Category: Olympic

Olympics-Swimming-Scott on for Record Haul as Team GB Pile on the Medals

July 30, 2021
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TOKYO—Duncan Scott spoke of the ‘Adam Peaty effect’ after becoming Britain’s joint most-decorated Olympic swimmer of all time on Friday with a silver in the men’s 200-metre individual medley. The medal was his third of the Tokyo Games, after 4 x 200-metre relay gold and 200-metre freestyle silver, and fifth from two Olympics. The Scot…

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Duncan Scott on Record Haul as Team GB Pile on the Medals

July 30, 2021
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TOKYO—Duncan Scott spoke of the “Adam Peaty effect” after becoming Britain’s joint most decorated Olympic swimmer of all time on Friday with a silver in the men’s 200-metre individual medley. The medal was his third of the Tokyo Games, after 4 x 200-metre relay gold and 200-metre freestyle silver, and fifth from two Olympics. The…

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Italy Wins Rematch With US in Men’s Olympic Water Polo

July 29, 2021
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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 pandemic arrived. A year after the Games were supposed to occur, Di Fulvio sees a wide-open competition in Tokyo. “We are the same team. We do the same play,…

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China Women’s Revival Will Take Generations, Says Coach Jia

July 29, 2021
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HONG KONG—More than two decades removed from the upper reaches of women’s football, China continue to look for a way back into the sport’s top tier after a disastrous showing at the Olympic Games. After finishing bottom of their group with a solitary point and conceding 17 goals in games against Brazil, the Netherlands and…

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Brothers Face Off Against Each Other at Tokyo Olympics

July 28, 2021
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TOKYO—Playing against his younger brother at the Olympic hockey tournament is not something New Zealand goalkeeper Leon Hayward had thought would ever happen. But on Wednesday, Leon, 31, faced off against his 28-year-old brother Jeremy, who played as a defender for Australia in their match against the Kiwis in a spectator-less stadium at the Tokyo…

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

July 27, 2021
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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…

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‘A Bit Much’: Naomi Osaka Cites Pressure in Olympic Loss

July 27, 2021
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TOKYO—It wasn’t the ending that Naomi Osaka—nor her multitudes of fans across Japan and worldwide—had expected. The start of the Tokyo Olympics, however, will forever be a bright memory for the tennis superstar. Osaka herself said after lighting the Olympic cauldron during last week’s opening ceremony that it was “undoubtedly the greatest athletic achievement and…

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With Simone Biles Out, ROC Wins Women’s Team Gymnastics

July 27, 2021
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TOKYO—Simone Biles came to Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves. It all came to a stunning halt in the women’s gymnastics final on Tuesday night with an uncertain vault. In a flash, the rest of the American star’s Games came into question. And the United States’ long…

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With Simone Biles Out, Russians Win Women’s Team Gymnastics

July 27, 2021
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TOKYO—Simone Biles came to Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves. It all came to a stunning halt in the women’s gymnastics final on Tuesday night with an uncertain vault. In a flash, the rest of the American star’s Games came into question. And the United States’ long…

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Britain’s Pidcock Storms to Cross-Country Gold

July 26, 2021
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IZU, Japan—Britain’s Tom Pidcock became the youngest ever Olympic mountain bike champion as he left his rivals in a cloud of dust as he stormed to the gold medal on the Izu course on Monday. The relentless 21-year-old seized control after four laps of the 4.1km Izu circuit and he was never challenged, riding away…

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