National sports

Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd each scored a pair of goals and the United States won the bronze medal in women’s soccer at the Tokyo Olympics with a 4-3 victory over Australia on Thursday.

A slow exchange left the American 400-meter relay team in an all-too-familiar spot at the Olympics on Thursday — out of medal contention.

A plane carrying Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya landed in Austria on Wednesday after she resisted an attempt by her Olympic team’s officials to send her home.

Naomi Osaka. Simone Biles. Both are prominent young Black women under the pressure of a global Olympic spotlight that few human beings ever know. Both have faced major career crossroads at the Tokyo Games. Both cited pressure and mental health.

This has been a surreal Olympics: spectator-less and entangled in myriad pandemic-related restrictions. They were also supposed to be dry.

Walker is coming home.

Breanna Stewart and the U.S. women played their best basketball of the Tokyo Games, putting on a dominant performance that team has been known for over the years en route to winning six consecutive Olympic gold medals.

Sydney McLaughlin broke her world record and won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles gold medal, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another close victory over rival Dalilah Muhammad.

Throughout human history, in all corners of the globe, people have flipped and spun and twisted to explore the limits of the human body. Egyptian hieroglyphs depict backbends, according to Britannica, and stone engravings from ancient China illustrate acrobats.

18 years after they were drafted together, Melo and LeBron are teammates.

U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper hyperextended her right knee in the Olympic semifinals and will not be available for the bronze medal match against Australia on Thursday.

The Dressels were among hundreds who accepted an offer to spend part of the Tokyo Olympics at Universal Orlando with other equally disappointed friends and families of American athletes, all banned from traveling to Japan because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Back and forth they went, the three-time defending Olympic champions from the U.S. on one side, the reigning Basketball World Cup champions from Spain on the other. The difference: The Americans had Kevin Durant.

Simone Biles stuck the landing. The American gymnastics superstar won bronze during the balance beam final on Tuesday, a week after she took herself out of several competitions to focus on her mental health.

Karsten Warholm of Norway obliterated his own world record in the Olympic 400-meter hurdles Tuesday, finishing in 45.94 seconds to break the old mark by .76.

Poland granted a visa Monday to Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who said she feared for her safety and that her team’s officials tried to force her to fly home.

Laurel Hubbard, a weightlifter from New Zealand, became the first openly transgender woman to participate in the Olympics.

Four of seven U.S. relievers combined to give up five runs as the United States blew a three-run lead in a 7-6 loss to Japan on Monday night that pushed the Americans within a loss of Olympic elimination.

Carli Lloyd, clutch in so many critical moments for the U.S. women’s soccer team, failed to connect against Canada on Monday night and the Americans won’t play for a fifth Olympic gold medal.

Marcell Jacobs won the men’s Olympic 100-meter race Sunday night, crossing the line in 9.8 seconds to bring the marquee sprint gold to Italy for the first time.