TOKYO: Caeleb Dressel powered to his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday as the United States won their duel in the pool with Australia ahead of the hotly anticipated men’s 100m showdown on the track.
Elsewhere on day nine in Japan, home favourite Hideki Matsuyama targets golfing gold while Germany’s Alexander Zverev takes on Russia’s Karen Khachanov in the men’s tennis final.
US gymnastics great Simone Biles, struggling with a debilitating mental block, withdrew from the floor final, leaving her just one more chance of competition in Tokyo.
Dressel dominated the men’s 50m freestyle final with an Olympic-record time of 21.07sec and then returned to help the US team smash the world mark in the men’s 4x100m…
