Gold in surfing, fourth shooting medal

Day four at the Tokyo Olympics will be headlined by one of the most anticipated events of 2021 — the women’s gymnastics team final.

However, an upset win for Alaskan teen Lydia Jacoby in the women's 100-meter breaststroke provided an early highlight in Tuesday's action. Jacoby edged U.S. teammate Lilly King, the defending champion in the event from the 2016 Games in Rio. King ended up getting bronze, one of three on the day for American swimmers.

Another upset occurred at the Ariake Tennis Park Centre Court as No. 2 seed and Olympic cauldron lighter Naomi Osaka lost in straight sets to Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-4. Osaka had dominated in the first two round of the Games, but racked up 32 unforced errors in her loss on Tuesday.

After a not-so impressive qualifying round, the Simone Biles-led U.S. women’s gymnastics team will look to reclaim its status as heavy favorites and win a third consecutive team gold medal early Tuesday in the U.S. (6:45 a.m. ET).

Team USA can also secure another gold medal in softball after a walk-off win against Japan on Monday — the same team they will face in the gold medal game at 7 a.m. ET. U.S. softball will also look to avenge a gold-medal loss in the 2008 Olympics to Japan, the last time the sport was part of the Summer Games.

Meanwhile, the outdoor events could all face weather implications as tropical storm Nepartak is expected to hit Japan on Tuesday.

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DAY 3 RECAP: US sweeps gold in skeet shooting; gymnastics gold for Russian men

Tokyo reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, four days after the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics.

The 2,848 new cases announced by government officials Tuesday eclipsed the previous record of 2,520 cases, reported on Jan. 7. Tokyo is under a state of emergency for the remainder of the Games.

Olympic organizers, meanwhile, announced seven new cases among their stakeholders Tuesday -- including four residents of the Olympic Village and two athletes. None of the positive cases included Americans, according to a separate announcement by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

-- Tom Schad

CHIBA, Japan – American Carissa Moore, the top-ranked women’s surfer in the world, found a new way to validate her spot at the apex of the sport.

She won an Olympic gold medal – the first for women's surfing.

With the sport making its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games, Moore defeated Bianca Buitendag of South Africa on Tuesday in the gold medal match at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach.

-- Josh Peter

TOKYO — For the first time in a long time, the U.S. women’s basketball team came to the Olympics dogged by some doubts.

Not about whether it would fall short of a gold medal, which is still in the realm of believe-it-when-you-see-it. But the stress level it might take to get there is an open discussion for Team USA, which has six first-time Olympians, relies heavily on a 40-year-old and a 39-year-old and didn’t exactly look primed for a historically dominant run during its training camp in Las Vegas.

Based on Tuesday’s 81-72 win over Nigeria in its Olympic opener, those questions are still valid.

-- Dan Wolken

TOKYO — The U.S. shooting team is having a standout performance at the Olympics.

William Shaner got things started at the Asaka Shooting Range when he won gold in the 10-meter air rifle on Sunday. Shaner’s 251.6 broke an Olympic record.

The record-breaking gold medal shooting performances didn’t stop there.

A day later, Amber English and Vincent Hancock won gold in the women and men’s skeet shooting.

English set an Olympic record with 56 hits. Hancock, who is good friends with English, won gold on the same day, setting a men’s Olympic record with 59 hits.

Three golds and three Olympic records in the matter of two days. No pressure for Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky who proceeded the three in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team competition on Tuesday.

Tucker and Kozeniesky qualified for the gold match after two stages of competition, finishing the series with a score of 418.0. The American duo only trailed China’s Qian Yang and Haoran Yang, who had a total of 419.7, heading into the gold-medal match.

In the battle for gold, the Chinese shooters were incredibly accurate. The pair didn’t have a single individual shot score below a 9.8. The Chinese team’s accuracy through the rounds was too much for the Americans to overcome, as they defeated the American duo 17-13 to win the gold medal.

Tucker and Kozeniesky were awarded the silver to give U.S. shooting four overall Olympic medals.

“U.S. shooting is improving in all of our aspects and we are becoming a better team,” Tucker said. “We’re winning medals together. I hope this keeps getting people interested in the sport. There isn’t a lot of interest in shooting in the U.S. Hopefully us bringing our medal count to four, and we still got a week to go – hopefully that will help.”

-- Tyler Dragon

TOKYO — The American diving duo of Delaney Schnell and Jessica Parratto took silver in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform on Tuesday, marking the first time the U.S. has medaled in the Olympic event.

Schnell, 22, and Parratto, 27, finished with 310.80 total points, which was 52.98 points behind first-place China and 11.1 points ahead of third-place Mexico. Since the event was introduced at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, China has taken gold at each subsequent Summer Games.

-- Olivia Reiner

CHIBA, Japan — American Caroline Marks, at 19 the youngest qualifier in the women's Olympic surfing competition, missed out on a chance to win a bronze medal Tuesday.

Marks, a native of Florida, lost to Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach in the bronze medal match.

Earlier in the day, Marks won her quarterfinals heat against Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica. She then lost to Bianca Buitendag of South Africa, relegating her to the bronze-medal matchup.

-- Josh Peter

Canada defeated Mexico, 3-2, in the bronze-medal game in softball to capture the country's first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.

