Group USA had a historic begin to the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday — and never in a great way. For the primary time since 1972, the group didn’t win a medal on the primary day of competitors. However on Day 2, they made up for it.
The lads’s swimming group introduced house the primary medals of the Video games for Group USA, with Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland taking house the gold and silver within the 400-meter particular person medley on Sunday morning in Tokyo.
The sector was cleared for a USA takeover when the favourite, Daiya Seto of Japan, did not make it out of the qualifying spherical on Saturday. Kalisz, who posted the third-best qualifying time, gained the ultimate in 4 minutes, 9.42 seconds.
Litherland was .86 seconds behind.
“It means the world,” Kalisz stated on the occasion broadcast, as transcribed by Christine Brennan of USA As we speak. “That is the very last thing that I actually wished to perform in my swimming profession. It was one thing that was a dream of mine since so long as I may bear in mind.”
There’s loads extra competitors — and medals to be awarded — over the following a number of weeks. Here is easy methods to stream the entire upcoming motion from the Tokyo Olympics.
