Global regulators hinted at sanctioning America’s drug-fighting watchdog, a suggestion that further ratchets up tensions between those in charge of keeping sports clean
July 25, 2024
Defending champions Canada defeated New Zealand 2-1 in their Paris Olympics opening game on Thursday overshadowed by a spying scandal that has engulfed the women's
July 25, 2024
Spain's Aitana Bonmati scored one goal and created another to earn the world champions a 2-1 comeback win over Japan, while the United States cruised to a 3-0 win
July 25, 2024
The U.S. wrestling team sounded unusually chilled out on Thursday, speaking of their gratitude and sense of peace at being at the Paris Olympics - where they
July 25, 2024
The Olympic tennis competition suffered another blow as women's third seed Elena Rybakina joined a lengthy list of non-starters hours after the draw took place at
July 25, 2024
Cyberattacks on the Paris Olympics are inevitable and France will do everything in its power to limit the impact they may have on the event, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said
July 25, 2024
French sprinter to take part in Opening Ceremony despite not being allowed to wear a headscarf
July 25, 2024
Workers have gone on strike at the five-star hotel in Paris where members of the International Olympic Committee are staying
July 25, 2024
With a star-studded lineup of NBA and WNBA greats, the United States will hope to maintain their golden grip on basketball at the Paris Olympics, but several teams
July 25, 2024
I tried the new Speedo swimsuit being used at the Paris Olympics and it came with instructions on how to even put it on
July 25, 2024
On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France's interior minister thanked Belgium for a string of raids that led to the detention of seven people for questioning over suspected terrorist activities
July 25, 2024
‘You’re playing for something bigger than yourself’: Andy Murray withdraws from singles, looks to doubles in Olympics
July 25, 2024
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour sits down with three-time grand slam champion Andy Murray as the 2024 Olympic Games get underway in Paris.
July 25, 2024
After getting off to a rocky start last year, Olympics 2024 organizers said the Paris Games have broken the record for the most number of tickets sold or allocated in the event’s history
July 25, 2024
South Africa shocked New Zealand 14-7 on Thursday to earn an Olympic rugby sevens semi-final against France, while double-defending champions Fiji edged Ireland and
July 25, 2024
Patty Mills arrives at his fourth Olympic Games as Australia’s old man
July 25, 2024
The Paris Games have fully embraced skateboarding, with its youthful appeal and blockbuster television ratings, but skaters say they have to stay off their boards
July 25, 2024
When early proponents of hosting an unprecedented Olympics opening ceremony along the river Seine first pitched the idea to the then-head of Paris
July 25, 2024
The United States figure skating team has been formally confirmed as gold medalists from the 2022 Beijing Olympics by a sports court ruling
July 25, 2024
Seven-times Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel put World Aquatics bosses on the defensive on Thursday after expressing in front of them his lack of confidence in their
July 25, 2024
The U.S. men’s basketball team is headed to the athletes village on Friday to mingle with fellow Olympians before the opening ceremony
July 25, 2024
Exclusive: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says terror attacks pushed her to bid for the Olympics
July 25, 2024
France's anti-terror police PNAT said a second 18-year-old man had been arrested on Thursday in connection with plans to commit one or several attacks against people.
July 25, 2024
The Olympic tennis competition slides into action on Saturday with Rafa Nadal, the undisputed king of Roland Garros, the name on everyone's lips as he plots another
July 25, 2024
Some of Germany's female Olympic gymnasts at the Paris Games opted for full-body suits in training on Thursday, a fashion choice that has had profound
July 25, 2024
Grindr is limiting location services at the Olympics to protect LGBTQ+ athletes
July 25, 2024
The USWNT kicks off in France as a team in transition – and one that’s looking to make a point
July 25, 2024
Serbia's Novak Djokovic is adamant he will be the last man standing from tennis's 'Big Four' with twice-Olympic champion Andy Murray bidding farewell to the sport
July 25, 2024
America's top Olympic official has backed the world anti-doping body after its credibility came under fire over a case, recently come to light, of Chinese swimmers
July 25, 2024
Palestinian Olympic athletes have been greeted with a roar of a crowd and gifts of food and roses as they arrived in Paris
July 25, 2024
Australia's Olympic 200 metres breaststroke champion Zac Stubblety-Cook said he may make an anti-doping protest after racing Chinese world record holder Qin Haiyang at
July 25, 2024
Mexican gymnast Alexa Moreno is relying on years of experience and the absence of some top contenders to reach the podium on the vault
July 25, 2024
Canadian women’s soccer team staffer given suspended prison sentence over drone incident, prosecutor says
July 25, 2024
The head of Argentina’s soccer federation says the chaotic ending to its Olympic soccer match against Morocco “makes no sense,” and Argentina’s coach called the scene “a scandal.”
July 25, 2024
What to expect from Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
July 25, 2024
The ‘Olympic Picasso’ finally finds recognition for his athletics-inspired art
July 25, 2024
Top seed Novak Djokovic could face 14-times French Open champion Rafa Nadal in a blockbuster second-round match in the Olympic men's singles after the draw was made
July 25, 2024
As President Emmanuel Macron welcomes business leaders including Elon Musk to Paris ahead of Friday's Olympic opening ceremony, there are early signs France's political deadlock is
July 25, 2024
Being an Olympic athlete in the U.S. is not just arduous physically but often financially as well.
July 25, 2024
The focus on gender equity at the Paris Olympics is the latest win in a terrific run of progress for women's sports, tennis champion and pioneer Billie Jean King told
July 25, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to make France shine during the Olympics
July 25, 2024
French paramedic Seifelislam Benadda had just dropped off a patient at hospital on July 1, he said, when police informed him he was prohibited from leaving his hometown in the Paris
July 25, 2024
Jill Biden travels to Paris Olympics as her husband passes the torch
July 25, 2024
Anheuser-Busch InBev is betting on Olympic sponsorship to help its new Corona Cero brew become a top-selling zero-alcohol beer globally, but it will need to catch up
July 25, 2024
ISIS-K’s online recruitment poses security threat to West ahead of Olympic Games
July 25, 2024
Argentina coach slams ‘circus’ as chaos descends on Olympic soccer opener
July 25, 2024
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is confident women's soccer head coach Bev Priestman had no knowledge of the spying incident that has engulfed her squad in scandal ahead of their gold
July 24, 2024
An unwelcome attendee has joined the Paris Olympic Games: Covid-19
July 24, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that the very fact that Ukraine was participating in the Olympic Games was an accomplishment in wartime and added that the athletes'
July 24, 2024
Israel’s national anthem was loudly jeered before its soccer team kicked off play at the Paris Olympics against Mali
July 24, 2024
Stunning goals from Alexandre Lacazette and Michael Olise helped France to a 3-0 victory over the United States in the Olympic men’s soccer tournament
July 24, 2024
American rapper Snoop Dogg said he is ready to learn "some new tricks" when he collaborates with Gen Z social media influencers to showcase the Paris Olympics to a younger
July 24, 2024
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will take the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to the Independent Compliance Review Committee next month, WADA told
July 24, 2024
Delta’s CEO is off to Paris while his airline struggles to recover from massive meltdown
July 24, 2024
Antoine Dupont scored a brilliant individual try as France kept alive their medal hopes despite a stuttering start to the Rugby Sevens tournament in
July 24, 2024
Duncan Scott has won quite a lot since now-disgraced Chinese swimmer Sun Yang branded him a loser at the 2019 world championships.
July 24, 2024
A fan invasion in the opening match of the Olympic football tournament between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday caused chaos, with Argentina eventually beaten 2-
July 24, 2024
Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Games due to tonsillitis, the world number one said on Wednesday, denting Italy's hopes of winning a first Olympic tennis medal
July 24, 2024
Simone Biles has a chance to make Olympic history at the Paris Games alongside an experienced U.S. team she credits with lifting her up after she considered walking
July 24, 2024
After a devastating knee injury during gymnastic competition last year, Brody Malone's quest for a second Games in Paris seemed all but lost.
July 24, 2024
Coco Gauff to join LeBron James as Team USA flag bearer for Olympic Opening Ceremony
July 24, 2024
American swimming great Katie Ledecky says she hopes athletes will be "competing clean" at the Paris Olympics amid a row over a doping case involving Chinese swimmers.
July 24, 2024
The sporting action at the Paris Olympics kicked off with two soccer matches on Wednesday, two days before thousands of athletes
July 24, 2024
Uzbekistan lost the match but won over the crowd as competition at the Paris Olympics officially began with soccer matches in Paris and Saint-Etienne
July 24, 2024
Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz tempered expectations for Spain's dream team on Wednesday as they looked ahead to playing together in the Paris Olympics.
July 24, 2024
The United States could find itself isolated from world sport with significant consequences for American athletes if it risks the harmonisation of the global anti-
July 24, 2024
Three more Australian women's water polo players have tested positive for COVID ahead of the Paris Games, the country's Olympic team chief Anna Meares said on Wednesday,
July 24, 2024
This summer the French capital is expected to welcome 15 million tourists while it hosts the Olympic Games. In a city seven times smaller than New York, it's easy to stand out. CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne provides some expert tips to avoid the clichés and navigate Paris like a local.
