![]() ![]() "We have made a little bit of history today," Daniell said, adding that the pair had had to endure extreme heat while sharing a small room in the athletes' village which had helped strengthen the bond between them. New Zealander Anthony Wilding won a bronze medal as part of a combined Australasian team in 1912. Tokyo 2020 Olympics Tokyo Olympics cost doubles to 13bn on COVID and overruns Snowballing budgets raise questions about taxpayer burden The Summer Olympics in Tokyo proved costly. New Zealand's Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus won the bronze by beating Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren of the United States 7-6(3) 6-2 to secure their country’s first ever Olympic tennis medal. They stayed on top to win the first game 21-9 but. "We are super proud even though it's a mixed emotion with being so close (to the medal) and not being able to hold the gold medal," Cilic said. TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - China, who have yet to lose a single badminton match to another nation at the Tokyo Olympics, won gold and silver in mixed doubles on Friday after Wang Yilyu. Prestons Birch and Lauren Smith prevailed in the womens doubles opening round clash. The silver medallists expressed mixed feelings about their loss. ![]() Mektic and Pavic, who had not played as a pair before this year, also won the Wimbledon title this month, and Mektic admitted that playing his countrymen in the final had been "a little tricky". It was also Croatia’s first silver after three bronze medals at previous Games - two at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and one at Athens 2004. TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Croatia's Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic beat compatriots Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodig 6-4 3-6 (10-6) in the Olympics men’s doubles final on Friday to win their country’s first gold medal in the sport. While mixed events are now becoming the norm at the Olympics with competitions featuring both sexes in swimming, athletics, archery, judo, shooting, table tennis and triathlon introduced at these Games, tennis mixed doubles has a history at the Games dating back to the start of the previous century.
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