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Diana Taurasi and the U.S. womenâs basketball team face Japan in group play live at 12:40 a.m. ET (9:40 p.m. PT Thursday) on USA Network.
Following are highlights from tonightâs primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics on the networks of NBCUniversal:
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Rowdy Gaines on Dresselâs start in the 100m freestyle: âI canât begin to tell you how many times Caeleb and I have sat down together and talked about his start. He just explodes off the back footâ¦He wins the race in the first 15 meters. But who cares? Who cares how he won it? He won it!â
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TOKYO Even though Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel and every other U.S. swimmer has worn a mask while doing interviews with journalists at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, and Tokyo is in a state of emergency due to the pandemic, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has decided to allow unvaccinated swimmer Michael Andrew to not wear a mask.
Citing the Tokyo playbook of COVID-19 protocols released in June, the USOPC said that athletes can remove their masks for interviews. But every U.S. swimmer other than Andrew has worn a mask in mixed zone interviews and press conferences throughout the Olympic competition, which has gone on for seven days.
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Bella Sims. This raised eyebrows, especially given that two of the swimmers are very young amid a staff of coaches that primarily work with collegiate and professional swimmers, but USA Swimming and the USOPC managed to get him to Tokyo afterall.
He was also the youth coach of
Bowe Becker who was on the gold-medal-winning 4×100 free relay alongside
Blake Pieroni who represents the Sandpipers in national competitions but has not regularly trained there.
He has been seen on deck standing with the other U.S. Olympic swim coaches during the meet and coaching swimmers. We reached out to USA Swimming staff to confirm Aitken’s specific role in Tokyo, but they have not responded. This is not the first time that a coach has been added to the Olympic staff in an unannounced and ambiguous role –
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