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Three members of the Australian Olympic track and field team will remain in isolation for the duration of the Games after their contact with leading US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, who was ruled out Tokyo with COVID-19. The two unnamed Australian athletes will be able to compete if they continue returning negative COVID-19 tests, however they and a coach will be kept away from the village, according to Australian team chef de mission Ian Chesterman. 'We made the decision to continue to isolate the three people from the track and field team as a precautionary measure,' Chesterman said at a news...

Andy Lyons / Getty Images For some of us, the Olympics don't really get started until the runners take the starting line and the javelins go flying. Every four years — or in this case, five — we rejoice when the hours of swimming coverage give way to wall-to-wall athletics, as the Olympics and other countries call track and field. Here are a few storylines to watch for, as the tracksters lace up their spikes and events kick off in Japan. JuVaughn Harrison is a double-threat jumper JuVaughn Harrison won both the high jump and the long jump at the U.S. Olympic trials last month. That...

Fraser-Pryce Eases Into Olympics As S.Africa Strike Rare Women's Swim Gold By Guy JACKSON 07/30/21 AT 1:06 AM Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made an impressive entrance at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday as South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker smashed a long-standing world record in the pool. But the shadow of coronavirus hung over the start of the athletics programme with the Australian team saying three of its members would remain isolated from the rest of the squad "as a precautionary measure" after a scare. Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will contest the women's 100m he...

U.S. women's hoops team beats Japan TOKYO – After getting pushed by Nigeria in its Olympic opener, the U.S. women's basketball team had a tough time putting away Japan on Friday in its second game of pool play. Though the final score ended up 86-69, this was essentially a 10-point game for the entire second half until a couple 3-pointers for the Americans finally broke it open with fewer than three minutes remaining.  Japan proved tough to defend with its ball movement and spacing, continually generating open looks from the perimeter. Early in the game, Japan made those shots in flurries ...

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