Olympics

7:40 AM ET ESPN News Services Reigning Olympic champion Simone Biles is out of Tuesday’s team finals because of a “medical issue,” according to USA Gymnastics. The 24-year-old U.S. star, considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time, huddled with a trainer after landing her vault. She then exited the competition floor with the

10:30 PM ET Another night, another full slate of Tokyo Olympics action. Medal events include the women’s triathlon, rowing, men’s and women’s swimming and shooting. The Americans look to rack up more hardware in the water with four individual finals. First, Kieran Smith competes in the men’s 200m freestyle final. Then, Regan Smith — who

7:00 AM ET HER ICONIC BUN in place, Diana Taurasi sat on the sideline as Team USA took on the WNBA All-Stars, an uncomfortable yet familiar perch these past few years for arguably the greatest player in the history of women’s basketball. The Wednesday night game in Las Vegas earlier this month served both as

7:00 PM ET When Uruguayan swimming star Nicole Frank, 17, found out she had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, she had only one thought: My grandma made it. That thought was 81 years in the making. Frank’s grandmother, Angelika Rädche, qualified to swim for Germany at the 1940 Helsinki Olympics — incidentally, rescheduled from Tokyo

2:02 PM ET Early Sunday at the Olympic Games, Simone Biles and the U.S. gymnastics team competed for the first time in a long evening of gymnastics qualifications, while swimmer Katie Ledecky got closer to defending her gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle event by finishing in the top spot following her heat. Then, Kevin

3:27 AM ET Tonight at the Olympic Games, Simone Biles and the U.S. gymnastics team competed for the first time in a long evening of gymnastics qualifications. Also, the first Olympic gold medal in skateboarding has been awarded. Two-time Olympic medalist April Ross and her new partner Alix Klineman won their first match in beach

12:16 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com TOKYO — There were no fans in the 10,000-seat Ariake Coliseum to watch Novak Djokovic begin his quest for the elusive Golden Slam on Saturday, nor to cheer on Barbora Krejcikova as she was introduced as the reigning French Open singles and doubles champion nor as Andy Murray and Joe

2:41 AM ET Hend Zaza’s Olympics finished with a selfie, a straight sets defeat and the belief that she has more to come. Syria’s table tennis star is the youngest athlete in Tokyo, at 12 years and 204 days, and the fifth youngest known in Olympics history. She was the lowest seed in the draw,

12:19 PM ET The Tokyo Olympics began on Friday with the opening ceremony and, as per usual, the entire event was a sparkling menagerie of color and sound, a breathtaking spectacle that was simultaneously alluring and difficult to watch because of the distasteful hypocrisy around the entire Olympic movement. There was pantomimed carpentry. There were

6:00 AM ET Alyssa RoenigkESPN Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). “When she landed, it was like, ‘Oh, my god, that just happened.'” Cecile Landi remembers exactly how she felt the

12:00 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — U.S. men’s water polo captain Jesse Smith will skip the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics on Friday after the USOPC limited how many players from his team could participate in the festivities. Olympic water polo rosters consist of 13 players, and 12 are designated as available for

2:21 PM ET Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea — The West African country of Guinea has reversed an earlier decision to pull out of the Olympics and will send a delegation of five athletes to the Tokyo Games. Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow made the announcement Thursday after national and international outcries that followed an

3:06 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — After images of Olympic soccer players taking a knee were excluded from official highlight reels and social media channels, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday they will be shown in the future. Players from five women’s soccer teams kneeled in support of racial justice Wednesday, the first day

8:00 AM ET The Olympic Games have always marked points of entry and reentry for the Japanese people. A closed society until 1868, with martial arts the only activity resembling sports as we now define them, Japan looked to its participation in the 1912 Olympics Games in Stockholm as a way of introducing itself to

6:58 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Stina Blackstenius scored a pair of goals and Sweden once again stunned the United States at the Olympics with a 3-0 victory Wednesday in the women’s soccer tournament. The Americans, ranked No. 1 in the world and the favorites to win gold in Tokyo, were riding a 44-match

12:36 PM ET Connor O’Halloran Team GB Paralympian Olivia Breen has said she was left “disgusted” after an England Athletics official told her that her sprint uniform was “inappropriate” and “too revealing” at the England Championships on Sunday. Double world-champion Breen, who has cerebral palsy, is set to compete in the T38 long jump at

8:36 AM ET TOKYO — The chief of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, as more athletes tested positive for COVID-19 and major sponsors ditched plans to attend Friday’s opening ceremony. Asked at a news conference whether the global sporting showpiece might still be

5:30 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. You would think that world-class athletes would command world-class accommodations. But depending on who you ask, that’s