PARIS – The U.S. women’s gymnastics team had framed it as a redemption tour. But in the end, it was more of a clinic, a showcase – a dominant show of twisting and acrobatic force.…
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PARIS – The U.S. women’s gymnastics team had framed it as a redemption tour. But in the end, it was more of a clinic, a showcase – a dominant show of twisting and acrobatic force.…
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PARIS — The Chinese doping controversies seem to be coming along as fast as Seine River pollution updates at these Olympic Games. As soon as we are talking about one, here comes another. While this…
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NANTERRE, France — Team USA raced to silver in the men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay final Tuesday night, coming up just short of Great Britain, which won gold. The U.S. relay of Luke Hobson, Carson Foster,…
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Seven teams have already advanced to the Olympic men’s soccer knockout stage, and one more country will join them as the group stage concludes Tuesday. The U.S., competing in its first Olympics since Beijing 2008,…
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NANTERRE, France — The women’s 100-meter backstroke was one of the most anticipated showdowns at the Paris Olympics, and it didn’t disappoint, as Australian Kaylee McKeown out-touched American Regan Smith to win gold. McKeown finished…
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NANTERRE, France — American distance swimmer and two-time Olympian Bobby Finke didn’t defend his 2021 Olympic championship in the men’s 800-meter freestyle, but he still came away from Tuesday’s final with some hardware. Finke, the…
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VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France – When South Sudan men’s 5×5 basketball player Peter Jok was 3 years old, his father, Dut, was killed in Sudan’s civil war. His grandfather also was killed in the war, and his…
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PARIS – Apparently, booing and whistling during the Israeli national anthem at the Olympic Games wasn’t enough for the antisemites who would prefer that the only democracy in the Middle East with a free press,…
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Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team added another medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics — this one a gold in the all-around team final. Biles, who has been nursing a sore calf that she tweaked…