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GIORNI di FELICITA — days of happiness. Team Italy’s streak of astounding Tokyo success continued with Antonella Palmisano’s rousing 1:29:12… Read More

AFTER THEIR MAGNIFICENT MEDAL SWEEP in the 100, it seemed likely that only a dropped baton or a badly botched… Read More

AFTER MUCH TONGUE WAGGING about who should/must/would comprise the foursome for the final, the U.S. put a golden quartet of… Read More

5 YEARS AGO reigning world champion Mariya Lasitskene was denied the opportunity to compete in Rio because of the (still… Read More

DIGGING A HOLE at the opening height isn’t a recommended technique for winning a gold medal, but favored Katie Nageotte… Read More

IN A FINAL THAT FEATURED a half-dozen lead changes it came down to almost the last jump of the competition… Read More

SHE PROVIDED THE INEVITABLE — TWICE. Prohibitive favorite Yulimar Rojas put an indelible stamp on winning her first Olympic gold,… Read More

SPECIAL DELIVERY WON’T BE NECESSARY for Lijiao Gong’s Olympic medal this time. Gong was on the Tokyo podium, her first… Read More

SHE DIDN’T MAKE the Rio Games; placed 6th in the Olympic Trials as a Stanford junior. But Valarie Allman, now… Read More

“I WAS DREAMING OF becoming the queen of the hammer throw.” With her third consecutive Olympic gold, Anita Włodarczyk’s dream… Read More

AFTER HER MASSIVE 234-3 (71.30) in May made her the No. 3 performer all-time, Maria Andrejczyk (4th in Rio, but… Read More

APPREHENSION TEMPERED ANTICIPATION of the matchup between the world’s two best current heptathletes —Nafi Thiam and Katarina Johnson-Thompson — as… Read More

EAST STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, July 17—The annual American JavFest more than lived up to its name, with headliner Maggie Malone breaking… Read More

EUGENE, OREGON, August 21 — The fastest women’s 100 ever? We think so, as the promised sprint showdown at the… Read More

EUGENE, OREGON, August 21 — Turns out the much-ballyhooed Prefontaine Classic was worth all that ballyhoo, as the first Diamond… Read More

EUGENE, OREGON, August 20 — Even Wonder Woman must feel fatigue once in a while and that goes too for… Read More

WHEN I SAW THE E-MAIL I panicked, half-expecting Japan’s COVID police to pounce, drag me off to a dreaded quarantine… Read More