July 24, 2024
This word is the ‘key’ to being treated well in France, experts say
July 24, 2024
U.S.
July 24, 2024
Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday’s opening ceremony
July 24, 2024
Kaylee McKeown has ruled women's backstroke with an iron fist since dominating the Tokyo Olympics but a young American with a chip on her shoulder could derail the
July 24, 2024
Delta Air Lines is making progress in restoring its services from a global cyber outage and would resume normal operations Thursday, CEO Ed
July 24, 2024
The U.S. women's water polo team will chase a fourth consecutive gold in Paris with new mega-fan Flavor Flav in their corner, after the rapper backed their Olympic
July 24, 2024
As expected, Salt Lake City will be an Olympics host again after the IOC formally awarded the 2034 Winter Games to the United States bid
July 24, 2024
France’s forgotten athletes: As the world tunes in to the Olympics, many of Paris’ poorer suburbs see little benefit
July 24, 2024
Olympic Opening Ceremony dancers call off strike action
July 24, 2024
Olympic security checks block 5,000 people, including 1,000 suspected of meddling and espionage
July 24, 2024
French police have arrested a Russian man suspected of planning to destabilize the Olympics, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday, just days before the Games begin.
July 24, 2024
Naomi Osaka will join gymnastics icon Simone Biles and track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson on the Olympic stage
July 24, 2024
‘It’s all about getting a little bit better’: Team USA continues to show flaws but improves in 27-point hammering of Germany
July 24, 2024
Curious about the songs fueling the Olympians competing in Paris
July 24, 2024
The French Alps' bid to host the 2030 Winter Games has been approved by the International Olympic Committee with conditions attached
July 24, 2024
France was conditionally picked as the host of the 2030 Winter Games on Wednesday and must now deliver key financial guarantees in the coming months, the
July 24, 2024
Canada Olympic chiefs apologize for drone flight over New Zealand soccer team’s training
July 24, 2024
Ukraine's Olympians focused on performing their best in Paris bear an additional burden - worrying about what might happen back home in the war pitting
July 24, 2024
Canada coach Bev Priestman removed herself from their opening match duties at the Paris Olympics while an assistant coach and a team analyst were kicked out of the
July 23, 2024
Russian detained in Paris over fears of Olympic ‘destabilization’ plans
July 23, 2024
Bears safety Jonathan Owens received permission to skip the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 1 to take a trip to Paris.
July 23, 2024
Warning signs blinking over swimmers’ anger at alleged Chinese doping scandal ahead of Olympics
July 23, 2024
Israel's Olympic team feel comfortable with security measures in place at the Paris Olympics, with French forces collaborating with many countries to safeguard
July 23, 2024
Every Olympics has its defining sporting moment such as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games or Sydney Crosby's golden goal for Canada on
July 23, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday his outgoing government will remain focused on the Olympic games in a caretaker role until mid-August, after which he will look to
July 23, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says he'll maintain his centrist caretaker government through the end of the Olympic Games in mid-August to avoid “disorder.”
July 23, 2024
Utah governor Spencer Cox said there were nerves, excitement and energy among members of his delegation in Paris on the eve of the International Olympic
July 23, 2024
French police have arrested a man in the Bordeaux, southwest France, area who planned an attack during the Olympics, a security source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a report in
July 23, 2024
Equestrian dressage star Charlotte Dujardin announces sudden withdrawal from Paris Olympics
July 23, 2024
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin of Britain has withdrawn from the Paris Games after a video emerged that the sport’s governing body says shows her “engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare.”
July 23, 2024
The Australian Olympic team is aware of allegations by an Australian woman that she was raped in Paris, the team's chief said on Tuesday, urging the nation's athletes to take extra
July 23, 2024
Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers at the Paris Olympics
July 23, 2024
Chase Budinger may have played professional basketball before making the switch to beach volleyball but the towering American said growing up as a dual sport athlete
July 23, 2024
These may be the most luxurious Olympics ever
July 23, 2024
China arrive at the Paris Olympics expecting the torrent of gold medals that has become common for the Asian sporting powerhouse in recent
July 23, 2024
Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar pulls out of Olympics with extreme fatigue
July 23, 2024
The Olympic Games face a unique set of potential security threats in Paris. Organizers say everyone will be safe
July 23, 2024
What does a sweaty bodybuilder sitting in a window have to do with the Olympics?
July 23, 2024
Kanak Jha is no stranger to the Olympics, having represented the United States in table tennis at both the Rio and Tokyo Games, but the path to Paris has been his most
July 23, 2024
French security services have been probing migrant communities from former Soviet republics in an effort to safeguard the Olympics from the ISIS-K militant group, the interior
July 23, 2024
Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France’s interior minister says about 1,000 people suspected of possibly meddling for a foreign power have been blocked from attending the Olympics
July 23, 2024
Oleg Kuznietsov, the 34-year-old breakdancer from Ukraine, is ready to show that athletes from his nation will fight their own battle to succeed in Paris as the
July 23, 2024
Andy Murray confirms he will retire after the Paris Olympics
July 23, 2024
Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning multiple Olympic gold medals in swimming for the United States — there was Tarzan
July 23, 2024
List of people who have previously lit the Summer Olympic cauldron.
July 23, 2024
The identity of the person who lights the Olympic cauldron on the night of the opening ceremony is one of sport's best-kept secrets, with less than a dozen people in
July 23, 2024
An expert on the ground floor of some of anti-doping’s most broad-reaching advances says it might make sense to stop testing athletes
July 23, 2024
Athletes heading to the Paris Olympics have more access than ever to resources in the once-taboo realm of mental health and many sound more willing than ever to use them
July 23, 2024
‘This old dog’s got a lot of fight left in him’: South Africa’s Chad Le Clos aims for second Olympic gold, aged 32
July 23, 2024
American rapper Snoop Dogg will be among the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame in the final stretch before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games on Friday.
July 23, 2024
When Stanislav Hulenkov signed up for Ukraine's border guard in 2021, he sought a stable job on the quiet northwestern frontier so he could
July 23, 2024
American women from Simone Biles to Katie Ledecky and Sha'Carri Richardson will dominate the spotlight in Paris as the explosion in popularity of
July 23, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron hoped the Paris Olympics would cement his legacy.
July 23, 2024
The Paris Olympics are set to open this week
July 23, 2024
The U.S.
July 22, 2024
On Friday, LeBron James will carry the U.S. flag
July 22, 2024
The United States women's soccer team have won four golds at the Olympics since the sport's introduction in 1996 but they have not been on the top step of the podium
July 22, 2024
The Paris Olympics will be a spectacular event at a time of historic global disruptions and growing divisive forces, International Olympic Committee President
July 22, 2024
Australian beach volleyball player Taliqua Clancy got an unexpected surprise walking around the athletes’ village at the Paris Olympics
July 22, 2024
American swimming, be warned: Australia are coming for the crown at the Paris Olympics.
July 22, 2024
Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata withdraws from Olympic Games after smoking and drinking alcohol
July 22, 2024
Athletes on the hunt for Olympic gold will also be chasing likes and follows on social media in Paris, as a battle for a coveted piece of viral fame kicks off at
July 22, 2024
Olympic silver medallist Marketa Vondrousova has withdrawn from the Paris Summer Games due to a hand injury, the Czech 25-year-old said on Monday, with Poland's Hubert Hurkacz also
July 22, 2024
Once viewed as the pastime of deadbeats and drifters, skateboarding's reputation is changing rapidly after its inclusion in the Olympics Games in Tokyo three
July 22, 2024
LeBron James to be Team USA’s male flag bearer for Olympic Opening Ceremony
July 22, 2024
Visiting Paris for the Olympics and want to share the enticing aroma of a fresh baguette? A scratch-and-sniff stamp on your postcard could be the answer.
July 22, 2024
Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player
July 22, 2024
There were times Brittney Griner thought she would never wear a USA Basketball jersey again
July 22, 2024
Four-time NBA champion LeBron James will be Team USA's male flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, the American team said on Monday
July 22, 2024
Reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is hopeful the knee injury he suffered at Wimbledon will not impact his chances of gold in Paris but says it is not yet healed.
July 22, 2024
Faith Kipyegon on motherhood and the quest for history
July 22, 2024
Israeli athletes will receive 24-hour protection during the Paris Olympics, France's interior minister said, after a far-left lawmaker said Israel's delegation was not welcome and
July 22, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that a decision by France to refuse to accredit some Russian journalists for the Paris 2024 Olympics over security fears was unacceptable and accused the
July 22, 2024
Where every sport is being held at the Paris Olympic Games
July 22, 2024
South Sudan is the 33rd-ranked team in the FIBA world rankings, by far the lowest of any of the 12 nations that will be vying for men’s basketball gold in the Paris Olympics that start this week
July 21, 2024
Rafa Nadal suffered a setback in his Paris 2024 Olympics preparations on Sunday as he was beaten 6-3 6-2 in the Swedish Open final by Portuguese seventh seed Nuno Borges.
