Author: Christine Brennan, USA TODAY

Lydia Jacoby, from Seward, Alaska, was one of Team USA’s Olympic trials surprises and is one of 11 teenagers on the US Olympic swimming team.

After Team USA was shut out of medals at the Tokyo Olympics on Day 1, swimmer Chase Kalisz broke through for a gold medal in the men’s 400 IM.

Nearly 100 U.S. athletes at the Tokyo Games are not vaccinated, leaving them flying blind in the middle of Japan’s state of emergency.

Olympic officials could not keep the coronavirus out of the athletes’ village, nor could they keep it out of the marquee American Olympic team.

Torri Huske has the fastest time in the world this year in the 100 butterfly, an event in which she broke the American record twice at Olympic trials.

Swimmer Michael Andrew said he didn’t get vaccinated because he didn’t want it to interfere with his training before the Tokyo Olympics.

Michael Andrew, a U.S. swimming star who will compete in multiple events in Tokyo later this month, revealed that he has not been vaccinated.

Portland is hiring Chauncey Billups and Dallas is going with Jason Kidd as head coach, both of whom have troubling incidents with women in their past.

Simone Manuel won the 50 free in 24.29 seconds, just 1/100th of a second ahead of Abbey Weitzeil.