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Filipino powerlifter Veronica Ompod in the 2021 World Classic Powerlifting Championships. POWERLIFTING PHILIPPINES FACEBOOK MANILA, Philippines—Three Filipinos stamped their class in the 2021 World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Halmstad, Sweden. Veronica Ompod led the Philippines’ medal

After coming up empty-handed last month in the Sapporo Olympic marathons, Japan scored three marathon medals on the streets of Tokyo proper at today’s final day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games. The T54 men’s wheelchair marathon was the first race off the line, followed ten minutes later by the T54

The 2021 Olympics are underway. After the coronavirus forced the Tokyo Games to be pushed back a year, athletes from across the world are now in Japan representing their respective nations, hoping to bring gold medals home. And though spectators won’t be allowed at any of the venues, fans of the

Team USA is used to winning gold medals at the Olympic Games, especially during the summer. In the history of the Summer Games, no country has medaled more than the United States. Before the 2021 Olympics, Team USA had 2,523 Summer Olympic medals to its name. Of those 2,523, 1,022 are gold. That’s

No country has dominated the Olympics quite like the United States.  Coming into the 2021 Tokyo Games, the U.S. had 2,828 total medals between the winter and summer games, including 1,127 gold medals. The next-closest is the Soviet Union, which had 1,204 total medals and 473 gold — Russia has 547