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i Emily Lopez-Diaz, 11, swims for the YMCA of South Florida Barracudas in the Miami area. Her father, Josue Lopez, estimates that about 30 percent of the team is Latino. Naomi Lopez hide caption toggle caption Naomi Lopez Emily Lopez-Diaz, 11, swims for the YMCA of South Florida Barracudas in the Miami area. Her father, Josue Lopez, estimates that about 30 percent of the team is Latino. Naomi Lopez Simone…

Usain Bolt raced for the first at the 2016 Olympics and won his opening round 100m heat in 10.07 seconds. Bolt is attempting to become the first man to win three consecutive Olympic 100m gold medals.  “It wasn’t the best start, it felt kind of sluggish,” said Bolt, who was running just after noon on Saturday in Rio, to the Associated Press. “I’m not used to running this early in the morning…

In a stadium far north of the Olympic heart, a goalkeeper spewed ugly. “We played a bunch of cowards,” Hope Solo said. “The best team did not win today. I strongly believe that.” In a news conference room in the center of the Olympic soul, a mom spread grace. “We started talking to [Simone] about how swimming isn’t just going to be about her,” said Sharron Manuel, the mother of…

In a stadium far north of the Olympic heart, a goalkeeper spewed ugly. “We played a bunch of cowards,” Hope Solo said. “The best team did not win today. I strongly believe that.” In a news conference room in the center of the Olympic soul, a mom spread grace. “We started talking to [Simone] about how swimming isn’t just going to be about her,” said Sharron Manuel, the mother of…

Last Updated Aug 12, 2016 10:07 PM EDT RIO DE JANEIRO — A stunner at the Rio Olympics: Michael Phelps has been beaten. Joseph Schooling of Singapore built a big lead on the opening lap and easily held off the hard-charging Phelps to win gold in the 100-meter butterfly. Sports – Friday Michael Phelps, Simone Manuel make history in Rio Michael Phelps beats Ryan Lochte to break an ancient record…

RIO DE JANEIRO — Before the bus windows got blasted out and the water in the aquatics center turned emerald, before the Australian coaches got robbed at knifepoint and the Belgian sailor fell sick after tumbling into the sewage-strewn bay, before gang members in a favela killed a Brazilian police officer and a stray bullet landed in the media tent, one could make the case that Rio’s Olympics were going…

(Eraldo Peres/Associated Press) For the first time in its distinguished history, the U.S. women’s soccer team has failed to advance to the semifinals of a major tournament. The four-time Olympic gold medalists were upset by Sweden on penalty kicks, 4-3, following a 1-1 draw Friday at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia. The top-ranked Americans had gotten past the quarterfinals in seven World Cups and earned no worse than silver in…

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Thursday night, Simone Manuel made history when she became the first black woman in the Olympics to ever earn an individual swimming gold medal and the first African-American woman to win an individual medal. The groundbreaking win, which Manuel shared with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak after a tie, would be worth celebrating in the context of any sport. But the particularly racist history of American swimming pools — and resulting…

Michael Phelps has won more than twice as many gold medals as any other Olympian—and more than many entire nations. Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, 56 countries have taken home fewer gold medals in all than the 22 golds accrued by Phelps in his past four appearances at the Summer Olympics. And that doesn’t include the 47 countries that have participated without winning any gold medals. Phelps won…

In the notoriously unpredictable sport of trampoline–just one bad bounce can send a world-class athlete into last place–it’s much easier to fly into the top ranks of the sport than to stay there. Rosannagh, or Rosie, MacLennan of Canada proved it wasn’t impossible, however, when she became the first trampoline athlete to win two golds at an Olympics. Trampoline has a short history at the Olympics; it only made its debut…

A race is a battle to see who is fastest, but sometimes sports and race mix in ways that can inspire. USA TODAY Sports

Thursday night, Simone Manuel made history when she became the first black woman in the Olympics to ever earn an individual swimming gold medal and the first African-American woman to win an individual medal. The groundbreaking win, which Manuel shared with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak after a tie, would be worth celebrating in the context of any sport. But the particularly racist history of American swimming pools — and resulting…

Michael Phelps has won more than twice as many gold medals as any other Olympian—and more than many entire nations. Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, 56 countries have taken home fewer gold medals in all than the 22 golds accrued by Phelps in his past four appearances at the Summer Olympics. And that doesn’t include the 47 countries that have participated without winning any gold medals. Phelps won…

Because of NBC’s policy against GIFs, we used GIFs from Biles’s and Mustafina’s recent competitions. I’ve linked video (NBC does not allow embedding) of the routines that are available online. American gymnast Simone Biles turned the Rio Olympics’ women’s individual all-around gymnastics competition into a coronation. “Simone is so good that the Olympics have become boring,” Dave Lease, the editor of TSL, a figure skating and gymnastics news website,…

RIO DE JANEIRO — A female Chinese swimmer has tested positive for a banned substance at the Rio Olympics, China’s swimming association said Friday — the first competitor in the sport to fail a test at the games. The Chinese Swimming Association said Chen Xinyi tested positive for the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide after she finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter butterfly Sunday, missing a bronze medal by nine-hundredths of a second….

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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Rachel Axon tells you the five things to watch for during Day 7 of the Olympics. USA TODAY Sports Michael Phelps celebrates his 22nd career gold medal.(Photo: Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — It’s not Michael Phelps’ fault, the fact he makes it look so easy. He makes you think that it’s normal, what he’s doing, winning four gold medals in…

On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…