Here’s what you need to know: Japanese Paralympic Team athletes at the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony.Credit…Chang W. Lee / The New York Times The host country Japan traditionally closed the Parade of Nations.…
It seems fitting that the first defining moment of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – which happened not in 2020 but in 2021 in a bubble designed to separate them from Tokyo – was also the…
Key Updates: Aug. 8, 2021, 9:22 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2021, 9:22 a.m. ETThe Olympic flame was extinguished at the end of the closing ceremony.Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times TOKYO — A most unusual Olympics…
Current time in Tokyo: Aug. 7, 12:30 a.m. Here’s what you need to know: Allyson Felix won her 10th Olympic medal, taking bronze in the 400-meter final.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times TOKYO — With nine…
TOKYO – Simone Biles, a seven-time Olympic Medalists said goodbye to the Tokyo Games on Wednesday. She packed up her glittering red, white, and blue leotards and headbands and the white handles that she wears…
Current time in Tokyo: Aug. 5, 8:24 a.m. Here’s what you need to know: The U.S. women’s soccer team, once a tournament favorite, now hopes to win the bronze medal game.Credit…Chang W. Lee/The New York…
Current time in Tokyo: Aug. 01, 2:00 p.m. Here’s what you need to know: The U.S. men entered the 4×100-meter medley relay as underdogs but powered past favored Britain to set a world record.Credit…Doug Mills/The…
TOKYO – Simone Biles came to Tokyo as the star of the US Olympic movement and perhaps the games themselves. She made sure she was ready for the pressure. That she was ready to bear…
HER ICONIC BUN in place, Diana Taurasi sat on the sideline as Team USA took on the WNBA All-Stars, an uncomfortable yet familiar perch these past few years for arguably the greatest player in the…
Tonight at the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian superstar Ariarne Titmus angered Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter freewheel, which is considered Ledecky’s toughest race. Men’s sprinter Caeleb Dressel was also able to win his first Olympic medal in…
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