Dreams of a medal for Hawaii’s John John Florence, 28, ended abruptly today when the two-time world surfing champion lost a heat against U.S. teammate Kolohe Andino. Read more
“Sport appeal, not sex appeal” is one mantra Olympic officials push in an effort to reach gender equity on the field of play and on screen. Read more
At 45, Jake Gibb is almost certainly at his last Summer Games. And yet the four-time Olympian offered to give it up for the remote chance that Taylor Crabb could have the experience even once. Read more
By his own count Fernando Aguerre said he worked 22 years to get surfing added to the Olympic schedule. So when the first of the 40 Summer Games competitors hit the waves early Sunday morning at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach in Chiba Prefecture, about 40 miles east of Tokyo, it was a special moment. Read more
Moore, the top-seeded Olympic woman surfer, squeaked past Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich in heat five of round 3. Read more
Defending Olympic champion and world-record holder Ledecky settled for the silver this time in 3:57.36 — the fourth-fastest time ever recorded. Read more
With uncharacteristic mistakes, including many by Biles, the best gymnast in history, the U.S. team finished behind Russia in qualifying. Read more
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A 25-game Olympic winning streak for the U.S. is over, ending when France closed the game on a 16-2 run to beat the Americans, who simply fell apart in the final minutes. Read more
Jon Rahm tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time in two months Sunday, knocking the Spaniard out of the Olympics only a few hours after American golfer Bryson DeChambeau met the same fate. Read more
Yuto Horigome won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport is often frowned upon. Read more
Hawaii’s four-time world surfing champion Carissa Moore won the first women’s heat in round one of the historic, first-ever Olympic surf event at Tsurigasaki Beach on Sunday morning in Japan, which was Saturday afternoon in Hawaii. Read more
Chase Kalisz won the first American medal of the Tokyo Games, taking gold Sunday (Saturday Hawaii time) in the men’s 400-meter individual medley. Read more
Olympic surfing’s debut is making clear that these wave riders are unsung masters of science — in climatology, meteorology and oceanography to be exact. Read more
Two of America’s star Olympians headline Sunday’s events at the Tokyo Games as Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky both begin their quests to rewrite the record books. Read more
The sons of University of Hawaii women’s coach Dave Shoji have put together impressive playing careers of their own at Stanford and for the United States as they began their second Olympic Games tonight against France. Read more
Naohisa Takato won Japan’s first gold medal at its home Olympics, beating Taiwan’s Yang Yung-wei in the men’s 60-kilogram judo final on Saturday night. Read more