Olympics
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Japan to widen virus emergency after record spike amid Games
Jul 30, 2021 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka on Friday in the wake of a record-brea...
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Transgender weightlifter Hubbard thanks IOC before competing
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is in Japan for the Tokyo Games and thanked the International Olympic Committee on Friday for helping to make it pos...
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How local Olympians fared: Geneva's McDowell takes silver in triathlon mixed relayJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - There was a fight for first place throughout the race on Friday, and the United States was right there at the end. But in the very first Olympic triathlon mixed relay, t...
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'Wow! Wow!' Women get Olympic track off to a sizzling start
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The look on sprinter Marie-Josée Ta Lou's face said everything. "Wow! Wow!" she screamed, her eyes wide open and her mouth agape as she crossed the finish l...
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Doping talk rears its head after Russian swimmers win
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - 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 sp...
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Again? Faulty exchange does in US in Olympic mixed relay
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - AP Sports Writers TOKYO (AP) - The U.S. men have a long history of faulty baton exchanges in the Olympic relays. So do the U.S. women. And now, they've flubbed one toget...
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Djokovic loses to Zverev at Olympics, ending Golden Slam bid
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - With his Golden Slam bid over for at least another three years, Novak Djokovic rested his head on Alexander Zverev's shoulder as his German opponent and fri...
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Olympic champ Sunisa Lee still focused on college, not fame
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Sunisa Lee's life changed the second she placed a gold medal around her neck. The newly minted Olympic gymnastic champion's plans, however, have not. At lea...
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Editorial: Elite athletes' decisions have lesson for anyone at any level suffering private hardshipsJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - None of us can know what internal doubts are tearing at Simone Biles in Tokyo. None of us can know what struggles beset Naomi Osaka earlier this year at the French Open....
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Rapinoe converts and US gets past Netherlands on penalties
Jul 30, 2021 1:00 am - YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - Megan Rapinoe converted the deciding penalty in a shootout and the United States advanced to the semifinals of the women's Olympic soccer tourname...