July 21, 2024
Pope Francis has voiced his hope that the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games will provide an opportunity for countries at war to respect an ancient Greek tradition and establish a truce for the duration of the Games
July 21, 2024
Pope Francis said on Sunday he hoped the Paris Olympics would be an occasion for truces in the world's conflicts, urging athletes to be messengers of peace and models for
July 21, 2024
The head of the Paris Olympics boldly declared that France’s capital would be “the safest place in the world” when the Games open
July 21, 2024
Caitlin Clark delivered the pinpoint passes
July 21, 2024
Arike Ogunbowale set the WNBA All-Star scoring record with 34 points and Caitlin Clark made the most of her All-Star debut as the WNBA team beat the U.S. Olympic team 117-109 on Saturday night
July 21, 2024
It took a layup by LeBron James with eight seconds left to propel Team USA past South Sudan 101-100 in London on Saturday.
July 20, 2024
Seems like being in London works for LeBron James
July 20, 2024
Adam Peaty and other British swimmers said there needs to be a level playing field after 23
July 20, 2024
A global tech outage that affected operations in many sectors and also hit parts of the Paris Olympics operations proved to be a good test ahead of the Games, the
July 20, 2024
Canada defender Sydney Collins will miss the Paris 2024 women's soccer tournament after fracturing her left leg during a training game in her first match back after suffering
July 20, 2024
American Noah Lyles proved once again that he can back up his fighting talk with strong performances on the track when he ran a personal best to secure 100 metres
July 20, 2024
Heading into the Paris Olympics, Noah Lyles has never been faster
July 20, 2024
Noah Lyles warmed up for his assault on the Olympic 100 metres title in impressive style on Saturday when the American world champion ran a personal best of 9.81
July 20, 2024
Rafael Nadal reached his first final in two years on Saturday, beating qualifier Duje Ajdukovic 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the semi-finals of the Swedish Open in Bastad as the 22-time grand slam
July 20, 2024
Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the British Open and he has 265 days until the start of the next major at the Masters
July 20, 2024
French authorities say a French alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to two years in prison after making threats online and was suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay
July 20, 2024
A possible lack of toilets on the barges used for carrying athletes during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday has thrown national teams an unexpected curve ball.
July 20, 2024
The Foixarda tunnel in Barcelona hides a free-to-use climbing treasure trove made up of thousands of holds of all shapes, sizes and colours
July 20, 2024
Most of the athletes representing the Palestinian territories at the Paris Olympics were born somewhere else -- Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Germany, Chile and the United States – yet they care deeply about the politics of their parents’ and grandparents’ homeland
July 20, 2024
Sure, they call it the City of Light
July 20, 2024
Allisha Gray became the first player in WNBA history to win both the 3-point and skills competition in the same year, capturing both titles Friday night
July 20, 2024
Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle welcome a son: ‘That’s my man’
July 20, 2024
With a roster that boasts the NBA's all-time leading scorer, multiple title winners and the best shooter to lace up a pair of high tops, the points are sure to come for
July 19, 2024
The 2024 WNBA All-Star Game takes the stage Saturday night in Phoenix, when a group of players headlined by rookie phenoms Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese take on the U.S. national team in a tune-up
July 19, 2024
The last time the U.S. Women's National Team snubbed Arike Ogunbowale, she made sure it paid on the court
July 19, 2024
Girls flag football is gaining traction in Minnesota, thanks in part to the Vikings
July 19, 2024
The ‘first’ post-Covid Olympics are exciting sponsors. Fans? Not so much
July 19, 2024
American Ryan Crouser hinted a world shot put record could be on the cards at the London Diamond League meeting on Saturday in what would be an ideal final tune-up before he aims
July 19, 2024
Vincent Hancock is not bragging when he says he has achieved pretty much everything in skeet shooting and will be competing more against himself than the field at the
July 19, 2024
‘Chariots of Fire’ immortalized the 1924 Paris Olympics. Decades since its release, the film has taken on ‘a life of its own’
July 19, 2024
Tajik journalist Temur Varki received a disquieting call from Paris police in late March, days after Islamic State militants from his
July 19, 2024
Olympic Village welcomes first athletes ahead of 2024 Paris Games
July 18, 2024
Police officer attacked in Paris, as security measures ramp up for Olympics
July 18, 2024
French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood
July 18, 2024
A metal curtain descended across central Paris on Thursday as the police imposed a security perimeter along the banks of the river Seine, shutting the area off to anyone without a
July 18, 2024
Diana Taurasi joked after the Tokyo Olympics that she’d see everyone in Paris
July 18, 2024
Rafa Nadal upset Briton Cam Norrie 6-4 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals in Bastad on Thursday, mounting a terrific second-set comeback in an encouraging display for the Spaniard's fans
July 18, 2024
Alphabet's Google will infuse artificial intelligence into the U.S. broadcast of the Paris Olympics, allowing sports commentators to use AI to explain competitions, the tech
July 18, 2024
Simone Biles reflects on Tokyo Olympics in ‘Rising’: ‘I felt like I was in jail with my own brain and body’
July 18, 2024
Team USA earns dominant win over Serbia and NBA MVP Nikola Jokić
July 18, 2024
The founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.”
July 18, 2024
Ten Russian and seven Belarusian athletes cleared to compete in the Paris Olympics have violated the International Olympic Committee's (IOC)
July 18, 2024
Dutch swimmer Arno Kamminga described the case of the 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for a banned drug as a "lose-lose situation" while also questioning how the
July 18, 2024
Canada's reigning world decathlon champion Pierce LePage has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics due to a herniated disc in his back which requires surgery.
July 18, 2024
Inspired by Muhammad Ali, meet the judo star who fled civil war conscription in Syria and will now compete at the Paris Olympics
July 18, 2024
A special kind of iron curtain has come down across central Paris
July 18, 2024
Australia's Olympic swimming head coach Rohan Taylor has praised the United States team as the "standard of the sport" in a bid to ease tensions following a media campaign
July 18, 2024
If things go as planned for Team USA in Paris, the Olympic women's golf podium will be draped in stars and stripes for medal favorites the United States, collectively
July 17, 2024
Basketball legend Cheryl Miller was named head coach of the WNBA All-Star team that will take on the United States' women's national team in a game set for Saturday at Phoenix.
July 17, 2024
Team USA ran away from Serbia for a 105-79 exhibition game victory on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi to improve to 3-0 on the team's pre-Olympics tour.
July 17, 2024
A car drove into the terrace of a cafe in the 20th arrondissement in northern Paris on Wednesday evening, leaving one dead and six injured, including three in a critical state, police
July 17, 2024
French anti-terror police have detained an alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of wanting to target the Olympic torch relay
July 17, 2024
Marathon-winning ‘spray-on’ running shoes could shake up Olympics
July 17, 2024
Some 45,000 police will secure the Paris Olympics' July 26 opening ceremony, with over 100 heads of state and government set to attend, a senior official said on
July 17, 2024
France is using experimental AI-enabled surveillance and data collection tools before, during and after the 2024 Summer Olympics. Here’s what that means for the trade-off between security and privacy.
July 17, 2024
‘After the Games, we will have a swimming pool in the river’: Paris mayor takes dip in Seine amid E. coli bacteria concerns
July 17, 2024
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo finally swam in the River Seine on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to try to convince doubters that its waters will be clean enough to
July 17, 2024
Global advertisers are hiring more female athletes to launch marketing campaigns ahead of the Paris Summer Olympics, a move aimed at capitalizing on recent record ratings
July 17, 2024
Amid shelling and blackouts, this is how Ukrainian athletes have been preparing for the Olympics
July 17, 2024
After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics
July 17, 2024
USWNT puts a frustrating night behind them as they look forward to next week’s Olympics
July 17, 2024
The United States is at risk of losing both the 2028 Summer and 2034 Winter Olympics if American law enforcement over reaches in its investigation of Chinese swimmers,
July 16, 2024
The WNBA heads into its monthlong Olympic break following this weekend’s highly anticipated list of All-Star festivities
July 16, 2024
German sportswear maker Adidas is increasing its full-year earnings guidance after a better than expected second quarter, it said on Tuesday, in its second upgrade this year.
July 16, 2024
As sunny weather returns to France, the Paris Olympics are placing some of the capital's most famous landmarks centre stage.
July 16, 2024
‘They just won the Olympics’: Internet goes wild for Mongolia’s Paris 2024 outfits
July 16, 2024
Do Olympians get paid? Everything you need to know about prize money – for some – at Paris Games
July 16, 2024
Officials in France say a French soldier has been stabbed outside a big train station in Paris, and the attacker has been arrested
July 15, 2024
Anthony Davis scored 17 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, Tyrese Haliburton came up with a pair of late 3-pointers that helped stop a freefall by the Americans, and the U.S. beat Australia 98-92 on Monday to improve to 2-0 in its five-game slate of exhibitions leading into the Paris Olympics
July 15, 2024
Hundreds of people have carried the Olympic torch through the French capital for two days of celebrations before the Summer Games kick off at the end of the month
July 15, 2024
Tokyo badminton gold medallist Viktor Axelsen is not resting on his laurels ahead of the Paris Olympics but the Dane is being careful not to overdo it in training
July 15, 2024
Novak Djokovic is vowing to get back to work after being outplayed by Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final less than 1 1/2 months after knee surgery
July 14, 2024
USA Olympic men's basketball coach Steve Kerr, whose father was shot dead four decades ago, called the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump a demoralizing day
July 14, 2024
Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday
July 14, 2024
Sophia Smith scored in the 64th minute and the United States got revenge for a loss to Mexico earlier this year with a 1-0 victory in the rematch on Saturday
July 13, 2024
The USA men's Olympic basketball team took to the practice court Saturday without Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant, who continues to nurse a calf injury.
