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Honoka Hayashi in action during a match against Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics, in Sapporo on July 24, 2021. Hayashi’s clinical passing, acute understanding of the game and high work-rate make her an embodiment of Nadeshiko soccer principles.
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2024

Nadeshiko Japan’s Honoka Hayashi ready to settle the score at Paris Games

Lauded for her intricate passing and soccer intelligence, Hayashi has adjusted her game to fit the demanding nature of elite leagues over the course of her career.
Canadian women's soccer head coach Bev Priestman
OLYMPICS
Jul 25, 2024

Canadian Olympic head says soccer coach had no knowledge of drone incident

The COC said on Wednesday it accepted Priestman's decision to remove herself from Thursday's opening match against New Zealand.
Spain's Aitana Bonmati scores past Japan goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita during Spain's 2-1 win to open the women's soccer tournament at the Paris Olympics, in Nantes, France, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2024

Aitana Bonmati leads Spain to comeback win over Japan

Olympic debutants Spain recovered from going behind to an early goal to beat Group C rivals Japan and avenge a 4-0 group stage loss in last year's World Cup.
Ryuju Nagayama reacts after his quarterfinal bout against Spain's Francisco Garrigos at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Judo
Jul 27, 2024

Ryuju Nagayama falls in controversial ruling in Paris but later earns bronze

Nagayama's quest for gold ended in the quarterfinals. 
American gold medalists Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel celebrate after winning the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Saturday at the Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 28, 2024

Winning gold 'doesn't get old' for Dressel after American clinches eighth

The United States beat Australia and Italy to win the 4x100-meter freestyle at La Defense Arena on Saturday.
Hifumi Abe reacts after defending his Olympic title in the judo men's under-66 kg division at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Judo
Jul 28, 2024

Japan's Hifumi Abe defends Olympic title after sister falls early

The Abe siblings famously both won gold at their home Olympics in Tokyo in 2021 just 30 minutes apart.
Japan's Yuto Horigome competes in the Olympic men's street skateboarding final at La Concorde in Paris on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Jul 30, 2024

Japan's 'savage' Horigome retains Olympic street skateboarding crown

His compatriot Sora Shirai just missed out on the medals, coming in fourth.
Team Japan celebrates after winning gold in the men's team gymnastics event at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Jul 30, 2024

Japan rallies past China to win gold in men's team gymnastics

Hashimoto completed the comeback in the team event with a golden performance on the horizontal barJapan passed China in the final rotation to win gold.
Nyjah Huston of the United States in action during the men's street skateboarding preliminaries in Paris on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Jul 30, 2024

Men's street medalists want 'more tricks' in Los Angeles Games

The sport was added to the program in Tokyo and quickly caught on, earning permanent status in the Olympic agenda beginning with the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
Japan's Ryuju Nagayama (right) refuses to shake hands with Spain's Francisco Garrigos after a controversial decision in their under-60 kg quarterfinal bout at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Judo
Jul 30, 2024

What’s in a handshake? In Olympic judo, quite a lot

In a sport that emphasizes respect, Japanese judo star Ryuji Nagayama made headlines after refusing to shake his opponent's hand after a controversial bout.
Fans at the Olympic shooting venue cool off during a heat wave in Deols, France, on Tuesday.
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2024

In Olympic Village, heat tests limits of organizers' green ambitions

France is now in the middle of a heat wave that pushed the mercury in Paris into the mid-30s degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
Teammates swarm Daiki Hashimoto after his gold medal-clinching performance on the horizontal bar on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Jul 31, 2024

How Japan's gymnasts picked each other up and toppled China

With hope of a gold medal fading, the Japanese men's gymnastics team rallied around each other and simply refused to give up.
Medalists in the mixed doubles Olympic table tennis competition take a selfie on the podium on Tuesday in Paris.
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2024

North-South Korea Olympic podium selfie goes viral

After South Korea won bronze and North Korea silver in the mixed doubles table tennis, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon took a group photo after the medal ceremony.
Japan's Shinnosuke Oka celebrates after winning the artistic gymnastics men's all-around final at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Aug 1, 2024

Shinnosuke Oka holds off Chinese duo to claim all-around gold in Paris

Defending champion Daiki Hashimoto, who hasn't looked like himself in Paris, finished sixth.
Katie Ledecky with her first gold medal of the Paris Games and eight overall.
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2024

Ledecky admits it is 'not getting easier' after another Olympic masterclass

The 27-year-old was untouchable, surging home in an Olympic record and more than 10 seconds ahead of France's Anastasiia Kirpichnikova in second.
Gold medalist Pan Zhanle of China celebrates on the podium after winning the men's 100-meter freestyle event at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 1, 2024

