Month: July 2021

South Korea leads the historical Olympic medal count ranks in archery with 40 total, 24 of them gold.

Tennis great Novak Djokovic is one match closer to achieving a calendar Golden Slam.

Kelley Hurley loses a sudden-death overtime bout to Russian fencer Aizanat Murtazaeva in the women’s individual epee round of 16.

Iran’s Javad Foroughi cruised to a gold medal while Serbia’s Damir Mikec finished second and China’s Pang Wei captured bronze in the men’s 10 meter air pistol event.

Here’s how to watch all 120 sailing races at the Tokyo Olympics.

Javad Foroughi won Iran’s first gold medal in Tokyo. He held a steady lead throughout the competition and won by nearly seven points over silver medalist Damir Mikec.

Veteran pitcher Cat Osterman brought her A-game again as the United States moved to 3-0 in pool play with a 2-0 defeat of Mexico on Saturday.

At only 12 years old, Syria’s Hend Zaza is the youngest Olympian at the Tokyo Games. Here are highlights from her table tennis match against Austria’s 39-year-old veteran Liu Jia.

Seven-time Olympic medalist Kohei Uchimura fell of the high bar, his only event in Tokyo, during men’s gymnastics qualification. The Japanese star finished his routine and scored a 13.866, missing out on the final. 

Great Britain’s two-time gold medalist Andy Murray and compatriot Joe Salisbury managed to overwhelm the second-seeded men’s doubles team, France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, in a straight sets victory.

In the preliminary round of the table tennis men’s singles, Nikhil Kumar grabbed a win for Team USA as he topped Mongolia’s Lkhagvasuren Enkhbat in five games.

Team USA lifter Jourdan Delacruz was third after the first round of lifts but finished off the podium and not without some drama as China’s Hou Zhihui twice broke an Olympic record while claiming gold.

Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura fell off the high bar and will not qualify to event finals at the Tokyo Olympics.

Three-time reigning world champion Germany posts the best time of the men’s eight prelim round in 5:28.95, winning heat one to advance to the A final; the United States, 5:30.57, takes second, moving on to the repechage.