U.S. forward Carli Lloyd is retiring after a decorated career that included a pair of World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals, as well as a bronze medal at the Tokyo Games.  The two-time…

TOKYO — A tropical storm swept into the city before dawn, gusts of wind bringing heavy clouds and drenching rain, as if the Tokyo Olympics didn’t have enough problems. The COVID-19 pandemic had forced a…

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — With 10 seconds remaining, Gable Steveson trailed the biggest wrestling match of his life by three points. When the clock hit zero, he was an Olympic gold medalist. Steveson trailed Georgia’s…

TOKYO (AP) — Americans April Ross and Alix Klineman have won the women’s beach volleyball gold medal. The U.S. pair beat Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia 21-15, 21-16 for the championship…

TOKYO — It typically serves as a crowning achievement, a final opportunity to increase and celebrate an Olympic gold-medal haul. Not this year. Not for this U.S. men’s track team. As the Tokyo Games move…

TOKYO (AP) — Sometimes, her workouts on an exercise machine were cut short when Zoe started crying.  Baby steps, U.S. marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk reminded herself. Sometimes, she stayed up late when Zoe was fussy, even…

TOKYO (AP) — Katie Nageotte won an unexpected gold for the United States in the pole vault at the Tokyo Olympics ahead of world champion Anzhelika Sidorova of Russia today. Nageotte failed on her first…

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games just keep producing some of the fasted moments the world has ever seen on the track. A day after the men’s 400-meter hurdles staged possibly one of the greatest…

When Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic women’s gymnastics team final last week because of her mental health, I couldn’t help but think of another Olympian — Canadian sports legend Hayley Wickenheiser — and what…

TOKYO (AP) — When brash Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm led the field to the starting line on a steamy afternoon at Olympic Stadium, he and his seven opponents had every reason to expect they’d be…