Today: September 19, 2024
Today: September 19, 2024

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France to boost Olympics security with foreign military, police support

France has asked about 45 foreign countries to contribute several thousand extra military, police and civilian personnel to help safeguard the

France to boost Olympics security with foreign military, police support
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France asks for foreign police and military help with massive Paris Olympics security challenge

France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics

France asks for foreign police and military help with massive Paris Olympics security challenge
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Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events

Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games

Grandstands and gallop tracks: Versailles Palace gardens get ready for Olympic equestrian events
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SafeSport Center announces changes designed to address widespread complaints

The U.S. Center for SafeSport has announced 10 changes to the way it operates in a move it says is designed to increase efficiency and “trauma sensitivity,” while addressing complaints that have come from both victims and the accused

SafeSport Center announces changes designed to address widespread complaints
Sports

IOC sets deadline of 'early 2025' to keep boxing in the Olympics for Los Angeles with a new partner

The International Olympic Committee says it needs to find a suitable new international boxing body by early next year or else risk boxing dropping out of the Olympics for the Los Angeles Games in 2028

IOC sets deadline of 'early 2025' to keep boxing in the Olympics for Los Angeles with a new partner
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Soon to be a 2-time Olympic host city, Salt Lake City’s zest for the Games is now an outlier

Many other past Olympic hosts around the world have decided in recent years that bringing back the Games isn’t worth the money or hassle

Soon to be a 2-time Olympic host city, Salt Lake City’s zest for the Games is now an outlier
Sports

Track and field introducing prize money at Olympics with Paris gold medalists to get $50,000

Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris

Track and field introducing prize money at Olympics with Paris gold medalists to get $50,000
Business

Nike bosses plan 'biggest' Olympics spend as marketing ramps up

Nike is spending more on this Olympics than any previous Games, top executives said on Friday, as the U.S. sportswear brand embarks on a marketing push it hopes will

Nike bosses plan 'biggest' Olympics spend as marketing ramps up
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Seeing purple: Fans get a new track color and maybe record-breaking times at Paris Olympics

Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games

Seeing purple: Fans get a new track color and maybe record-breaking times at Paris Olympics
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At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past

Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic Games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at ancient Olympia

At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past
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Paris-bound Olympians look forward to a post-COVID Games with fans in the stands

The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands

Paris-bound Olympians look forward to a post-COVID Games with fans in the stands
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Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece

Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games
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US Olympic committee strikes sponsorship deal to help athletes get degrees after they retire

American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills for life after sports thanks to a partnership U.S. Olympic leaders unveiled with the Denver-based education company Guild

US Olympic committee strikes sponsorship deal to help athletes get degrees after they retire
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Olympic gold is great, but athletes say some cash to go with it is even better

Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash

Olympic gold is great, but athletes say some cash to go with it is even better
Sports

USA Basketball fills the 12 available slots for the Paris Olympics roster, AP sources say

LeBron James plans to go back to the Olympics

USA Basketball fills the 12 available slots for the Paris Olympics roster, AP sources say
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Noah Eagle picked by NBC as play-by-play voice for basketball at the Paris Olympics

Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer

Noah Eagle picked by NBC as play-by-play voice for basketball at the Paris Olympics
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Dozens of Russian athletes are likely to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Will Moscow let them go?

Dozens of Russian athletes will likely be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics

Dozens of Russian athletes are likely to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Will Moscow let them go?
Sports

Paris 2024: Roster of more than 10,000 Olympians is still forming, but trials await for thousands

The names have been trickling in, one or two at a time

Paris 2024: Roster of more than 10,000 Olympians is still forming, but trials await for thousands
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Stephen Curry tells the AP why 2024 is the right time to make his Olympic debut

Golden State guard Stephen Curry knew he was running out of chances to play in what would be his first Olympics, so he and his wife Ayesha started planning many months ago about how to make the Paris Games work for their family

Stephen Curry tells the AP why 2024 is the right time to make his Olympic debut
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Olympic champion Suni Lee back in form after gaining 45 pounds in water weight due to kidney ailment

Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last year, she retained 45 pounds in water weight that made her question whether a return to top form was even possible

Olympic champion Suni Lee back in form after gaining 45 pounds in water weight due to kidney ailment
Political|Sports

Olympic sports bodies criticize track and field's move to pay $50,000 for Paris gold medalists

The collective group of Summer Games sports has criticized World Athletics for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics

Olympic sports bodies criticize track and field's move to pay $50,000 for Paris gold medalists
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Olympic organizers unveil strategy for using artificial intelligence in sports

Olympic organizers have unveiled their plans to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology

Olympic organizers unveil strategy for using artificial intelligence in sports
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Chinese doping case sparks unusually harsh spat between global and US drug-fighting agencies

Revelations of nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers whose positive doping tests went unpunished have sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the head of the U.S. drug-fighting organization

Chinese doping case sparks unusually harsh spat between global and US drug-fighting agencies
Sports

Mutiso Munyao gives Kenya another London Marathon win after tribute to Kiptum

Alexander Mutiso Munyao denied 41-year-old Kenenisa Bekele a first London Marathon victory by pulling away from the Ethiopian great with about 3 kilometers to go for his biggest career win

Mutiso Munyao gives Kenya another London Marathon win after tribute to Kiptum
Sports

Caitlin Clark's early play in WNBA will be her tryout for a roster spot on US Olympic women's team

Caitlin Clark will have the start of her WNBA career to show the U.S. women’s basketball selection committee whether she deserves a spot on the Paris Olympic roster

Caitlin Clark's early play in WNBA will be her tryout for a roster spot on US Olympic women's team

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