By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — After an Olympics with plenty of free time, Simone Manuel finally got back to racing Friday night. Manuel competed for the first time since anchoring the United States to a relay bronze medal, shaking off a five-day layoff to post the ...
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Swimming is nothing if not orderly. Get ready for a little chaos. Here comes the 4x100-meter mixed medley relay making its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday: Two men and two women per country doing backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — There is no aura of invincibility around this U.S. men's basketball team. It has gone just 3-3 so far this summer, still has work to do just to qualify for the knockout stage at the Tokyo Olympics and seems far from a lock to ...
By PAUL NEWBERRY and BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writers TOKYO (AP) — After losing to Russian swimmers in two races at the Olympics, American backstroke star Ryan Murphy said Friday that doping remains a huge problem in the sport and he wonders if all his competitors are clean. Seeming to ...
By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Maggie Steffens was finally by herself, all alone with perhaps the best record in women's water polo, and she had no interest in the view. Moments after Steffens moved atop the career scoring list at the Olympics, the U.S. captain paid ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — Xander Schauffele has been pointing to the Olympics ever since he began his rise into the elite of American golf three years ago. Now that he's here, in the country where his mother was raised and enjoying an Olympic experience his ...