Chinese swim fans hit back at doping claims as Pan takes gold

Pan burnished his reputation in his home country with a world-record time of 46.40 seconds, beating the previous fastest time of 46.80 he had set in February.
Hideki Matsuyama in action during the first round of the Olympic men's golf tournament in Guyancourt, France, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS / Golf
Aug 2, 2024

Matsuyama leads Schauffele as golfers hail Olympic experience

Former Masters champion Matsuyama is looking to making the podium after missing out on a bronze medal in a playoff three years ago at the Tokyo Games.
Leon Marchand swims during the 200-meter individual medley final at La Defense Arena in Paris on Friday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 3, 2024

Leon Marchand breaks Michael Phelps’ Olympic record to win fourth gold in Paris

Marchard set his fourth Olympic record of the Games during the race.
Hina Hayata reacts after a point during the women's table tennis bronze medal match against South Korea's Shin Yubin at South Paris Arena on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Table tennis
Aug 3, 2024

Hina Hayata fights through pain to capture first Olympic medal

Hina Hayata beat South Korea's Shin Yubin 4-2.
St. Lucia's Julien Alfred celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 4, 2024

St. Lucia's Alfred overcomes obstacles to be crowned Olympic sprint queen

American Sha'Carri Richardson earned silver, with another American, Melissa Jefferson, taking bronze.
Summer McIntosh celebrates after winning the women's 200-meter individual medley for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2024

McIntosh makes Canadian history with third gold

The 17-year-old swimmer did it in an Olympic record time of 2 minutes, 6.56 seconds, taking down the 2016 record of 2:06.58 set by Hungary's Katinka Hosszu.
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates her victory in the quarterfinals of the women's 66-kg weight class at the Paris Games on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Aug 4, 2024

Algerian boxer at center of Olympic eligibility fight clinches medal

Imane Khelif, the boxer at the center of a controversy that has made the women’s boxing tournament in Paris a cultural flashpoint, advanced to the semifinals.
From left to right: Yudai Nagano, Takahiro Shikine, Kyosuke Matsuyama and Kazuki Iimura celebrate after winning in the Olympic men's foil team gold medal bout against Italy at the Grand Palais in Paris on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Fencing
Aug 5, 2024

Japan wins historic gold in men's foil team event in Paris

It was Japan's fifth fencing medal in Paris, and its eighth medal overall in Olympic fencing.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024

Showman Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold by five thousandths of a second

Lyles had believed he had left it too late to catch the powerful Kishane Thompson, but he was soon confirmed as the winner in a personal best of 9.79 seconds.
The United States' 64-year unbeaten run in the men's 4x100-meter medley ended on Sunday as China swept to a seismic win.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 5, 2024

U.S. swimming on top again, but alarm bells sounding with LA looming

From Michael Phelps to Johnny Weissmuller, the U.S. has rolled out Olympic champions like a gold medal assembly line. But that production slowed at the Paris Games.
Women's park skateboarding gold medalist Arisa Trew of Australia celebrates with silver winner Kokona Hiraki of Japan and bronze medalist Sky Brown of Britain on the podium in Paris on Tuesday.
OLYMPICS / Skateboarding
Aug 7, 2024

Australia's Trew, 14, wins skateboard park gold ahead of Japan's Hiraki

Japan was represented on every level of the Olympic podium, as Trew and British bronze winner Sky Brown both have Japanese mothers.
China's Quan Hongchan competes in the women's 10-meter platform diving final on Tuesday at the Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Diving
Aug 7, 2024

Perfectionist Quan wins third Olympic diving gold at age 17

Quan's first dive was given perfect scores of 10 across the board on the way to sealing a China one-two in the women's 10-meter platform.
Nao Kusaka celebrates with the Japanese flag after his win over Kazakhstan's Demeu Zhadrayev in their men's Greco-Roman 77 kg wrestling final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2024

Nao Kusaka wins gold for Japan in Greco-Roman wrestling

Kusaka triumphed in the 77 kg division of men's Greco-Roman wrestling, while teammate Yui Susaki took bronze in the 50 kg women's freestyle.
Gold medalist Nao Kusaka celebrates after winning the men's 77-kg Greco-Roman event at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2024

How wrestler Nao Kusaka used sumo to win Olympic gold

A timid and kind-hearted boy, Kusaka reached the top by developing resilient legs in the sumo ring and fully dedicating himself to his craft.
American Noah Lyles after taking bronze in the men's 200-meter final on Thursday. It was later revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 9, 2024

U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles says his Paris run is over after getting COVID-19

Lyles tested positive on Tuesday, officials said, two days after he won the 100-meter final.

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