By EMILIO MORENATTI Associated Press When I last saw Freddie de los Santos, his mouth was ravaged — his teeth had been blown away by the same blast that took his leg. And yet, he always smiled. …
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Cleared to earn money, college athletes tap creative sides
By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Will Ulmer doesn’t have to hide anymore. The Marshall offensive lineman, all 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds of him, unleashed a year’s worth of en…
Chisox, Yanks go deep into corn; Field of Dreams hosts more
By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — As the bus carried the New York Yankees through the cornfields blanketing this serene, rolling farmland of northeast Iowa, Aaron Judge noticed…
AP Interview: Belarus sprinter feels safe, looks to future
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — After all the turmoil of the last week, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya finally feels safe. The Belarusian Olympic sprinter who found refuge in Poland to…
Women send powerful message in Olympic track and field
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer TOKYO (AP) — They set records everyone saw coming and others that surprised the experts. They suffered, and battled, and spoke their truth in ways that hadn’t b…
Brazil Olympic skateboarding is tropical fairytale for girls
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and TATIANA POLLASTRI Associated Press SAO CAETANO DO SUL, Brazil (AP) — No matter how much 9-year-old Brazilian Nicole Amaro pleaded with her dad to let her skateboard, Deivison …
Black women, across generations, heed Biles’ Olympic example
BY AARON MORRISON, ASTRID GALVAN and DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka. Simone Biles. Both are prominent young Black women under the pressure of a global Olympic spotlight tha…
Belarus Olympic runner who feared going home lands in Poland
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who feared for her safety at home after criticizing her coaches on s…
Biles returns to Olympic competition, wins bronze on beam
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles isn’t going home with a fistful of gold medals. A mental block — one brought on by exhaustion or stress or something the American gymnas…
At an extraordinary Olympics, acts of kindness abound
By SALLY HO Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A surfer jumping in to translate for the rival who’d just beaten him. High-jumping friends agreeing to share a gold medal rather than move to a tiebreaker. Tw…