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Tokyo Olympics

Terminator 2: Titmus takes gold again, Ledecky doesn’t medal

TOKYO (AP) — Ariarne Titmus rallied on the final lap to pull out the gold medal, just as she did in her first Olympic race. This time, she didn't have to worry about Katie Ledecky. The Australian known as the Terminator claimed her second gold medal of the Tokyo Games with a victory in ...

Defending champion Fiji to meet New Zealand in 7s final

TOKYO (AP) — Jerry Tuwai's Fijians are within one victory of back-to-back Olympic gold medals in a sport that is intrinsically part of life in their Pacific island nation. Trying to stop them will be a New Zealand team already assured of winning its first men's rugby sevens medal of any ...

Aussies sweep the fours as rowing records fall in Tokyo

TOKYO (AP) — Australia swept the men's and women's fours in the first rowing finals of the Tokyo Games, as windy conditions at the Sea Forest Parkway helped the boats set world or Olympic records in all six races Tuesday. Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of Romania started the assault on the ...

Germany pulls away in 4th, tops Nigeria 99-92 in Tokyo

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Johnannes Voigtmann scored 19 points, and Germany used a 14-0 run in the final minutes to pull away and beat Nigeria 99-92 on Wednesday at the Tokyo Olympics. Moritz Wagner scored 17 points, while Danilo Barthel scored 14, Maodo Lo had 13 and Andreas Obst finished with ...

GLIMPSES: Fragments of detail tell different Olympic stories

TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to think of the Olympics as epic, as a collection of significant moments stitched into a grand and thrilling narrative. And the Games are often certainly that. But sometimes the genius is in the details — not even the details of actual competition, necessarily, but ...

Small Alaska town embraces state’s 1st swimmer to win gold

SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — An Olympic buzz permeates an Alaska coastal community thousands of miles away from Japan and nearly a full day after Lydia Jacoby scored a major upset to bring home gold in the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the Tokyo Games. Jacoby, a 17-year-old who will return for ...