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A Bronze For Simone Biles And A Win For Gymnastics

First, Sara and Geoff talk about baseball’s very active trade deadline — and with 10 All-Stars on the move, there is a lot to chew over. But the firework deals really come down to the Nationals and the Cubs joining the ranks of the sellers. Those two clubs had a lot of talent to bargain […]

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The Fastest Men In The World Are Still Chasing Usain Bolt

Men’s Olympic sprints traffic heavily in machismo and self-assurance, so an incredulous victor is a rarity on the track. Rarer still is the bewildered champion who hails from a country with no record of producing an event finalist. But there was Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs on Sunday night, telling reporters, “I think I need four […]

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Gymnasts Say They Need Apparatus Warmups Back. That Should Be Enough.

When American gymnast Jade Carey hurdled toward the vault during Sunday’s apparatus final, something was off. She took a little extra shuffle or stutter step as she went into her roundoff onto the springboard. And in the post-flight phase of the vault, we saw the impact of this small misstep: Instead of doing her planned […]

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How To Watch Olympic Karate

This year, karate finally joins other martial arts like judo, taekwondo and wrestling at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The athletes, called karatekas, will compete in one of two disciplines: the kata or the kumite. In this video, USA Karate Federation referee Cleveland Baxter explains the difference between the two disciplines, how they are judged […]

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