Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. PARIS — The press conference moderator said it best: ‘Welcome to an Olympics first: A Flavor Flav press conference.’ And it only got weirder from there. The 65-year-old…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. PARIS — The men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay world record is one of swimming’s oldest, and it could go down Saturday. The world record dates back to the 2008…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. PARIS − Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday, France’s national train service said it was targeted by several ‘malicious acts’ that caused disruptions…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. PARIS — An Australian field hockey player chose to have part of his finger amputated in order to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Matt Dawson, a 30-year-old…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympics opening ceremony live updates. SAINT DENIS, France – As she prepared for the 2024 Paris Olympics in hot gyms that lacked air conditioning and often went long stretches without power, Ukrainian fencer…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympic opening ceremony live updates. Rain clouds covered most of Paris on Friday morning as the weather threatened to, quite literally, rain on Olympic organizers’ parade. As of midday Friday, the forecast in…
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VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Limit LeBron James. Limit Steph Curry. Limit Kevin Durant. And Anthony Davis and Joel Embiid and Anthony Edwards and Devin Booker and Jayson Tatum. And on and on and on. When put…
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Editor’s note: FollowOlympic opening ceremony live updates. In addition to her record number of medals — she has 37 at the world championships and Olympics, more than any other gymnast, male or female — Biles…
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The best gymnasts don’t always get the chance to contend for Olympic medals. Why? “Fairness.” The top 24 gymnasts after qualifying advance to the all-around final while the top eight on each apparatus make the…
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Among the multitudinous reasons for the NFL’s widespread popularity is the perpetual sense that new contenders will annually emerge to vie for the Super Bowl throne. Every year since 1990, when the playoff field expanded…