TOKYO—Nobody was watching Ahmed Hafnaoui in lane eight of the Olympic pool. All eyes were on the Tunisian teenager at the finish. Hafnaoui was the stunning winner of the 400-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Games on Sunday, beating a field of faster and older swimmers. The 18-year-old finished in 3 minutes, 43.26 seconds, punctuating his…
Swim Showdown: US Star Ledecky, Aussie to Battle for Gold
TOKYO—Katie Ledecky’s teammates are already piling up Olympic medals. Now it’s her turn, and she wants some hardware of her own. Ledecky opened her Olympic program as the top qualifier in the 400-meter freestyle on Sunday night, setting up a showdown with Ariarne Titmus of Australia as the American star tries to defend her title….
Olympics Faces Incoming Typhoon With Torrential Rain, Winds
While the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo have already been postponed by a year, a typhoon that recently formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean might threaten the event. The storm, named Typhoon Nepartak, is on course to possibly make landfall on July 27, according to a projection from the Japan Meteorological Agency. The storm could bring winds…
Positive Virus Tests Knock Rahm, DeChambeau out of Olympics
KAWAGOE, Japan—Positive COVID-19 tests knocked Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau out of the Olympic golf tournament Sunday, in a pair of surprises that reinforced the tenuous nature of holding a massive sports event during a global pandemic. Word of Rahm’s positive test came from the Spanish Olympic committee about four hours after USA Golf delivered…
US Beats Australia, Sets up Gold Medal Rematch With Japan
YOKOHAMA, Japan—The United States had just given up its first run and was two outs away from losing for the first time in the Olympic softball tournament. Amanda Chidester stepped up to the plate with two runners on and slapped the ball into left field. “In my head, I’m like, ‘Score! Score two! Score two!…
Games People Play: A Marriage of Majors and the Olympics
YOKOHAMA, Japan—Getting ready to reach softball’s peak and make her Olympic debut, Janie Reed was on a training field at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in western Japan. Across the Pacific Ocean, 7,452 miles away, another important family first was unfolding in Miami: Husband Jake Reed was about to walk onto a major league mound…
Russians Top Biles, Americans in Gymnastics Qualifying
TOKYO—The trouble started early. A step out of bounds on floor exercise here. A short landing there. Over the course of two hours on Sunday, the mistakes—some almost imperceptible, some laid bare for the world to see—kept piling up, chipping away at the aura USA Gymnastics has built over the past decade. Not even the…
Team USA Stunned With First Olympics Basketball Loss in 2 Decades
The United States’ men’s Olympic basketball team—historically the best during the contest—suffered its first loss in nearly 20 years during the Tokyo Olympic Games on Sunday. The U.S. Men’s Basketball Team, which hasn’t suffered a defeat since 2004, saw its 44-game win streak come to an end after losing to France in an 83-76 loss….
Team USA Stunned in 1st Men’s Olympic Basketball Loss Since 2004
The U.S. men’s basketball team, which hadn’t suffered a defeat at the Olympics since 2004, saw its 25-game winning streak at the Games come to an end on July 25 in an 83–76 group-stage loss to France. Team USA’s biggest stars, the Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant and Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard, both shot poorly…
Peaty Sheds Moustache but Wins by Much More Than a Whisker
TOKYO—World record holder and defending champion Adam Peaty shaved his moustache but won, as usual, by much more than a whisker as he powered through to the Tokyo Olympics 100m breaststroke final with the fastest time on Sunday. The 26-year-old Briton won his morning semi-final comfortably in 57.63 seconds, slower than the 57.56 in Saturday’s…
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