July 13, 2024
French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea Castera took the plunge and swam in the River Seine on Saturday, in a publicity moment that French authorities hope will show the capital's river
July 13, 2024
The Olympics have long promoted safe sex. Now it wants to focus on pleasure.
July 13, 2024
Representatives from dozens of U.S. cities attended a summit hosted by World Rugby in Washington DC on Friday to hear details about potentially hosting the men's Rugby World Cup in 2031
July 12, 2024
An investigation by American law enforcement into a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers could keep the United States from hosting future sporting events, the
July 12, 2024
Jessica Hull of Australia blazed to a world record in the women's 2,000 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meet on Friday, making a stunning statement ahead of the Paris Olympics as
July 12, 2024
U.S. women's national soccer team forward Catarina Macario was pulled from the Team USA Olympic roster due to a knee injury, head coach Emma Hayes told reporters on Friday.
July 12, 2024
U.S. coach Emma Hayes says forward Catarina Macario won’t be able to train for the Olympics because of irritation in her right knee
July 12, 2024
First lady Dr. Jill Biden to lead US delegation to the Paris Olympics
July 12, 2024
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics have announced more venue assignments, with the cities of Carson and Long Beach reprising their roles from previous games held in the region
July 12, 2024
Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympics Esports Games in 2025, the International Olympic Committee announced on Friday.
July 12, 2024
Saudi Arabia and the IOC are teaming up for their first commercial deal together with the oil-rich kingdom set to host the first Esports Olympics next year
July 12, 2024
France's hopes of finishing on the podium in the Olympic golf competition have been boosted by the ascent of Celine Boutier and Matthieu Pavon over the past year.
July 12, 2024
U.S. companies from Nike to Warner Bros are opening new stores and holding big marketing events in Paris before and during the Olympics, betting that excitement for the summer games can
July 12, 2024
Fast-rising Carl Alan Nickolas is the United States' best hope of gold in taekwondo at the Olympics as they aim to eclipse South Korea and China in one of the
July 12, 2024
Two of wrestling's biggest rivalries will be missing from the mat at the Paris Games but fans can look forward to seeing how the sport's newest star handles
July 12, 2024
Cobblestones, steep stone steps, powerful river currents and a strong France squad are among the challenges facing some of the fittest athletes in the world in Paris
July 12, 2024
The United States women’s water polo team are targeting an unprecedented fourth Olympic Games gold medal in a row in Paris, but with a new-look squad and in arguably
July 12, 2024
More than 30 European anti-doping agencies expressed concern on Thursday, in a letter seemingly aimed at the U.S., that professional and college athletes competing in
July 11, 2024
The International Olympic Committee on Thursday backed the World Anti-Doping Agency following an independent report that said the global anti-doping body had not
July 11, 2024
Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse thrives on sport's biggest stages - the brighter the lights, the better for the six-times Olympic medallist.
July 11, 2024
The Russian Olympic Committee has paid compensation to 245 athletes who failed to meet the criteria allowing them to compete at the Paris Games this month, the RIA state news agency
July 11, 2024
The United States will need Vincent Hancock to come out all guns blazing in their bid to upstage China at the Paris Olympics shooting range as the 35-year-
July 11, 2024
Skateboarding will have some of the youngest competitors at the Paris Olympics but it has already taught some of the more established sports a trick or two, earning
July 11, 2024
Sport climbing's debut at the Tokyo Olympic Games was a bittersweet experience following criticism of the format from athletes, but with an extra gold medal on offer
July 11, 2024
By Lincoln Feast While most 2024 Olympians will be battling for glory in Paris, the world's best surfers will be going for gold some 16,000km away on the island of Tahiti, where the spinning blue
July 11, 2024
Stephen Curry drove to the basket, laid the ball in, got fouled and ended up on the floor after drawing the contact
July 11, 2024
Four-times Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles is usually the favourite for any vault competition she enters but Brazilian Rebeca Andrade looks to be
July 11, 2024
Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards has signed a multiyear extension with sneaker brand Adidas that is worth around $50 million, The Athletic reported Wednesday.
July 10, 2024
France's economy should grow by 0.1 percent in the second quarter, the Bank of France said in its monthly business survey on Wednesday, at the top end of its
July 10, 2024
Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard will not be part of the U.S. men's basketball team at the Paris Olympics and will focus on preparing for the 2024-25 NBA season, USA Basketball
July 10, 2024
Kawhi Leonard no longer on USA men’s basketball Olympic team
July 10, 2024
Gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Katie Ledecky headline a 592- member U.S. Olympic team that will again be targeting the top of the medals table at the Paris Games starting this month.
July 10, 2024
Kawhi Leonard won't be part of the U.S. men’s basketball team that will compete in the Paris Games after all
July 10, 2024
The list of Russian athletes who will head to the Paris Olympics later this month has thinned to just over a dozen, as several sports
July 10, 2024
Beatriz Ferreira's journey in boxing began in her family's garage at the age of four.
July 10, 2024
Paris mayor vows to swim in River Seine next week despite pollution concerns ahead of Olympics
July 10, 2024
World 200-meter champion and Olympic favorite Shericka Jackson pulled up with an apparent injury late in a race as part of the Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix
July 09, 2024
An investigator backed the World Anti-Doping Agency’s handling of a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers, while also publishing notes indicating WADA’s own science director doubted China’s explanation that the athletes had been subject to contamination
July 09, 2024
Dutch golfer won’t compete in the Olympics after all, despite winning court case that appeared to send him to Paris
July 09, 2024
The Olympic Games' effect on the French economy will likely buoy the country's economic growth this year, the INSEE statistics institute said on Tuesday, although it warned France's
July 09, 2024
French marathon runner Mehdi Frere looks set to miss out on the Olympics after he was handed a two-year ban by World Athletics over a doping offence, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
July 09, 2024
A total of nine refugees will participate in the Paris Paralympics as members of the largest refugee team assembled, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Tuesday.
July 09, 2024
More than 400 Ukrainian athletes have been killed since the start of the war, including many of the country's brightest Olympics prospects
July 09, 2024
Russia’s war on Ukraine is demolishing the seeds of a sports culture that was a European powerhouse
July 09, 2024
In June 2022, after a concussion put BMX rider Saya Sakakibara out of action, the Australian considered quitting the sport. In an interview with CNN Sport, the 24-year-old talks about the decision to keep going, heartbreak in Tokyo and hopes for the Paris Olympics.
July 09, 2024
After her brother suffered a brain injury in a bike crash, this Olympic BMX rider has a new perspective on what success means
July 09, 2024
Boxing has been an almost ever-present fixture at the Olympics but a bitter conflict over the sport's governance has cast doubt over its future, with this year's tournament in
July 09, 2024
The already high stakes of Olympic competition will be further elevated for breakers at the Paris Games where the champions could be the only ones to ever win
July 09, 2024
Afghan sprinter Kimia Yousofi is preparing to compete at her third Olympics after being selected for the Paris Games from her training base in Australia
July 08, 2024
Why Tahiti will host part of the Paris Olympic Games and the controversy that comes with it
July 08, 2024
Four-time Olympic soccer champions United States have put their disastrous Women's World Cup campaign in the rear view mirror, captain Lindsey Horan said on Monday, with young
July 08, 2024
Travis Tygart, head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday he had doubts about the effectiveness of an investigation into positive drug tests by 23
July 08, 2024
Olympic medal-winning gymnast MyKayla Skinner Harmer is drawing criticism for saying the U.S. Center for SafeSport is making it difficult for coaches to do their job
July 08, 2024
When the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team has an off day in Paris, they'll be checking out other events
July 08, 2024
Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design
July 08, 2024
Ukrainian athletes training for the Paris Olympics are torn between their sports demand for complete concentration on the here and now, and the war back home that is never far from their minds
July 08, 2024
For Ukrainian athletes, the Paris Olympics are more than just sports
July 08, 2024
The U.S. men's 3x3 basketball team will make their Olympic debut with a revamped and unconventional squad seeking redemption in Paris after failing to qualify for Tokyo.
