Akira Sone continued Japan's judo gold rush at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, beating Cuba's Idalys Ortiz for the women's over-78-kilogram title.The victory brought Japan's gold medal tally for the Tokyo Games to 16, matching its previous Olympic record, set when it first hosted the games in Tokyo in 1964 and equaled at the 2004 Athens Games. A gold-medal victory by the men's fencing epee team later in the evening gave Japan its biggest haul ever.Czech Lukas Krpalek won the men's over-100-kg gold, beating Georgia's Guram Tushishvili by ippon after dumping Japan's 2016 Olympic silver medalist…READ FULL ARTICLE
