"I say put mental health first because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your score and you're not gonna succeed as much as you want to," Simone Biles advised ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics live updates: Katie Ledecky chases history, Team USA goes for 3×3 basketball gold on Day 5
Katie Ledecky will look to add to her impressive Olympic career, while the U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team attempts to win the sports first ever gold. ( read original story ...)
NBC’s Tokyo Olympics viewership gets off to rough start
If there's going to be a surge in viewership interest in the Tokyo Olympics, NBC Universal is still waiting. For three straight nights, viewership for the Tokyo Games has been down more than 30% ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics are not a bikini showcase. Let women athletes wear unitards, and hijabs.
The Olympics are supposed to be about sports. So why is everyone so focused on what the competing female athletes are wearing, instead of how they’re playing? This summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo have ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo reports highest daily COVID cases days after Olympics begin, officials say
Tokyo has been hit hard with a surge of new coronavirus cases since the Olympics kicked off last week, with Japan’s capital recording the highest number of cases since the pandemic began last year. ( read original story ...)
Senate Banking Committee presses crypto experts on systemic risk at hearing
Lawmakers appeared unconvinced cryptocurrencies would make a good solution to the existing and very flawed financial system. ( read original story ...)
Nikkei tracks Wall Street higher ahead of Fed policy meet
Japanese equities rose on Tuesday, tracking overnight gains in Wall Street as investors cheered upbeat corporate earnings, though caution ahead of this week's U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting kept ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics schedule: Katie Ledecky headlines swimming finals with 200m, 1,500m races on Day 5
Katie Ledecky could make history as first woman to win Olympic gold in 1,500-meter freestyle, and gymnastics will crown the men's all-around champion. ( read original story ...)
Opinion: Women’s mainstays of US Olympic effort have four hours to forget in Tokyo
Three of the mainstays of the American Olympic effort -- women's gymnastics, softball and soccer -- all struggled at the same time in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
The U.S. embassy, a home away from home for Americans in Tokyo
For the 613 athletes sent to Tokyo to be part of Team USA there’s a home away from home; the U.S. embassy. The United States embassy in Japan first opened in 1906 to ... ( read original story ...)
Biomarker could help diagnosis schizophrenia at an early age
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have discovered how levels of a protein could be used in the future as a blood-based diagnostic aid for schizophrenia. ( read original story ...)
Japan beats US 2-0, turns incredible double play to win softball gold
They marched single file onto the podium near shortstop with the blank expressions of the condemned.When silver medals were handed out, they dangled them around each other’s necks like weights.Eyes ... ( read original story ...)
Will softball ever get back on the Olympics roster? ‘We’ve shown that, globally, it’s a competitive sport.’ Now it’s up to the IOC.
The Japanese softball team won its second gold medal in Olympic history Tuesday, toppling a favored American squad in a fairy-tale finish for the host country. Except no one — not the winner, nor the ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: Japan turns incredible double play, beats U.S. to win softball gold
Members of team Japan celebrate after a softball game against the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan. Japan won 2-0. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Japan's ... ( read original story ...)
Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka highlight the 24-hour rolling hell of Big Sport
For those in sport today, pressures are untenable amid an endlessly hostile kind of unregulated social experiment ... ( read original story ...)
Weightlifter who went missing in Japan after failed Olympics bid detained in Uganda
A Ugandan weightlifter who went missing in Japan after a failed bid to compete in the Tokyo Olympics was arrested upon returning home on Friday, and has been detained without charges ever since. ( read original story ...)