WARSAW, Poland (AP) – An American basketball player with a professional Polish women’s club was beaten and left with a head injury midweek with the attacker later detained, according to officials and reports in Polish media on Sunday. Mikayla Cowling, who plays for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music club in […]
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Tokyo’s new national stadium was especially built for the Olympic Games. Athletes from the grand duchy have been competing over the weekend. yu photo / Shutterstock.com
Luxembourg’s Olympic team has so far not produced any surprises at the Tokyo games. But the grand duchy’s female basketball team did pick up a gold medal at the European small nations tournament.
Athletes from the grand duchy have been competing in several disciplines at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games over the weekend.
In the women’s cycling road race, Christine Majerus placed 20th, with Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer providing one of the surprises of the Games so far by claiming the gold medal. Majerus told RTL that she had managed her own race fairly well, until she made a mistake and failed to take a drinks bottle on the final circuit, which led to her suffering from minor cramping. “It was a shame I couldn’t improve my result from the last Games [she placed 18th in Rio 2016]. But I always said t