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SAINT-DENIS, France — The fastest woman in the world isn’t Sha’Carri Richardson or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. It’s Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred. Alfred shocked the world by winning the women’s 100 final at the Paris Olympics in rainy…

PARIS — Simone Biles has captured another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, this one in the women’s vault final on Saturday. It’s her third gold medal of these Games, after leading the U.S.…

PARIS – Their Olympics couldn’t have started any worse, but the U.S. women’s 3×3 basketball team has turned its fortunes around just in time to chase a medal. The U.S. has won five straight games…

NANTERRE, France — Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh won her fourth medal and third gold at the Paris Olympics, finishing first in the women’s 200-meter individual medley Saturday at Paris La Défense Arena.  McIntosh out-touched American…

PARIS — Trinity Rodman doesn’t remember the greatest moment of her young career.  ‘Remind me? I was just (saying), I kind of blacked out,’ Rodman said following the United States women’s soccer team’s 1-0 victory…

NANTERRE, France — American swimmer Alex Walsh was disqualified from Saturday’s women’s 200-meter individual medley for not completing the backstroke leg fully on her back, a World Aquatics representative confirmed. In the race consisting of…

In what was perhaps the most poignant Hall of Fame induction in recent memory, former Chicago Bears great Steve McMichael – bedridden while deep in the throes of a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),…

Let’s start with the obvious question: What the heck? Terence Crawford, boxing’s pound-for-pound king, is fighting a guy with a professional record of 10-0-1? Well, Israin Madrimov is more than a guy. He’s a seasoned,…

PARIS — Simone Biles lives rent-free in the heads of her critics. And she’s considering re-upping her lease. Minutes after winning gold on vault – that’s her third gold of the Paris Olympics, for those…

SAINT-DENIS, France —  Jamaican star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was scratched from the women’s 100 meters just before her semifinal race. Fraser-Pryce, 37, was not among the women on the track in the second semifinal heat. She was…