Games are won by the first player/team to score 11 points while winning by two. Singles matches are won by the player who wins the best of seven games. Team matches consist of four singles matches and ...

BEIJING — Kristen Santos was in medal position, poised to wipe out the frustration that has haunted American women in Olympic short track speed skating for 12 years. Instead, Santos wiped out. Or ...

There are multiple disciplines within BMX freestyle, but the only one contested at the Olympics is BMX park. It takes place on a course that includes features such as ramps, box jumps, walls and ...

The U.S. duo of Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky won silver as mixed team air rifle shooting made its Olympic debut Tuesday, dropping a tense final match 17-13 to China's Yang Qian and Yang Haoran. In ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

Each game and period in Olympic water polo starts with a swim-off, which is a race for the ball in the center of the pool. Players from each team are lined up along their own goal lines and the first ...

From Chase Kalisz's dream-realizing 400m IM victory to Caeleb Dressel's history-making fifth gold medal in the men's 4x100m medley relay, the Tokyo Olympic swimming competition delivered from start to ...

Tune in over the next couple days to find out. It doesn't get much better than this: Two once-in-a-generation athletes, absolute legends of sport going head to head. Nathan Chen, who won the last ...

That is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole. This was, perhaps, the sole reason the Tokyo Olympics had to happen. The 400 hurdles is an event of such stamina and difficulty that Young’s 46.78 stood for ...

Brisbane, where a crowd had gathered to watch the announcement on big screens, becomes the third Australian city to get the Games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000. Its selection means ...

15-year-old Valieva trains at the same rink as teammates Aleksandra Trusova, 17, and reigning world champion Anna Shcherbakova, also 17. The Moscow rink was also home to Zagitova and Medvedeva. What ...

TOKYO — When last seen, at the U.S. track and field Trials in Eugene in June, and this was at the Best Western just a couple blocks from the new Hayward Field, and can we be honest, they’ve cut back ...