RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan's top male paddler June Mizutani lifted himself on a world elite podium for the first time after beating Belarus' 40-year-old veteran Vladimir Samsonov here on Thursday for an Olympic bronze medal of table tennis.
The 27-year-old claimed a 11-4, 11-9, 6-11, 14-12, 11-8 victory over the six-time Olympian Belarusian, the 1997 world championships singles runner-up.
Easily surrendering the opening set 11-4, Samsonov dropped two points in a row after the Japanese won an over 30-tap rally to tie it 9-9.
The world No. 9 Belarusian then managed to take control of the rhythm to rush it into 10-4 before denying a late comeback of Mizutani who pulled two set points in a row before returning wide to lose it 11-6.
Exchanging lead from 10-all, the duo played a tactical game in the fourth set and took control in turns before Mizutani got lucky to win it 14-12 with an edge ball.
Leading 2-0 into the fifth set, Samsonov failed to stop Mizutani from playing an in-style 7-1 run and easily gave up 11-3 to lose the third-place play-off.
Earlier on Thursday morning, Mizutani, ranked the sixth in the world, was beaten by top seed Ma Long, and Samsonov lost to defending champion Zhang Jike in the semifinals. The last four performance has been the six-time Olympian's best results so far.
GAZA nike cortez danmark , Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement welcomed on Monday the declaration of the Palestinian National Unity Government to head to Gaza next week.
Hamas said in an emailed statement that "we wish for the government to succeed in its duties and to undertake its responsibilities."
The statement called on President Mahmoud Abbas "to retract from punitive measures against Gaza in synchronization with the visit."
Spokesperson for the unity government Yousef Al-Mahmoud said in an emailed press statement that "Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah consulted with President Mahmoud Abbas, and decided to hold the weekly cabinet meeting in Gaza Strip in the middle of next week."
"Al-Hamdallah and the ministers will arrive in Gaza next Monday to start the handover process after Hamas movement agreed to dissolve the administrative committee and allow the government to undertake its responsibility in all southern governorates (Gaza)," explained the statement.
Last week nike air huarache tilbud , Islamic Hamas movement declared in Cairo that it will dissolve the controversial administrative committee.
This is not the first time that rival Palestinian parties Hamas and President Abbas's Fatah party reach an agreement to put an end to the internal division, but none of the past agreements succeeded.
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