Tag: The Athletic

Canada enters the final of the IIHF Women’s World Championship a perfect 6-0, and looks like the favourite to win its first world championship since 2012. The last time these two teams played, in this tournament’s preliminary round, Canada handily beat the U.S., 5-1. Being part of this program, being part of this team, it’s […]

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women’s basketball team rolled on to the gold-medal game, the American women’s beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman won the gold medal, American Gable Steveson scored an incredible gold-medal win in wrestling, and Canada defeated Sweden in a penalty shootout to win its first-ever women’s soccer gold medal. Another hot and humid […]

women’s basketball team tries to book its place in the gold-medal game, Allyson Felix competes on the track and the women’s soccer tournament wraps up with the Sweden-Canada final as the Olympics head into the final weekend. in the women’s event for the first time since Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won three straight […]

It’s the final night for swimming and the men’s golf tournament, as Caeleb Dressel and Xander Schauffele try to add to the U.S. The team of Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel and Zach Apple outpaced Adam Peaty and Great Britain, who came home in 3:27.51, to finish off the Olympics with one last gold […]

The swimming competitions at the Tokyo Olympics run from Saturday, July 24 through Saturday, July 31 Eastern time. The team of Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel and Zach Apple outpaced Adam Peaty and Great Britain, who came home in 3:27.51, to finish off the Olympics with one last gold for the Americans. Cate Campbell […]

The United States women’s national soccer team needed penalties to dispatch the Netherlands in the quarterfinals, track and field has begun with the women’s 100-meter prelims and more, and Caeleb Dressel swims again. for first place overall in the medal race and seized the lead in total golds thanks to a nine-medal day. The other […]

Top-ranked Team USA has won its last 49 Olympics games, with 48 of those wins coming by double digits. The Olympic basketball tournaments are moving away from the two groups of six teams used in the past and instead will have three groups of four this year. A’ja Wilson, Jewell Loyd: Both are pursuing their […]

Doncic, who helped Slovenia win gold at EuroBasket 2017, played 34 minutes to help his country claim one of the final spots in the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Germany beat Brazil on Sunday to come out of the qualifying tournament in Croatia, after beating Croatia on Saturday. …Read the full story

The 23-time Grand Slam champion also won a gold in singles at the London Olympics. Williams is not the only star who will skip the Tokyo Olympics. …Read the full story

Simone Manuel, who won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, didn’t reach the final in the event at the U.S. Lochte, who holds the world record in the event, won silver in 2012, bronze in 2008 and silver in 2004 . In the men’s 800-meter freestyle final, Bobby Finke and […]