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"Very negligent": Olympic champion Brink criticizes beach volleyball in the midday heat

The former beach volleyball Olympic winner Julius Brink has criticized the exposure of the Olympic medal games in the midday heat of Tokyo Harsch. "The beach volleyballers are canted out here because the big donors from overseas, NBC, who bought Prime Time," said the ARD expert during the transfer of the bronze game of women: "That takes a train that told me extremely evil and makes me angry. " The match for third place took place on Friday at 10.00 o'clock local time in the port of Tokyo, one and a half hours later the final rose between Alix Klineman / April Ross (USA) and Mariafe Artacho del Solar / Taliqua Clancy (Australia). "We see here impaired players in the heat, I find it very negligently to do it somewhere," Brink said, who had gained gold in 2012 in London with Jonas Reckermann Gold. "I do not criticize that it is warm here, everyone knows," the 39-year-old shoved. However, the possibilities have been there to "lay differen...

Thole / winder failed - Kaul gives injured - cousin makes it exciting - Olympic Games

+++ Hammerzen: World Champion FajDek fails again +++ Wojciech Nowicki is for the first time Olympic champion in hammering. The compatriot of Poland, Pawel Fajdek, was already four times world champion, but with Olympic gold it still does not want to work. In 2012 in London and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, FajDek had even missed the final battle, 2021 in Tokyo was at least bronze at 81.53 meters. Nowicki won with 82.52 meters. +++ Off for ten-fight world champion Kaul +++ For ten-fight World Champion Niklas Kaul, the Olympic premiere is over the prematurely end. The 23-year-old Mainz could not exit the 400-meter run because of a foot injury and had to be driven in a wheelchair from the interior of the Olympic Stadium of Tokyo. He had pulled the painful blessur at the high jump over 2.11 meters. The efforts of the physicians of the German team to make him fit for the fifth discipline, were ultimately in vain. Kaul was considered a medal as a candidate. +++ Beach volleyball: Thole / wind...