the five rings of the day

Pedri hangs the silver in his first Games

Twenty-one years after its last Olympic final, the Spanish national football team has once again been left with honey on its lips. The young generation of state footballers, this time commanded by a Pedri who has played his 73rd game of the year and his eleventh overtime, will return from Japan with the silver medal. In the chronicle of Albert Nadal’s defeat against Brazil (2-1) you can relive the exciting final.

Saúl Craviotto, at the Olympus

The Catalan took the thorn out of last Thursday’s final in the K1 200, when he finished in seventh place. This morning he hung his fifth Olympic medal, in this case the silver in K4 500. The quartet composed of Saúl Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade set a time of 1: 22.445. Craviotto is the first Catalan and second Spaniard to win five medals at the Games, and equals the goal of David Cal. No Catalan has come this far at the Olympic Games.

Raúl Entrerríos says goodbye with a bronze (31-33)

The Spanish men’s handball team beat Egypt (31-33) and won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The team coached by the Catalan Jordi Ribera played a great game against a rival that competed until the last seconds. “Handball for me has been everything. I have had a family that has accompanied me in everything and I am very happy to be able to offer them this,” confessed Raúl Entrerríos after the game. The former Barça player has put an end to his sporting career by scoring the last goal of the match and hanging the bronze medal.

Frustrating defeat in the long-awaited final

The women’s national water polo team, made up of eleven Catalans, was struck by a huge United States in a very frustrating final. The hopes of the team coached by Miki Oca soon faded in the final. The precedents were not very promising: 2013 was the last time the Spanish team beat the United States. The Americans, aware of their superiority, have started pulling gallons from the first moments of the confrontation. The initial service has been American and a lethal attack combined with a very strong defense has sealed the gold of the United States team, overwhelmingly superior (5-14).

Israeli Linoy Ashram ends the established order in rhythmic gymnastics

Israeli Linoy Ashram has turned the established order in rhythmic gymnastics upside down, a sport in which Russia had won all the Olympic golds since Sydney 2000, and has been proclaimed individual champion ahead of the two undisputed favorites, twins Dina and Arina Averina. Ashram, on the podium of the last three World Championships, has added 107,800 points to the Olympic final, by 107,650 from Dina and 102,700 from the Belarusian Alina Harnasko, who has moved from the podium Arina (102,100) after a serious error last with the tape.