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Ledecky, not Franklin, all the swimming rage at Rio Olympics

By PAUL NEWBERRY
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - In a hallway beneath the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Missy Franklin was surrounded by the media after her first race of the Rio de Janeiro Games. Unt...
Ledecky facing only the clock in her 400 freestyle win

By PAUL NEWBERRY
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Racing nothing but the clock, Katie Ledecky gave the U.S. its first victory by crushing her own world record in the 400 freestyle. The result was t...
Deja vu for Americans; 5th in team gymnastics again

By KRISTIE RIEKEN
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It was 2012 all over again for the Americans on Monday in the Rio Games. Just as in London, they followed a great performance in the preliminaries ...
'Ipanema' song jumps 1,200 percent after Olympics ceremony

The Associated Press
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "The Girl from Ipanema" has won a gold medal in music streaming following the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Spotify says the song was streamed...
Ruenroeng's fight from prison to Olympics and back again

By GREG BEACHAM
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Amnat Ruenroeng speaks openly, even eagerly, about his years in a Thai prison. His path out of poverty, crime and drug addiction began in a cell. H...
Swiss court denies 2 Russians' bid to put track ban on hold

The Associated Press
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Two Russian track and field athletes have failed in a bid to have their ban from the Olympics put on hold. Two-time Olympic pole vault gold ...
Phelps is touting the benefit of cupping _ but does it work?

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Michael Phelps woke up on the morning of the first race of his fifth Olympic Games with some soreness in his right shoulder. At 31 years old, the s...
Australian women win 1st gold medal for Olympic rugby sevens

By JOHN PYE
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The first Olympic rugby gold medal in 92 years has gone to a group of Australian women that includes a mechanic, an elite former sprinter and a 21-...
American cyclists beginning to rue 4th place finishes

By DAVE SKRETTA
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - One long-held truism of the Olympics is there are no medals for fourth place, only the crushing disappointment of coming oh-so-close to a life-chan...
Volleyball replay challenge system at Olympics for 1st time

By JIMMY GOLEN
Aug 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It's match point at the Copacabana beach volleyball venue, and a spike catches the line for the winning point. Or does it? While one side celebrate...

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