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Simone Biles, Gymnastics
The 24-year-old from suburban Houston, who has won every major team and individual all-around competition she’s entered since her senior debut in 2013, is favored to become the first woman to repeat as Olympic all-around champion in 53 years. The 19-time world champion will also take a second crack at becoming the first US woman in any sport to win five golds at a single Olympics (team, all-around, vault, floor and beam), a feat she came within a momentary slip of achieving in Rio.
David Boudia, Diving
A four-time Olympic medalist on the 10m platform including an individual gold at the London Games, the 31-year-old Indianan switched to the 3m springboard after suffering a concussion on a badly missed training dive in February 2018, when he crashed into the water head-first from the height of a three-story building. A fifth career Olympic medal in Tokyo would move him level with Greg Louganis for most ever by an
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Mar 6, 2021 3:55 PM
Sarah Lavin and Sean Tobin have set lifetime bests on day two of the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland, with both promising potentially more to come in Torun.
Clonmel AC and Dublin Track Club star Tobin clocked a new mark of 7 minutes, 47.71 seconds in coming fifth in his 3000m semi-final, only being a second off winner Andrew Butchart of Britain (7:46.46) in a blanket finish.
Tobin had stayed close to the front throughout, looking very comfortable around fifth place and was never out of touch with the lead, with the first three qualifying automatically for tomorrow’s final, along with the next three fastest losers.