By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Caeleb Dressel won his third gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday. Katie Ledecky won gold in the 800-meter freestyle, her second of the Tokyo games. Dressel led right from the start ...
TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles has withdrawn from the Olympic event finals Sunday in the vault and uneven bars, according to USA Gymnastics. She continues to be evaluated daily to determine whether she'll compete in the finals for floor exercise on Monday or balance beam a day later. Biles ...
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Caeleb Dressel added a world record to his growing medal haul. Katie Ledecky closed out her Olympics with another victory, too. Dressel won his third gold medal of the Tokyo Games with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly Saturday. ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Kei Nishikori thought he was playing well. Then he played Novak Djokovic. The top-ranked Serb never gave Nishikori a chance in a 6-2, 6-0 rout of the home favorite from Japan to reach the semifinals of the tennis tournament at the Tokyo ...
TOKYO (AP) — A few hours after winning the first individual gold medal of his career, Caeleb Dressel returned to the pool Thursday night to tie an Olympic record in preliminaries of the 100-meter butterfly. Dressel touched first in the last of eight heats with a time of 50.39 seconds, ...
By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Francesco Di Fulvio and Italy won the 2019 world championship in men's water polo, establishing themselves as gold medal contenders for the Olympics. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived. A year after the Games were supposed to occur, Di ...
