Tag: Aquatics
AP Sportlight
May 14
1913 — Washington’s Walter Johnson gives up a run...
Vavic gets ready for Tokyo in water polo as dad awaits trial
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. — Marko Vavic was in Mexico when it happened. He had just flown to Cabo San Lucas to spend spring break...
AP Sportlight
May 12
1909 — The Preakness Stakes is held in Maryland...
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May 11
1892 — Azra, ridden by Alonzo Cayton, wins the...
Olympic torch relay detour; diving test event opens in Tokyo
TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will take another detour this weekend when it enters the southern island of Okinawa.
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Kiley Neushul’s retirement leaves hole on US water polo team
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. — Kiley Neushul had a plan. She was going to play for the U.S. women's water polo team in the Tokyo...
Australian swimming great John Konrads dies at age 78
SYDNEY — John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport...
AP Sportlight
April 26
1905 — Jack McCarthy of the Cubs became the...
Nort Thornton, swim coach who produced Olympians, dies at 87
BERKELEY, Calif. — Nort Thornton, who coached the California men’s swimming team to NCAA titles in 1979 and ’80 during a 33-year career that...
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
April 23
1903 — The New York Highlanders, later renamed Yankees,...