Chinese shooter wins first gold of Tokyo Olympics as storm threat looms

Yang snatched a dramatic last-shot victory from Russia's Anastasiia Galashina in the women's 10-metre air rifle as attention switched from the troubled build-up to the event to the sporting action.

But Covid-19 has cast a fresh shadow, forcing German cyclist Simon Geschke out of the road race while Dutch rower Finn Florijn has also tested positive. "Unlike an earthquake, we're able to predict the path of a typhoon so we're able to prepare in advance," said Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya.China's Yang started the Olympic gold rush by winning the women's 10-metre air rifle with a Games record score of 251.8, edging ahead of Galashina on 251.1 and Switzerland's Nina Christen on 230.6.

But there was agony for Japan when Uchimura -- all-around Olympic gymnastics champion in 2012 and 2016 and a superstar in Japan -- was eliminated from the horizontal bars competition and did not compete in the parallel bars.Djokovic had cast doubt over whether he would participate at Tokyo because of the strict virus protocols and lack of crowds, but the possibility of the Golden Slam -- winning all four majors and the Olympics in the same year -- proved impossible to resist.

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