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FILE - In this July 22, 2018, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic mascot "Someity" stands at stage during their debut event in Tokyo. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic schedule remains essentially unchanged for the event postponed until next year, organizers said on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Tokyo organizers made the same announcement several weeks ago for the postponed Olympics. The Paralympics open on Aug. 24, 2021, and close on Sept. 5. The Olympics are to open on July 23. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo Paralympic competition schedule will be same next year
By Stephen Wade
8 hrs ago
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
18 hrs ago
Aug. 3 1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths on the 2...
FILE - In this July 26, 1952, file photo, Bob Mathias, defending Olympic decathlon champion, heaves the discus during the decathlon competition at the Summer Olympic games in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/File)
1952 Helsinki: The Cold War comes to the Olympics
By Will Graves
19 hrs ago
FILE - In this July 24, 1952, file photo, British athlete Christopher "Chris" Chataway falls as Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, followed by Alain Mimoun of France and German bronze medal winner Herbert Schade, leads near the end of the Men's final 5000 meter race at the Summer Olympic Games on in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1952 Helsinki Games
By The Associated Press
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Benn Fields holds a high jump crossbar which he called "The Benn" at his home, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Salisbury Mills, N.Y. Fields will forever be known as a U.S. Olympian, he will also always wonder about what might have been had the U.S. government not spearheaded a boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
BOYCOTT GAMES: Fields harbors no anger despite missing '80
By Eddie Pells
22 hrs ago
FILE - This July 29, 1948 file photo, showing the opening ceremony of the 1948 Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium, in London, England. London was still cleaning up bombing damage from World War II when it staged the Olympics in 1948. Britain was also struggling financially; food, clothing and gas were still being rationed. The athletes had to bring their own towels and, with housing in short supply, were accommodated in schools and Royal Air Force camps. The games were organized in less than two years, and despite the tiny budget it was a success, its legacies including greater sporting opportunities for women. (AP Photo, File )
Hungary's one-armed shooter wins 1948 Olympic gold
By Foster Niumata
Aug. 01, 2020 02:09 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 1948 file photo, Fanny Blankers-Koen, right, of Holland crosses the finish line in 11.9 seconds to win the Women's 100-meter Dash Final in the Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium, Eng. Britain's D. G. Manley (691) is second, Australia's S. B. Strickland (668) third Canada's V. Myers , hidden by camera finishes fourth while teammate Pat Jones (679) finished fifth, and Jamaica's E. Thompson (702) finished sixth. Women were limited in what they could do at the 1948 London Olympics so it was ironic that the biggest personality was a mother of two. Fanny Blankers-Koen was 30, the oldest woman among the track and field entries and considered past her prime. But she won the 100 and 200 meters, the 80-meter hurdles and the 4x100-meter relay. She remains the only female track and field athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympics. (AP Photo, File)
Fanny Blankers-Koen shattered myths at 1948 Olympics
By Foster Niumata
Aug. 01, 2020 01:17 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 7. 1948 file photo, Bob Mathias, right, is shown during the Olympic decathlon in London. At left is Oto Rebula of Yugoslavia and at center is Orn Clausen of Iceland. The Associated Press was in London when it staged the first Olympics after World War II. Bob Mathias took up decathlon at the suggestion of his high school coach in Tulare, California. Less than three months later he qualified for the 1948 Games and soon found himself standing in Wembley Stadium. Mathias won the decathlon and, at 17, became the youngest male winner of a track and field event in Olympic history. (AP Photo, File)
AP WAS THERE: 1948 London Olympics
By The Associated Press
Aug. 01, 2020 12:57 PM EDT
FILE - In this July 29, 1948 file photo, British athlete John Mark holds the Olympic Flame aloft as he makes his circuit of the Olympic track during the opening ceremony of the XIV Olympiad, in Wembley Stadium, London. London was still cleaning up bombing damage from World War II when it staged the Olympics in 1948. Britain was also struggling financially; food, clothing and gas were still being rationed. The athletes had to bring their own towels and, with housing in short supply, were accommodated in schools and Royal Air Force camps. The games were organized in less than two years, and despite the tiny budget it was a success, its legacies including greater sporting opportunities for women. (AP Photo, File)
Austerity Games of 1948 revive Olympic spirit after WWII
By Foster Niumata
Aug. 01, 2020 12:45 PM EDT
FILE - In this June 21, 1980, file photo, Edwin Moses, gold medal winner in 1976 in Montreal, coasts to an easy victory in the 400 intermediate hurdles as the 1980 Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore,. While the fact that Moses was denied a chance at a medal in 1980 is only a footnote to his career, he has spent the last several months organizing reunions for the 1980 team. (AP Photo/File)
BOYCOTT GAMES: 1980 U.S. team finds overdue recognition
By Eddie Pells
Aug. 01, 2020 12:13 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Aug. 01, 2020 11:15 AM EDT
Aug. 2 1864 — The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories. ...
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1936, file photo, America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Nazi Germany's Lutz Long, right, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Naoto Tajima of Japan, left, placed third. The performance of Jesse Owens will be honored in the stadium where he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games when the world championships are held in Berlin this month. (AP Photo/File)
Fast friends: Unlikely ally aids Owens at '36 Berlin Games
By Pat Graham
Jul. 31, 2020 01:13 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 8, 1936 file photo, John Woodruff, a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, wins the 800-meter race at the Olympic Games in Berlin. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: The 1936 Berlin Olympics
By The Associated Press
Jul. 31, 2020 12:53 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 1936, file photo, American sprint star Jesse Owens is shown in action during one of the heats of the 200-meter run in Berlin. He won the final with a new Olympic record of 20.7 seconds. (AP Photo/File)
Black Americans star in front of Hitler at Berlin Olympics
By Pat Graham
Jul. 31, 2020 10:59 AM EDT
FILE - In this July 23, 2020, file photo, Japanese swimming athlete Rikako Ikee holding the lantern containing Olympic flame poses during a photo session at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Friday, July 31, would have been the seventh full day of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics; almost the halfway point. The focus is now entirely on how to pull off the games next year, in what still might be the middle of a pandemic. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Heat! What heat? Tokyo Olympics would have been on cool side
By Stephen Wade
Jul. 31, 2020 01:33 AM EDT
AP WAS THERE: 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
By The Associated Press
Jul. 30, 2020 02:37 PM EDT
EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games...
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 1932, file photo, American athlete Jean Shiley, from Philadelphia and captain of the U.S. Women's track and field team, clears the bar at 5 feet, 5 ¼ inches to break the Olympic and world record during at Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles, during the Summer Olympic Games. (AP Photo/File)
Los Angeles' first Olympics set template for future Games
By Joe Reedy
Jul. 30, 2020 02:35 PM EDT
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
By The Associated Press
Jul. 30, 2020 11:53 AM EDT
Aug. 6 1926 — Nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle of New York City becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel as she crosses the...
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
By The Associated Press
Jul. 30, 2020 11:49 AM EDT
Aug. 2 1864 — The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories. ...
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2020, file photo, San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch laughs before the NFC Championship NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Santa Clara, Calif. Lynch has agreed to a new five-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers that will keep him locked up through the 2024 season. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
AP Source: 49ers GM John Lynch agrees to new 5-year deal
By Josh Dubow
Jul. 29, 2020 02:35 PM EDT