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Katie Ledecky claims her 1st Tokyo Olympics gold

TOKYO >> It was as if a sense of normalcy had returned to an Olympic Games that had gone off the rails even before they opened. There was the familiar sight of Team USA’s Katie Ledecky, the...

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Simone Biles will not defend Olympic all-around gymnastics title

TOKYO — Only minutes into the Olympic Games team final on Tuesday, Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of her generation or any other, lost her spatial awareness on a vault and stumbled on the landing....

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Caeleb Dressel is alive and well, and now the Olympic 100 freestyle champion

TOKYO >> Not to worry. You can withdraw those All Points Bulletins. Caeleb Dressel has been found alive and well atop the Tokyo Aquatics Centre medal podium Thursday morning, the new Olympic...

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World champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks out of Olympics with COVID-19

TOKYO >> United States pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, winner of the last two World Championships, has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Olympic Games. Kendricks’ positive test was...

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Sunisa Lee wins Olympic gymnastics all-around title

TOKYO — When should it have been all too much? When would you or I have quit? After the first injury that kept her out for two months in 2020? Or the second injury that kept her out for two more...

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Francine Niyonsaba’s Olympic nightmare continues

TOKYO — Francine Niyonsaba left for Tokyo convinced the hard part of her Olympic odyssey was behind her. “This has not been an easy journey since that silver medal in Rio,” she said. Since capturing...

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Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare barred from competing in Tokyo after flunking...

TOKYO — Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was disqualified from competing in the Olympic Games Saturday after testing positive for human growth hormone in the first failed drug test of these Games....

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Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel join exclusive Olympic clubs

TOKYO — Katie Ledecky has spent most of her swimming career body lengths ahead of the rest of the world as she churned toward another gold medal, another record. At the end of a historic Saturday...

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Elaine Thompson-Herah leads Jamaican sweep in 100 meters with Olympic record

TOKYO >> Bob Marley and the Wailers bounced through an all but empty Olympic Stadium late Saturday night, a familiar song serenading a familiar sight. We’re jammin’ To think that jammin’ was a...

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Emma McKeon leaves Tokyo with Olympic record seven medals. Could Caeleb...

TOKYO >> Admittedly Caeleb Dressel has been kind of busy the last 10 days. So it was partially—not totally—understandable when he was caught off guard by a question about another swimmer has done...

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Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs (who?!) wins Olympic 100-meter title in wild...

TOKYO — Track and field has been described by its devotees and its detractors as a three-ring circus, the ultimate multitasking sport where hulking throwers, graceful jumpers, and runners, whether they...

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Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn erases nightmare of Rio

TOKYO >> Puerto Rican hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn stood behind the starting blocks at Olympic Stadium 10 minutes before high noon. Behind her a giant Olympic flag swayed slightly in the breeze....

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Sifan Hassan rebounds to win Olympic 5,000 after crash and recovery in 1,500...

TOKYO — At the end of a day that began in near disaster and ended with her being crowned Olympic 5,000-meter champion, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands walked along the edge of the Olympic Stadium track...

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Karsten Warholm beats Rai Benjamin, crushes 400 hurdles world record in...

TOKYO — The 400-meter hurdles field had just settled into the starting blocks at Olympic Stadium on a brutally hot early Tuesday afternoon. Norway’s Karsten Warhold, the World champion and pre-race...

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Olympics: Simone Biles captures historic 7th medal in her return

TOKYO — The wait seemed interminable as Simone Biles and her coach, Cecile Landi, stood on the edge of competition area at the Ariake Gymnastics Center early Tuesday evening, awaiting clearance from...

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Believe it or not – Athing Mu is the Olympic 800 champion

TOKYO — An hour after her convincing victory in the Olympic Games 800-meter final Tuesday night, teenager Athing Mu still couldn’t quite get her head around the fact that she was an Olympic champion,...

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Sydney McLaughlin shatters world record to claim Olympic gold

TOKYO —The greatest race in Olympic women’s track and field history was epic from the first step. Dalilah Muhammad of the U.S., the reigning Olympic and World champion, blasted out the starting blocks,...

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Andre De Grasse wins Olympic 200, lives up to the promise of Rio

TOKYO — He roared off the curve and into the homestretch of the Olympic Games 200 meter final Wednesday night, opening a gap of the rest of the field and all of a sudden it was 2016 again. There he was...

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Ryan Crouser defends Olympic shot put gold medal

TOKYO — The scene at Olympic Stadium Thursday morning had a familiar look. Or, in the case of the U.S. men’s sprinters, all too familiar. Team USA’s Ryan Crouser dominated the shot put competition,...

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U.S. men fail to medal again in the 400 meters

TOKYO —The American men’s problems in the Olympic sprints continued in the 400-meter final Thursday night when Team USA failed to make the medal podium for the second time in three Games. Steven...

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