July 08, 2024
Beach volleyball has had some iconic venues at the Olympics but nothing will probably beat the foot of the Eiffel Tower, where the United States will look to extend their
July 08, 2024
Team USA's Joel Embiid, who holds French and American citizenship, said his bruising NBA playoff battles on the road have prepared him for any jeers the French crowd at the Paris Olympics
July 07, 2024
World records tumble at Diamond League meeting in Paris
July 07, 2024
Brazil is going to the Paris Olympics, after a 19-0 run over the final 3:21 of the first quarter set the tone in what became a surprisingly easy 94-69 victory over Latvia in the first of four men’s basketball qualifying tournament finals being played Sunday
July 07, 2024
Faith Kipyegon of Kenya has broken her own world record in the women’s 1,500 meters at the Diamond League track and field meeting in Paris
July 07, 2024
Lauren Jackson will finally get to go to her fifth Olympics after being named in the Australia basketball squad for the Paris Games on Sunday, 27 years after she got her first call-
July 07, 2024
Basketball star Lauren Jackson will compete at her fifth Olympics after being selected in Australia’s 12-player squad just three months after again coming out of retirement
July 07, 2024
LeBron James didn’t need another Olympic experience to complete some missing box on his resume or add to a legacy that was secured long, long ago
July 06, 2024
Thomas Walkup had 19 points, Giannis Antetokounmpo added 13 points in 21 minutes and Greece moved one victory from the Paris Games, eliminating Luka Doncic and Slovenia 96-68 from the semifinals of the Olympic qualifying tournament
July 06, 2024
Russia says that 10 of its wrestlers who were offered spots at the Paris Olympics as neutrals will refuse to compete
July 06, 2024
After months of planning, it’s time for the U.S. Olympic team — one that will go to the Paris Games later this month seeking a fifth consecutive gold medal — to take the floor
July 05, 2024
Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo have faced off nine times in their NBA careers, and those games have never disappointed
July 05, 2024
World Aquatics executive director Brent Nowicki has been subpoenaed by the U.S. government to testify in an investigation into how 23 Chinese swimmers avoided punishment
July 05, 2024
Former-middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin will rely on his power of persuasion and not his feared fists to convince Kazakhstan's boxing federation that World
July 05, 2024
The World Anti-Doping Agency says it is “disappointed” to learn of a U.S. criminal investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who were allowed to continue competing despite testing positive for a banned substance in 2021
July 05, 2024
British hurdles runner Andrew Pozzi is retiring from athletics after a serious ankle fracture halted his 15-year long career, British Athletics said.
July 05, 2024
The River Seine will be a central element of the Paris 2024 Olympics, with the opening ceremony taking place on the river with a boat parade and two events, the
July 05, 2024
The Paris 2024 marathon swimming event could be taking place just outside Paris should the River Seine not be suitable for bathing, organisers said on Friday.
July 05, 2024
Australian swimming is on the rise but the United States should still be rated as favourites to top the medal table once again at the Paris pool, said Michael Bohl,
July 05, 2024
World Aquatics confirms US government has opened criminal investigation into doping case involving Chinese swimmers: AP
July 04, 2024
Kyle Snyder already has one of the best resumes ever for a U.S. wrestler, and he’s just now hitting his prime
July 04, 2024
Water pollution levels in Paris' Rive Seine have improved, data showed on Thursday, three weeks before the Olympics in which the French capital’s landmark waterway is meant to be one
July 04, 2024
"August 4th – An Olympic Odyssey" is a new, hour long documentary from Warner Brothers Discovery, which aired on Max, discovery+* and Eurosport. The film has utilized an extensive archive to highlight a day that holds huge importance and significance in Summer Olympics down the years, including 1936, which saw the legendary American athlete Jesse Owens win four gold medals. CNN World Sport's Don Riddell caught up with Stuart Owen Rankin, the grandson of Jesse Owens, and they began by discussing the perhaps unlikely friendship which came about from Owens competing against a German long jumper by the name of Luz Long.
July 04, 2024
Jesse Owens’ achievements at 1936 Olympics were ‘thumb in the eye’ to Adolf Hitler, says US athlete’s grandson
July 04, 2024
The international swimming federation says its executive director has been ordered to testify as a witness in a U.S. criminal investigation into the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance in 2021 yet were allowed to continue competing
July 04, 2024
HYROX is a race that requires strength and endurance, pushing the fittest of the fit to the edge of what they think is possible. The fitness phenomenon has seen rapid growth in recent years and organizers hope to one day see it at the Olympic Games.
July 04, 2024
HYROX: These two women are at the forefront of a ‘body-breaking’ fitness race with Olympic aspirations
July 04, 2024
Just three weeks before the Olympics, the excitement that was building up in the host city is now mingled with anxiety about France’s political future
July 04, 2024
Spiralling travel and accommodation costs, French political tumult and security concerns are discouraging many sports fans and
July 04, 2024
Croatia is advancing in its bid to earn one of the final spots in the Paris Olympics’ basketball field, but not with the kind of momentum it had hoped
July 03, 2024
Georgia State professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory is known for bringing celebrities like Steve Harvey and Ludacris into her law class
July 03, 2024
Patriotic coverage helps forge the Olympics’ sense of community, weaving viewers’ lives together with athletes’ struggles and triumphs.
July 03, 2024
Brazil soccer star Marta to play in sixth Olympics at Paris Games
July 03, 2024
Athletes at the last Summer Olympics remember the unmistakable sadness of competing with nearly no one in the stands amid pandemic-era restrictions in Tokyo three years ago
July 03, 2024
Noah Lyles chased down his rivals to win the 100m final at the U.S. Olympic trials in 9.83 seconds in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday to book a spot at the Paris Games.
July 03, 2024
Turns out Snoop Dogg is not just fast on the microphone -- he is no slouch on the track either. The American rapper and actor made a cameo appearance at the U.S.
July 03, 2024
Dearica Hamby of the Los Angeles Sparks has been named to the 2024 USA 3x3 women's national team, replacing the injured Cameron Brink at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
July 03, 2024
American swimmer Michael Brinegar, who competed in the 800 and 1,500 metres events at the Tokyo Olympics, was been handed a four-year suspension for blood doping, the United States Anti-
July 03, 2024
Christian Dior designer Maria Grazia Chiuri nodded to sports with an haute couture runway show in Paris on Monday that featured jersey fabrics worked into draped,
July 03, 2024
Athing Mu lost the chance to defend her Olympic 800m title in Paris after crashing to the ground and trailing home last at the U.S. trials on Monday, while Quincy Hall upstaged Michael
July 03, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will team up on the WNBA All-Star team to play against the U.S. Olympic team led by A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart
July 03, 2024
Total advertising sales for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games are pacing ahead of where each of NBCUniversal’s previous Olympic and Paralympic
July 02, 2024
In the bowls and street skating ledges and rails of U.S. skate parks, women and girls exude pride over their increasingly impressive skateboarding
July 02, 2024
As sportswear rivals jockey for position ahead of next year's Paris Olympics, Adidas is aiming to stamp its brand on smaller events such as breaking,
July 02, 2024
Brittney Griner and college basketball standout Caitlin Clark were among the 14 players invited to an Olympic training camp next week in Cleveland, Ohio, the USA Basketball women's
July 02, 2024
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed reports on Saturday that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but it accepted the country's
July 02, 2024
A winner of seven Olympic gold medals, a leader of the Mississippi civil rights struggle and a pioneer of television's tabloid talk show
July 02, 2024
The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security on Wednesday, firing the starting gun on a summer extravaganza of sport
July 02, 2024
Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, will make a mark in the Paris Olympics as a torchbearer from South after recently returning from his mandatory military service
July 02, 2024
Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky stormed to victory in the 200m freestyle final at the U.S.
July 02, 2024
World number two Carlos Alcaraz said he is looking forward to learning from 22-times Grand Slam champion Rafa Nadal when they pair up in the doubles at the Paris Olympics.
July 02, 2024
Minessota picked up right where it left off in last year's playoffs and the Lynx are one of the top teams in the WNBA
July 02, 2024
Novak Djokovic wins first match at Wimbledon less than a month after undergoing surgery for torn meniscus
July 02, 2024
Dutch golfer Joost Luiten said on Tuesday he won a court case that will get him into the Paris Olympics after the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Netherlands Sports Federation (NOCNSF)
July 02, 2024
It’s been 100 years since a Scottish runner famously refused to race on a Sunday at the Paris Olympics because of his Christian beliefs
July 02, 2024
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has appealed to the Swiss Federal Tribunal after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling against the world body's bid to regain Olympic
July 02, 2024
Katie Ledecky cruised to another dominating win in her signature event, the 1,500m freestyle, at the U.S.
July 02, 2024
American sprinter Erriyon Knighton will not be suspended for testing positive for a banned substance, the U.S.
July 02, 2024
The first round parliamentary election victory for France's far right National Rally (RN) party will not spoil the festive mood as Paris hosts the Olympic Games, said the capital's
July 02, 2024
Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink, who was named in Team USA's 3x3 basketball team for this year's Paris Olympics, has suffered a serious knee injury, the WNBA team said on
July 02, 2024
American fan favourite Sha'Carri Richardson will look to add another chapter to her comeback story with a ticket to the Paris Games when the United States team trials kick off on Friday,
July 01, 2024
Ukraine's Olympic team will be fighting for more than just medals at Paris 2024 - after a build-up marked by war. Two-time gold medal winner and World Athletics President Seb Coe knows how hard the road to Olympic glory can be -- and is fulfilling a promise to Ukrainian athletes -- with an emotional visit to see them at home. CNN's Amanda Davies gets EXCLUSIVE TV access to Coe throughout his surprise visit, where he says he has invited President Zelensky to the Games.
