Month: August 2021

The final bout of karate’s Olympic debut ended in uproar when Tareg Hamedi’s high-kick to Sajad Ganjzadeh’s neck saw him disqualified.

Team USA defended their 4×400 gold medal in spectacular fashion on Friday.

Two of men’s wrestling’s finest clashed in the 97kg final, and it was Abdulrashid Sadulaev of the ROC who defeated USA’s Kyle Snyder to take home the gold medal.

The final full day of competition in Tokyo will feature Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi in the women’s basketball final, Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad, Allyson Felix and Athing Mu in the women’s 4x400m relay and more.

Dominant pitching and a Morishita Masato home run delivered Japan to a long-awaited gold medal in baseball’s Olympic return.

The United States could not be matched in the final of the men’s 4x400m relay, winning gold comfortably on the last night of track and field at the Tokyo Olympics.

Japan secured Olympic baseball gold 11 days after winning the gold medal in softball on the same field in Yokohama.

Slovenia has been one of Tokyo’s best stories, but it’s the Aussies who are headed home with their first-ever men’s basketball medal.

U.S. wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt exorcised any demons left over from her semifinal loss with a convincing win Saturday in her bronze medal bout.

Allyson Felix, running leg two of a dream-team 4x400m relay squad with Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu, captures her 11th medal – seventh gold – to surpass Carl Lewis’ U.S. track and field medal record.

Sometimes when you know you performed well, you don’t even have to look at the scoreboard to confirm. This was the case for India’s Neeraj Chopra as he celebrated his javelin throw before it even landed.

Sweden captured its first team show jumping gold medal since 1924 after riding an intense jump-off just 1.3 seconds faster than the U.S.

Running the second leg of a stacked team that included Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu, Allyson Felix won gold for an 11th Olympic medal. She’s now the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete of all time.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway won gold in the Olympic men’s 1500m final on Saturday, breaking the Games record to upset world champion Timothy Cheruiyot of Kenya who took silver.

Svetlana Romashina wins seventh gold with Russian Olympic Committee in artistic swimming team final.