TOKYO – Even Bobby Finke didn’t know he could swim so fast. But his uncanny ability to find a second gear in the pool – especially in the final 50 meters of a long-distance race – resulted in two surprise gold medals at this Olympics for Finke, a 21-year-old swimmer from Tampa, Fla. . Finke, …
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TOKYO – The most decorated Olympic swimmer in Tokyo… Caeleb Dressel? Katie Ledecky? No. That’s Australian Emma McKeon, set by Soviet Union gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya at the 1952 Helsinki Games, tying her to the record of any female Olympian with seven medals. McKeon’s seventh medal came in the 4×100 medley relay, making her the first …
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Simone Biles withdrew from the third individual final of the Olympics, leaving only one event from which she could choose to compete. On Sunday, Biles withdrew from the floor exercise final scheduled for Monday, USA Gymnastics said in a statement. he said this before wouldn’t compete in ragged bars or vault finals, scheduled for Sunday …
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Australian Emma McKeon becomes the second woman to win seven medals in a single Olympic, and Caeleb Dressel and Bobby Finke of the United States add more gold medals to the American race on a frenetic final day of swimming competition at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The United States wrapped up the event by setting …
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A second person died on Saturday after being shot during a screening of “The Forever Purge,” a movie about anarchy and murder, at a California theater in what authorities called a “random and gratuitous attack”. The Riverside County district attorney’s office said 19-year-old Anthony Barajas and 18-year-old Rylee Goodrich were shot in the head on …
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