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Debutant Lovlina assures India of first boxing medal at Tokyo Olympics

Debutant Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) assured India of their first boxing medal at the ongoing Games when she upstaged former world champion Nien-Chin Chen of Chinese Taipei to enter the semifinals

Tokyo 2020: Olympic sponsors praise Simone Biles after withdrawal

Simone Biles' sponsors, including Athleta and Visa, are lauding her decision to put her mental health first and withdraw from the gymnastics team competition during the Olympics. It's the latest example of sponsors praising athletes who are increasingly open about mental health issues. Tennis star Naomi Osaka found widespread support when she withdrew from the French Open earlier this year. Biles could still compete in other gymnastic events during the Olympics. She also has a solid history of gymnastic accomplishments, including four gold medals and a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics. She has earned five more all-around titles in world championships since 2013. That earns the 24-year-old a lasting athletic legacy that sponsors can capitalize on. We are past the time when athletes like Simone are valued simply for their athletic prowess," said Jim Andrews, founder of A-Mark Partnership Strategies. She has earned a place in gymnastics history, and has proven herself to be an amazi

'Happy tears': Sunisa Lee's gold sparks joy at home in Minnesota

There were cheers and screams and happy tears for one of their own, and unending delight for what many saw as an Only in America story. Sunisa Lee captured the women's all-around gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, a triumph that wowed all of Minnesota but carried special resonance in the state's close-knit Hmong American community, one of the largest in the United States. I can't find the words to express how happy we are, how important that was to me and my family and to the whole Hmong community throughout the world, John Lee, father of one of the brightest lights now in Tokyo, told The Associated Press. We never expected gold, but she came through. She did it. That she did, and dozens of her family and friends gathered early in the morning at a suburban St. Paul event center to watch the gymnastics broadcast from Tokyo. Sunisa Lee got an opening when reigning Olympic champion Simone Biles withdrew from the all-around competition to focus on her mental health. There

From the Emperor Naruhito on down: Memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

From Emperor Naruhito on down, every Japanese of a certain age remembers the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo Olympics: Deepika Kumari seals QF berth, ousts Perova of ROC

World number one archer Deepika Kumari beat former world champion Ksenia Perova of the Russian Olympic Committee in a thrilling shoot-off to advance to the women's individual quarterfinals

Sable betters own 3000m steeplechase national record in Tokyo Olympics

India's Avinash Sable shattered his own 3000m steeplechase national record while finishing seventh in his heat race at the Olympics here on Friday

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Highlights: Mary Kom bows out with a smile

Sindhu will play her quarterfinal match against Akane Yamaguchi of Japan on July 30.

Olympics: US pole vaulter's positive test sends Aussies into isolation

Approximately 2,000 athletes are listed in the track lineup the largest sport on the sprawling Olympic program

Tokyo Olympics: Sunisa Lee takes gold in women's gymnastics final

An American finished atop the podium in the women's Olympic gymnastics all-around, just like always. Sunisa Lee became the fifth straight American woman to claim the Olympic title on Thursday, edging Rebeca Andrade of Brazil in an entertaining and hotly contested final while defending champion Simone Biles watched from the stands. Lee's total of 57.433 points was just enough to top Andrade, who earned the first gymnastics all-around medal by a Latin American athlete but missed out on gold when she stepped out of bounds twice during her floor routine. Russian gymnast Angelina Melnikova earned bronze two days after leading ROC to gold in the team final. Lee and the Americans earned a silver in that event, one in which Biles withdrew after one rotation when she decided she was not mentally prepared to compete. Biles opted to pull out of the all-around final, too, leading to the jarring sight of the gymnast considered the greatest of all-time watching the biggest meet in five years fr

Olympics: Chen beats Chinese teammate for gold in women's table tennis

For the ninth straight Olympics, a Chinese woman won the gold medal in table tennis.

Tokyo Olympics: Atanu Das stuns champion archer, Mary Kom knocked out

Men's hockey team, P V Sindhu shine on a good day for India at the Olympics

South Korea rallies to beat Israel 6-5 to win Olympic baseball

Jeremy Bleich forced in the game-ending run by hitting batters with consecutive pitches in the 10th inning, and defending champion South Korea beat Israel 6-5 to win its Olympic baseball opener.

Tokyo Olympics: Mary Kom slams IOC Boxing Task Force for 'poor judging'

The Task Force is conducting the boxing competition in Tokyo after the International Boxing Association (AIBA) was suspended by the IOC for alleged misgovernance and financial wrongdoing.

Australia's Jessica Fox wins first Olympic women's canoe slalom gold

Australia's Jessica Fox has made Olympic history at the Tokyo Games as the first gold medalist in women's canoe slalom

IOC sees no link between Olympic Games, Japan coronavirus case rise

The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that it saw no connection between the current rise of Covid-19 cases in Japan and the Tokyo Games

Take your time, you owe explanation to no one: Shastri on Biles' withdrawal

"Take your time, Simone Biles. You owe explanation to no one," said Indian cricket team's chief coach Ravi Shastri as he lent his support to the multiple Olympic medallist American gymnast

Olympics: South Africa stun Germany 4-3 in men's hockey Pool B match

South Africa produced the biggest shock of the Tokyo Olympics men's hockey tournament so far when they stunned former champions Germany 4-3 in a Pool B match on Thursday

Tokyo Olympics: Golfer Lahiri enjoys strong start with opening 67

While Anirban Lahiri overcame a shaky start to post a solid first round score of 4-under 67 for a share of eighth position, countryman Udayan Mane struggled to a 76 to end the day in 60th position

Olympics sailing: Ganapathy, Thakkar shine while Vishnu and Nethra struggle

The Indian sailing duo of KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar finished seventh in the sixth qualifying race of the mens 49er class at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour

India's challenge ends as Sajan unable to advance to 100m butterfly semis

Swimmer Sajan Prakash finished second in his Heat but that was not enough to advance the semifinals of the men's 100m butterfly event