July 01, 2024
Andy Macdonald has team mates younger than his son as he prepares for an Olympic debut as the oldest skateboarder in Paris, but the 50-year-old great reckons he can
July 01, 2024
The U.S. Olympic track trials ended on a high note
July 01, 2024
Jessie Fleming headlined the Canadian women's soccer roster for the Paris Olympics that was revealed on Monday and features 13 players from the group that won gold in Tokyo.
July 01, 2024
Regan Smith set the 100m backstroke world record at the U.S.
July 01, 2024
Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics with a few of her friends
July 01, 2024
Top Japanese breakdancer Shigekix said on Monday his eyes will be fixed on his familiar foes from the United States and Canada when 16 B-Boys battle it out for the
July 01, 2024
SZA might be known for hit songs like “Kill Bill” and “Snooze,” but the R&B star unveiled another impressive skill beyond music that drew high praise from gymnastics superstar Simone Biles
July 01, 2024
US sprinter Quincy Wilson, 16, set to become youngest ever US male track Olympian
July 01, 2024
World Athletics head Sebastian Coe has met Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev, where the head of state thanked the double Olympic champion for his sport’s
July 01, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 400-meter hurdles world record for fifth time
July 01, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's world record run in the 400 hurdles wrapped up the U.S.
July 01, 2024
Four-times Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles booked her third straight appearance at the Games with her all-around victory at the U.S. Olympic team trials in Minneapolis on Sunday.
July 01, 2024
Simone Biles qualifies for a third Olympics after dominating US Olympic Gymnastic Trials
July 01, 2024
World number one Scottie Scheffler will lead a heavyweight U.S. presence at the men's 2024 Olympics golf in a quartet featuring defending champion Xander Schauffele
July 01, 2024
Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics
July 01, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke the women's 400 metres hurdles world record for the fifth time on Sunday after crossing the line in 50.65 seconds at the U.S.
June 30, 2024
Zach Edey, four days removed from being selected in the first round of the NBA Draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, on Sunday withdrew himself from consideration for the Canadian men's
June 30, 2024
'Ready to ride': Former Olympian turns talents to sharing the road with riders of all abilities
June 30, 2024
Noah Lyles wins 200m at US Olympic trials in record time
June 30, 2024
Ryan Murphy said his desire to regain his Olympic 100m backstroke title burns hotter than ever after he punched his ticket to the Paris Games on Monday.
June 30, 2024
Noah Lyles will pursue the Olympic sprint double in Paris after he won the men's 200 metres at the U.S. trials in 19.53 seconds on Saturday, the fastest time of the year, as Gabby Thomas
June 30, 2024
Noah Lyles kept his hopes for the sprint double at the Olympics alive Saturday night, coming from behind to win the 200 meters at the U.S. track trials in 19.53 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year
June 30, 2024
Five-times Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her 200m title at next month's Paris Games after opting not to compete in the event at the upcoming Jamaican trials.
June 30, 2024
Shilese Jones will not continue on at the U.S.
June 29, 2024
Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson set blistering times in semifinals at US Olympic trials
June 29, 2024
Wimbledon third seed Aryna Sabalenka said she was not fully ready for Monday's first-round clash with Emina Bektas at the championships as the two-time Australian Open champion continues
June 29, 2024
‘That was terrifying.’ Lolo Jones competes at US Olympic trials aged 41
June 29, 2024
Simone Biles sits in first place of all-around competition at US Olympic Gymnastics Trials
June 29, 2024
Grant Holloway won the 110 metres hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials in a world lead of 12.86 seconds on Friday, as Gabby Thomas and Noah Lyles scorched their semi-final heats in the 200m.
June 29, 2024
Grant Holloway won U.S. track trials in the 110-meter hurdles Friday, finishing in 12.86 second to earn a chance to capture the Olympic title that eluded him in an upset loss three years ago
June 29, 2024
Lolo Jones, at age 41, returned to the U.S.
June 29, 2024
Canadian Olympic basketball team general manager Rowan Barrett said Friday that Golden State is blocking Andrew Wiggins from competing in Paris, while the Warriors countered it was a mutual decision between the team and Wiggins
June 29, 2024
Simone Biles saved her best for last to seize the lead at the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Luxury travel agencies in the United States are so far seeing lackluster demand for the Paris Olympics, as wealthier travelers instead opt for nearby
June 28, 2024
Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab, who is training for the 2024 Olympic Games, has a mission.
June 28, 2024
The first batch of Russian and Belarusian athletes have been cleared to compete at next month's Paris Olympics, with a total of 25 making the cut but others
June 28, 2024
Cooper Flagg’s summer will include some time playing against the U.S. Olympic team
June 28, 2024
Water pollution levels in Paris' River Seine remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics in which the capital's landmark waterway
June 28, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson makes statement with blistering 200m at US Olympic trials
June 28, 2024
For Uruguayan sailor Dolores Moreira, renting a boat and towing it across Europe to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics is all part of the money-saving process
June 28, 2024
While the Ancient Olympics originated in Greece, its modern incarnation is very much a French affair
June 28, 2024
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time reigning Olympic champion at 100 and 200 meters, will miss the Paris Games because of what she said is a small tear in her Achilles tendon
June 28, 2024
Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson made light work of the 200m heats on Thursday as the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson never made it to the start, let alone the finish, of the 200 meters at the last Olympic trials
June 28, 2024
Fred Richard and Brody Malone moved closer to a trip to the Olympics with solid performances during the opening night of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials
June 28, 2024
NBA Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama expects France to be ready for Team USA should the squads meet again at the Paris Olympics.
June 27, 2024
Nike on Thursday forecast a surprise drop in fiscal 2025 revenue, hurt by faltering demand for its sneakers as consumers covet newer brands such
June 27, 2024
Colombian soccer star Linda Caicedo is preparing to play at the Olympics in France and maybe the under-20 Women’s World Cup hosted by her home country starting in late August
June 27, 2024
Victor Wembanyama plays against the top names in the game with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA
June 27, 2024
Head coach Steve Kerr expects to have all hands on deck when Team USA begins training camp in Las Vegas, ramping up to the Olympics in Paris.
June 27, 2024
A Dutch beach volleyball player convicted and imprisoned eight years ago for raping an underage girl in Britain has qualified for the Paris Olympics
June 27, 2024
The IOC has invited eight top Russian tennis players plus Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka from Belarus to compete as neutral athletes at the Paris Olympics
June 27, 2024
Simone Biles aims to qualify for third Olympics at US Gymnastics Trials
June 27, 2024
Boston Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis will miss 5-6 months after left ankle surgery
June 27, 2024
Kawhi Leonard, Tyrese Haliburton and Joel Embiid are all good to go for the start of USA Basketball’s men’s national team training camp in Las Vegas next week, the first step toward what the Americans hope is a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal
June 27, 2024
Elaine Thompson-Herah, five-time Olympic gold medalist, ruled out of Paris Games with Achilles injury
June 27, 2024
The NBA may have to rethink the timing of its draft
June 27, 2024
Having overcome a heart condition and an eating disorder, Australian swimmer Lani Pallister struggled to keep her emotions in check after qualifying for her first Olympics on the
June 26, 2024
NBC to use AI version of announcer Al Michaels’ voice for Olympics recaps
June 26, 2024
The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end
June 26, 2024
USA Gymnastics believes it is building momentum toward a better future as the 2024 Olympics near
June 26, 2024
Reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee, six-time world championship medalist Shilese Jones and national championship runner-up Skye Blakely are facing health concerns ahead of the U.S. Olympic trials
June 26, 2024
Alex Morgan, one of the last links to the great U.S. women's soccer team dynasty, was left out of the Paris U.S.
June 26, 2024
From the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, U.S. television coverage of the games will include celebrities, social media influencers and generative artificial
June 26, 2024
Researchers used AI to analyze photos of Olympic medalists and found that bronze medalists appeared happier than silver medalists. A cognitive process called ‘counterfactual thinking’ may explain why.
June 26, 2024
Political upheaval in France won't affect preparations for the Olympic Summer Games, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Monday after President Emmanuel Macron shocked France with his
June 26, 2024
JuJu Watkins has already thought about how special it would be to play for the U.S. in 2028 at the Olympics in her hometown of Los Angeles
June 26, 2024
The United States is strongly favored to win the most overall medals when the Paris Olympics open in a month
June 26, 2024
Two former U.S. Olympic gold medalists say they've lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris
June 25, 2024
The combination of Noah Lyles, Snoop Dogg and 16-year-old Quincy Wilson running for a spot in the Olympics lifted NBC to its largest audience for the U.S. track trials since 2012, according to Nielsen
June 25, 2024
World number one and defending champion Nelly Korda will headline the three-member U.S. team competing in the women's golf tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics, USA Golf said on Tuesday.
