Monday, July 26th 2021
Judo disaster, beach pressure
That was the Olympic night on Monday
The Germans only play secondary roles in the first decisions on Olympic day. While the judoka experience one disaster after the other, fencing veteran Peter Joppich celebrates a great success. The beach volleyball duo Karla Borger / Julia Sude is already under a lot of pressure.
Hockey: The German men suffered their first defeat in the second group game. In the duel with world champion Belgium, the team of national coach Kais al Saadi lost 1: 3 (0: 2), but still has a very good chance of making it to the quarter-finals. Martin Häner scored the only German goal in the final section. At the beginning, the DHB selection had won a mandatory victory 7-1 against Canada.
Tennis: Five years after Angelique Kerber won the silver medal, no German player has made it into the round of 16. Successor Anna-Lena Friedsam was the last German participant to drop out with a 1: 6, 1: 6 against the Russian French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The 27-year-old from Andernach was the only one from the German women’s trio to make it into the second round. Alexander Zverev, on the other hand, is next – and loosely. He wins against the Colombian Daniel Elahi Galan 6: 2, 6: 2. The best German is now in the round of 16.
Handball: The German men have landed their first win in the preliminary round. The DHB selection won against Argentina with 33:25 (14:13) and now has 2: 2 points in group A. The best throwers for the team of national coach Alfred Gislason were right wingers Timo Kastening and Marcel Schiller with seven goals each. The next German opponent is France on Wednesday. The record world champion came with a 34:29 against Brazil to the second success in the second tournament game.
Fencing: Peter Joppich caused a surprise in the foil and reached the round of 16. The veteran in the team of the German Fencing Association defeated the third-placed American Alexander Massialas in the round of 32 with 15:12. Benjamin Kleibrink, on the other hand, was eliminated in his first battle. The 2008 Olympic champion was defeated by the Egyptian Alaaeldin Abouelkassem in the sixteenth finals with 11:15. The third German starter, André Sanita, faces the Italian ex-world champion Alessio Foconi.
Swim: The Australian Ariarne Titmus surprisingly beat the high favorite Katie Ledecky and swam in the 400 meter freestyle to Olympic gold. The 20-year-old prevailed in 3: 56.69 minutes and was 0.67 seconds ahead of Ledecky. The 24-year-old missed her sixth Olympic victory. At her final premiere, Isabel Gose came in a respectable sixth place. Over 100 meters chest, Anna Elendt and Marek Ulrich were eliminated in their semi-finals.
Beach volleyball: Karla Borger and Julia Sude also lost their second match at the Olympic Games and are under great pressure before the final group game. Against the world champions Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes from Canada, the team from Stuttgart lost 0-2 (17:21, 14:21). At the start against the European champions Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré from Switzerland there was a 1: 2. In order to avoid the end of the Olympic tournament, Borger / Sude have to win their last game in the difficult Group A against the Dutch women Katja Stam and Raisa Schoo on Thursday (8 a.m. CEST).
Judo: Theresa Stoll surprisingly failed in her first fight. The 25-year-old from Munich lost to Georgian Eteri Liparteliani in the round of 16 and thus missed the possible chance for the first medal for the German Judo Association. In the men’s category, Igor Wandtke was eliminated in the weight class up to 73 kilograms in his first fight. This means that no judoka from Team Germany has made it past the first round.
Triathlon: Kristian Blummenfelt broke British dominance at the summer games and is Olympic triathlon champion. The Norwegian won at Odaiba Marine Park by eleven seconds over Briton Alex Yee, whose compatriot Alistair Brownlee had triumphed in London and Rio. The New Zealander Hayden Wilde secured bronze. The German starters Jonas Schomburg and Justus Nieschlag came in 38th and 40th.
Badminton: The three-time German champion Yvonne Li was eliminated in the individual competition. The 23-year-old lost in the second group game to the Russian Evgenija Kossezkaja after 39 minutes with 20:22, 15:21. Li had already lost to Japanese gold contender Nozomi Okuhara in the first group game.
Corona: Three other athletes have tested positive for the corona virus, the organizers announced. There were a total of 16 other new infections in the area of the summer games. This means that the number of positive tests at the games has risen to 148 since recording began on July 1st. The organizers did not disclose which athletes are affected.
Weather: Typhoon “Nepartak” is heading for Japan, but the impact on the Olympic Games may be less than feared by some participants. You don’t have to be too worried, said an organizing committee spokesman. According to US standards, it is not even a typhoon, just a tropical storm. According to the Japanese meteorological authority, “Nepartak” is likely to hit land in northeastern Japan on Tuesday and soon afterwards weaken to a low pressure zone on the Sea of Japan. A warning was given of heavy rain, winds and high waves.
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