The women’s 10km marathon swimming competition was held in Tokyo on Wednesday morning Olympic Games, And a flying fish steals the limelight.
When there were two laps left in Odaiba Ocean Park, the film crew took a wonderful shot of this group of leaders. Then, in the marathon, a fish suddenly flew out of the water, soared in the air, and landed sideways in front of the swimmer. From Tokyo to Australia, and then to the United States and the world on Tuesday night, there were tweets showing the nature at work.
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It is unclear what fish it is or whether it continues to lead the game by seven laps.
The men’s and women’s marathon swimming events are the final swimming events of this year’s Olympic Games.
Brazil’s Anna Marcela Cunha won the gold medal on Wednesday with a time of 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30.8 seconds. It was almost a full second of the silver medal for Sharon van Ruvindal (1:59:31.7) of the Netherlands. Australia’s Karina Lee won the bronze medal.
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The number one player in the United States is Hayley Anderson, sixth, and Ashley Twicker is seventh. Anderson (1:59:36.9) leads her teammate by a full second.
There are 25 swimmers participating in the competition, All touching When they crossed the finish line.
The men’s 10 km marathon swimming competition will be held on Thursday morning (Tokyo time), but it can be watched starting at 5:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday night (Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Time Zone).
The US team is led by Jordan Wilimovsky, who also participated in the game at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Willimowski was one of the first American qualifiers for the 2020 Olympics, just like he was in Rio. He is the only American in the field of 26 men’s swimmers.
The United States won 11 gold medals in swimming at the Tokyo Aquatic Center last week, accounting for more than half of the total number of gold medals in the United States at that time.
China still leads the battle with 32 gold medals entering Wednesday’s event, 8 more than the US team, which ranked second with 24 gold medals. The United States leads the total number of medals with 73, only 4 more than China’s 69.
