Tokyo (AFP)
They are not all Olympic champions but they are also writing the history of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Perf of the day
"I was nervous before my races, none was perfect, not at all - in the call room - in the mental approach. When I woke up sometimes, I said to myself: + I'm going to drool today +", entrusted Caeleb Dressel, after his aquatic recital.
The American won the 50m freestyle and the 4x100m medley relay on the swimming's closing day.
2 + 3 = 5.
This total is therefore that of his gold medals in Tokyo.
Previously, the Floridian had won gold in the 4x100m freestyle on Monday, the 100m freestyle Thursday and then the 100m butterfly on Saturday.
But his stay in Japan still suffered a hitch.
He who hoped for the Grand Slam, with 6 races in his program, took a 5th place with the 4x100 m mixed medley relay.
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Face of the day
That of Usain Bolt's successor!
Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs stunned the world by winning the Olympic 100m final.
At the end of a straight line swallowed in 9 sec 80, European record to the key, Jacobs took over from the triple Olympic champion in 2008, 2012, 2016. A huge feat for the 26-year-old sprinter, born in El Paso in Texas from an Italian mother and an American father.
It is the first Olympic 100m title for an Italian and above all it is the first for a European since Briton Linford Christie in 1992.
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Story of the day
a sad story.
A horse from the Swiss team had to be euthanized after being injured in the eventing cross country.
Jet Set tore a ligament in his right front leg on landing from a jump.
"Due to the severity of the injury and the pain it caused, the horse had to be euthanized shortly after," said the Swiss Olympic Committee.
Rider Robin Godel was not injured in the accident.
But he will be replaced on Monday by the rider Eveline Bodenmüller who will ride Violaine de la Brasserie.
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Sentence of the day
“I took three weeks off after London-2012, three months off after Rio-2016. But I don't have enough time to take three years off” after Tokyo-2020.
Funny, the Briton Max Whitlock has made his little calculation and he will indeed have to return to work before 3 years old if he wants to hope to participate in the Paris Games in 2024. At the same time, it is true that he was not stingy efforts to win the Olympic title on pommel horse, as he had already done in Rio.
In London, he had "contented himself" with the money on the same apparatus.
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Photo of the day
"We tried to do a sit-in."
The French national technical director of boxing, John Dovi, had recovered after the fight of Mourad Aliev (+ 91 kg).
Eliminated on disqualification for head shots but convinced that it was a "scandal", the French boxer then sat on the edge of the ring.
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Angry.
For long minutes he remained thus removing his gloves but not his bandages.
What if he's right?
The judges recognize that they made a mistake but as it is written they cannot reverse the decision ", denounced Aliev." It is as if one had condemned an innocent knowing that he was innocent ", he added after resolving to leave the ring.
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