In photos: Olympic Games highlights from day 6 in Tokyo
29 July 2021
There's been plenty of Olympics drama as the Tokyo Games enters a sixth day on Thursday.
The big picture: The biggest shock was in the women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay, when China's swimming team won gold in record time. Katie Ledecky helped close the gap to give the U.S. silver. Team USA grabbed two more swimming gold medals, when Caeleb Dressel won the men's 100m freestyle and Bobby Finke triumphed in the first men's Olympic 800m freestyle.
Madelynn Ann Bernau of Team USA during the trap women's qualification at Asaka Shooting Range on July 29 in Asaka, Saitama. Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
Luka Doncic, #77 of Team Slovenia and the Dallas Mavericks, in the men's preliminary round group C basketball match between Slovenia and Japan at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama on July 29. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
The start of the record-setting women's 4x200m freestyle relay final at the Tokyo Games July 29. Photo: Ina Fried/Axios
Italy's fencing team warms up before their match against France in the Tokyo Games women's foil team semifinal at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, on July 29. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
Team USA's Connor Fields (L) cycles ahead in the Olympic BMX racing men's quarter-finals at the Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo on July 29. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
Japan's Mima Ito serves to China's Sun Yingsha during their women's singles semifinals table tennis game at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on July 29. Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images
Argentina's Nicolas Capogrosso (L) blocks a shot by USA's Nicholas Lucena in their men's preliminary beach volleyball game at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo on July 29. Photo: Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images
Abbie Brown of Team Great Britain scoring a try in the Rugby Seven match against the Russian Olympic Committee at Tokyo Stadium on July 29. Photo: Dan Mullan/Getty Images
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Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times
Section2Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.
Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.
The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.
- The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.
What the transcripts say:
- Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
- The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
- Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."
Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.