Month: July 2021

Andy Murray, the only tennis player to win back-to-back Olympic singles titles, withdrew from singles competition in Tokyo.

Monica Abbott’s 13-strikeout night helped the Americans walk-off in the bottom of the eighth to move to 4-0 and move closer to the gold-medal game.

Australia’s 4x100m freestyle relay team became the first quartet to crack 3:30, setting the first swimming world record of the Tokyo Olympics. Simone Manuel anchored Team USA to a bronze medal finish.

American swimmer Chase Kalisz on Sunday won the USA’s first swimming medal in Tokyo, holding off teammate Jay Litherland to win the Men’s 400m IM.

World record holder Adam Peaty of Great Britain set himself up for another Olympic gold in the 100m breaststroke, advancing to the final as the top seed. USA’s Michael Andrew and Andrew Wilson will join him in the final.

Japan’s Ohashi Yui beat Americans Emma Weyant and Hali Flickinger for gold in the women’s 400m IM.

Entering the 2020 Olympics as the highest ranked skateboarder in the world, 26-year-old Nyjah Huston impresses the judges in the preliminary round of street skateboarding. The American rebounded from a slow start.

Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui won an unlikely gold medal in the 400m freestyle, starting from the outside lane. Team USA’s Kieran Smith took bronze.

A breathless Chase Kalisz discusses his win in the 400-meter individual medley. Talking to his parents, he says: “I did it.” Kalisz’s victory earned Team USA its first gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

With a win in the men’s 400m individual medley, Chase Kalisz claimed the United States’ first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics. Fellow American Jay Litherland finished behind him for silver.

Kolohe Andino is on to Round 3 and John John Florence on to Round 2 in the first-ever Olympic surfing competition.

April Ross and Alix Klineman’s faced tough competition in their opening beach volleyball match against China’s Xue and Wang. Ultimately the duo won in straight sets.

Chase Kalisz, Jay Litherland, Emma Weyant and the first American relay team aim for the first batch of swimming medals of the Tokyo Olympics

Four-time Olympic medalist Simone Manuel was listed as the anchor leg of the U.S. 4x100m freestyle relay team after speculation of whether she would be involved in the event at all.