This time non-motorized vehicles compete on the Fuji International Speedway, a twelve-year-old loses in table tennis against a competitor 27 years older. The pictures of the Olympic day.
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Olympia is always a big photo album – in addition to the best athletes, the best sports photographers in the world also meet in Tokyo. Here a shot from the sword fight between the Russian Yulia Lichagina (left) against the Italian Mara Navarria.
The players’ first gold medalist – Chinese Yang Qian forms a heart after her victory with the air rifle.
For the first time surfing is Olympic – here the Chilean Manuel Selman during a training round.
Petrissa Solja and Patrick Franziska easily win their opening match in table tennis doubles 4-0.
The road bike race took place partly on the Fuji International Speedway – a race track for motorized vehicles.
The Dominator has arrived: The Serbian Novak Djokovic has already won three Grand Slam victories this year – now his next obstacle on the way to Olympic gold is the German Jan-Lennard Struff.
Judo in the motherland of judo – Lukhumi Chkhvimiani from Georgia against the Japanese Naohisa Takato.
Flagship: The Germany eight wins his preliminary run ahead of the USA and moves into the final.
Volleyball is also starting – Brazil have no problems at the start with Tunisia.
Her Olympic adventure lasted 24 minutes – and yet Hend Zaza wrote history: As young as the table tennis player from Syria, no athlete or athlete competed in the summer or winter games for a long time. In the first round she lost 4-0 to Liu Jia from Austria, who was 27 years her senior.
The youngest participant since the beginning of the modern games is said to have been the Greek Dimitrios Loundras, who was part of the hosts’ team at the first edition in Athens in 1896 at the tender age of ten.
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