Believe it or not, but Michael Phelps still has the opportunity to wear and own even more Olympic gold. In the final stages of his Olympic career even though he’s appeared unstoppable, Phelps has already taken over the 2016 Rio Games with three of the United States 10 gold medals, and more could be on […]
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO – Michael Phelps continues to define greatness in ways other swimmers or other athletes can only dream of. His own greatness. He came back to these Olympics because he couldn’t get defeat out of his mind. That rare defeat. A defeat that so consumed him he couldn’t live with it. He came
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAIs there a prouder grandmother in the U.K. on Monday morning? Great Britain won its first Olympic gold medal of Rio 2016 when Adam Peaty set a world record in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke Sunday night. But his biggest fan was back home in Uttoxeter in Staffordshire: his nan Mavis Williams. The 21-year-old swimmer broke
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International, Sports & CompetitionsA Saudi judo competitor pulled out of her first-round match at the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro on Sunday, ahead of a prospective second-round bout tie with an Israeli rival. However, Israeli and Saudi accounts offered different reasons for Joud Fahmy’s withdrawal. Israeli press reports claimed Fahmy decided to leave the competition because she
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsAmar’e Stoudemire, the NBA basketball star who just signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, said that he has always wanted to be in Israel, and play basketball there – and he is now realizing his dream. In his first press conference since arriving in Israel at the end of last week, Stoudemire explained his transfer to Hapoel
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Aimee Boorman, the United States women’s gymnastics coach, couldn’t remember the specific jokes she was telling her prized protege, Simone Biles, to keep her loose during the long interval before the balance beam. “I’m sure she thinks they’re really stupid,” Boorman said. But they were good enough to help Biles conquer
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad made her debut as the first American Olympic athlete competing with a hijab on Monday but her adventure ended prematurely in the second round of women’s sabre fencing. Wearing a black Muslim head scarf under her mask, the eighth-ranked Muhammad won her first round match 15-13 against Ukraine’s
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAIf you watched the Olympics this weekend, you probably noticed the purple circles on swimmer Michael Phelps, and some members of the US men’s gymnastics team. The marks have been garnering a lot of buzz, and speculation: Michael Phelps probably just fell asleep on his medals pic.twitter.com/IOzvGaJ0Dv — Above Average (@AboveAverage) August 8, 2016 But
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Their athleticism may look smooth on the floor exercise, uneven bars and balance beam and achieved with the greatest ease on the vault. But gymnast Aly Raisman talked about the hours of hard work in the gym to get that magical payoff, the heavy lifting rarely seen by the public. On
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International, Sports & CompetitionsRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Anna van der Breggen delivered the Netherlands its first gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Sunday in a nail-biting finish to the women’s cycling road race, which saw her team-mate Annemiek van Vleuten injured in a nasty fall. Van Vleuten had been in the lead when she fell while
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International, Sports & CompetitionsRIO DE JANEIRO — Michael Phelps added a 19th gold medal to his ever-growing record haul Sunday night. Phelps surged ahead in the second leg of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay to give the U.S. team a lead it held for good. It was Phelps’ first race of these Rio 2016 Olympics, and the 31-year-old looked
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics isn’t everything. There’s also sport. Anyone who’s visited Rome’s Coliseum, or the remains of Greek amphitheaters around the Mediterranean, knows that it’s capacity to divert has been with us for a long time. We’ve moved beyond the blood sport of the gladiators. Boxing is losing its popularity. Dog fighting
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Ira Sharkansky, Sports & CompetitionsCulture and Sport Minister Miri Regev on Sunday decried the Lebanese Olympic delegation’s refusal to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts as “anti-Semitism” and “the worst kind of racism.” On Friday, Lebanese Olympic athletes attempted to block the Israeli team from traveling with them to the opening ceremony, according to a report
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsRio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad is set to leave a mark at the Summer Olympics, no matter how she ends up doing in the women’s sabre fencing events in Rio de Janeiro. When she takes the stage at the Carioca arena in Monday’s individual tournament, she will be the first US athlete to
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