Want a professional athlete to grind through an interminable regular-season schedule, then embark on an even more grueling postseason march? No problem. But when players start participating in events outside of that familiar cycle — such as when NBA stars head to the Olympics — concern starts to build about wear and tear. Even putting […]
Tournament favorites usually don’t win — even big ones like the U.S. women’s soccer team. Too many things can go wrong, as they did in the penalty shootout of the USWNT’s quarterfinal loss against Sweden in the Rio Olympics on Friday. A goalkeeper guesses the right way, a usually reliable shooter sends a penalty kick […]
Tournament favorites usually don’t win — even big ones like the U.S. women’s soccer team. Too many things can go wrong, as they did in the penalty shootout of the USWNT’s quarterfinal loss against Sweden in the Rio Olympics on Friday. A goalkeeper guesses the right way, a usually reliable shooter sends a penalty kick […]
We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. RIO DE JANEIRO — For most of the race, security had been trying to kick the group of Ethiopian coaches and fans out of Olympic Stadium’s front row, which is only for press photographers. But the pleas of […]
We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. RIO DE JANEIRO — For most of the race, security had been trying to kick the group of Ethiopian coaches and fans out of Olympic Stadium’s front row, which is only for press photographers. But the pleas of […]
