2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
GINA LEADS: Gina Luckenkemper, of Germany, left, leads Salome Kora, of Switzerland, in a semi-final of the women’s 4X100-metre relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, yesterday, in Tokyo, Japan. —Photo: AP

Baptiste, T&T women out 4x1 relay

GRIDLOCK: Athletes prepare to make a baton handover, second to third legs, in a semi-final of the Men’s 4X400-metre relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. T&T’s Jereem Richards, second right top, focuses on teammate Machel Cedenio, second right foreground. —Photo: AP

4x4 men bid for Tokyo repeat

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 06: Lorenzo Patta, Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Fostine Desalu and Filippo Tortu of Team Italy celebrate winning the gold medal in the Men's 4 x 100m Relay Final on day fourteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 06, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) 2021 Getty Images

The Italians featuring 100m champion Marcell Jacobs won their country's first medal in the event at the Olympics since 1948.

Tyra Gittens, of Trinidad and Tobago, competes in the qualification rounds of the women’s long jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, on Sunday. AP PHOTO -

IT IS safe to say that over the past two weeks we have been spoilt for choice when it comes to which sports, athletes, or action to follow at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. “The year of the unexpected,” some might say, as the underdogs rise, a 13-year-old earns bronze, two high jumpers share gold and Team TTO defy the odds to put on quite the Olympic performance and generate much chatter and national pride locally and abroad.

PREMATURE CONCESSION: Denis Dmitriev of the Russian Olympic Committee, left, acknowledges a win for Team TTO’s Nicholas Paul after the second ride-off in their best-of-three sprint quarter-final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, yesterday, in Izu, Japan. Soon, however, the track judges would penalise Paul and give Dmitriev a reprieve. @Caption:—Photo: AP

(drop) Paul’s relegation unfair and brutal, says TTOC boss

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 02: (R-L) Steven Gardiner of Team Bahamas, Michael Norman of Team United States, Wayde van Niekerk of Team South Africa and Jochem Dobber of Team Netherlands competes in the Men's 400 metres semi finals on day ten of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 02, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) 2021 Getty Images

South Africa's Rio 2016 gold medallist and world record holder faded into fifth behind world champion Steven Gardiner.

Italy's Bruno Rosetti, who competed in the heats of the fours but was forced to miss the final after testing positive for COVID-19, has been awarded a bronze medal by the IOC ©Getty Images

Italian rower Bruno Rosetti has been awarded a bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after a positive test for COVID-19 forced him to miss the final of the men's four at Tokyo 2020.

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