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 ...
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 ...
TOKYO (AP) — Anders Mol's first goal for the Olympic beach volleyball tournament was a top-eight finish. That would be the best ever for Norway, and one step farther than a certain Merita Berntsen made it in Atlanta. "I always dreamed of beating my mom in the Olympics," the son of the 1996 ...
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — Maybe the person most surprised by the bronze medal in the women's Olympic marathon was the bronze medalist herself, Molly Seidel. Even if a medal was something she did set as a goal all the way back in fourth grade. For a class project, Seidel scribbled in black ...
TOKYO (AP) — A condom fixed Jessica Fox's canoe, and skateboarder Jagger Eaton celebrated his bronze medal by broadcasting live on Instagram. Margielyn Didal "let" Tony Hawk take a picture with her to post on Facebook. The stability of the cardboard framed beds in the athlete's village has ...
TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic men's handball tournament has become something of a Mikkel Hansen show. The three-time world championship MVP scored 12 goals to lead Denmark to a 27-23 semifinal victory over Spain. The gold medal game on Saturday will be against France in a rematch of the 2016 ...
