Here are some highlights of US broadcast coverage on Saturday evening and overnight. All times are East. GOLF American Xander Schauffele is a must watch Round 4 of the men’s individual shooting games starts at 18:30 on the Golf Channel. The event may also be streamed on GolfChannel.com and NBCOlympics.com. BASEBALL Mexico and Israel face …
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TOKYO – The mid-weekend of any Olympics is always big. Swimming ends, the course begins, and team competitions approach the qualifying stages. And the deluge of events at the Tokyo Games seems to have peaked on Sunday. A rough chronological look at a big day at the Games – here’s Sunday for us in Tokyo, …
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TOKYO — San Marino waited 61 years for its first Olympic medal, which arrived on Thursday. Then he waited two days for the next. San Marino isn’t nearly an athletic powerhouse. Sports fans know him mostly for entering the European football qualifiers, where he almost always loses by scores like 9-0. But now San Marino …
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SAUGERTIES, NY – The 6.5-acre blue stone labyrinth rising from a quarry here is one of the wonders of the Hudson Valley, a show of artistic strength by a self-taught sculptor who spent more than half his life creating it with thousands of rocks. , endless patience and no cement. Work 40Its name is a …
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Katie Ledecky The United States swam to its second gold in the Games. ladies 800 meters, a victory was even more satisfying because it was at the expense of his rival, Australian Ariarne Titmus. Caeleb Dressel of the USA won his third gold medal by breaking the world record in the 100m butterfly. But the …
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Beijing police said on Saturday they had detained Kris Wu, a popular Canadian-Chinese singer, on suspicion of rape.MeToo controversy It sparked outrage in China. The police did not provide details of their investigation into Mr. Wu. But it came weeks after an 18-year-old college student in Beijing accused him of seducing young women like him …
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His comments sparked his own backlash. We are all in favor of women’s equality in sports, but now this equality has been taken from us.” Lambrechs told TVNZ. Weight lifters come to me and say what can we do. It’s not fair, what can we do? And unfortunately there is nothing we can do because …
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The delay in the federal freeze is being offset by other pro-tenant initiatives still in place. Many states and territories, including New York and California, have extended their own moratoriums, which should blunt some of the impact. In some places, judges, aware of the potential for a mass wave of displacement, said they would slow …
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Alen HadzicAn alternate accused of sexual harassment on the U.S. Olympic fencing team was ostracized in Tokyo and prevented from staying at the Olympic Village. On Friday, his teammates protested his presence face-to-face, or rather mask-to-mask. During promotions for the team epee competition, three US fencers wore pink masks, apparently in support of sexual assault …
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Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic won the gold medal at the women’s singles tennis tournament on Saturday night, beating Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, positioning herself as one of the very few players to win singles and doubles gold at the same Olympics. Bencic beat Vondrousova in a tight third set to win the game 7-5, …
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On Thursday, boaters in Alaska stumbled upon a strange sight: A 20-foot-long killer whale was stuck in a rock crevice on the shore. Julie Fair, spokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in an email that someone on a boat saw an orca on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of British …
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TOKYO — After winning a bronze medal in one of the new Olympic events at the Tokyo Games, Mexican Alejandra Valencia recalled the moment her partner nearly blew her up. “I just said, ‘Okay, you know how to do that,’” she recalled. “And I punched him a little.” Valencia’s partner, Luis Alvarez, misfired with the …