TOKYO (AP) — With a scream and a finish-line fist pump, Germany's Ricarda Funk knew she had posted a medal-worthy time after she battled the rushing waters at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center. That it was gold medal good in her first Olympics was the surprise result still to come. Waiting ...
KASHIMA, Japan (AP) — The United States made it through to the quarterfinals of the women's Olympic soccer competition after a 0-0 draw with Australia on Tuesday before a group of Japanese schoolchildren. The Americans are looking to win a fifth Olympic gold medal in Tokyo. They are also ...
IZU, Japan (AP) — Jolanda Neff was laid up in a North Carolina hospital room on Christmas Day two years ago, wondering whether a terrible crash during a training ride in the mountains near Asheville would ruin the Swiss cyclist's career. She had ruptured her spleen so badly that doctors ...
TOKYO (AP) — When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and "couldn't be happier," his coming out was an act of courage that, with its rarity, also exposed how the top echelons of sport weren't seen as a safe space by the vast majority of LGBTQ athletes. Back ...
TOKYO (AP) — The expected Olympic showdown between the top two women's volleyball teams in the world turned out to be a one-sided affair. The U.S. women swept defending gold medalist China 29-27, 25-22, 25-21 on Tuesday in a pool-play match that left the Americans at the top of Pool B and ...
TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...
