Month: July 2021

Japan’s Naomi Osaka seizes an easy second round win less than 24 hours after her opening victory.

22-year-old Margielyn Didal is impressive on the course while performing in street skateboarding, but she is just as exciting to watch after her runs too. The Filipino celebrates with some smooth moves in Tokyo.

The United States claimed the first men’s relay medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games as Caeleb Dressel teamed up with Blake Pieroni, Bowe Becker and Zach Apple to blow past the field.

Team USA’s Madison Hughes made amends for an early missed conversion by scoring a late match-winning try as the Americans began their Olympics with a 19-14 defeat of Kenya at the Tokyo Stadium on Sunday.

Australian swim coach Dean Boxall was ecstatic after Ariarne Titmus won the women’s 400-meter freestyle in Tokyo, handing Katie Ledecky her first-ever loss in an individual event.

Kelsey Stewart ensured the United States would carry a perfect 5-0 record into the gold medal softball game, downing Japan with a walk-off home run.

The pool of 20 is reduced to eight as women compete in the first-ever Olympic skateboarding street competition.

Adam Peaty successfully defended his gold medal title winning the 100m breaststroke, as American swimmers Michael Andrew and Andrew Wilson finished fourth and sixth.

Ariarne Titmus of Australia became the first woman to beat Katie Ledecky in an individual event at the Olympics.

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus ran down Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle, handing Ledecky her first-ever Olympic silver in an individual event. Titmus went 3:56.69 and Ledecky touched in at 3:57.36.

Great Britain’s Adam Peaty won the 100-meter breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics after also doing so in 2016. His time of 57.37 was .63 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Arno Kamminga.