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Jacobellis earns first US gold and long-awaited redemption IMAGE: Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States in action. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters Lindsey Jacobellis claimed the first gold medal for the United States at the Beijing…

Swede Van der Poel ends Dutch monopoly in men's 5000m IMAGE: Nils Van Der Poel of Sweden celebrates after winning gold and setting a new Olympic record. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Sweden's Nils van der Poel skated a blistering last lap…

Its significance? An opportunity for clean Russian athletes to compete in the Olympics while their country remains banned from the Games because of a doping scandal.Russian athletes will be competing under the neutral banner for the second…

Limpopo Impalas will take on Rocks in the 17th match of the CSA T20 Cup at the De Beers Diamonds Oval in Kimberley on Wednesday.Limpopo Impalas have played two matches this season and have only won once. They are rooted to the bottom of…

Finland won its first game of the women's world hockey championship Wednesday with a 4-0 blanking of ROC. Petra Nieminen scored twice to lead the Finns (1-2). Susana Tapani and Jenniina Nylund also scored and Michelle Karvinen had two…

Canada got offensive contributions from the young and the veteran in a 5-1 win Sunday over Russia at the women's world hockey championship. Fourteen different Canadians registered an offensive point in the first meeting with the Russians…

Check out the medals tally at the Tokyo Olympics:   RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal 1 China 32 22 16 70 2 United States 25 31 23 79 3 Japan 21 7 12 40 4 Great Britain 15 18 15 48 5 Australia 15 4 17 36 6 ROC 14 21 18 53 7…

The Russian Olympic Committee, as the athletes competing here are known, has 52 total medals at the Tokyo Games, putting them behind only China and the U.S. They can’t celebrate under their flag. Nor can they blare the Russian…