Sue Bird was one of the flagbearers, sharing that role with baseball’s Eddy Alvarez. Bird is a five-time Olympian in women’s basketball. She remembers 2004 when the U.S. women’s basketball team got to ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's National Stadium was fan-less four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics; zero atmosphere in the $1.4 billion, 60,000-seat venue for the globe's greatest track and ...
Japanese fans soaked up the atmosphere on Saturday's opening day of the world athletics championships in Tokyo, four years after being shut out of the same stadium for the pandemic-troubled Olympics.