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At an extraordinary Olympics, acts of kindness abound

A surfer jumping in to translate for the rival who’d just beaten him. High-jumping friends agreeing to share a gold medal rather than move to a tiebreaker. Two runners falling in a tangle of legs, then helping each other to the finish line. In an extraordinary Olympic Games where mental...

Tokyo Olympics: Barshim, Tamberi tie for high jump gold

Mutaz Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy tied for the gold medal in the men’s high jump at the Tokyo Games. Both men were clean at every attempt to 2.37 meters and both missed all three attempts at the Olympic record of 2.39. The 30-year-old Barshim was the silver medalist...