Warner and cousin lead to day one - Thole / Wickler failed - Kaul gives up - medal

+++ Multicap: Warner and cousin lead to the "halftime" +++

Anouk Vetter (Netherlands) leads the sevelopel after four disciplines with 3968 points. Follow Noor Vidts (Belgium) with 3941 and the pot favorite Nafissatou Thiam (Belgium) with 3921 meters. The men lies after five out of ten disciplines of Canadian Damian Warner (4722 points). Ashley Moloney (Australia) is with 4641 meters a quite surprising pursuer, world record holder Kevin Mayer (France, 4340) ranks 5th place.

+++ Table tennis: German men team plays gold +++

The German table tennis men have reached the Olympic dream finish against China. Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska won their semi-finals against hosts Japan with 3: 2 and play against gold on Friday against the top favorite. Ovtcharov is thus becoming the first player of history with six Olympiamedals.

+++ Handball: Women's World Champion Out +++

Women's Handball World Champion Netherlands is excreted in the quarterfinals. The Oranje selection lost on Wednesday against France surprisingly clearly with 22:32 (11:19). The Olympia second of 2016 meets in the semifinals on Sweden. The Scandinavians sat by South Korea sovereign at 39:30 (21:13). Topfavorit Norway claimed in the quarterfinals against Hungary with 26:22 (12:10) and now fights against the selection of the Russian Olympic Committee to enter the final. Russians who won in Rio Gold five years ago defeated Montenegro 32:26 (17:15).

+++ Athletics: Gold for Canada's TopSprinter de Grasse +++

The Canadian Sprinter Andre de Grasse has won his first gold medal at the games and normally normally choosed 200 meters to the successor of Superstar Usain Bolt. The 26-year-old ran on Wednesday in Tokyo with a state record of 19.62 seconds on the finish line. Silver went to Kenneth Bednarek in 19.68 seconds in front of world champion Noah Lyles (19.74 / both USA). The American Erriyon Knigthon (17) missed as the youngest final participant of the Olympia history on the half stadium round as a fourth in 19.93 seconds a medal.

+++ Hammerzen: World Champion FajDek fails again +++

Wojciech Nowicki is for the first time Olympic champion in hammering. The compatriot of Poland, Pawel Fajdek, was already four times world champion, but with Olympic gold it still does not want to work. In 2012 in London and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, FajDek had even missed the final battle, 2021 in Tokyo was at least bronze at 81.53 meters. Nowicki won with 82.52 meters.

+++ Off for ten-fight world champion Kaul +++

For ten-fight World Champion Niklas Kaul, the Olympic premiere is over the prematurely end. The 23-year-old Mainz could not exit the 400-meter run because of a foot injury and had to be driven in a wheelchair from the interior of the Olympic Stadium of Tokyo. He had pulled the painful blessur at the high jump over 2.11 meters. The efforts of the physicians of the German team to make him fit for the fifth discipline, were ultimately in vain. Kaul was considered a medal as a candidate.

+++ Beach volleyball: Thole / winder out +++

The Beachvolleyball Vice World Champion Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler, like Olympic Champion, left Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch in the quarterfinals and fifth. In a new edition of the World Cup final of two years ago, the duo from Hamburg lost the world master Wyacheslaw Krasilnikow and Oleg Stojanowski with 0: 2 (16:21, 19:21). For the first time since 2008 there is no medal for the German volleyball association in Beachvolleyball. In 2012, Julius Brink / Jonas Reckermann was brought into London Gold, five years ago in Rio, Ludwig was successful in the final with her then partner Kira Walkenhorst.

+++ Johnson-Thompson drives it into the Wade +++

Sevelopel Medal Candidate Katarina Johnson-Thompson can not calculate much chance in further competition. The Britique had to break off her 200-meter run under pain, her wade is in the calf. After a short break on the railway, the world champion at least managed to hobble over the finish line.

+++ Krause missed a medal +++

Gesa Felicitas Krause (Trier) has missed a medal in the final over 3000 meters obstacle. At the Olympic Sieg of PERuth Chemutai (Uganda), Germans who already collected medals in the European Championships and World Championships, at the end of Fifth.

+++ Deßer fails already in the first round +++

Springreiter Daniel Deßer has missed an Olympic single medal in Tokyo. The 39-year-old from Wiesbaden failed - he conceded eight penalty points - on Wednesday with Killer Queen already in the first round.

Stretched painfully: Tenkillers Thomas van der Plaetsen. Belga Mag / AFP Via Getty Images

+++ Painful fall: Van der Plaetsen has to give up ten-fight +++

The tenkiller Thomas van der Plaetsen is eliminated in the second discipline from the ten-fight. In the long jump, the Belgian has hurt a harder on the thigh when jumping, van der Plaetsen was kinked away and crashed uncoordinated into the pit. He then even had to be removed in the wheelchair.

