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Tokyo Chaos Lowers Bar for Beijing 2022 – and That’s a Shame

In this week’s look at all the latest news in the build-up to the 2022 Olympics and elsewhere:

  • What Tokyo’s ban on Olympic spectators means for Beijing
  • Record Chinese delegation set for Tokyo, as individual sports announces their teams
  • NHL players hold firm with their desire to play in the Olympics
  • Team China hockey rosters starting to take shape
  • The latest 2022 Olympics boycott talk from around the world
  • All the other features and stories of interest
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Rio Review: Day 1

China Medal Count

0 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze

Day 1: Medals

Silver: Du Li (women’s 10m air rifle); Sun Yang (men’s 400m freestyle)

Bronze: Yi Siling (women’s 10m air rifle); Sun Yiwen (women’s individual épée), Pang Wei (men’s 10m air pistol)

Day 2: Ones to Watch

The best chance likely comes in diving as Wu Minxia and Shi Tingmao go in the women’s 3m synchro. Elsewhere, Chen Xinyi and Lu Ying have made it to the final of the women’s 100m butterfly, but are not expected to win a medal, and Zhang Mengxue has qualified for the women’s 10m air pistol final. And I would have said reigning Olympic champion in the men’s foil Lei Sheng, but at the time of writing, China’s flagbearer has just been dumped out. Continue reading Rio Review: Day 1