TOKYO – The Dutch men’s doubles team have withdrawn from the Tokyo Games after one of the pair, Jean-Julien Rojer, tested positive for COVID-19, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said. Rojer is the first tennis player, and the sixth member of ...
British diving sensation Tom Daley won the first Olympic gold medal of his career with partner Matty Lee in the men’s synchronized 10m platform, narrowly edging out Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen and ending China’s hope of sweeping all eight diving medals in Tokyo. The Brits trailed the Chinese ...
After a nine-year interruption, Vincent Hancock has regained his throne as the Olympic champion in men’s skeet shooting, completing a U.S. double Monday after Amber English won the women’s event. The 2008 and 2012 gold medalist, also a four-time world champion, missed ...
In today’s episode of The Podium, Brazilian skateboarder Felipe Gustavo discusses his path to the Olympics, his hometown and what becoming one of the first Olympic skateboarders means to him. He also admits that though he was hesitant about the ...
American singles tennis players got their first wins of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday after all four who played on Saturday were knocked out. The first win came from Marcos Giron, who defeated Slovakia’s Norbert Gombos 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 in ...
Lee Kiefer became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the women’s individual foil event and earned Team USA’s first fencing medal of the Tokyo games. She defeated reigning Olympic champion Inna Deriglazova 15-13 to capture her first career Olympic ...
Anastasija Zolotic is considered one of the top rising stars in taekwondo, and she showed the world why Sunday by winning Olympic gold. Competing in her first-ever Olympics, the Largo, Florida native defeated Tatiana Minina of ROC to win the women’s ...
In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic road cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women’s road race early Sunday to capture her nation’s first Olympic medal since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games. Kiesenhofer covered the 85.1-mile (137 km) course from Musashinonomori Park ...
Lee Kiefer became the first American fencer to advance to a semifinal bout in Tokyo with three consecutive wins in the women’s foil individual event. Her path to a match against Russian Larisa Korobeynikova included wins over Amita Berthier (SGP), Eleanor ...
Each day of the Tokyo Games, NBC Olympics will provide a rundown of the biggest athletes and the biggest events to watch across a variety of sports. Every single event can be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports ...