The Serbian volleyball players (right) and Italy’s Caterina Bosetti float in the air. Better that way, because the floor is – as in the children’s game – as is well known, lava.
Synchronized swimming is actually dancing in the water. But the way the Greek water polo player Marios Kapotsis gets up close and personal with the ball has something of the tango.
The definition of idyll in one picture: The Japanese, British and French boats (from left) pose in front of Mount Fuji.
One light shines green, the jersey white, the other light red. No one could more appropriately create the motive for the Italian gold in the team pursuit. Simone Consonni provides the rounding off cheers.
The Ukrainian synchronized swimmers Marta Fiedina and Anastasiy Savchuk look like a being from another world when they knot their legs.
Fall and storm are seldom as close together in life as in sport. The Australian Genevieve Gregson is on the ground, the Spaniard Carolina Robles continues to run in the 3,000-meter obstacle race.
At the age of 14, skater Lilly Stoephasius is the youngest German Olympic participant in history. At her premiere, the Berliner flies high and lands in a good ninth place.
Premiere among canoeists: For the first time in Tokyo, women are competing in canoes. Lisa Jahn (front) from Berlin will make it into the semi-finals over 200 meters.
Focused: The Belgian heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam runs for the high jump …
… and bends in the air to get over the bar.
Uncertainty in gold? The German favorite for the Olympic victory, javelin thrower Johannes Vetter, struggles into the final of his discipline.
When swimming in open water, the athletes not only fight with the floods, but also with the heat. Only Leonie Beck from Würzburg, who leads for a long time and ends up fifth, says happily afterwards: “I didn’t sweat at all.”
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