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Serbia sweeps Italy 3-0, advances to play USA in semifinals

August 4, 2021 2:35 am NBC Olympics

Italy and Serbia faced off in quarterfinals, with both teams favored for the podium. Though Italy put up impressive blocks, it wasn’t enough to stop…

Schnell, Young qualify for women’s 10m platform semifinal

August 4, 2021 2:32 am NBC Olympics

Delaney Schnell and Katrina Young took part in the women’s 10m platform preliminary round on Wednesday, with Schnell comfortably finishing third and…

Luca Cupido of United States during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic water polo Tournament Men Quarterfinal match between Team United States and Team Spain

Water Polo Day 12: Team USA bites the dust, Spain remains perfect

August 4, 2021 2:12 am NBC Olympics

Spain maintains a perfect water polo record in an emphatic 12-8 victory against Team…

China beats Germany to reach women’s team table tennis final

August 4, 2021 2:10 am NBC Olympics

Top-seeded China made quick work of Germany in the women’s team table tennis semifinal, winning all three matches and advancing to the gold medal…

Turkey’s Cakiroglu wins semifinal bout by unanimous decision

August 4, 2021 1:59 am NBC Olympics

Turkey’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu defeated Chinese Taipei’s Hsiaowen Huang by unaninmous decision in the women’s fly semifinal on…

Delaney Schnell of USA in action during the preliminary round of the women's 10m platform at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on day ten of the 2020 Olympics

Schnell, Young advance to women’s 10m platform semifinal

August 4, 2021 1:58 am NBC Olympics

Delaney Schnell had a strong performance in the prelims of the women’s 10m diving event to finish third and easily advance to the semifinals while…

Sagstrom leads, Korda second after women’s golf first round

August 4, 2021 1:51 am NBC Olympics

Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom shot a 66 on a brutally hot afternoon to finish the first day of the women’s golf tournament at the…

Red-clad Chen Meng of China watches her shot in a semifinal versus Germany

Olympic table tennis Day 12: China on to gold medal matches

August 4, 2021 1:35 am NBC Olympics

China continues to cut through the table tennis field like the proverbial hot knife through butter, its men’s and women’s teams surging into gold…

Better Together: U.S. women’s hoops rolls into semifinals

August 4, 2021 1:28 am NBC Olympics

The United States women’s basketball team showed the power of teamwork and coming together in a dominant victory over Australia in their quarterfinal…

Greece outplays Montenegro to 10-4 water polo victory

August 4, 2021 1:04 am NBC Olympics

The Greeks’ defense was too much to handle for Montenegro, falling 10-4. Konstantinos Genidounias scored give times for Greece in the water polo…

The youngest and oldest Olympic athletes ever — and at Tokyo 2020

August 4, 2021 11:47 pm CNN Newsource

By Ben Morse, CNN You might think competing at the Olympics is very much a young person’s pursuit. In truth, the Games is a broad church when…

After 2 big wins, David Taylor advances to freestyle semis

August 4, 2021 12:46 am NBC Olympics

USA’s David Taylor crushed the competition in men’s freestyle 86kg wrestling, first beating Belarus’ Ali Shabanau 11-0, then defeating San Marino’s…

Sydney McLaughlin Track and Field USA thumb

Abrahamson: It’s all just getting started for USA gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin

August 4, 2021 12:39 am NBC Olympics

Sydney McLaughlin has been in the spotlight for five years, ever since making the Olympic team in 2016 as a 16-year-old. But now, as a gold medalist,…