By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer IZU, Japan (AP) — Filippo Ganna warned his teammates on the Italian team pursuit squad not to celebrate too much after setting a world record in reaching the Olympic finals, knowing full well that they still needed to race Denmark for gold. Well, they ...
By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games just keep producing some of the fasted moments the world has ever seen on the track. A day after the men's 400-meter hurdles staged possibly one of the greatest races ever run, the women put on their own show as one of the ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Richard Torrez Jr. went into the Olympic boxing ring Wednesday with a game plan jointly concocted over the phone by his father back home in central California and by Billy Walsh, his national team's head coach in Tokyo. The 22-year-old ...
By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Five years after their quest for a first Olympic gold medal was denied in the semifinals, the United States women's volleyball team has returned to that stage after a relatively easy quarterfinal win. The short-handed Americans overcame the ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — Lexi Thompson had to bring in a team manager the last three holes when her caddie succumbed to the heat. Players walked down sunbaked fairways using umbrellas, some of them occasionally holding a bag of ice on their heads. Madelene ...
By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — For Triston Casas, the Olympics feel as comfortable as spring training. That's because when he stepped to the plate in the United States' elimination game against the Dominican Republic on Wedesday, he was facing Boston Red Sox ...
