Stephen Nedoroscik has become an unexpected household name during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Team USA’s pommel horse specialist — known now as the ‘pommel horse guy’ — won a bronze medal in the event on…
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The father of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says he’s proud of his daughter, offering proof that doubts about her eligibility to compete are unfounded. Khelif, one of two female Olympic boxers disqualified from the 2023 world…
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PARIS – Algeria’s Imane Khelif, engulfed in controversy over gender eligibility at the Paris Olympics, returned to the boxing ring Saturday. In an raucous atmosphere, she beat Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori on points by unanimous…
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PARIS — Last week, Jade Carey was fighting an illness − ‘throwing up’ and unable ‘to eat or anything’ in the days leading up to the qualifying round at the 2024 Paris Games. On Saturday,…
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NANTERRE, France — Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen is one of the stars of the Paris Olympics, just maybe not in the way he imagined or hoped. The three-time Olympian wishes he would make headlines for…
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PARIS − In a stunning move, Team USA beach volleyball teammates Andy Benesh and Miles Partain have parted ways with coach Mike Placek in the midst of Paris Olympics. At some point after the duo…
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Of the men’s golfers vying for a gold medal this week, only one already had one when he showed up at Le Golf National. And the USA’s Xander Schauffele is close to…
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PARIS — Asher Hong has liked freshly baked bread in the mornings at the Olympic Village. He’s loved the fruit. And the cheeseburgers are pretty good, too, he said. ‘It’s not terrible,’ said Hong, an…
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PARIS − International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Saturday there’s never been any doubt that two female boxers caught up in a gender-eligibility controversy at the Paris Olympics were women and he urged ‘really…
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — No matter your interest in Sunday’s final round of the Olympic men’s golf tournament, root for South Korea’s Tom Kim and Byeong Hun An to win medals. It’d change their lives. Really.…