World record may be broken in shot put on Day 12 of Olympics

TOKYO (AP) — The primary motion for Day 12 of the Tokyo Video games is at Olympic Stadium with reside monitor & area occasions anchoring Wednesday protection.

The boys’s 200-meters might be determined in morning motion streamed on Peacock.

A world document could possibly be set in primetime when defending Olympic champion Ryan Crouser tries to interrupt the shot put mark. Nevin Harrison is the one athlete representing the USA in canoe dash and the gold medal favourite within the ladies’s canoe 200, and April Ross and Alix Klineman will play for a spot within the ladies’s seashore volleyball gold medal match.

Listed here are some issues to observe (all instances Jap):

TRACK & FIELD

It is going to be a world document watch at Olympic Stadium in Wednesday night time monitor and area competitors.

Ryan Crouser will try to interrupt his personal world document and win a second consecutive gold medal within the shot put.

To understand Crouser’s document, strive throwing a 16-pound bowling ball from one free throw line all the way in which to the alternative finish of a basketball courtroom. That’s primarily what he did on the U.S. Olympic trials in June, when he broke a 31-year-old document with a throw of 23.37 meters (76 ft, 8¼ inches).

U.S. teammate Joe Kovacs gained silver on the Rio Video games, however on the 2019 world championship in Doha the duo flipped the ending order with Kovacs beating Crouser, who wound up second.

Within the 110-meter hurdles, world champion Grant Holloway would be the one to catch. He turned within the second-fastest time within the historical past of the occasion within the Olympic trials, operating 12.81 seconds — simply 0.01 seconds behind the time Aries Merritt set in 2012.

And within the 200-meter closing, Erriyon Knighton could possibly be within the combine for a medal. The 17-year-old from Florida is the youngest male monitor Olympian to symbolize the U.S. since Jim Ryun in 1964, and at trials Knighton broke the under-20 world document held by none aside from Usain Bolt.

Throughout his first-round run in Tokyo, Knighton was caught mid-yawn earlier than his warmth within the first spherical. His largest rival might be teammate Noah Lyles, who’s the reigning world champion.

Observe and area occasions anchor NBC’s primetime protection that begins at 8 p.m., however the males’s 200 meters will initially be streamed reside on Peacock in protection from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.

CANOE SPRINT

Nevin Harrison is the one athlete representing the USA in canoe sprint and the gold medal favorite within the ladies’s canoe 200.

Harrison gained the 2019 world championship at simply 17 years previous, and he or she gained a world cup sequence title in Could. She took up the game on the urging of a summer time camp counselor when she was 12 years previous.

She additionally has an opportunity to be the primary Olympic champion within the occasion. The canoe 200 was added this 12 months as a part of the Olympics’ efforts at gender fairness. It has been a part of the canoe world championships for a number of years. The finals might be reside on CNBC starting at 8 p.m.; qualifying might be on NBC in protection that begins at midday.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

April Ross and Alix Klineman will play for a spot within the ladies’s seashore volleyball gold medal match in opposition to Switzerland.

The People knocked out Germany and defending Olympic champion Laura Ludwig within the quarterfinals, leaving Ross as the only woman remaining in the beach volleyball tournament with an Olympic medal on her resume.

Ross gained silver in London in 2012 and bronze in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The semifinals might be aired reside on NBC throughout primetime protection that begins at 8 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF

The Golf Channel has two alternatives to observe the highest ladies on the earth play.

The second spherical might be proven reside and options the highest 14 gamers on the earth, led by top-ranked Nelly Korda. The 23-year-old Floridian is the daughter of tennis participant Petr Korda, who gained the 1998 Australian Open.

Of the 60 gamers, 29 have returned from the Rio Video games, the primary time golf was performed within the Olympics in additional than a century. All three medalists from Rio are again, together with winner Inbee Park of South Korea.

The People and South Koreans are the one nations which have the utmost 4 gamers. It has been a powerful 12 months for the American golfers with six LPGA wins — essentially the most of any nation on a tour that has been dominated by the South Koreans for the previous decade.

The tough has been trimmed considerably since American golfer Xander Schauffele gained the boys’s event at 18-under par. The boys required a seven-way playoff to find out the bronze medalist and a playoff of some selection for the ladies wouldn’t be a shock.

A replay of the primary spherical will start at 9:30 a.m., and the second spherical might be reside starting at 6:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The U.S. ladies’s basketball workforce will f ace Australia in the next step toward a seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal.

Australia beat the U.S. in an exhibition final month in Las Vegas and can problem a U.S. workforce that hasn’t been fairly as sturdy within the Tokyo Video games as previous years. The U.S. and Australia are ranked No. 1 and a couple of on the earth, however Australia has by no means overwhelmed the U.S. within the Olympics.

The Opals misplaced to the People within the gold medal sport in 2000, ’04 and ’08. The Australians additionally misplaced within the semifinals of the 1996 and 2012 Olympics to the U.S. as effectively.

The People have gained 52 consecutive Olympic contests going again to the bronze medal sport of the 1992 Olympics. Protection of the quarterfinals might be on USA Community from 2 a.m. by way of 10 a.m.

SPORT CLIMBING

The Olympic debut of sport climbing continues with women’s qualifying, which incorporates a component of shock in that the climbers gained’t get an opportunity to see the wall in two of the three disciplines till proper earlier than their first try.

Climbing on the Olympics can have three disciplines: lead, boulder and velocity.

Lead is just about what leisure climbers face at climbing gyms, solely on a a lot greater wall (15 meters) and much tougher. There’s a six-minute restrict, whoever climbs highest wins.

Bouldering is a set of 4 “issues” on 4.5-meter partitions the place turning the other way up is typically the answer to reaching the highest. Climbers have 5 minutes — 4 within the closing — to unravel every boulder in as many makes an attempt as they need.

Velocity is a race to the highest of a 15-meter wall on a standardized route. The climbing might be a part of all-day protection on USA Community that additionally contains finals in boxing, biking, weightlifting and wrestling.

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