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The Olympic judo mixed-team closing between France and Japan had come all the way down to a tie, 3–3, on the finish of the regulation bouts, when the random spin of a wheel was used to determine which gender and weight class would face one another in a tie-breaker: “males’s +90kg.” France’s Teddy Riner confronted off in opposition to Japan’s Tatsuru Saito, with Riner successful the bout—and a staff gold medal—earlier than a wildly cheering dwelling crowd.
Beforehand:
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August 2: A Kayaker Makes a Huge Splash
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August 1: Boxer Wyatt Sanford Takes a Punch
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July 31: Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström, Up Shut and Underwater
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July 30: Celebrating a Profitable Girls’s Gymnastics Workforce Effort
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July 29: Surfer Filipe Toledo Will get the Barrel