Today: September 16, 2024
Today: September 16, 2024

Paris Games

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Bermuda’s Flora Duffy aims to defend her triathlon gold to cap off an emotional comeback

Bermuda’s Flora Duffy aims to defend her triathlon gold to cap off an emotional comeback

Bermuda’s Flora Duffy aims to defend her triathlon gold to cap off an emotional comeback
Asia|News|Sports

Olympic organizers apologize for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korea

Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games

Olympic organizers apologize for introducing South Korean athletes as North Korea
Sports

US women's basketball focused on own Olympic gold, not program's incredible legacy

The friendly warmup games are over

US women's basketball focused on own Olympic gold, not program's incredible legacy
Europe|Sports

Olympics-Tennis-Sinner pulls out of Paris Games due to illness

Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Games due to tonsillitis, the world number one said on Wednesday, denting Italy's hopes of winning a first Olympic tennis medal

Olympics-Tennis-Sinner pulls out of Paris Games due to illness
Entertainment|Lifestyle|Sports

Coco Gauff still can’t wrap her head around the honor of being Team USA’s flag bearer

Coco Gauff still can’t wrap her head around the honor of being Team USA’s flag bearer

Coco Gauff still can’t wrap her head around the honor of being Team USA’s flag bearer
Entertainment|Europe|Sports

Olympics-Skateboarding-'You get yelled at': Skaters keep off their boards at Olympic village

The Paris Games have fully embraced skateboarding, with its youthful appeal and blockbuster television ratings, but skaters say they have to stay off their boards

Olympics-Skateboarding-'You get yelled at': Skaters keep off their boards at Olympic village
Sports

Olympics-Surfing-Good waves expected to kick off Tahiti surfing, ISA head says

Surfing in the Paris Games is likely to kick off in excellent waves at the perfect reef break of Teahupo'o on Saturday, the head of the governing body

Olympics-Surfing-Good waves expected to kick off Tahiti surfing, ISA head says
News|Sports|World

Russian athletes won't be barred from the Paris Olympics despite their country's suspension

The IOC says Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year's Paris Games despite the suspension of their country's Olympic committee

Russian athletes won't be barred from the Paris Olympics despite their country's suspension
Political|Sports|World

Russia and IOC clash at the UN before member states pass Olympic Truce for Paris Games

Russia has clashed with the International Olympic Committee on the floor of the United Nations before 118 member states voted to adopt a traditional truce around the Paris Summer Games next year

Russia and IOC clash at the UN before member states pass Olympic Truce for Paris Games
Sports

Israel's Olympic status not in question says IOC president Bach amid frustration with Russia

IOC president Thomas Bach confirms Israel faces no threat to its Olympic status ahead of the Paris Games despite the conflict in Gaza

Israel's Olympic status not in question says IOC president Bach amid frustration with Russia
News|Sports|World

USA Basketball learns its groupings for the Paris Olympics. Tough draws await the men and women

USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer

USA Basketball learns its groupings for the Paris Olympics. Tough draws await the men and women
News|Sports|World

Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events

Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games

Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events
News|Sports|World

Seeing purple: Fans get a new track color and maybe record-breaking times at Paris Olympics

Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games

Seeing purple: Fans get a new track color and maybe record-breaking times at Paris Olympics
News|Sports|World

Olympic gold is great, but athletes say some cash to go with it is even better

Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash

Olympic gold is great, but athletes say some cash to go with it is even better
Entertainment|Sports

Inside NBC's Olympics bet on pop culture in Paris, with help from Snoop Dogg and Cardi B

NBC has partnered with several entertainers and non-Olympic athletes like Megan Thee Stallion, Dolly Parton and Peyton Manning to promote the Paris Games this summer

Inside NBC's Olympics bet on pop culture in Paris, with help from Snoop Dogg and Cardi B
Entertainment|Sports

A look back at the US swimming trials, which were a big hit in Indianapolis

The crowds were large and raucous

A look back at the US swimming trials, which were a big hit in Indianapolis
Sports

Swimming-Murphy eyes return to top of the podium in Paris

Ryan Murphy said his desire to regain his Olympic 100m backstroke title burns hotter than ever after he punched his ticket to the Paris Games on Monday.

Swimming-Murphy eyes return to top of the podium in Paris
Sports

Olympics-Jamaica's Thompson-Herah won't defend 200m title at Paris Games

Five-times Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her 200m title at next month's Paris Games after opting not to compete in the event at the upcoming Jamaican trials.

Olympics-Jamaica's Thompson-Herah won't defend 200m title at Paris Games
News|Sports

Athletics-US star Richardson credits growth in Olympic qualifying

Sha'Carri Richardson banished painful memories of years past to punch her ticket to the Paris Games on Saturday in the 100 metres, saying she grew both on and off the track to reach the

Athletics-US star Richardson credits growth in Olympic qualifying
Sports

USA Basketball men's Olympic team arrives for camp in Las Vegas

After months of planning, it’s time for the U.S. Olympic team — one that will go to the Paris Games later this month seeking a fifth consecutive gold medal — to take the floor

USA Basketball men's Olympic team arrives for camp in Las Vegas
Sports

Olympics-Australia hand Jackson fifth shot at basketball gold

Lauren Jackson will finally get to go to her fifth Olympics after being named in the Australia basketball squad for the Paris Games on Sunday, 27 years after she got her first call-

Olympics-Australia hand Jackson fifth shot at basketball gold
News|Sports

Olympics-Hip hop vibe, breakers get single shot at Games glory in Paris

The already high stakes of Olympic competition will be further elevated for breakers at the Paris Games where the champions could be the only ones to ever win

Olympics-Hip hop vibe, breakers get single shot at Games glory in Paris
Entertainment|Sports

Olympics-Youth must be served: skaters set to shred Paris parks and streets

Skateboarding will have some of the youngest competitors at the Paris Olympics but it has already taught some of the more established sports a trick or two, earning

Olympics-Youth must be served: skaters set to shred Paris parks and streets
News|Sports

Olympics-US taekwondo's comeback hopes rest on CJ Nickolas

Fast-rising Carl Alan Nickolas is the United States' best hope of gold in taekwondo at the Olympics as they aim to eclipse South Korea and China in one of the

Olympics-US taekwondo's comeback hopes rest on CJ Nickolas
Entertainment|Sports

Olympics-Absent rivalries, a new star and a wrestling legend's last hurrah

Two of wrestling's biggest rivalries will be missing from the mat at the Paris Games but fans can look forward to seeing how the sport's newest star handles

Olympics-Absent rivalries, a new star and a wrestling legend's last hurrah

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