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Olympics: Penn State’s Alyssa Naeher leaves semifinal vs Canada with injury

Former Penn State goalie Alyssa Naeher left the USWNT’s semifinal matchup vs Canada in the Olympic semifinals with an apparent injury

The United States women’s soccer team took on Canada in an Olympic semifinal in the early Monday morning hours on the east coast, and former Nittany Lion and US goalie Alyssa Naeher was unable to get out of the first half due to an apparent leg injury.

Around the 19-minute mark of the first half of a scoreless tie, Naeher collided with a Canadian player while going to grab the ball off a scoring opportunity. Naeher’s injury paused the action for roughly five minutes before she decided to give it a shot to continue playing on.

However, after staying in goal for about five minutes, Naehler signaled to the United States bench to say she will not be able to continue playing in net.

Adrianna French came off the bench to replace one of Penn State’s finest in net for the Americans.

Naeher played a pivotal role in the United States women advancing to the semifinal by coming up huge in goal against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal round of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo.

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Olympics: Penn State’s Alyssa Naeher comes up huge in US women’s soccer win over Netherlands

The USWNT had some heroics from Penn State’s own Alyssa Naeher to advance to the Olympic semifinals.

It is always an honor to represent your country on the biggest stage like the World Cup or Olympics. Penn State would be on the big stage in the medal round of women’s Soccer at the Olympics.

The US Women’s National Team took on the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. This game was a rematch of the 2019 World Cup Final, which the USA won.

Alyssa Naeher, who played at Penn State, got the start in goal and Naeher would make some big saves in this game.

Like this penalty kick stop in the second half with the game tied 2-2 and 10 minutes remaining in regulation time…

Penalty kicks were needed to determine a winner, and once again Naeher was up to the challenge.

With Naeher getting the job done in the goal, it was the team’s leader, Megan Rapinoe, who sent the US women into the semifinals of the Olympic tournament.

 

Typhoon expected to hit near Tokyo on Tuesday, could make for a soggy start to Olympic men’s golf competition

Several inches of rain could fall in Tokyo during the tropical storm, leaving soggy conditions in its wake at Kasumigaseki Country Club.

The Olympic golf competition may be in for a soggy start, as the men are scheduled to begin play Thursday just days after a weak typhoon is predicted to make landfall Tuesday north of Tokyo.

Tropical Storm Nepartak is a mid-grade tropical storm by U.S. categorizations, the Associated Press reported. It could dump several inches of rain on Kasumigaseki Country Club northwest of Tokyo, which is on the eastern, Pacific Ocean-facing side of Japan. Maximum gusts have approached 70 mph, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported, with sustained winds of about 45 mph.

“It is a tropical storm of three grade out of five, so you shouldn’t be too much worried about that, but it is a typhoon in Japan interpretation,” Tokyo Games spokesman Masa Takaya said. “This is the weakest category, but this is still a typhoon so we should not be too optimistic about the impact of the course (of the storm).”

The storm, which is approaching the island nation from the east, is predicted to be gone from the area before the men tee off Thursday morning. But the golf course’s drainage could be tested, and there is a high probability of more rain throughout the next two weeks. The men play July 29-August 1, and the women play August 4-7.

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Check the yardage book: Kasumigaseki East Course for the 2021 Olympic Games

Kasumigaseki Country Club dates back nearly a century, but it was a Fazio renovation in 2016 that prepared the course for the Olympics.

Kasumigaseki Country Club and its East Course, host site for golf in this year’s Olympic Games, was founded in 1929 and renovated a few years later by British designer C.H. Alison before being closed during World War II. The U.S. Air Force took over the property following the war, and the East and a new West Course were re-established in the following years.

The East featured two greens on each hole for decades, with one green covered in a winter grass and the other in a grass that thrived during the warm summers.

All that changed with a 2016 renovation by American architect Tom Fazio and his son, Logan, who converted the private Kasumigaseki’s double greens into single greens. The Fazios also repositioned fairway bunkers to challenge modern professionals, and they reframed several holes in their existing corridors. The greens are now covered in bent grass, with zoysia in play on the rest of the course.

