By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nobody was watching Ahmed Hafnaoui in lane eight of the Olympic pool. All eyes were on the Tunisian teenager at the finish. Hafnaoui was the stunning winner of the 400-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Games on Sunday, beating a field of ...
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Katie Ledecky's teammates are already piling up Olympic medals. Now it's her turn, and she wants some hardware of her own. Ledecky opened her Olympic program as the top qualifier in the 400-meter freestyle on Sunday night, setting up a ...
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The trouble started early. A step out of bounds on floor exercise here. A short landing there. Over the course of two hours on Sunday, the mistakes — some almost imperceptible, some laid bare for the world to see — kept piling up, ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — The final buzzer sounded and France barely celebrated. To them, beating the United States again wasn't really a surprise. And that might be the biggest indicator yet that the Americans — even after three consecutive Olympic ...
By JENNA FRYER AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Americans try to add to their impressive first day haul of swimming medals on Day 3 of the Tokyo Games when some of their top competitors get back in the pool Monday, while the U.S. women's basketball team starts its quest for a seventh ...
By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The thing about being a swimmer is you need a pool to practice in. Olympic swimmers need Olympic-size pools. The pandemic put a real premium on them. One side effect of the virus and resultant lockdowns across the globe has been the ...
