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Biles returns to competition with a bronze medal and a smile

TOKYO — Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn't the point. That she delivered a tense, heart...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

You again! Thompson-Herah speeds to second Olympic sprint sweep

TOKYO (AP) — It was billed as a star-studded race that anyone could win. So long as that person's name was Elaine. Elaine Thompson-Herah blew away a much-decorated field in the 200 meters Tu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Biles returns to Olympic competition, wins bronze on beam

TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles isn't going home with a fistful of gold medals. A mental block — one brought on by exhaustion or stress or something the American gymnastics star still can't quite ...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Belarus sprinter says punishment awaited her back home

MOSCOW (AP) — A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team at the Tokyo Games said Tuesday that they “made it clear” she would face punishment if she retu...

DATE: Aug 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

At an extraordinary Olympics, acts of kindness abound

TOKYO (AP) — A surfer jumping in to translate for the rival who’d just beaten him. High-jumping friends agreeing to share a gold medal rather than move to a tiebreaker. Two runners falling i...

DATE: Aug 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Jade Carey's long road to the Olympics ends with gold

TOKYO (AP) — Jade Carey traveled the world for a spot in the Olympics. Germany. Qatar. Azerbaijan. Australia. A lot of long flights. A little bit of jet lag. One unrelenting vision of what c...

DATE: Aug 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Olympic champion Sunisa Lee adds bronze on uneven bars

TOKYO (AP) — Sunisa Lee came to Japan to win a gold medal. And she did. Just not the one she really, really wanted. The 18-year-old from Minnesota is a revelation on uneven bars, where her ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Fast day at pool, track on Day 7 of Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games got their first swimming individual world record and a fast start to the track competition on Day 7 of the Olympics. Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa won the...

DATE: Jul 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Big day for Dressel, Chinese in pool, Lee in gymnastics

TOKYO (AP) — Caeleb Dressel got his first individual gold medal, the Chinese women put together a record-setting relay and American Sunisa Lee won the women's all-around gymnastics gold. Af...

DATE: Jul 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

Olympics latest: U.S. women’s volleyball reaches quarterfinals

TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic: The U.S. women’s volleyball team won ...

DATE: Jul 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sports

U.S. bounces back from Olympic-opening loss, routs Iran, 120-66

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — It wasn't just that the U.S. had been losing. It was that the level of play was practically un-American. Playing passively and passing up open shots isn't the way its p...

DATE: Jul 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

‘OK not to be OK’: Mental health takes top role at Olympics

TOKYO (AP) — For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up — to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: winning. Dominating. Getting it done. For years...

DATE: Jul 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

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