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PARIS – Fiji won the first two Olympic gold medals in rugby sevens after the sport was introduced at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics — and the island country in the South Pacific displayed…

The Boston Red Sox announced Wednesday that they signed manager Alex Cora to a three-year contract extension through the 2027 season. The deal is worth $21.75 million, ESPN reported. That would mark the second-highest salary…

PARIS − Charlotte Dujardin, a six-time Olympic medalist in dressage who was expected to compete for gold at this year’s Games, withdrew from competition late Tuesday after she made what she called ‘an error in…

Stan Bowman, recently reinstated by the NHL less than three years after a report on a Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault scandal, was hired Wednesday as general manager and executive vice president of hockey operations of…

PARIS — She won’t start competing for a few days still, but already Angelica Delgado had an experience to remember at her third Olympic Games. Delgado, a U.S. medal hopeful at 52 kilograms, taught rap…

Unruly soccer fans disrupted an Olympic match between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday, turning a 2-2 draw to a 2-1 win for Morocco after Argentina’s late goal scored was disallowed after video review. The chaotic…

PARIS – At the time, Johnny Prado knew Maria Laborde. Most judo insiders knew about her. She was a rising star. Ranked third in the world in her weight class. Bound for the 2016 Olympics…

It was August of 2023 when a basketball star and a possible future president of the United States had a moment that was heartfelt and also a possible indication of what’s to come. The Las…

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Kevin Durant, the U.S. men’s basketball basketball star who has not played in five pre-Olympics exhibition games with a sore calf, went through a non-contact practice at Pierre Mauroy Stadium on Wednesday,…

The numbers continue to tell the same story about Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.  As contentious as the debate surrounding them gets at times, their rivalry that began in college with Iowa and LSU is…