June 25, 2024
Kristaps Porzingis plans to undergo surgery on his left leg and return to the Boston Celtics next season, but the operation recovery time rules him out for Latvia in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
June 25, 2024
Jordan Spieth became a footnote in history as the only player on the PGA Tour to twice play alongside someone who shot 59
June 25, 2024
Snoop Dogg delivers mic drop moments at US trials as 52-year-old runs 200m in 34.44 seconds
June 25, 2024
Athing Mu’s hopes of defending her Olympic 800m title end after falling at the US trials
June 25, 2024
U.S. swimming great Michael Phelps told a
June 25, 2024
‘On the roadsides there were shot up cars where people had been killed’: Facing war, death and destruction ahead of Olympics
June 25, 2024
Olympic champion Athing Mu’s hopes for a repeat title came crashing down during the first lap of the 800-meter final at U.S. track trials
June 25, 2024
Athing Mu will not defend her Olympic 800m title in Paris after she fell during the final at the U.S. trials on Monday and finished last.
June 25, 2024
Casey Eichfeld has qualified for the Olympics in canoe slalom, becoming the first American to qualify for four Olympics in slalom
June 24, 2024
Dearica Hamby has replaced Los Angeles Sparks teammate Cameron Brink, who suffered a torn ACL last week, on the U.S. Olympic 3x3 basketball team
June 24, 2024
Paris 2024 organisers on Friday unveiled a display of the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower with 50 days to go until the Summer Olympics in the French capital.
June 24, 2024
Dior has staged an homage to sport before the Paris Olympics on the grounds of the Musée Rodin on the first day of Paris Couture Week
June 24, 2024
Noah Lyles wins 100 meters at US trials to qualify for Paris Olympics
June 24, 2024
Simone Manuel wins 50m freestyle at US Olympic swimming trials as she continues return from overtraining syndrome
June 24, 2024
The crowds were large and raucous
June 24, 2024
Katie Ledecky and a powerhouse American swim team will turn their attention to another Summer Games showdown with arch-rivals Australia after the U.S.
June 24, 2024
Noah Lyles locked down the first major step in his quest for an Olympic sprint double on Sunday, coming from behind to win the 100 meters at U.S. track trials in 9.83 seconds to qualify for that race in Paris
June 24, 2024
Simone Manuel has earned an individual race at the Olympics on the final night of the U.S. swimming trials, winning the 50-meter freestyle
June 23, 2024
On International Olympic Day, Vogue World took over the last day of Paris Fashion Week’s menswear collections with a show-cum-spectacle themed around the Olympics
June 23, 2024
Egypt will take its biggest ever delegation to the Paris Olympics with the hope of exceeding its record medal haul from three years ago and continue to build its
June 23, 2024
Katie Ledecky makes history with 800m freestyle victory at US Olympic trials
June 23, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100-meter final to qualify for 2024 Paris Olympics
June 23, 2024
Sha'Carri Richardson banished painful memories of years past to punch her ticket to the Paris Games on Saturday in the 100 metres, saying she grew both on and off the track to reach the
June 23, 2024
Sha'Carri Richardson earned her Olympic redemption on Saturday, winning the 100 metres final at the U.S. trials to punch her ticket to Paris, as Noah Lyles cruised through the opening heats
June 23, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson earned her spot in the Paris Olympics, winning the 100-meter final in a season-best 10.71 seconds at U.S. track trials
June 23, 2024
Caeleb Dressel has locked up his second individual race in Paris, giving him another chance to shine after his stellar performance at the last Olympics
June 22, 2024
Russia's sports minister was quoted as saying on Saturday that his country's athletes - mostly barred from the Paris Olympics - would soon take part in more competitions because
June 22, 2024
A shaky start off the blocks could not derail Sha'Carri Richardson, as the world champion won her 100 metres heat in 10.88 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials on Friday.
June 22, 2024
Seven-time Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel earned a shot a defending is 50 metres freestyle title in Paris after powering home first in the event known as the splash and dash at the U.S.
June 22, 2024
Sha’Carri Richardson wobbled out of the starting block and raced with her right shoe untied but still won her preliminary 100-meter heat in 10.88 seconds to open her quest to make the Olympics at the U.S. track trials
June 22, 2024
Caeleb Dressel has earned his first individual race of the Paris Games, winning the men’s 50-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials
June 21, 2024
Noah Lyles wants to stamp out his territory on and off the track ahead of the Paris Games, as the 100 metres world champion begins his latest U.S.
June 21, 2024
Gil Roberts, a member of the U.S. gold medal winning 4x400 metre relay team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, was handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a
June 21, 2024
The canoe slalom and softball competitions for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will be held in Oklahoma City while athletics will shift to the opening week of the global sporting showcase
June 21, 2024
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions
June 21, 2024
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics announced changes to its venue plan that it says will create an estimated $156 million in combined savings and revenue increases
June 21, 2024
Lilly King gets engaged immediately after her race at the US Olympic swimming trials
June 21, 2024
Four of America’s biggest swimming stars have doubled up at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials
June 20, 2024
The World Anti-Doping Agency questioned an arbitrator's decision to clear American sprinter Erriyon Knighton of a doping offence on Thursday, saying it is was considering
June 20, 2024
A new professional women's gymnastics league is hoping to give athletes a chance to walk away from the sport on their terms
June 20, 2024
There is one more item to scratch off the list before everyone from Sha’Carri Richardson to Noah Lyles to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone embark on their trips to Paris for the Olympics
June 20, 2024
Coco Gauff will lead the U.S. tennis team at the Paris Olympics three years after missing the Tokyo Games because she tested positive for COVID-19
June 20, 2024
When a group of mayors paid tens of thousands of euros each to bring the Olympic torch to their towns along France's Atlantic coast, a row
June 20, 2024
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan says he understands why Rory McIlroy withdrew from the Travelers Championship to recover from a late-Sunday meltdown at the U.S. Open
June 19, 2024
Bryson DeChambeau couldn’t play at the Tokyo Olympics because of COVID-19
June 19, 2024
French swimmer Rafael Fente-Damers injures shoulder while celebrating Olympic qualification
June 19, 2024
‘You never think it will happen to you,’ says WNBA rookie and Olympic hopeful Cameron Brink after suffering ACL tear
June 19, 2024
Novak Djokovic confirmed to compete at Paris Olympics following knee surgery
June 19, 2024
Noah Lyles headlines crowded men's 100m and 200m fields while Sha'Carri Richardson stars on the women's side as the United States track and field team trials for the Paris Olympics kick
June 19, 2024
A 74-year-old surfer and master of classical Japanese dance may seem an unlikely member of a seniors' breakdancing group, but Saruwaka Kiyoshie
June 18, 2024
Olympic champion and 400 metres hurdles world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has become the first athlete to sign with Michael Johnson's new global track league, Grand
June 18, 2024
The Dallas Wings have been struggling this year, with injuries taking a major toll
June 18, 2024
Caeleb Dressel has made his debut at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, posting the third-fastest time in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle
June 18, 2024
Sprinting great Michael Johnson is launching a track league that looks to assemble nearly 100 of the sport’s top performers four times a year to compete for $12.6 million in prize money over the season
June 18, 2024
CNN's Coy Wire joins Wolf Blitzer to discuss Team USA's new Olympic uniforms designed by iconic designer Ralph Lauren.
June 18, 2024
Here’s what Team USA is wearing to the Olympics
June 18, 2024
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone plans on defending her title in the 400-meter hurdles at the Paris Olympics, and has scratched from the 200 and 400-meter flat races that she had originally signed up for
June 18, 2024
Simone Biles got her bid for a record-extending ninth all-around title at the U.S. championships off to a sensational start on Friday, piling up 60.45 points to take a more than three-
June 18, 2024
Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ramped up preparations for a title defence at this year's Paris Games by running a world-leading time of 52.70 seconds on Friday in her first 400
June 18, 2024
Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar
June 17, 2024
Gretchen Walsh followed up a world record in the 100-meter butterfly with something that felt just as good
June 16, 2024
Katie Ledecky is heading to her fourth Olympics, cruising to victory in the 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. swimming trials
June 15, 2024
Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the women’s 100-meter butterfly, posting a time of 55.18 seconds in a semifinal heat at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials
June 15, 2024
Olympic spots are still up for grabs at the U.S. Open
June 15, 2024
The IOC has approved 14 athletes from Russia and 11 Belarusians with neutral status to compete at the Paris Olympics in a first list from five sports published Saturday
June 15, 2024
Spain's David Puig rallied after a poor first round at the U.S. Open with a second-round 68 on Friday, which allowed him to make the cut and earn one of his nation's two spots at the Paris Olympics
June 14, 2024
The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games
June 14, 2024
Rafael Nadal is going to skip Wimbledon, as expected, and instead prepare for the Paris Olympics by entering a clay-court tournament in Bastad, Sweden
June 13, 2024
Salt Lake City is still cruising toward being named the 2034 Winter Olympics host next month
June 12, 2024
Olympic breakdancers spin on their heads and backs, then freeze in funky poses. How? It’s all about physics.
