Tag: Olympics

Esther Henseleit's silver-medal Olympic golf surge and the love story behind it all

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Back in June, following the KPMG PGA Championship, Esther Henseleit and Reece Phillips lay in bed, staring at the ceiling...

Jordan Chiles, in an Olympic gymnastics comedy of errors, gets another raw deal

We ask a lot of our Olympic athletes — to perform with grace and humility, to carry the Olympic spirit even as they...

Team USA's Masai Russell wins gold in women's 100m hurdles by .01 seconds at Paris Olympics

SAINT-DENIS, France — This is how they do it at Kentucky.Masai Russell, the U.S. champion from the hurdle factory at the University of...

Nikola Jokić leads Serbia to Olympic bronze over Germany in men's basketball

PARIS — So much for the notion of Serbia’s men’s basketball team having a Team USA hangover.Just two days after their crushing loss...

Carl Lewis sounds off on 'unacceptable' U.S. men's 4×100 relay flub: 'Time to blow up the system'

After the U.S. men’s 4×100 relay team botched a baton handoff that led to their disqualification in Friday’s Olympic final, track and field...

USA vs. France women’s Olympic basketball gold medal game odds: Americans heavily favored

Team USA handled every aspect of its semifinal game against Australia and is now heading to a heralded game on Sunday to play...