Tokyo

The Israeli competed fourth, netting a score of 14.933. This is Israel's first gold medal in Tokyo, and second in history.

The 31-year-old Knyazyeva-Minenko scored a personal best for 2021, putting up a distance of 14.60 meters in her third time reaching the Olympic final.

In 2009, Dolgopyat’s family moved to Israel from the Ukraine and settled in Tel Aviv, where he quickly became a standout at the Maccabi sports club.

The two now hold 55 points, only 10 points behind the fourth place Switzerland, but far behind the three leaders from Poland, Britain and France.

Biles withdrew from the final of the floor exercise and will decide later on this week about the one remaining event she is scheduled to participate in.

Israeli athletes got off to a wonderful start in the realm of athletics over the weekend to kick off the second week of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

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Jacoby’s underdog status, as the first-ever Olympic swimmer from Alaska, which has just one Olympic-sized pool, meant that Jewish viewers may have wondered for the first time: Is Lydia Jacoby Jewish?

"Thank you to Israel for all the good energy – this medal is dedicated to you as well and I hope Israelis is happy with this victory, todah," he said.