Tag: United States Olympic Team
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...
Dave Wallace to be Mike Scioscia’s Olympic pitching coach
CARY, N.C. — Dave Wallace will be Mike Scioscia's pitching coach when the U.S. manager tries to qualify his team for the Olympic baseball...
Gold-medal project: Judo seeks solutions in police training
DOUGLAS, Wyo. — The stakes were clear to the two dozen police officers who gathered for a workshop with an ambitious and increasingly urgent...
US women to face Sweden in group stage in Olympic soccer
ZURICH — The United States will open the women’s Olympic soccer tournament on July 21 against Sweden, the team that beat the World Cup...
Column: The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only
In 1964, less than two decades removed from World War II, Japan used the Summer Olympics to showcase its astonishing recovery from a horrific...
Ralph Lauren unveils crisp white Team USA Olympic uniforms
NEW YORK — With a crisp white graphic look and roomy pockets, the uniforms to be worn by Team USA at the closing ceremony...
‘Thought that was it’: Runner recalls Boulder store shooting
BOULDER, Colo. — Inside a small room where she and four others were hiding from a gunman just steps away from their locked door,...
Brazilian, US surfers win opening WSL event in Australia
NEWCASTLE, Australia — Defending World Surf League champion Italo Ferreira won an all-Brazilian men’s final Saturday over Gabriel Medina at the Newcastle Cup, the...
Chasing Ledecky: Leah Smith keeps coming after US star
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — If Katie Ledecky wasn’t setting world records and piling up Olympic medals, Leah Smith would be the top middle-to-long distance...
Olympic Gold: Men’s Gymnastics Struggling to Survive
The death of a 117-year-old program, one that captured championships and produced Olympians, ended with a gasp. And then a vote.
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