Tokyo Olympics: Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee Ta Lou misses medal on day eight
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The final of the women's 100m at the Tokyo Olympics saw Ta Lou edged out again
Ivory Coast sprinter Marie-Josee Ta Lou finished fourth in the women's 100m final for the second consecutive Olympics as Jamaica claimed a clean sweep of the medals.
Elsewhere, both Ivory Coast and Egypt were knocked out of the men's football at the quarter-final stage by Spain and Brazil respectively.
Seven Africans, including three athletes from South Africa, qualified for Sunday's semi-finals of the men's 100 metres.
Athletics afternoon session
Ivorian Ta Lou finished fourth in the final of the women's 100m final, just as she did at the Rio Games in 2016.
Ta Lou ran 10.91 seconds but was beaten by the Jamaican trio, with Elaine Thompson-Herah running the second-fastest time ever to retain her title with another two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in silver and Shericka Jackson claiming bronze.
Earlier in the semi-finals, Ta Lou ran another fast time to qualify for the final.
She won her semi-final in 10.79, just one hundredth of a second slower than her heat on Friday when she equalled the African record held by compatriot Murielle Ahoure, who failed to reach the final.
Grace Nzubechi Nwokocha from Nigeria also failed to progress from the semi-finals.
Nigerian sprinter Enoch Adegoke set a new personal best in his heats at the Tokyo Olympics
Nigerian Enoch Adegoke was the fastest African to qualify for the men's 100m semi-finals on Sunday as he set a personal best of 9.98 seconds to win his heat.
Ferdinand Omwurwa Omanyala, who had battled to be included in the Kenyan team for the games, set a national record of 10.01s to advance as well.
All three South Africans - Gift Leotlela, Akani Simbine and Shaun Maswanganyi - will be in the semi-finals as will Nigeria's Usheoritse 'Dushos' Itsekiri and Arthur Cisse of Ivory Coast.
Yet there was controversy when Nigeria's Divine Oduduru was disqualified for a false start in his heat despite no-one being kicked out of the heat for a similar offence moments earlier.
Togo's Fabrice Dbala was also disqualified for a false start.
Ethiopia's Habitam Alemu will be the only African in the women's 800m final on Tuesday, as she qualified with the second fastest time of the semi-finals.
It was a disappointing Olympics for Ugandan world champion Halimah Nakaayi, who recorded the slowest time of the semis as she failed to advance.
Her compatriot Winnie Nanyondo, Benin's Noelie Yarigo, Kenya's Mary Moraa and Moroccan Rababe Arafi also all failed to progress.
"I am totally disappointed but in life, there are good days and bad days at work, and today was a bad day, but I congratulate my colleagues who made it to the final," Nakaayi said.
"I was just recovering from a long-time injury (tendon problem). But I am focusing on the future. I believe the future is still bright."
South Africa's former world bronze medallist Ruswahl Samaii's leap of 7.74m in qualifying was not enough for him to reach the final of the men's long jump.
His compatriot Cheswill Johnson failed to record a legal jump and so was also eliminated.
Athletics morning session
Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich was the fastest qualifier from the heats of the men's 800m to reach Sunday's semi-finals.
South Africa's Wenda Nel finished third in her heat for the women's 400m hurdles to qualify automatically for Monday's semi-finals.
Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich was the fastest qualifier from the heats of the men's 800m to reach Sunday's semi-finals.
The other African athletes to qualify automatically were Botswana's 2012 Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos, Tunisia's Abdessalem Ayouni as well as two more Kenyans, Michael Saruni and Emmanuel Korir.
Moroccan duo Oussama Nabil and Abdelati El Guesse, who set a personal best, both progressed as fastest losers.
In the women's 100m hurdles, Nigeria's Amusan Tobi reached Saturday's semi-finals with the seventh-fastest time as Liberia's Ebony Morrion also made it through as a fastest loser.
Football
Spain celebrate their fifth goal against Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals of the men's football at the Tokyo Olympics
There was double disappointment for Africa in the men's football as both Egypt and Ivory Coast were knocked out in the quarter-finals.
Ivory Coast were eliminated by Spain, who needed extra-time to eventually win 5-2.
The Ivorians were minutes away from reaching the semi-finals but Spain scored a late equaliser to make it 2-2 and force extra-time.
Manchester United defender Eric Bailly gave the Ivorians the lead after just three minutes before RB Leipzig's Dani Olmo equalised on the half-hour mark.
Turkey-based Max Gradel looked like he had won the game for Ivory Coast with a goal in the first minute of added time at the end of the match only for Rafa Mir to dramatically equalise for Spain moments later.
Spain took the lead in the first period of extra-time when Real Sociedad's Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty, after a handball by Bailly.
Wolverhampton Wanderers' Mir added two more goals in the second half of extra-time to complete his hat-trick and confirm Spain's place in the last four.
Egypt lost to reigning gold medallists Brazil 1-0 with the only goal of the game being scored by Hertha Berlin's Matheus Cunha in the 37th minute.
Basketball
Nigeria's men have been knocked out of the Olympics after suffering a third straight defeat in Group B as they lost 80-71 to Italy.
D'Tigers had gone into the Tokyo Games with high hopes after beating both the USA and Argentina in warm-up matches before travelling to Japan.
Volleyball
Kenya's women were eliminated on Saturday as they once again lost 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-10) - this time to Dominican Republic.
The Kenyans cannot progress to the quarter-finals even if they spring a huge surprise and overcome the unbeaten Brazilians in their final Pool A match on Monday.
Beach Volleyball
Kenya's Gaudencia Makokha and Bracksides Khadambi are out of the women's event after losing once again, this time 2-0 (21-6, 21-14) to Latvia's Tina Graudina and Anastasjia Kravcenoka.
Boxing
Rady Garmane failed in her bid to become only the second Mozambican athlete to ever win an Olympic medal, alongside 800m great Maria Mutola, who won bronze in 1996 and gold in 2000.
She lost 4-1 on points to Zemfira Magomedalieva from the Russian Olympic Committee team in Saturday's quarter-finals.
Handball
Angola's women kept alive their slim hopes of reaching the quarter-finals with a 28-25 win over hosts Japan.
The Angolans can progress if they can win their final match against South Korea on Monday and Japan lose to Norway, who have already qualified for the last eight.
Hockey
South Africa's women have been eliminated after losing all five of their Group A games in Tokyo, with a final 4-3 loss to India on Saturday.
Rugby sevens
Kenya's women finished tenth out of the 12 competing nations in Japan, as they lost their play-off match 24-10 to Canada.
Golf
South Africa's Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Zimbabwe's Scott Vincent are among the competitors tied for 17th place going into Sunday's final round of the men's event.
They are on seven under par, leaving them seven shots behind leader Xander Schauffele of the USA.
Another South African, Garrick Higgo, is one under par but is back in 46th place.
Water Polo
South Africa men's elimination was confirmed on Saturday with a fourth heavy defeat in their group, as they lost 28-5 to Greece.
The South Africans face hosts Japan in one final game on Monday, with both teams looking for a first win of the Tokyo Games.