KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — Turns out that first major championship was just a start for Nelly Korda. Now she's an Olympic champion and left little doubt Saturday about who's the best in women's golf. Korda held her nerve during a chaotic chase for medals and a one-hour storm delay at the end, ...
TOKYO (AP) — Hungary earned the country's first medal in women's water polo on Saturday, beating the Russian team 11-9 for bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. Vanda Valyi scored three times on three shots for Hungary, which finished fourth in each of the last three Games. Captain Rita Kesthelyi ...
TOKYO (AP) — In the suburbs of Tokyo, Hiromi Matsumoto found herself falling in love with online videos of rhythmic gymnastics — a spectacular swirl of ballet and acrobatics, clubs soaring through the air, bodies contorting into superhuman bends. But it was not the rhythmic gymnastics ...
TOKYO (AP) — Tom Daley's way of relaxing between dives off the 10-meter tower at the Olympics keeps him in stitches. Not the laughing kind, but the knitting and crocheting kind. The 27-year-old Brit took up the hobbies just before the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020. He taught ...
TOKYO (AP) — The Italian Olympic team's hashtag on social media for the Tokyo Games translates loosely as "Astonish the world." Who knew, though, that the Latin phrase "Stupor mundi" would be so appropriate, especially for a track team that didn't win a single medal at the last Olympics in ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — While other Junior Olympians stretched and warmed up, Chanice Spicer sat and did nothing. She had started running earlier that year, then a rising eighth-grader before the 2016 Rio Olympics. She didn't really follow track and field results. She had a limited ...
