Category: gold medal

Team USA Adds Two Gold Medals as Dressel Sets New Record

Americans added two gold medals to the country’s count in the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday morning, with one swimmer setting a new record. Caeleb Dressel won the 100-meter freestyle in 47.02 seconds, setting a new Olympic record and finishing just six-hundredths of a second ahead of Australia’s Kyle Chalmers. Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov took bronze. “It was…


Team USA Adds Two Gold Medals Swimming as Dressel Sets New Record

Americans added two gold medals to the country’s count in the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday morning, with one swimmer setting a new record. Caeleb Dressel won the 100-meter freestyle in 47.02 seconds, setting a new Olympic record and finishing just six-hundredths of a second ahead of Australia’s Kyle Chalmers. Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov took bronze. “It was…


Japan Beats US 2–0, Turns Incredible DP to Win Softball Gold

YOKOHAMA,—Japan won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2–0 Tuesday in an emotional repeat of its 2008 victory in Beijing that again left the Americans in tears. Yukiko Ueno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning, five days after her 39th birthday, and Japan snuffed out an American rally attempt…


Nagase Triumphs in -81kg Judo to Continue Japanese Gold Rush

TOKYO—Japan’s Takanori Nagase won the men’s -81kg judo gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics by beating Saeid Mollaei of Mongolia in the final, extending the gold rush by Japanese judokas. Rio bronze medallist Nagase’s victory marked a fifth judo gold medal for hosts Japan at the Games, edging them closer to their previous Olympic record…


Mother of Olympic Champion Tom Dean Says Family Celebrated ‘Like Lunatics’

The family of Great Britain’s Tom Dean celebrated like “lunatics” after he claimed an Olympic gold medal in the men’s 200 metres freestyle, his mother has said. Dean, 21, who was “knocked for six” after contracting coronavirus for a second time earlier this year, finished in a time of one minute and 44.22 seconds, ahead…


Kennys Ready to Fire up Gold-Medal Machine

TOKYO —If Jason Kenny and his wife Laura were a country, their five track cycling golds at the Rio Olympics would have put them in the top 20 in the medals table. Now British sport’s golden couple, key players in their country’s domination on the boards, are aiming to top up their legacies and rewrite…