2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

Modified on August 9, 2021

JAPAN'S MEDAL COUNT
GOLD: 27 SILVER:14 BRONZE:17

Aug 8
It's a feat for women's basketball, playing in the final although it lost to the US 90 to 75, it's a silver medal. In cycling track women's ominium points race 4/4, Yumi Kajihara finished 2nd to win the silver. The Olympic closed with Japan clinching the 3rd most medals among all nations and regions or with 58.

Aug 7
It's a gold rush. In wrestling, in women's 50 kg, Yui Susaki won the gold. In men's 65 kg freestyle, Kakuto Otoguro clinched the gold. In baseball, Samurai Japan beat the US 2 to 0 on Masanori Murakami's home run and won the gold. Samurai beat all 5 teams it's faced. Baseball will be removed from the Olympics after Tokyo

Aug 6
In women's wrestling 53 kg, Mayu Mukoda won the gold. In men's karate kata, Ryo Kiyunaclinched the gold. In the new Olympic sport of sport climbing, Japanese women won the silver and the bronze. It's silver for Miho Nonaka and bronze for Akiyo Noda. In boxing flyweight Youmei Tanaka won the bronze. In men's table tennis team event, Japan clinched the bronze. It's another medal for veteran player Jun Mizutani. >

Aug 5
The elder sister of Yukako, Risako Kawai clinches the gold in women's wrestling freestyle 57kg. It's her 2nd Olympic gold. In women's team table tennis, Japan won the silver. In the new sport of karate, in women's kata Kiyou Shimizo clinched the silver. In men's 20km walk race held in Sapporo which is almost as hot as Tokyo this summer, Koki Ikeda won the silver, Toshikazu Yamanishi won the bronze.

Aug 4
In women's wrestling freestyle 62 kg, Yukako Kawai takes the gold.

Aug 3
Daiki Hashimoto does it again, winning the gold in the men's gymnastics horizontal bar. It's Japan's first gold in women's boxing. The medalist is Seina Irie who's 20 years old. In wrestling Greco-Roman 77 kg, Shohei Yabuku wins the bronze.

Aug 2
In women's gymnastics floor, Mai Murakami won the bronze. It's the first medal for a Japanese woman in 57 years. In men's wrestling, Kenichiro Fumita won the silver in the Greco-Roman 60 kilo.

Aug 1
In gymnastics pommel hourse, Kazuma Kaya won the bronze.

July 31
In archery men's single, Takaharu Furukawa won the bronze. He was London Olympics silver medaist. In judo, for the first time a mixed team event was held. Team Japan won the silver.

July 30
Japan's historic win in fencing. In mena's team epee, it won the gold. They are Masaru Yamada, Satoru Uyama, Koki Kano . In badminton mix doubles, Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino won the bronze.

July 29
Another gold in judo. Aaron Wolf clinched it in the men's -78kilo. In table tennis, the first ever medal for a Japanese woman in the single. 20 year old Mima Ito beat world number 47 ranking Yu Mingyu of Singapore to win the bronze.

July 28
Swimmer Yui Ohashi did it again, winning the gold in the women's 200 m medley. She's the first Japanese woman to earn 2 gold medals. Also in swimming, 19 year old Tomoru Honda, who barely made it to the final, won the silver in the men's 200 meter butterfly. In men's gymnastics, Daki Hashimoto won the all round individual gold. In judo, Chizuru Arai won the gold in women's -70 kg. An upset in badminton. world ranking number one Kento Momota lost in the men's single group round and was eliminated from the Tokyo Games.

July 27
In softball, 39 year old pitcher Yukiko Ueno pitched in games after games. In the final against the US she started. In a competitive match, Japan won 2-0, to defend its Olympic title. It's a gold win. In Judo, Takanori Nagase won the gold in the -81 kg. In weightlifting, Mikiko Ando won the bronze. In men's surfing Kanoa Igarashi won the silver, losing in the end to Brazil's Italo Ferreira. In women's surfing Amuro Tsuzuki won the bronze. In tennis Naomi Osaka lost in the 2nd round to depart Tokyo Olympics.

July 26
The youngest ever Japanese gold medalist was born. It's 13 year old Momiji Nishiya in the new competition, skateboard women's street. Another Japanese, 16 year old Funa Nakayama won the bronze. For the first time ever Japan won the gold in table tennis. It's in the mixed team event of Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito. In judo's men's -73kg, Shohei Ohno won the gold for the 2nd time. In the women's -57 kg, Tsukasa Yoshida finished with a bronze. In men's gymnastics team event, Japan earned the silver. For the first time the archery team won a medal. It's the bronze.

July 25
It's a medal rush day for Japan. In swimming, in the women's 400 meter individual medley, Yui Ohashi won with a time of 4:32.08. In skateboarding, which is in the Olympic Games for the first time,22 year old Yuto Horigome won the men's street. In judo, siblings won the gold. They are Uta Abein the women's 52 kg. And her brother Hifumi in the men's 66 kg.

July 24
Judo is on. The good news, in the women's 46 kg, Funa Tonaki a debutant, wone the silder. Naohisa Takato clinched the gold in men's 60 kg. He's bronze medalist in Rio de Janeiro won in a competitive match against Taiwan's Yang Yung-wei. Disappointments are, Daiya Seto bronze medalist in Rio's 400 meter medley did not advance. 3 time allround gymnastics gold medalist, Kohei Uchimura fell from the horizontal bar in the preliminary round and good not advance.

Opening Ceremony
Following scandals of those involved and fired, the ceremony is held on Jul 23, 2021. Due to Covid-19 pandemic and Tokyo in a state of emergency, measures were taken on social distancing. Japan's festive, kabuki, tribute to Tohoku region devastated by the 2011 tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown was among the highlight.It's under the theme of "United with Emotion" The last torch bearer to light the caultron was top tennis player tNaomi Osaka.

Postponed
Due to the outspread of Covid-19, Japanese government and IOC on Mar 24, 2020 agreed to postpone the Games to 2021. This after athletes and national Olympic committees complained of the danger of holding the Games this year. It's decided the Olympic flame remains in Japan.

Olympic flame arrives in Japan
On March 20, the Olympic flame arrives in Japan from Greece after a scaled down send off ceremony due to the spread of Covid-19 in Greece. The flame lands in the Self Defense Force's Matsushima Air Base. The arrival ceremony is scaled down too. But around the base, many people assemble to witness the blue impulse creates a smoke of Olympic ring, which quickly is blown away by the wind. The flame, is displayed thereafter in cities in Tohoku, damaged by the 2011 tsunami.

LEAD UP TO TOKYO
Congratulations greeting from India
From the boys and girls playing hockey in Anantapur's sports academy.

Tokyo wins 2020
On Sept 8 at 5 am in Tokyo, IOC's Jacques Rogge announced the host city for 2020...Tokyo. It was a competition against Instanbul...after Madrid was eliminated. The Japanese delegation gave its final presentation earlier supported by Princess Hisako of the House of Takamado, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, members of the bidding committee. This will be the 2nd time Tokyo hosts the world's biggest sporting event.


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