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Start: Starting blocks are used for all hurdle, relay and sprint events. The starting blocks consist of two adjustable footplates attached to a rigid frame. Olympic hurdle and sprint races commence ...

Team USA secured its first-ever silver in the figure skating team event with 65 points, narrowly edging Japan's 63-point total. Team USA now sits in the 2022 Winter Olympics' top 10 for medals with ...

Twelve men’s teams and 12 women’s teams (with a maximum of four athletes per team) compete in the Olympic artistic gymnastics competition. In addition, 100 individual competitors (50 men and 50 women) ...

Perfection exists at the Tokyo Olympics, and it was on display during the final round of the women's 10m platform diving competition when Chinese diver Quan Hongchan performed two dives that earned ...

Alpine snowboarding: A type of snowboarding that involves racing through gates on groomed courses. Parallel giant slalom is the only discipline within Alpine snowboarding that will be staged at the ...

Each halfpipe run is scored by a team of six judges. After dropping the highest and lowest scores, the four remaining scores are averaged together for each run. All judges score the runs based on ...

Lorenzo Patta, Eseosa Desalu, Marcell Jacobs and Filippo Tortu finished in 37.50, edging out Great Britain's foursome by one one-hundredth of a second. Tortu's spirited anchor leg caught and passed ...

The straight section of the track in which the skaters change lanes every lap to even out the distance traveled. Skaters are required to stay in their lanes and may not cross lane markers except along ...

Nearly four full years have passed since the cauldron was extinguished at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and now the 2022 Games are almost upon us. But while the Winter Olympics have been on a ...

It was an exciting few hours of action on Day 2 of figure skating’s team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The eight-segment event reached its halfway point, eliminated half the field, and continued ...

Skateboarding and surfing made their Olympic debuts in the 2020 Tokyo Games, and Americans have already secured medals in both events. Table Tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988, and while the ...