The first day of the FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup got underway as eight matches were contested in the Hungarian city of Debrecen.

short of a comeback win having been 15 points behind at one stage of the game.Defending champions the United

States concluded the first day of the tournament by comprehensively beating Italy 96-37 with an all-round

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ImagesThe athletics track programme concluded with the 4x400 metres relays, which were both won by the United

States ©Getty ImagesThe United States won their third successive women's water polo title, after convincingly

The Olympic Flame will flicker and die at the end of the Closing Ceremony here in Tokyo tomorrow and teams are now choosing their flag bearer from those athletes still in Japan.

United States javelin thrower Kara Winger is to set the seal on her career at her fourth and last Olympics

the US team into the Closing Ceremony," Winger said.Javelin thrower Kara Winger is set to carry the United

States flag at the Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony ©Getty Images"On behalf of Team USA, we want to thank

France secured their first Olympic volleyball title as they survived a stirring fightback from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in a thrilling five-set victory on a golden night for the country at Tokyo 2020.

Poland, Brazil and United States.

Norway’s 20-year-old boy wonder Jakob Ingebrigtsen became Olympic 1500 metres champion here tonight as he ended a run of 12 successive defeats by Kenya’s world champion Timothy Cheruiyot.

An all-star United States women’s 4x400 metres relay team duly extended a record that has seen them claim

Hyperice has been named as the official recovery technology partner of the United States Association

Hebert Sousa produced a stunning knock-out to beat Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyziniak in the men’s middleweight boxing final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here today.

judges ruled Surmeneli as the winner and two viewed the contest as even.India’s Lovlina Borgohain and United

States’ Oshae Jones completed the podium.

Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev is the Olympic champion in the men’s freestyle 97 kilograms category.

Reineris Salas Perez in a 4-0 victory by points, before a dominant performance in the final against the United

States’ Kyle Frederick Snyder delivered a 6-3 victory by points and another gold medal.The 25-year-old

dominated his wrestling events since making his senior debut at the age of 15.Sadulaev won gold at the United

Commission have introduced the Guaranteeing Oversight and Litigation on Doping (GOLD) Act into the United

States Congress, which would increase the penalties for doping fraud.

Rodchenkov Act at Tokyo 2020.The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act passed into law in December 2020, and gives the United

States the ability to prosecute individuals for doping schemes at international sports competitions

the Moscow Laboratory, which were then halved by the CAS.Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United

States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), recently called the punishment a "farce", but Stanislav Pozdnyakov

international sport federations" as part of a further clamp-down on doping in sport, while Burgess said "the United

United States won the Olympic women's water polo title for the third time in a row after they thrashed

Japan beat the United States 2-0 to win their maiden Olympic baseball title, while becoming the first

Harris English of the United States maintained his two-stroke lead at the midway stage of the World Golf

The official Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme is set to become one of the greatest curiosities in Olympic collecting.

golds and Japanese wrestler Risako Kawai, who won wrestling gold in the same week as her sister.The United

States' gymnastics superstar Simone Biles and footballer Megan Rapinoe are also amongst the featured

United States secured their fourth consecutive men’s Olympic basketball title after seeing off the challenge

Jason Tatum contributed 19 points to the United States total as they beat France 83-76 ©Getty ImagesThe

day of heat and humidity in Sapporo which also saw a surprise bronze medal for Molly Seidel of the United

States.

Molly Seidel won unexpected bronze for the United States in today's women's marathon ©Getty ImagesSeidel

winner Peres Jepchirchir, left, with the silver and bronze medallists, team-mate Brigid Kosgei and the United

States' Molly Seidel of the United States ©Getty ImagesThe start time of the race had been brought forward