Tag: Summer Olympic games
USA bounces back, tops Argentina 108-80 in pre-Tokyo tune-up
USA Basketball finally made it look easy again.
Kevin Durant and...
USA bounces back, tops Argentina 108-80 in pre-Tokyo tune-up
USA Basketball finally made it look easy again.
Kevin Durant and...
Bach meets Suga as Tokyo virus cases approach 6-month high
TOKYO — Tokyo reported its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in almost six months on Wednesday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said with the...
Virus case delays refugee Olympic team’s Tokyo arrival
DOHA, Qatar — Almost all of the athletes from the refugee Olympic team have had their arrival at the Tokyo Games delayed after a...
Olympic athletes to put on own medals at Tokyo ceremonies
TOKYO — Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will put their medals around their own necks to protect against spreading the coronavirus.
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China sending more than 400 athletes to Tokyo Olympics
BEIJING — China will send 431 athletes to the Tokyo Games as part of a 777-member delegation, its largest at an Olympics outside China,...
Gymnast Oleg Verniaiev out of Olympics after doping ban
KYIV, Ukraine — Olympic champion gymnast Oleg Verniaiev is set to miss the Tokyo Games because he has been banned following a failed drug...
World champ cyclist Peter Sagan to miss Tokyo Olympics
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Three-time world champion Peter Sagan will miss the Tokyo Olympics after he had surgery to treat an infection in his right...
Roster: Three-quarters of US Olympians have college ties
Three-quarters of the 613-person U.S. Olympic team that was released Tuesday competed in the American collegiate system — the most up-to-date number to illustrate...
Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and...
