RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The odds are good the U.S. will win the gold medal count once again in the Olympics. The odds are even better this year that there will be some money bet on it. Bookmakers in Las Vegas are making the U.S. the favorite to defend the gold medal crown from […]
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Viewers guide to the 2016 Olympics
NBC’s 170-member roster is short of the United States’ athlete count of 555, but the network will need every one of ’em. With Rio 1 hour ahead of Eastern Time, many events will be live in prime-time. NBC is planning 2,084 hours of programming. If you aired that on one channel, it would take nearly […]
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Olympic Schedule for Thursday
The Olympic schedule for Thursday and what to watch on TV. All Times EDT; Subject to change. Soccer, Men Iraq vs. Denmark, Noon Honduras vs. Algeria, 2 p.m. Brazil vs. South Africa, 3 p.m. Mexico vs. Germany, 4 p.m. Portugal vs. Argentina, 5 p.m. Sweden vs. Colombia, 5 p.m. Fiji vs. South Korea, 7 p.m. Nigeria vs. […]
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NBC gears up for Olympics with exhaustive coverage plan
2016 Rio Summer Games coverage Get in-depth reporting on the 2016 Summer Games and the athletes with: A section dedicated to the U.S. team Photo and video galleries Interactive graphics Listings of live and televised events In addition to the events, coverage includes doping, pollution, Zika virus and Rio culture and politics. More at SunJournal.com/Olympics NEW YORK — […]
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Olympic torch arrives in Rio
2016 Rio Summer Games coverage Get in-depth reporting on the 2016 Summer Games and the athletes with: A section dedicated to the U.S. team Photo and video galleries Interactive graphics Listings of live and televised events In addition to the events, coverage includes doping, pollution, Zika virus and Rio culture and politics. More at SunJournal.com/Olympics RIO DE […]
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Olympics: Rio worth a second look
The Rio de Janeiro Olympics, though widely panned and publicized as a train wreck-in-waiting since the day they were announced, are finally upon us. Thank the Lord, thank Jesse Owens, and thank the Greek messenger who breathed his last at the end of that impromptu marathon in 490 B.C., because right now we need it […]
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Olympics: Lewiston’s Isaiah Harris comes up short in gutsy performance
EUGENE, Ore. — Isaiah Harris took second place in the 800 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials with 200 meters to go. He was behind Boris Berian, the world indoor champion. He used everything he had to drive to the finish line, but even with his Olympic dream on the line, his […]
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U.S. Olympic Trials: Harris advances to final in 800-meter run
EUGENE, Ore. — This one took a little bit more “umph.” Sitting in fifth position for most of the first heat, Isaiah Harris could feel the pace picking up. Notoriously a closer, Harris is used to having a few runners in front of him over the final 200 meters of an 800-meter race. But Saturday, […]
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Olympics become financial sinkhole for hosts
WASHINGTON — Brazil is suffering the worst economic slump in decades; its president may be thrown out of office; it’s contending with the zika virus. Now, to add to these indignities, come the huge subsidies to pay for this summer’s Olympics. The costs exceed $10 billion, with only a fraction to be covered by revenues […]
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Working: Marking time for mountain races
AUBURN — Tom Kendall never planned to keep time. Rather, as the parent of high school competitors who’d wait hours to hear the results of ski races, he wanted to make better use of his time. So, in the mid-1980s, the Auburn computer salesman wrote a program that collected the handwritten, stopwatch scribbles of volunteers […]