+++ Athletics: Goer Left Disappointed by Sapporo +++

The World Cup-fifth Christopher Left is disappointed with the atmosphere and the conditions in the Olympic Field Sapporo. "I feel zero Olympia spirit here," said the 32-year-old Potsdamer on Wednesday, walking over 20 kilometers a day before his start, the dpa. He has so far seen neither an Olympic flag or rings. "One hoped to drive to Olympia and not to the Goal World Cup. Too bad!" If he see pictures of the Olympic village in Tokyo, "I'm jealous". The laying of the housing and marathon medal struggles for climatic reasons to Sapporo, where there is usually less humidity and it is five to six degrees Celsius cooler than in Japan's capital, seems to be ahead of the opposite. "The locals say that Hokkaido has been the warmest summer for 30 years," reported the Olympia fifth of 2016.

+++ Bahnrad-Fourser of the men in second place +++

The railroad four-seater of men has occupied the sixth place and thus has to wait for his first Olympic medal for 21 years. Roger Kluge (Berlin), Felix Groß (Leipzig), Leon Rohde (Hamburg) and Domenic Weinstein (Villingen-Schwenningen) lost on Wednesday in Izu with a time of 3: 50,023 their placement run against Canada. The quartet did not approach the German record from the previous day (3: 48,861). Since golding in Sydney 21 years ago, Germany waits in the former paradised discipline on an Olympic medal.den Olympic victory Italy secured himself with the world record time of 3: 42.032 minutes thanks to Superstar Filippo Ganna. The street world champion in time trial led the Squadra Azzurra in the final against Denmark for scarce victory. Bronze went to Australia.

+++ Railroad: Hinze about hope in the Keirin quarterfinals +++

Triple World Champion Emma Hinze has achieved the quarterfinals in the Keirin over the hope of the railway competitions. The 23-year-old from Cottbus managed the second in her race behind the Dutchman Shanne Braspennincx, after she had surprisingly opened in the first round of the so-called battle Print. Team Collegin Lea Sophie Friedrich (Dassow) had already been established sovereign in front of the Russian Daria Schmelewa in her staked trace. The decision in the Keirin competition falls on Thursday (from 9.06 clock MESZ). In the sprint of men, Maximilian Levy (Cottbus) has mastered the first round after a victory against Jair Tjon en Fa from Surinam. Ex-world champion Stefan Bötticher must after a defeat against Canadian Nick Wamm in the hopes.

+++ Karate: Chernyschowa tested positively on corona +++

Karateka Anna Chernyschowa The team of the Russian Olympic Committee can not compete because of a positive Corona test. This confirmed the Russian Association on Wednesday at Instagram. "Your Covid test that is mandatory for all participants of the games fell positively. The control test was just as disappointing ... Anna, definitely thank you," said it. The 19-year-old would have been the only karate fighter of the team in Japan. The Algerian weightlifter Walid Bidani will not compete in the class over 109 kilograms. As the Olympic organizers communicated, he must be quarantined for health reasons. An accurate explanation was not delivered.

+++ Table tennis: China's men in the final +++

China's table tennis men have reached the final of the Olympic Team Competition. Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin Place South Korea 3-0. Since the premiere in 2008, China is undefeated in the team competition. Opponents on Friday (12.30 am Mesz) becomes either Germany or Japan, which from 12.30 CEST deny the second semi-final. Previously, China's women had reached the final against Japan by a 3-0 against Germany, Germany plays on Thursday (11am Mesz) against Hong Kong around Bronze.

+++ Sailing: Wanser / Angle will be sixth +++

Luise Wanser and Anastasiya Angle from Hamburg were sailed on the last regatta day in Enoshima as second in the final medal race of the 470s on a sixth place. Without the two-time disqualification for kick-off, when the trapezoidal west of the feeder was 260 grams too heavy, the strong appearance would have meant silver. So it remained for the German sailing team with three medals.

+++ Golf: Good start for Popov and Masson +++

For perfect golf weather in Tokyo, Sophia Popov (St. Leon-Red) and Caroline Masson (Gladbeck) is a decent start to the Olympic tournament on Wednesday. On the PAR-71 square in the Kasumigaseki Country Club, the two-time Solheim Cup winner Masson and British Open Champion Popov played round on space standard and finished the 23rd place in the 60-member field. Popov finished with her start in Japan a family curse. Her American mother had qualified as a swimmer for Moscow in 1980 - then came the US boycott. Even her brother, a power swimmer, dreamed in vain by the games, fell short of the qualification for London 2012.

+++ Basketball: Edge victory brings USA FinalTicket +++

The US basketball players have celebrated their 53nd victory in series and taken course on the ninth gold medal. The record winner hit Australia in the quarterfinals after a power demonstration with 79:55 (48:27), only two more victories are missing to seventh triumph in summer games one after the other. Breanna Stewart, who has won after the Euroleague victory this year with Ummc Jekaterinburg on club and national team level all the great titles in basketball, was the best thrower of US women. The 26-year-old recorded 23 points in the Saitama Super Arena. In the semifinals, the USA will be available on Friday (06.40 clock MESZ) with Serbia, the China in the round of the last eight 77:70 (35:33) forced.

