The eight gold medals in Japan's kitty is three more than they managed at their home Olympics in Tokyo three years ago and way ahead of Iran, Bulgaria and the United States, who finished with two ...

The Japan Times predicts that hosting the 2020 Games in Tokyo is "likely push up ... Tokyo's victory at 3 Wire Sports. Wrestling's Return to the Olympics "Wrestling is back," writes 3 Wire Sports ...

It was fitting that Susaki Yui wrapped up Japan’s wonderful wrestling Olympics as hosts as the nation’s fifth gold pushed them back ... Kyle Dake upset defending gold medalist Jordan Burroughs to make ...

At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Mayu Sadochi claimed wrestling gold for the host country. Sadochi isn't competing in Paris — but her 20-year-old compatriot, Akari Fujinama, has a strong opportunity to ...

PARIS -- Wrestling ... day at the Paris Olympics on Sunday to boost their bumper crop of medals. Japan finished its campaign with eight golds -- three more than in Tokyo three years ago -- with ...

However, it wasn’t meant to be, as Dake was defeated by Japan ... I got into wrestling. I just really miss him.” But his family was in attendance after missing the Tokyo Olympics due to ...

Gable Steveson, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics ... related to the history of the Games. Japan claimed two of Friday's three freestyle wrestling gold medals at the Paris Olympics ...

"We had the best result at an Olympics ... for Japan as hosts in Tokyo during the pandemic, given that it was difficult (for outsiders) to even enter the country," he said. Wrestling, judo ...

Japan hoped that holding the 2020 Olympics would reprise the triumph ... when many people saw the Tokyo Games as their country’s proud return to the international community after its crushing ...

Japan's Kohei Uchimura — whose three-time gold medal-winning gymnastics career earned him the nickname of "king" — failed to advance past his first appearance at the Tokyo Summer Olympics when ...

Network executives and Olympic leaders are counting on a reboot. Katie Ledecky entered the Tokyo Olympics with outsized expectations and demonstrated how much faster she is five years after ...