnamed US athlete.

The Dutch rowing team appears to have an outbreak after a coach tested positive following a rower on Friday.

Meanwhile US golf star Bryson DeChambeau tested positive before leaving the United States and is out.

The IOC has said masks on the Olympic podium are a “must-have.”

And keep an eye on the weather at the Olympics.

The sweltering conditions continue to impact events, with tennis players given extra recovery time between games and sets due to the extreme heat. 

Tropical Storm Nepartak is also approaching Tokyo, meaning rowing events have already been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday and Thursday.

Nyjah Huston of Team USA reacts at the skateboarding street finals on July 25.

Skateboarder Nyjah Huston had been the pre-event favorite to win the men’s street final, but as the American reflected on seventh place he said he’s “never felt so much pressure.”

Huston added that he was looking forward to getting back “real skateboarding life” and not feeling so much pressure all the time.

From left, silver medalist Ana Maria Popescu of Romenia, gold medalist Sun Yiwen of China and bronze medalist Katrina Lehis of Estoniac celebrate on the podium of the individual Epee final competition on July 24.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said masks on the Olympic podium are “not a nice to have, it’s a must have,” according to Reuters.

In an interview off-camera responding to a reporter asking whether mask rules had been relaxed, Adams said, “There is no relaxation, and we would urge and ask everyone to obey the rules, whatever stakeholder you are, us, the IOC, media, athletes, everyone. It’s not a nice to have, it’s a must have.”

Adams urged everyone to follow the rules of the playbook, adding, “It is really in our own interest and the interest of everyone and in the interest of a safe and secure Games that we do obey these rules.”

The Tokyo 2020 Playbook says masks should be worn at all times except when eating, drinking, training, competing, or sleeping.

Japan's Yuto Horigome reacts as he competes in the street final on July 25.

Yuto Horigome of Japan has won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in skateboarding after the men’s street final on Sunday. 

Horigome finished with a score of 37.18.

Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler won silver with a score of 36.15, and American Jagger Eaton won bronze with a score of 35.35. Pre-event favorite Nyjah Huston of the United States failed to medal in the event, finishing in seventh with a score of 26.10.

Horigome’s win is Japan’s third gold medal so far during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, bringing the host country’s total medal count to four. 

Britain's Jade Jones, right, and Refugee Olympic Team's Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin compete in the taekwondo -57kg elimination round bout on July 25.

Kimia Alizadeh, an Iranian taekwondo athlete competing for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team has defeated two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones in the round-of-16.

Alizadeh became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal competing for Iran after claiming bronze in taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics. 

In 2020, she announced that she permanently left her birth country for Europe amid searing criticism of the regime in Tehran.  

Alizadeh will face Lijun Zhou in the quarterfinals. 

“I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years,” the athlete wrote in an Instagram post in 2020 explaining why she was defecting. 

Alizadeh was granted refugee status in Germany and now lives in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, according to Reuters.   

According to the IOC website, 29 athletes will compete for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team in the Games. 

Read more about her here.

Bryson DeChambeau watches his drive during a practice round for The British Open Golf Championship at Royal St George's, Sandwich, England on July 14.

US golfer Bryson DeChambeau will not compete in the Olympic Games after testing positive for Covid-19 prior to departing for Tokyo, according to USA Golf.

“Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for Covid-19, as part of the final testing protocol before he left the United States for the Olympics 2020 in Japan. He will be unable to compete for Team USA,” USA Golf said in a press release. 

Two-time Olympian Patrick Reed will replace DeChambeau. His first round of competition is set for Thursday, July 29.

DeChambeau has won eight times on the PGA Tour including one major championship, the 2020 US Open.

Australia's Cate Campbell and teammates celebrate after setting a world record and winning the final of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay swimming event on July 25.

Australia has won the women’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay gold in world-record fashion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 

Australia’s winning time of 3:29.69 beat the previous world record of 3:30.05, which was also set by Australia in 2018.

This was Australia’s first gold medal of these Olympics and their third total medal.

Canada won silver with a time of 3:32.78, giving Canada its first medal in Tokyo. The United States took bronze with a time of 3:32.81, giving the US its sixth total medal of the Games.

Ashleigh Barty of Team Australia plays a forehand during her Women's Singles First Round match on July 25.

Australian tennis star Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Olympic women’s singles tournament in Tokyo in the first round by Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo. 

Barty was the tournament’s top seed and the number one ranked woman in the world coming off a championship at Wimbledon.

Sorribes Tormo defeated Barty in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.

