Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Sports News (Master Feed)
Olympics-Basketball-Spain coach furious over ‘dangerous’ wait for dressing room
TOKYO (Reuters) - Spain basketball coach Sergio Scariolo hit out at the Tokyo 2020 organisers after his side were made to wait almost half an hour before being allowed back into the dressing room foll...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Swimming-Battle of the record breakers looms in the Tokyo pool
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tuesday's women's 100m backstroke final will be a battle of the record breakers with Australia's Kaylee McKeown going for gold against American Regan Smith and Canada's Kylie Masse. ...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Gymnastics-Top women eliminated in Tokyo by a technicality
(fixes spelling of introduced in fifth para) By Karen Braun (Reuters) -Sixteen-year-old Viktoria Listunova won the women's artistic gymnastics all-around title at both the European and Russian Champio...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Fencing-ROC chief Pozdnyakov praises daughter for keeping family tradition alive
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the head of Russia's Olympic Committee, praised his daughter Sofia Pozdniakova after she added to the family legacy on Monday by cla...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Swimming-Efimova hits out at morning finals in ‘unfair’ Games
TOKYO (Reuters) - Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova on Monday branded the Tokyo Olympics unfair due to the number of athletes ruled out of the Games and criticised organisers for scheduling morning finals...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Taekwondo-Jordan’s silver medallist happy for Russian friend’s gold
By Chang-Ran Kim CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Jordanian taekwondo silver medallist Saleh Elsharabaty said he was happy for Russian Maksim Khramtcov's victory in their 80kg final match-up on Monday, callin...
Jul 26, 2021
Rugby-U.S. to host All Blacks in October test match in Washington
(Reuters) - The U.S. men's national rugby team will host the New Zealand All Blacks in Washington for an October test match designed to grow interest in the sport amongst Americans in hopes of staging...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Gymnastics-Japan’s men regret silver, but turn sights to Paris
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese men's gymnastics team, all Olympic novices on a team without "King Kohei" Uchimura for the first time since 2008, lost to Russia by a whisker on Monday an...
Jul 26, 2021
Olympics-Gymnastics-Russians hail Dalaloyan after recovery helps them to gold
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - Artur Dalaloyan was hailed as a hero by his teammates on Monday for competing through the discomfort of a recent surgery on his severed Achilles heel to h...
Jul 26, 2021
Motor racing-Saudi Arabia open to hosting two F1 races, says promoter
By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia would be willing to step in and host an extra race this year to help Formula One fill a gap on the calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic, promoter Princ...
Jul 26, 2021