Canada opened the scoring in the second inning on a two-out, two-run single by Emma Entzminger. After Mexico tied the game in the top of the fifth inning, Canada got the winning run in the bottom half of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Kelsey Harshman that scored Janet Leung.

The United States will face Japan in the gold-medal game Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET (on NBC Sports Network). In 2008, the last time softball was competed at the Olympics, Japan defeated the U.S. in the gold-medal game. Before that setback, the U.S. had won three straight gold medals dating back to the sport's Olympics debut in 1996.

-- Jim Reineking

TOKYO – Two things seemed clear through the first two days of Naomi Osaka’s quest to win an Olympic gold medal. The first was how much it meant to her to be representing Japan, which bestowed her the honor of lighting the Olympic flame at the Opening Ceremony. The second was that her tennis seemed up to the occasion.

But that’s the amazing thing about sports. Everything we think we know can change in the blink of an eye.

Just like that, Osaka’s run is over after a shocking 6-1, 6-4 loss to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, continuing the trend of high seeds bowing out early in the women’s singles draw.

Based on nearly every factor imaginable, it would have been hard to see this coming. Vondrousova, a 22-year old lefty, surprisingly made the French Open final in 2019 but has just one WTA title to her name. Her form lately has been inconsistent at best, having fallen to No. 42 after a stint in the top 20.

This was Osaka’s first tournament since withdrawing from the French Open, citing the need to take a break for her mental health. Her focus now will turn to defending her U.S. Open title later this summer, but in many ways, her entire year had been built around trying to win a gold medal in Tokyo.

Now that dream is gone, opening up the field reminiscent of the 2016 Olympics when longshot Monica Puig took gold.

-- Dan Wolken

American surfer Carissa Moore will compete for an Olympic gold medal Tuesday after winning her semifinals heat.

Moore, a four-time world champion, defeated Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan by a thin margin.

She will face South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag, who defeated American Caroline Marks in the other semifinals heat.

The top-ranked women’s surfer in the world, Moore, 28, entered the competition as the favorite.

Earlier in the day, she won her quarterfinals heat against Silvana Lima of Brazil.

-- Josh Peter

American surfer Caroline Marks will compete for an Olympic bronze medal Tuesday after coming up short in her semifinals heat.

Marks, 19, lost to Bianca Buitendag of South Africa at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach.

Marks, a native of Florida, will face the loser of the semifinals heat between fellow American Carissa Moore, a four-time world champion, and Amuro Tsuzuki of Japan.

Earlier in the day, Marks won her quarterfinals heat against Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica.

-- Josh Peter

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TOKYO – Alaskan teen Lydia Jacoby pulled off the upset in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, becoming the first American woman to win gold in swimming in these Olympics.

She beat U.S. teammate Lilly King, who was chasing her second consecutive Olympic gold medal in the breast.

Jacoby won in 1:04.95 followed by Tatjana Schoenmaker from South Africa and King, who took bronze.

King, 24, brashly predicted at last month’s U.S. Olympic trials that American women could win every individual race at these Olympics.

She also famously called out Russia’s twice-suspended Yulia Efimova, slapping the water in celebration after defeating her in Rio in 2016.

-- Christine Brennan

The U.S. men's rugby team fell to South Africa 17-12 to finish second in Pool C after posting a 2-1 record in round-robin play.

The U.S. will play Great Britain in the quarterfinals Tuesday at 5 a.m. ET (on NBC Sports Network). Great Britain won silver in the 2016 Olympics, which marked the return of rugby sevens to the Olympic docket after 92 years.

The other quarterfinal matches are New Zealand-Canada (4:30 a.m. ET), South Africa-Argentina (5:30 a.m. ET) and Fiji-Australia (6 a.m. ET).

Fiji are the reigning gold medal winners. The U.S. did not qualify for the quarterfinals in 2016.

-- Jim Reineking

TOKYO — Ryan Murphy fell short of his goal of repeating as Olympic champion in the men's 100 meter backstroke as Russian Olympic Committee swimmers Evgeny Rylov (51.98 seconds) and Kliment Koleskinov (52.00) took gold and silver ahead of him on Tuesday.

Murphy swam a 52.19 to claim bronze, despite entering the final with the top time of 52.24, five one-hundredths of a second ahead of Koleskinov.

The University of California-Berkeley graduate also won gold in the 200-meter back and the 4x100 medley relay in Rio, his first Olympics. He can still repeat in the 200-meter backstroke as qualifying heats begin on Wednesday.

-- Chris Bumbaca

TOKYO – American Regan Smith, the former world-record holder in the women’s 100 backstroke, won the bronze medal Tuesday morning at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Current world-record holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia won gold in 57.47 seconds followed by Canadian Kylie Masse in 57.72. McKeown's time was an Olympic record.

Smith was third in 58.05.

Smith, 19, one of 11 teenagers on the U.S. Olympic swimming team, the most since 1996, set the Olympic record in qualifying Monday in 57.86 seconds. She was the third swimmer to do it here, following Masse and McKeown. They are the only three swimmers in history to break 58 seconds.

-- Christine Brennan

TOKYO – The second-seeded U.S. women’s beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman remain undefeated (2-0) in pool play at the Tokyo Olympics.

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