The Podium Italian rower Luca Rambaldi discusses how he honors his teammate Filippo Mondelli who died of bone cancer earlier this year and explains how the loss motivates him when racing. Beach volleyball player April Ross, who won bronze in Rio ...
The United States men’s rugby team defeated Ireland 19-17 for their second group stage win in nearly seven hours Monday, clinching a spot in the knockout rounds for the first time in Olympic competition. Perry Baker and Madison Hughes got ...
With the U.S. women’s unbeaten record in 3×3 basketball in the balance, Kelsey Plum confidently stepped behind the two-point arc and let fly. The shot hit nothing but net, giving Plum 10 points for the game but more importantly putting the U.S. ...
TOKYO — There’s an old saying around the Olympics that silver is the saddest medal. The gold medalist is always over the moon. The bronze medalist is happy, too, because she is on the podium. The second-place finisher — well, ...
After a nine-year interruption, Vincent Hancock has regained his throne as the Olympic champion in men’s skeet shooting, completing a U.S. double Monday after Amber English won the women’s event. The 2008 and 2012 gold medalist, also a four-time world champion, missed ...
American singles tennis players got their first wins of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday after all four who played on Saturday were knocked out. The first win came from Marcos Giron, who defeated Slovakia’s Norbert Gombos 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 in ...
Lee Kiefer became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the women’s individual foil event and earned Team USA’s first fencing medal of the Tokyo games. She defeated reigning Olympic champion Inna Deriglazova 15-13 to capture her first career Olympic ...
Anastasija Zolotic is considered one of the top rising stars in taekwondo, and she showed the world why Sunday by winning Olympic gold. Competing in her first-ever Olympics, the Largo, Florida native defeated Tatiana Minina of ROC to win the women’s ...
In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic road cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women’s road race early Sunday to capture her nation’s first Olympic medal since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games. Kiesenhofer covered the 85.1-mile (137 km) course from Musashinonomori Park ...
Veteran pitcher Cat Osterman brought her A-game again as the United States moved to 3-0 in pool play with a 2-0 defeat of Mexico on Saturday. Osterman allowed just one hit and struck out four in six innings of work. She ...