Joe Wicks was upset about the England team being trolled. (Doug Peters/EMPICS) Joe Wicks has said he was so upset by England’s football players being trolled after the Euro 2020 final that he couldn’t even exercise. Footballers Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and…
TOKYO (AP) — JuVaughn Harrison’s nickname couldn’t be any more fitting: Mr. Jumps. His assignment at the Tokyo Games couldn’t be any more rare: Go horizontal (high jump) and then vertical (long jump). Not since the days of Jim Thorpe (circa: 1912)…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese residents in the Olympic host city of Tokyo celebrated their athletes' success in the global sports showpiece on Thursday by queuing up for photos around an Olympic monument near the city's National Stadium. Host nation Japan is enjoying…
By Rocky Swift SAITAMA (Reuters) - Slovenia rolled over Japan 116-81 in Olympic men's basketball on Thursday, overwhelming the heroics of Rui Hachimura for the host nation. Slovenia improved to 2-0 in the group stage, scoring more than 100 in both games.…
China's Zhang Yufei celebrates winning gold in the final of the women's 200m butterfly. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) China’s Zhang Yufei just submitted a strong bid for the most successful single hour of all time. Most Olympic athletes can merely…
TOKYO (Reuters) - World champions Serbia remained unbeaten in Pool A of women's volleyball at the Tokyo Olympics with a 25-21 25-11 25-20 victory over Kenya on Thursday while South Korea edged the Dominican Republic in a see-saw five-setter. Serbia, silver medallists…
MISHIMA, Japan (AP) — The soon-to-be Olympic champion was in what cyclists derisively call “the pain cave,” empty lungs searing and legs feeling like dead weight. The climb he was on seemed interminable, the evil gradient sending him straight into the sky.…
TOKYO (AP) — Zhang Yufei had a much busier morning than she was expecting at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. It was worth the effort. She left with a pair of gold medals and a couple of records, too. Zhang started off Thursday…
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are underway and the United States is looking to add more hardware to an already extensive collection. The U.S. is the all-time leader in Olympic medals with nearly 3,000 – more than double the next closest country –…
Rayssa Leal went home to Brazil with a silver medal in tow. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) While 13-year-old skateboarder Rayssa Leal was busy becoming a teenage sensation after winning a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, a lawyer back home in…