Meanwhile, British tennis player Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s singles tennis tournament due to a quad strain, Team GB announced. He will continue to compete in the men’s doubles tournament.

 Murray won men’s singles gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

A US Olympic athlete has tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo, according to the US Olympic Committee.

It did not reveal the identity of the athlete.

“Of the 1,038 US Olympic delegates in Japan on July 24, one Covid test was confirmed positive based on daily results,” the committee said in a tweet on Saturday night.

The committee announced on Friday that it would report daily positive cases from US Olympic athletes in Tokyo.

“Additionally, of the nearly 60% of the US Olympic delegation who was expected to travel to Japan from July 1-23, six US athletes and officials tested positive for Covid-19 as part of the rigorous pre-departure testing process and were not permitted to travel,” the committee said Friday. 

“The remaining 40% of the US delegation for the Olympic Games will arrive in Tokyo periodically over the coming weeks as pre-departure testing and monitoring continues,” it added.

Ten new Covid-19 cases were reported on the second day of the Tokyo Olympic Games, bringing the total number of Games-related cases to 137, according to Tokyo 2020 organizers Sunday.

Two of the new cases were reported from Tokyo’s Olympic Village, one of which was identified as an athlete, organizers said. Another athlete also tested positive but was not a resident of the Olympic Village.

At least 15 cases have been reported out of the Olympic Village and 15 total athletes – including residents and non-residents of Olympic Village – have tested positive for the virus, according to organizers.

The remaining cases are identified as contractors, media, or Games-concerned personnel.

Tokyo 2020 is not revealing the names nor nationalities of the Covid-19 cases. 

The Tokyo 2020 emblem is seen during the Opening Ceremony on July 23.

Tokyo 2020 is truly shaping up to be an Olympics like we’ve never seen before, notably the spectator ban which the International Olympic Committee says is the first time ever that a host city will not actually have spectators watching the event.

Nearly eight out of 10 (78%) people in Japan also say the Olympics should not go ahead as scheduled, according to a recent Ipsos Mori survey.

Despite the Games being delayed and that degree of public opposition, here’s a timeline with some key moments marking how Tokyo 2020 finally came to be staged:

Jagger Eaton of the US competes in the men's street prelims heat 1 on July 25.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicked off Friday with the Opening Ceremony — almost a year to the day from their intended start date in July 2020.

In March 2020, the International Olympic Committee agreed to postpone the Games until 2021 due to concerns over Covid-19. The event was originally set to begin on July 24, 2020, and end on August 9, 2020.

With the postponement, officials decided that the Games — which would take place in 2021 — would still be called the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The decision to push back the event was the first of its kind in Olympics history. The Games have never been postponed, although they have been canceled on three occasions due to world wars in 1916, 1940 and 1944.

There will be 18 medal events today at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After the Opening Ceremony on Friday, 11 sets of medals were handed out on Saturday.

Here’s a look at the 18 medal events to watch on Sunday:

Chase Kalisz of Team United States celebrates after winning the Men's 400m individual medley on July 25.

It’s Sunday, July 25 – the second official day of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Here’s what you need to know.

New Covid-19 cases announced: Ten new Covid-19 cases were reported on day two, bringing the total number of Games-related cases to 137, according to Tokyo 2020 organizers Sunday. Two of the new cases were reported from Tokyo’s Olympic Village, one of which was identified as an athlete, organizers said. Another athlete also tested positive but was not a resident of the Olympic Village.

The US Olympic Committee said a US Olympic athlete tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo. The committee did not reveal the identity of the athlete.

Athletes struggle with ‘brutal’ weather: Tennis world No. 1 Novak Djokovic described the humidity as “brutal” after beating Bolivian Hugo Dellien in the men’s singles first round, while Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev resorted to using a mobile air conditioner to keep himself cool. CNN’s weather team said temperatures on Saturday climbed to near 34°C (93°F) across the greater Tokyo region, with “oppressive” humidity levels above 80%.

What’s on the schedule: Sunday opened with Team USA winning their first medals of the Games in the men’s and women’s 400-meter individual medley events. The United States surpassed China for the overall lead.

Sunday also sees some sporting greats make their debut, including Olympic flame lighter and Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka and US gymnastics star Simone Biles. And skateboarding makes its Olympic debut, with the men’s street competition. It is one of a handful of new sports in Tokyo, and US star Nyjah Huston is expected to shine having won four world titles and more than a dozen X Games golds.

The full Olympics schedule can be found here.