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While the 20-year-old Ariarne Titmus was being congratulated by her fellow swimmers after her gold-medal swim, the crowd was mesmerized by her coach as he leaped in the air, tore off his mask and screamed ecstatically.

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Ecstatic coach of Australia’s Ariarne Titmus goes viral with medal-worthy celebrations

Australia's Ariarne Titmus lit up the pool with a stunning victory over Katie Ledecky at the Tokyo Games on Monday, but when it comes to celebrations it was her wide-eyed, hip-thrusting coach Dean Boxall who deserved an Olympic gold. As Titmus reached for the wall to dethrone her American riva...

Malaysian track cyclist Azizulhasni Awang (right) defeats Japanese racer Tomohiro Fukaya in the men's sprint final at the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Aug. 30, 2018.

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Meet the cyclist aiming for Malaysia’s first Olympic gold

by Vivian Ho

Diminutive track cyclist Azizulhasni Awang is heading to the Tokyo Games with big dreams of becoming the first Malaysian to win an Olympic gold medal. He may be just 1.68 meters in height, but he is no stranger to standing tall on the world stage, demonstrated best when he earned the Southeast...

C.T. Pan (right) and wife and caddie, Michelle Lin, wait on the 18th green at the 2018 Wyndham Championship.

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‘My best caddie’: Taiwan golfer enlists wife for Olympic bid

Taiwan golfer C.T. Pan has found an ingenious way around the "no-family" rule at the spectator-free Tokyo Olympics — he employs his wife as his caddie. Pan, who has enjoyed one win on the U.S. PGA Tour in 2019, said Wednesday his wife, Michelle Lin, could be key to any podium finish when the m...

Naomi Osaka reacts in frustration during her third-round match against Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic on Tuesday at Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo.

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‘This one sucks’: Naomi Osaka out of Tokyo Olympics in shock defeat

Tennis star Naomi Osaka's dreams of home Olympic gold were crushed in a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marketa Vondrousova on Tuesday as her return to action came to an abrupt end. Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron and was one of the faces of the Games, struggled in an error-strewn display that blew the...

Airweave CEO Motokuni Takaoka demonstrates how robust his firm's cardboard beds are on Sunday in the firm's Tokyo showroom.

The man behind the Olympic ‘anti-sex’ beds speaks out

by Dan Orlowitz

When viral tweets and news articles about the Olympic Village’s “anti-sex beds” began to spread shortly before the start of the Tokyo Games, Airweave CEO Motokuni Takaoka knew that it would do no good to put out a hasty denial. Instead, the event’s official bedding supplier decided to let the ...