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3X3 basketball players lose opening game of Serbia

sport">9.17 am: The Dutch 3X3 basketball players started their Olympic tournament with a defeat against Serbia. The team, consisting of Arvin Slagter, Jessey Voorn, Dimeo van der Horst and Ross Bekkering, lost 16-15 to the reigning European champion and number 4 in the world.

sport">The Netherlands will play a match later Saturday in which the Russian basketball players are the opponent. Serbia already beat China 22-13 on Saturday.

Tornike Chakadua sentenced to resits

sport">6.27 am: Tornike Tsjakadoea was sentenced to the resits in the class up to 60 kilograms at the Olympic Games. The 24-year-old Tsjakadoea had to acknowledge his superiority in the quarterfinals in Yang Yung-Wei from Taiwan. With about a minute left on the clock, Yang scored an ippon.

sport">Earlier in the day, Chakadua had caused a stunt by beating first-seeded Russian Robert Msjvidobadze. Msjvidobadze, the number 3 in the world, is a two-time European champion; in 2017 and 2020 he captured the European title. He finished second at the 2018 World Cup.

sport">In his first match, Chakadua still had to go deep to defeat Amartuvshin Dashdavaa from Mongolia. After more than two and a half minutes in extra time, Tsjakadoea scored with a waza-ari.

sport">In the rematch, Chakadoe will compete against Artem Lesjoek from Ukraine. If he wins that match, he will compete with one of the losers of the semi-finals for a bronze medal. Lesjoek is 25th in the world ranking, Tsjakadoea is the global number 13.

sport">The resits start at 10:00 AM Dutch time.

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Beach volleyball players Katja Stam and Raïsa Schoon lose

sport">05:50 am: Beach volleyball players Katja Stam and Raïsa Schoon started the Olympic tournament with a defeat. The Dutch duo lost in two sets to the Canadian couple Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes: 16-21 14-21. That was no shame, because the opponents are the reigning world champions and placed first. in Tokyo.

sport">Stam and Schoon will make their debut at the Games and will be placed in group A at the tournament in Shiokaze Park. They will play against the Swiss champions Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré on Monday, July 26, and against the German couple Karla Borger and Julia Sude on Thursday, July 29. Germany. The first two go straight to the eighth finals.

sport">In the scorching hot sand of the beach stadium, Pavan and Humana-Paredes were just a bit too strong for the Dutch duo. Stam and Schoon started the game well and even took the initiative in the first set, but the opponents from Canada gradually got more control over the game and played out the rallies better.

Badminton players Peak and Tables lose on Games

sport">5:09 a.m.: Badminton players Selena Piek and Robintabeling have lost their first appearance at the Tokyo Olympics. They lost in three games to South Korea’s Seo Seung-jae and Chae Yu-jung: 16-21 21-15 10-21.

sport">It will now be a difficult task for Piek andtabeling to reach the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at the Games. A game awaits on Sunday against the Chinese world champions Siwei Zheng and Yaqiong Huang. Piek and Tafeling close the group stage against the Egyptian couple Hatem Adham Elgamal and Doha Hany.

sport">Only the best two couples in the group qualify for the quarterfinals.

China wins first gold medal in Tokyo

sport">4:58 AM: China’s Qian Yang has won the first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. She won the 10-meter air rifle shooting.

sport">The 21-year-old Yang triumphed in the final with a score of 251.8. Russia’s Anastasia Galashina came in second. The bronze went to Switzerland’s Nina Christen.

Relieved athlete Foppen can finally go to Tokyo

sport">2:34 AM: Athlete Mike Foppen flies to Tokyo for the Olympic Games on Saturday after an eventful week. That is a few days later than planned, because some positive corona tests in the Netherlands turned his travel schedule upside down. The Nijmegenaar runs the 5000 meters in Tokyo. The series of his part are on Tuesday 3 August.

sport">“The past few days have been crazy,” Foppen writes on Instagram. “I was supposed to fly to Tokyo last Tuesday, but that morning I heard that my PCR test from Monday was positive. I couldn’t fly then. Then I tested negative on Tuesday, but again positive on Wednesday. Fortunately, Thursday and Friday were negative again, so whatever happens now: I’m flying to Tokyo.”

sport">Foppen, the Dutch record holder at 3000 and 5000 meters, got corona in March after the European Championships and was very sick of it. It took him a while to recover. He has been vaccinated, but remnants of the old infection can remain in the body for a long time and cause positive results weeks later. Once in Japan, there are still exciting days ahead for Foppen, because he has to test negative for eight consecutive days in Tokyo.

sport">It is quite restless within the Dutch Olympic sports team that camps in Japan, because four corona infections have already been detected. Three athletes and a staff member tested positive. Skateboard star Candy Jacobs, taekwondoka Reshmie Oogink and rower Finn Florijn have been forced to quarantine and can no longer participate.

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