India Olympic Team
Ana Vazquez, from Mexico, shoots during practice for the 2020 Summer Olympics at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, Sunday, July 18, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A list of Olympians to follow on social media

Jul. 22, 2021 07:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 26, 2021, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing staff prepare a Paralympic swimming test event at the Tokyo Aquatics Center, in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics are not looking like much fun: Not for athletes. Not for fans. And not for the Japanese public, who are caught between concerns about the coronavirus at a time when few are vaccinated on one side and politicians and the International Olympic Committee who are pressing ahead on the other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Uzbekistan attempt to slyly qualify Olympic swimmers blocked

Jul. 12, 2021 09:35 AM EDT

FILE - Japan's Naomi Osaka holds the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating United States Jennifer Brady in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, in this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, file photo. Naomi Osaka was going to be at the center of attention during the Tokyo Olympics no matter what. She is a tennis superstar who owns four Grand Slam titles and is the highest-earning female athlete in the world.(AP Photo/Mark Dadswell, FIle)
Naomi Osaka's return to action highlights Olympic tennis

By Howard Fendrich Jul. 05, 2021 10:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, file photo, Phillippines' Eumir Felix Marcial, left, and Uzbekistan's Israil Madrimov fight in their men's middleweight boxing semifinal at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) allowed professional boxers into the Olympics for the first time in Rio, but just three competed, and none did well. The COVID-affected qualification process and a general disinterest among top pros means there won't be any household names fighting in Tokyo, either. There are several pros in the field, but most, like Filipino middleweight Eumir Marcial, kept a foot in each boxing world during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Boxing aims for calm, cool Olympics after years of drama

By Greg Beacham Jul. 01, 2021 01:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, file photo, India's M.C. Mary Kom holds the Indian national flag and celebrates her gold medal in the women's flyweight (48-51kg) final boxing match at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Kom, whose inspirational life story spawned films and books, qualified for a third Olympics. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
South Korea Asian Games

Jul. 01, 2021 12:47 PM EDT

South Korean women's archery team seek 9th straight gold

Jul. 01, 2021 12:08 PM EDT
HIGHLIGHTS FROM RIO: The winner of the men’s individual competition was Ku Bonchan of South Korea. Jean-Charles Valladont of France earned silver and American...

Coco Gauff of the US slips on the grass as she plays a return to Britain's Francesca Jones during the women's singles first round match on day two of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Tuesday June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Coco Gauff, 17, Jennifer Brady lead US Olympic tennis team

By Howard Fendrich Jun. 30, 2021 07:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 filer, Sweden's Therese Alshammar rests after a women's 50-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Therese Alshammar’s attempt to become the first swimmer to compete in seven Olympics ended Saturday with less than a month to go until the Tokyo Games. The Swedish great missed out on qualifying for a spot on her country’s 4x100 freestyle relay team when she was beaten by an Indian swimmer less than half her age in a two-woman heat at the Seven Hills meet in Rome. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Sweden’s Alshammar won’t swim in record 7th Olympics

By Andrew Dampf Jun. 26, 2021 06:45 AM EDT

NSW wins toss, bats 1st in Australian domestic cricket final

Apr. 14, 2021 08:22 PM EDT
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion New South Wales won the toss on Thursday and decided to bat first in the domestic first-class Sheffield Shield...

File - In this Oct. 10, 2020, file photo, Sofia Kenin, of the United States, plays a shot against Poland's Iga Swiatek in the final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France. Kenin is the top-seeded woman in Abu Dhabi, where the first women’s tour-level tennis event of 2021 begins main-draw play on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
TENNIS '21: COVID questions key; Nadal, Djokovic eye records

By Howard Fendrich Jan. 05, 2021 12:04 PM EST

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Nov. 06, 2020 10:00 AM EST
Nov. 7 1943 — The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the last scoreless tie in the NFL. 1968 — Red Berenson scores...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Oct. 29, 2020 11:42 AM EDT
Nov. 5 1927 — Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa 1-up to capture the PGA Championship for the fourth consecutive year and fifth overall. ...

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are on display, in Tokyo. The unprecedented postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic, has left buyers of millions of tickets in a quandary. Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee say the Games will take place, but they have offered few details about how. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Tokyo Games postponement presents quandary for ticket buyers

By Stephen Wade Aug. 20, 2020 01:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1956, file photo, German inside right Rolf K. Geiger, right, gets the ball past a Soviet defender during the Germany vs Russia Olympic Association Football match on the Olympic Park football field in Melbourne, Australia on. Russia won 2-1. (AP Photo/Stuart Heydinger, File)
1956 Melbourne Olympics: 1st Games in southern hemisphere

By Dennis Passa Aug. 03, 2020 11:48 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 29, 1928, file photo, American sprinters and Olympic champions Jackson Scholz, left, and Charles "Charley" Paddock pose together in their starting positions at New York's Columbia University. (AP Photo/File)
1928 Amsterdam: Women's track, gymnastics debut at Olympics

By Howard Fendrich Jul. 29, 2020 11:02 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1920, file photo, the Olympics are held at the Antwerp Stadium, showing the U.S. contingent leading all the athletes in the procession around the field on, after which they proceeded to lead all competition in the athletic events. (AP Photo/File)
Antwerp 1920 Olympics haunted by war and flu pandemic

By James Ellingworth Jul. 27, 2020 03:54 PM EDT

FILE - In this is undated file photo, Jim Thorpe poses in a baseball uniform. Thorpe was on top of the world after winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with mind-blowing performances that went unmatched for decades. They so impressed the King of Sweden that he told Thorpe he was "the greatest athlete in the world.” The Native American was later stripped of the gold medals for breaching Olympic amateurism rules in what has been described as the first major international sports scandal. (AP Photo/File)
Thorpe's scandal-tainted 1912 golds still resonate, amaze

By Steve Douglas Jul. 26, 2020 03:16 PM EDT

FILE - In this is undated file photo, Jim Thorpe poses in a baseball uniform. Thorpe was on top of the world after winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with mind-blowing performances that went unmatched for decades. They so impressed the King of Sweden that he told Thorpe he was "the greatest athlete in the world.” The Native American was later stripped of the gold medals for breaching Olympic amateurism rules in what has been described as the first major international sports scandal. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1912 Stockholm Olympics

Jul. 26, 2020 03:13 PM EDT

FILE - In this 1912 file photo, Albert Gutterson, of the United States, competes in the long jump at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Gutterson went on to win the gold. (Pressens Bild/TT via AP)
3 sporting trailblazers light up Stockholm Olympics in 1912

By Steve Douglas Jul. 26, 2020 01:55 PM EDT

FILE - This 1900 file photo shows the eastern part of a busy boulevard in Paris, France in the year 1900. No opening ceremony. No closing ceremony. And many of the athletes at the 1900 Paris Games had no idea they even competed at the Olympics. But the second edition of the Olympics had female athletes competing for the first time. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1900 Paris Olympics

Jul. 23, 2020 03:17 PM EDT