RIO DE JANEIRO – The gold medals were already dangling around the necks of 12 players who had only a month to come together and maintain United States basketball supremacy when USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo came around the podium, avoiding the glare of lime...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (AFP) — Officials remained tight-lipped yesterday even as condemnation rained down on administrators deemed responsible for the fiasco of a waterlogged outfield that has ruined the fourth and final Test between the West Indies and India. Only 22 overs were...
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil — Usain Bolt easily captured the men’s 200m in 19.78 seconds (-0.5 m/s) and secured his eighth Olympic gold medal while staying on course for an unprecedented ‘treble triple’ in his pursuit of immortality. Bolt, who had completed a third consecutive 100m...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Usain Bolt won a third-successive Olympic 200m gold yesterday to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented “triple triple” in Rio. The victory in his favoured event was Bolt’s 13th individual world or Olympic sprint title from a possible 14...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) – Jamaica's Elaine Thompson sealed an Olympic sprint double after scorching to victory in the women's 200m on Wednesday. Thompson, who won the 100m crown on Saturday, timed a season's best of 21.78 seconds to trump Dutch favourite Dafne Schippers, who...