TOKYO (AP) — Defending champion Fiji kicked off the Olympic rugby sevens competition with a 24-19 comeback win over Japan on a humid, cloudy Monday morning at Tokyo Stadium. The highly favored Fijians scored in the opening 30 seconds, with Jiuta Wainiqolo posting the first points of the ...
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Kevin Durant had a shot. Then another about 20 seconds later. Jrue Holiday had one. So did Zach LaVine and Bam Adebayo. The U.S. had five attempts on the pivotal possession of its latest basketball failure and came up empty on all of them. That not only doomed the ...
KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — Positive COVID-19 tests knocked Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau out of the Olympic golf tournament Sunday, in a pair of surprises that reinforced the tenuous nature of holding a massive sports event during a global pandemic. Word of Rahm's positive test came from the ...
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — The final buzzer sounded and France barely celebrated. To them, beating the United States again wasn't really a surprise. And that might be the biggest indicator yet that the Americans — even after three consecutive Olympic gold medals — are no longer feared by ...
IZU, Japan (AP) — One thing that sets cycling apart from most other sports at the Olympics is the importance of technology. With the exception of a few other sports, such as sailing and rowing, most events that take place at the Summer Games come down solely to the performance of the ...
TOKYO (AP) — The thing about being a swimmer is you need a pool to practice in. Olympic swimmers need Olympic-size pools. The pandemic put a real premium on them. One side effect of the virus and resultant lockdowns across the globe has been the shutting down of big public pools, ...