+++ Football: Sweden and Canada want laying +++

For worry of extreme heat, the associations of Sweden and Canada have asked for a relocation of the kick-off time of women's football finals. The duel for gold between the Olympic Size and third Rio is to be contacted on Friday at 11am local time (4 o'clock Mesz) in Tokyo. On Wednesday morning, 33 degrees prevailed in the Olympic Stadium. According to CBC, Canada Soccer shared, supporting a different exposure to ensure the "health and security of our players".

+++ Netherlands in the final +++

At the hockey women, the Netherlands reached the final. The world champions hit defending champions of the UK clearly with 5: 1 (2: 0) and now meet the winner of India against Argentina on Friday.

+++ McLaughlin not stop +++

The American Sydney McLaughlin has run in world record time to Olympic Gold over the 400 meters hurdles.

+++ Three German kayak boats directly in the semifinals +++

The German kayak boats with the duo Max Hoff / Jacob Schopf as well as one with Jule Hake and Sabrina Hering Pradler are paddled in the Semi-finals in the Olympics in Tokyo.

+++ Stäbler and Kudla rings around Bronze +++

Two German rings have a chance of bronze: both Frank Stäbler in class up to 67 kg as well as Denis Kudla in the weight class 87 kg gained their hoping round in Greek-Roman style and rings later around a medal. Stäbler is at 12.30 clock, Kudla half an hour later. The three-time world champion Stäbler fights to conclude his career against the Georgian Ramas Soidse (12.30 pm / Mesz). It becomes Stäbler's farewell performance. Kudla, who already won bronze in Rio, meets the Egyptian Mohamed Metwally.

The German medal winners of Tokyo

+++ Stoephasius misses final +++

The 14-year-old skateboarder Lilly Stoephasius has occupied a very good ninth place in her Olympic premiere and just missed the final. The Berliner came on Wednesday in the discipline park to 38.37 points and missed the eighth place necessary for the final participation only 3.22 meters. The best qualifying classes in the Urban Sports Park of Tokyo reached Japan's top star Misugu Okamoto with 58.51 points.

+++ Greek synchronous swimming team in quarantine +++

The entire Greek synchronous swimming team has emerged into a quarantine hotel after several positive corona tests. As the Olympia organizers announced on Wednesday, four swimmers and supervisors were positively tested at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The team can therefore not attend synchronously swimming. There, the medals are awarded on Wednesday in the duettes. Chances on a medal would not have had Greece.

+++ Jahn and Koch miss at the semifinals +++

The Canadier Drivers Lisa Jahn from Berlin and Sophie Koch from Karlsruhe have missed direct entry into the semi-finals at the Olympics in Tokyo. The debutans came on Wednesday at the Olympic premiere of their discipline on the Sea Forest Waterway of Tokyo in their preliminary ranks four and five and now must fight in the quarter-finals around the half-finals over the 200 meter distance.

+++ Vetter creates it only in the third try +++

Gold Favorite Johannes Vetter has made it very exciting in the qualification. The 97.76 m second-best spearlight of history put his first two attempts in the sand (82.04 and 82.08 m) before exceeded the required 83.50 m with his third and last litter. The unsettled cousin brought it to 85.64 m and now wants to be in the final on Saturday Steiger (1:00 pm Mesz). There is also Julian Weber Weber, who caught a dream start and sparked the final ticket with 84.41 meters.

Teaching in front of the skyline Tokios: open water swimmers. AFP Via Getty Images

+++ Great race of Beck +++

Leonie Beck has not rewarded with a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo after a hosted race. The 24-year-old Würzburgerin suggested ten kilometers on the night of Wednesday as fifth. Gold went to Ana Marcela Cunha from Brazil in front of Rio Olympic Champion Sharon Van Routendaal from the Netherlands and the Australian Kaneena Lee. Finnia Wunram occupied the tenth place as the second German starter.

In extreme conditions, Beck showed a strong appearance in Odaiba Marine Park of Tokyo in Odaiba Marine Park of Tokyo and sponge from the beginning. The Olympic participant from 2016 in the pelvis missed but the third medal of the German swimmers with these summer games. Previously, Florian Wellbrock and his fiancé Sarah Köhler had won bronze in the basin over 1500 meters of freestyle. Wellbrock starts at night to Thursday also over the ten kilometers.

+++ Timanovskaya on the way to Poland +++

The Belarusian Olympic Sprinterin Kristina Timanovskaya has made itself the way to Polish asylum. Pictures showed the 24-year-old on Wednesday morning (local time) while leaving the Polish Embassy in Tokyo and arriving at Narita Airport before their flight to Warsaw. The case of athletic had taken care of the Olympic Games for International Outrage. According to the athlete, Belarusian authorities wanted to force them premature return to Minsk because they had criticized sports officials.