Georgian shot putter provisionally banned for failed doping test

Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan has been provisionally suspended and will miss Tuesday's competition at the Tokyo Olympics after failing a doping test for steroids, the International Testing Agency said on Tuesday.

The 36-year-old, who also competed at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics, tested positive during an out-of-competition test conducted on July 31. He can now demand his 'B' sample be tested, the ITA said.

China gets another 1-2 finish in Olympic diving 

Xie Siyi and Wang Zongyuan gave China another 1-2 finish in Olympic diving, claiming gold and silver in men's three-metre springboard Tuesday.

The Chinese divers held the top two spots after both the preliminaries and the semifinals, and it was more of the same in the finals.

Xie broke down in tears when the scores for his final dive were posted, a string of 9.0s and 9.5s that clinched the victory with 558.75 points. Wang came over to give his teammate a hug.

The biggest drama was for the silver, but Wang nailed his final dive to finish with 534.90 and hold off Jack Laugher of Britain.

Laughter was only 2.05 points behind Wang going to the final round but over-rotated his entry a bit on his highest-difficulty dive, a forward 2 1/2 somersaults with three twists. The telltale splash left him with 518.00 points and the bronze.

Laugher has won a medal on the springboard at the last two Olympics, having claimed a silver at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Long the world's dominant diving nation, China has been near-perfect at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre with five gold medals in six events.

The only slip came in men's 10-metre synchronized, where Chen Aisen ad Cao Yuan settled for silver in an upset win by the British team of Tom Daley and Matty Lee.

Otherwise, the Chinese have captured every medal available to them. They won the other three synchronized events and have gone 1-2 in the first two individual events of the games.

Xie and Wang added to the gold they won in three-metre synchronized.

The most touching moment came when Ken Terauchi of Japan, just four days shy of his 41st birthday, completed the final dive of his sixth Olympics.

He failed to win Japan's first diving medal ever, finishing last in the 12-man final. Still, Terauchi received a standing ovation for all the coaches and competitors in the nearly empty arena and posed for pictures afterward with everyone who wanted one.

Japan's Irie wins boxing gold

Sena Irie of Japan has claimed the first-ever women's featherweight boxing gold medal with a unanimous decision over the Philippines' Nesthy Petecio.

Irie became the first female boxer to win a medal for Japan when she secured the first gold of the Tokyo boxing tournament by sweeping the third round on all five judges' cards at the Kokugikan Arena. Irie's crisper punches won over the judges in a bout with plenty of clinching.

Petecio settled for the Philippines' first boxing medal of any kind since 1996, but Manny Pacquiao's home nation is in contention for at least two more medals in Tokyo.

Featherweight was one of two women's weight classes added to the Olympics in Tokyo. The women's field also was expanded to 100 fighters from 36 in its first two Olympics.

Italy's Irma Testa and Britain's Karriss Artingstall won the division's inaugural bronze medals.

Belgium defeats India to advance to finals in men's field hockey

World champions Belgium earned a spot in the men's hockey finals at the Tokyo Games after beating India 5-2 on Tuesday, giving the 2016 Rio Olympic silver medallists a fresh chance at securing a gold medal.

Belgium will now face Australia or Germany in the gold medal match on Thursday, while India will play for bronze.

"We're very proud for making the finals, but the last step is yet to be made," Belgium captain Felix Denayer said.

"We would really love to play our best hockey at the end."

Belgium's Red Lions needed less than two minutes to score the opening goal when defender Loick Luypaert scored off a penalty corner.

Eight-time Olympic champions India, who last claimed the top prize at the 1980 Moscow Games, leveled the score and then pulled ahead not much later through goals from Harmanpreet Singh and striker Mandeep Singh.

But Belgium continued to believe it could make it to the final despite losing their early lead, said Alexander Hendrickx, who is the top scorer at the Tokyo tournament.

"In the end, the opportunities that we created were enough to win the game," said Hendrickx, who made the equalizer with a goal off a penalty corner halfway through the second quarter.

With 11 minutes left to go, Hendrickx again lived up to his reputation as a superb drag-flicker by scoring his second goal off a penalty corner in the match, giving Belgium a 3-2 lead.