A 2017 aerial photo of Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, outside of Tokyo, Japan (Miyuki Saito/Kyodo News via AP)

The course will play 7,447 yards for the men July 29-August 1, and it will play 6,648 yards for the women August 4-7.

Kasumigaseki has been the host of several notable golf events, including several Japan Opens and various top amateur events. It hosted the 1957 Canada Cup, a precursor to the World Cup, and Hideki Matsuyama won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on Kasumigaseki’s West Course in 2010. Now the Masters champion, Matsuyama is a favorite in these Olympics.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players will face this week and next. Check out each hole below (yardages will be adjusted for the women), and follow this link to the club’s website to see drone footage of each hole, with narration by Tom Fazio.

How to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony, TV channel, start time

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony will be held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Friday, you can stream all the action right here.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony will be held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Friday. This will be taped for everyone that didn’t see the original live version this morning at 7 a.m. ET.

Mike Tirico and Savannah Guthrie will host the event while Michelle Tafoya and Lewis Johnson will be on the sidelines. We’ll have you covered throughout the Olympics including all the events.

Here is everything you need to know to catch the Opening Ceremony from Tokyo on Friday evening.

2020 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony

Olympic Schedule

Friday, July 23

Opening Ceremony (LIVE), 6:55 a.m. ET

Olympic Preview Show, 1 p.m. ET

Opening Ceremony (TAPED), 7:30 p.m. ET

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Notre Dame athletes who have won medals at the Summer Olympics

These Notre Dame products have done well on sports’ biggest stage.

After being delayed by one year, the 2020 Olympic Games are underway in Tokyo. Notre Dame has a record 20 current and former student-athletes seeking that coveted gold medal in this competition and the Paralympics. You can keep track of all of them here. With all of those names, the chances of at least one of them winning any medal are extremely high.

Notre Dame’s Olympic history goes back to 1912. While not every Olympian to go through South Bend has won a medal, quite a few of them have done just that. A few even won medals while representing countries other than the U.S. It’s a testament to how Notre Dame leaves no stone unturned when it comes to recruiting talent for its athletic program.

As we prepare to cheer on this year’s Olympians who have donned the Irish uniform, let’s look back at those who have made it to the podium in previous summer competitions:

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Notre Dame product Jackie Young named to U.S. 3-on-3 Olympic team

Add another Notre Dame Olympian to Team USA.

With only a few days before the Tokyo Olympics officially begin, Notre Dame has some new blood for the U.S. Former Irish guard Jackie Young, a member of the 2018 national championship team, has been named a late addition to Team USA for the new 3-on-3 basketball event. She will take the place of Katie Lou Samuelson, who was forced to pull out after entering health and safety protocols. The other members of the team are Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray and Young’s Las Vegas Aces teammate Kelsey Plum.

Young, the top overall pick in the 2019 WNBA draft, is in her third season with the Aces, who are one game back of the Seattle Storm for first in the Western Conference. She has started all 21 games for the Aces while averaging 12.6 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.2 steals a game.

The preliminary round for the 3-on-3 competition will begin Saturday and run through July 27, which also is the day of the quarterfinals. The semifinals and finals will be played July 28. One person who will be watching is Irish coach Niele Ivey, who was associate head coach during Young’s time in South Bend:

Arike Ogunbowale named WNBA All-Star MVP

The Irish legend just took home some serious hardware.

In only her third WNBA season, Notre Dame legend Arike Ogunbowale is well on her way to becoming one of the best ever in women’s basketball. Ogunbowale, known to Irish fans for her heroics in the 2018 Final Four, added another accolade to her already impressive career. She led all scorers in the WNBA All-Star Game with 26 points to lead Team WNBA to a 93-85 win over the U.S. National Team, which is preparing for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. For her efforts, Ogunbowale was named the game’s MVP:

Ogunbowale, who is averaging 18.9 points a game for the Dallas Wings this season, had a pair of critical moments in the fourth quarter. With Team WNBA holding a two-point lead, she converted a four-point play. That six-point lead went down to five, but Ogunbowale made another 3-pointer and flaunted the moment for the Las Vegas crowd. The national team never got the deficit closer than six the rest of the way.