PARIS — Nellie Biles is happy to see the joy back on her daughter’s face at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but she told USA TODAY Sports on Monday her heart skipped a beat when Simone…
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PARIS – The blockbuster matchup went the way of Blockbuster. It’s a relic of another time, a memory we’ll have forever. But the idea that Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are on the same planet…
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PARIS − U.S. track and field star Noah Lyles is staying at the Paris Olympic Village, but this might be his final Games staying in the athlete housing. Lyles, who is one of the stars…
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Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson could have just politely not answered the question. Athletes do that all the time. Or he could have answered it in a way that wasn’t so…so…so him. At the very least,…
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The United States women’s basketball team opens play at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a rematch of the gold medal game from the previous Summer Games. Team USA will take on Japan on Monday in…
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PARIS − Ilona Maher and Chase Jackson know they don’t have the body type most people think of when they hear the word ‘Olympian.’ And they’re fine with that − because they’re determined to change…
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A little more than 12 years after he was college basketball’s biggest star, Jimmer Fredette found himself in the back of a vehicle in Kosovo, driven by a man he barely knew, careening deep into…
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If I turned on the television to watch Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz competing for Team USA when I was a teenager growing up in the 1990s, I don’t know how I would have reacted. But…
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In the 2024 Paris Olympics, as was the case in Tokyo, women are leading Team USA’s charge atop the Olympics’ medal count. Of the USA’s 113 medals in the Tokyo Games, most of any country…
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PARIS – Noah Lyles isn’t lacking in confidence ahead of the Paris Olympic track and field competition. The U.S. sprinter doubled down on his belief that he’s the fastest man in the world amid some…