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Ariarne Titmus has beaten Katie Ledecky again at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. In fact, Ledecky didn’t even win a medal -- the first time that’s ever happened to her at the Olympics. ( read original story ...)

Officials at Fuji International Speedway apologized to the Dutch team after world time trial champion Anna van der Breggen was pulled from her bike by security during a recon of the Olympic course for ... ( read original story ...)

A tropical storm brought strong winds and heavy rain to Japan's northern coast Wednesday after moving away from the Tokyo region and relieving the Olympic host city of a feared disruption to the games ... ( read original story ...)

Canada had just won its first bronze medal in softball, the high point of the players' careers, and the reality sunk in that there will be no chance to play in the Olympics again until at least 2028. ( read original story ...)

"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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

For those in sport today, pressures are untenable amid an endlessly hostile kind of unregulated social experiment ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

Literary incorrectness | PMQs | A marital palindrome | Cross words ... ( read original story ...)