Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Sports News (Master Feed)
Olympics-Teams take strength from flag or knee gesture before matches-Mills
By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) - Teams can find strength in taking the knee or unfurling an Indigenous flag before a game like Australia's women's soccer team did on Wednesday, Australian basketb...
Jul 21, 2021
Opening ceremony director dismissed after past comments on Holocaust, Tokyo 2020 says
TOKYO (Reuters) - The director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been dismissed, organisers said on Thursday, following news reports about his past comments on the Holocaust. Toky...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-‘Fight!’: Japan cheerleaders root for athletes as Games set to open
By Chris Gallagher TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese cheerleaders danced and waved pom poms outside a Tokyo train station on Thursday to show their support for Olympic athletes the day before the pandemic-po...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics opening ceremony director steps down over past comments on holocaust -paper
TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympics opening ceremony show director Kentaro Kobayashi has stepped down from his post following news reports about his past comments on the Holocaust, the Mainichi newspaper repor...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Softball-U.S. beats Canada as Abbott strikes out nine
By Paresh Dave FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - The United States scored a 1-0 victory over Canada as U.S. pitcher Monica Abbott dominated the Canadian batters from the start on the second day of softball...
Jul 21, 2021
Two Olympic athletes test positive for COVID-19 – organisers
(Corrects to 12 new positive cases, not 11; and the total to 87.) TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Olympic organisers said on Thursday two athletes residing in the Olympic village tested positive for COVI...
Jul 21, 2021
Equestrian-U.S. team starts bowing in homage to Japanese culture
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Olympics have barely started, but the U.S. equestrian team said on Thursday it had already gone local after taking inspiration from Japanese politeness by bowing to each ot...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Coates pulls rank as Queensland premier backflips on opening ceremony
TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic boss John Coates left few in doubt about the power of sport in Australian politics as he publicly ordered Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to attend Tokyo's opening c...
Jul 21, 2021
MLB roundup: Rays earn walk-off win over Orioles
Austin Meadows delivered a two-run, two-out walk-off single in the ninth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-4 on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. With the Rays down ...
Jul 21, 2021
Olympics-Swimming-Terminator v dominator is Tokyo’s pool duel
By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) - American Katie Ledecky can become the most successful female Olympian of all time with another golden haul in Tokyo but Australia's Ariarne Titmus could be the dasher of dr...
Jul 21, 2021
