Australia beat New Zealand in the earlier bronze medal race.Д¬ontroversy has overshadowed MondayвЂ™s medal ceremony for womenвЂ™s track cycling after gold medal winners Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore badges featuring the likeness of the country's late leader Mao Zedong, in an apparent violation of Olympic rules prohibiting athletes from engaging in political demonstrations or displaying вЂњpolitical, religious or racial propaganda.' Denmark finished a close second with 3:42.198 (three hours, 42.198 minutes). ItalyвЂ™s menвЂ™s cycling team won the gold medal in the pursuit finals at the Izu Velodrome by setting a new world record of 3:42.032 (three hours, 42.032 minutes). In the men's 470 class, Matthew Belcher and Will Ryan of Australia won the gold, followed by Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom of Sweden and SpainвЂ™s Jordi Xammar and Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz, who won the bronze medal. In the sailing competition, BritainвЂ™s Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntir won the womenвЂ™s 470 class at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour in Fujisawa City, with PolandвЂ™s Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Jolanta Ogar taking the silver medal and FranceвЂ™s Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz winning bronze. Japanese skateboarders have so far won a total of five medals across the menвЂ™s and womenвЂ™s divisions, including three gold. BritainвЂ™s Sky Brown earned a score of 56.47 to finish in third place and win bronze, becoming Britain's youngest Olympic medalist at age 13. In other events, 19-year-old Sakura Yosozumi of host country Japan won the gold medal in the inaugural womenвЂ™s park skateboarding at Ariake Urban Sports Park with a score of 60.09, just one point better than 12-year-old silver medalist Kokona Hiraki. Muhammad also won the event at the 2019 World Championships. McLaughlinвЂ™s victory appears to represent a changing of the guard, as she dethroned the woman who won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where McLaughlin made her Olympics debut at age 16. Muhammad crossed the finish line at 51.28 seconds, a personal best, to take the silver medal, while Femke Bol of the Netherlands was the bronze medalist at 52.03 seconds. The 21-year-old McLaughlin caught the 31-year-old Muhammad on the final stretch after the runners cleared the hurdles to finish the race at 51.46 seconds, breaking the world record of 51.90 seconds she set at the U.S. Sydney McLaughlin of the United States edged her compatriot and rival, Dalilah Muhammad, to win the gold medal in the womenвЂ™s 400-meters hurdles Wednesday at the Tokyo Olympics.

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