By CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — She launched herself off the vault, stuck the landing and saluted, then MyKayla Skinner heard the roar from her teammates watching in the stands. One voice seemed louder than the rest — Simone Biles, rooting for Skinner in what would ...
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer TOYKO (AP) — Emma McKeon won two more gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, making the Australian the first woman to earn seven medals in swimming at a single Games. She set an Olympic record to win the 50-meter freestyle in 23.81 seconds, ...
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sunisa Lee came to Japan to win a gold medal. And she did. Just not the one she really, really wanted. The 18-year-old from Minnesota is a revelation on uneven bars, where her routines are an intricate series of connections and releases ...
By JENNA FRYER AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — There will be a new fastest man of the Olympics crowned Sunday when the 100-meter dash is run without Usain Bolt in the finals for the first time since 2008. The favorite to claim the gold is American sprinter Trayvon Bromell, a ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — A Swiss tennis player won gold in singles at the Olympics and it's not Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka. Belinda Bencic accomplished something Saturday that her better-known fellow Swiss players never managed. And she's not done yet. The ...
By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nick Martínez stepped onto the mound, and it felt like an old familiar place. Because it was. "Felt comfortable the whole game," he said after striking out nine over five innings and pitching the United States over South ...
