(ESPN/ABC) At the Olympics, the opening ceremonies were held Friday morning. After that, field action took center stage.
*The first gold medal was handed out. China’s Qian Yang won gold in women’s 10-meter air rifle. China already has three medals total, two of which are gold. The US won the most medals during the 2016 Summer Olympics with 121, taking home 46 gold medals in the process.
*The United States women’s national team stormed back from their opening defeat in the Olympics to earn an emphatic 6-1 win over New Zealand at the Saitama Stadium on Saturday. The U.S. went into the game looking to recover from the shock loss against Sweden in the opening match, which ended a 44-game unbeaten run.
*About 100 of the 613 U.S. athletes in Tokyo for the Olympics — about 17 percent — are unvaccinated, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s medical chief said hours before Friday night’s opening ceremony. The IOC says about 15 percent of Olympic Village residents are unvaccinated.
