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MOSCOW—Yuriy Sedykh, a two-time Olympic champion in the hammer throw whose world record from 1986 still stands, has died. He was 66. The Russian track and ... -
Windfoilers from around the world sailed across a beautiful lake in Switzerland over the weekend. Met with harsh winds, the race for victory did not come ...
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The Olympics are over, but for some athletes, competition continues. Gold medal sprinter Allyson Felix is preparing for the upcoming Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Already ...
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Olympic champion Hansle Parchment has tracked down a volunteer who rescued his gold medal hopes by giving him money for a taxi after a transportation mix-up ... -
Here’s a curious question: Is new footwear technology helping Olympic athletes smash records? One professor says it is. So the next question is, should they be ...
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TOKYO—Team USA extended a historic run of championships in Olympic women’s basketball on Sunday, winning the gold against home team Japan in their first-ever medal match. ... -
TOKYO—Jordan Larson fell to the floor, put her head in her hands and cried after Brazil couldn’t return her spike on match point. The frustration of ... -
TOKYO—Allyson Felix knows the way to the Olympic medals stand better than any runner alive. She made her record-setting 11th trip there Saturday, after starring as ... -
KAWAGOE, Japan—World number one Nelly Korda pulled within tantalizing reach of the gold medal in Olympic women’s golf on Friday, as Aditi Ashok boosted India’s hopes ...
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TOKYO—U.S. volleyball star Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson woke up with a vision that her team was poised to make it back to the gold medal game. Five ...
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TOKYO—Slovenian champion Janja Garnbret claimed the first gold medal in women’s climbing on Friday, solidifying her dominance in the field, as the sport’s debut appearance at ...
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TOKYO—A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses has been knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring. The statue and a nearby patch of cherry trees that ...
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A Belarusian sprinter, who refused to board a flight back to her home country out of fear she would be arrested after publicly criticizing her coaches ...
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The Tokyo Olympics is using cutting-edge technology to time athletes, all thanks to the official timekeeper, Swiss watch icon OMEGA.
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TOKYO—Canada’s Andre De Grasse added gold to a groaning collection of minor medals with victory in the 200 metres, Kenya went one-two in the men’s 800m ...
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After intense competition, four Team USA Olympic swimmers celebrated their victories Tuesday, posing for photos at the helm of New York’s Empire State Building.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped its probe into American athlete Raven Saunders' podium gesture after she announced that her mother had died.
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It started the way his races often do—a slap of the chest, a pump of the fist, and a roar to the camera—but ended like none ...
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TOKYO—The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday asked the Chinese team for a report on why two of its medalists appeared on the podium wearing badges ...
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TAIPEI—After Taiwan beat China in the badminton men’s doubles final at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday, gold medalist Wang Chi-Lin made a Facebook comment that ...
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CHIBA, Japan—World champion Tamyra Mensah-Stock capped her Olympic debut with a gold medal in the women’s freestyle light heavyweight category on Tuesday to become only the ...
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TOKYO—Athing Mu of the United States won the gold medal in the Olympic women’s 800 meters final on Tuesday, her country’s first victory in the event ...
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American gymnast Simone Biles took bronze in the balance beam competition after returning to the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. The 24-year-old superstar, who won four gold ...
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TOKYO—Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the women’s 100 meters hurdles gold on Monday, blitzing the field despite hitting one hurdle to finish in 12.37 seconds at ...
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American BMX racer Connor Fields suffered a brain hemorrhage after the defending gold medalist was involved in a serious crash during the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games’ ...
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KAWAGOE, Japan—Four feet between his golf ball and the cup was all that separated Xander Schauffele from an Olympic gold medal, and he couldn’t help but ...
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TOKYO—Bobby Finke will be the first to concede he had modest goals for the Tokyo Olympics. He was thrilled merely to make the U.S. team in ...
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TOKYO—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 ...
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TOKYO—After booking her place in Olympic history with a record sixth individual gold medal, world swimming’s most decorated woman Katie Ledecky is confident there’s plenty more ...
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TOKYO—Francesco Di Fulvio and Italy won the 2019 world championship in men’s water polo, establishing themselves as gold medal contenders for the Olympics. Then the coronavirus ...
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