June 12, 2024
The Spanish tennis federation says Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play doubles together for Spain at the upcoming Paris Olympics
June 12, 2024
Ariarne Titmus has set a world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials
June 12, 2024
The NFL’s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top
June 11, 2024
USA Basketball says experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was left off the U.S. Olympic roster that was officially announced Tuesday
June 11, 2024
Longtime figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over the course of a 60-year career helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games, including Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, has died
June 11, 2024
Simone Manuel was the first Black female swimmer to capture an Olympic gold medal
June 11, 2024
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time defending Olympic champion at 100 and 200 meters, had to be helped from the track after appearing to hurt her Achilles tendon in a race at the USATF New York City Grand Prix
June 09, 2024
David Puig of Spain is part of a four-way for the lead at LIV Golf Houston
June 08, 2024
Caitlin Clark won’t be headed to the Paris Olympics, according to a person familiar with the decision
June 08, 2024
Organizers have unveiled a display of the five Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower as the French capital marks 50 days until the start of the Paris Games
June 07, 2024
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June 07, 2024
When Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympics in 2016, videos of the extensive lagoon complex surrounding the Olympic Park were everywhere
June 06, 2024
In a ‘very surreal’ move, Flavor Flav has a new calling as hype man to the US women’s water polo team
June 06, 2024
NBC has partnered with several entertainers and non-Olympic athletes like Megan Thee Stallion, Dolly Parton and Peyton Manning to promote the Paris Games this summer
June 05, 2024
Hardly anyone outside of Italy had heard of Marcell Jacobs before he succeeded Usain Bolt as the Olympic 100 meter champion in Tokyo
June 04, 2024
Track and field's World Athletics has announced a new global championships that promises $150,000 prizes for gold medalists
June 03, 2024
Gymnastics star Simone Biles cruised to a record ninth U.S. Championship, giving good friend Sunisa Lee a boost along the way
June 03, 2024
Gymnast Skye Blakely says working on her mental health has helped put her in the mix for the 2024 Olympics
June 01, 2024
Simone Biles put herself in position to win a ninth national gymnastics title, stringing together four occasionally brilliant rotations to take a massive lead at the U.S. Championships
June 01, 2024
Olympic gold medal wrestler Gable Steveson is seeking to trade the mat for the gridiron by signing a standard undrafted rookie free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills
May 31, 2024
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers
May 31, 2024
After days of barreling along the huge waves of Tahiti’s island paradise, French Polynesian surfer Vahine Fierro has even more reason to look forward to this summer’s Olympics
May 31, 2024
Jordan Chiles is making another run at the Olympics
May 30, 2024
There’s no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished
May 30, 2024
What is missing from the Paris 2024 Olympics? A tear-jerking corporate advertising campaign from Procter & Gamble saluting the mothers of athletes.
May 29, 2024
The boxing governing body declared rogue by the International Olympic Committee says it will pay $50,000 in prize money to each gold medalist at the Paris Games
May 29, 2024
France will deliver extra military aid to Ukraine in coming days and weeks, the Elysee said on Tuesday, after President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone with Ukrainian President
May 29, 2024
Less than three months from the Olympic Games in Paris, Brazilian athletes from the devastated southern state of Rio Grande do
May 27, 2024
Beatrice Chebet of Kenya has set a world record in the 10,000 meters at the Prefontaine Classic meet, finishing in 28 minutes, 54.14 seconds
May 25, 2024
Record-breaking 48-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina says an injury has ended her attempt to qualify for what would have been her ninth Olympics
May 24, 2024
Some athletes have lost trust in world anti-doping agency WADA after the body's handling of failed drug tests in Chinese swimming, according to Team USA Athletes' Commission
May 23, 2024
As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism
May 23, 2024
Around 50 khaki-clad men riding atop a black armoured truck approached an abandoned office building on the outskirts of Paris one spring morning and blew open a
May 22, 2024
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have sent a letter to the leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency asking for answers about the case in which 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite positive tests for a banned drug
May 22, 2024
Coach Emma Hayes has selected her first roster for the U.S. ahead of a pair of friendlies as she prepares to lead the women’s national soccer team at the Paris Olympics
May 21, 2024
She’s the U.S. Open champion
May 21, 2024
Can Russians and Belarusians compete at the Paris Olympics? Individual Neutral Athletes explained
May 21, 2024
Mike Sullivan has been selected U.S. coach for the 2026 Milan Olympics
May 18, 2024
Peacock, a Comcast-owned NBCUniversal's streaming service, will raise prices of its premium and premium plus plans by $2 per month, as it looks to cash in on its streaming rights to the
May 15, 2024
Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital facing piles of rubbish during the Olympic Games
May 15, 2024
Norwegian police said on Monday they have pressed charges against Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Olympic 1,500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, for alleged physical abuse.
May 14, 2024
Downhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can't race until December
May 14, 2024
The Paris 2024 Olympic flame sailed for France on Saturday on board a three-masted ship to mark the final sprint of preparations ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July
May 13, 2024
A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris 2024 Olympics is putting pressure on an
May 13, 2024
Flavor Flav believes the hype on the three-time defending Olympic champion U.S. women's water polo team, and now he's stepping in to help its quest for another gold medal
May 10, 2024
A Ukrainian gymnast has led a group of European athletes carrying the torch for the Paris Olympics through Marseille, a gesture of European unity and solidarity with her country amid its war with Russia
May 09, 2024
Torchbearers are carrying the Olympic flame through the streets of France’s southern port city of Marseille, the first leg of an 11-week journey across the country
May 09, 2024
Tens of thousands welcomed the Olympic torch in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris
May 08, 2024
The Olympic torch will finally enter France
May 07, 2024
The Ukrainian Olympic Committee says two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died on the front line in the war in Ukraine
May 06, 2024
China's President Xi Jingping on Monday called for a global truce during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer after the French president and the
May 06, 2024
Brittney Griner says since her release from a Russian prison 17 months ago that she has used her platform as a WNBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist to advocate for the return of other Americans detained overseas
May 06, 2024
The IOC has suspended former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait for 15 years after his conviction for forgery was upheld on appeal this year at a Swiss criminal appeals court
May 04, 2024
Just like the Olympic athletes, the cyberwarriors that will be crucial for the success of the Paris Games are deep into training for the big event
May 03, 2024
Three-time U.S. Olympian Emma Coburn says her “dream of Paris is over” after breaking her ankle at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai and undergoing surgery
May 03, 2024
Athletes at this year's Olympics will be eating fresh produce mostly made in France, with a focus on local and organic products and more vegetarian options.
May 03, 2024
Victor Wembanyama will return to Paris, he hopes as an Olympic champion, when the San Antonio Spurs face the Indiana Pacers in two regular-season NBA games early next year
May 02, 2024
The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports
May 02, 2024
French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons
May 02, 2024
Some 40,000 meals will be served each day during the Paris Games to over 15,000 athletes from 200 different countries housed at the Olympic village
April 30, 2024
The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports
April 29, 2024
Brazilian soccer star Marta plans to retire from the women's national team after this year
April 26, 2024
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
April 26, 2024
France has asked about 45 foreign countries to contribute several thousand extra military, police and civilian personnel to help safeguard the
April 26, 2024
Like many Parisians, Martin Cassan will be heading the other way when the tidal wave of Olympics visitors hits the French capital in late July, taking the opportunity to make some
April 26, 2024
Russia slammed a decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban its athletes from the opening parade of the Paris Olympics in July, calling it a violation of the ideal of
April 26, 2024
Russia's plan to hold the 'Friendship Games' is a political action that violates the Olympic Charter, and countries should not take part in them, the International Olympic Committee
April 26, 2024
Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Paris Olympics, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview from Paris shown on Ukrainian television and
April 26, 2024
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will not boycott this year's Paris Olympics, its president said on Thursday, despite restrictions on athletes imposed by the International
April 26, 2024
A Texas man who pleaded guilty to involvement in providing banned performance-enhancing drugs to athletes before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was
April 26, 2024
Uber said on Friday it had filed a legal appeal against the Paris Mayor's office regarding restrictions placed upon so-called VTCs - tourist vehicles with drivers - in the capital.
April 26, 2024
Residents of the Tahitian village that will host the 2024 Olympic surfing event remain opposed to plans to build a new smaller judging tower on the reef, saying it will
April 26, 2024
The war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will not affect the security plans for next year's Olympic Games in France, the chief of the
April 26, 2024
Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route
April 25, 2024
The head of the Paris airports operator says skies over the French capital will be closed completely for six hours as part of the massive security operation for the July 26 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games
April 24, 2024
Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie
April 24, 2024
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer
April 23, 2024
French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River
April 23, 2024
Allisha Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye towards being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer
April 23, 2024
In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit
April 22, 2024
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
April 22, 2024
The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication
April 22, 2024
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
April 21, 2024
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya pulled away late to win the London Marathon women’s race on Sunday and cement her status as the favorite to defend her gold in Paris
April 21, 2024
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
April 20, 2024
Olympic organizers have unveiled their plans to use artificial intelligence in sports, joining the global rush to capitalize on the rapidly advancing technology
April 19, 2024
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
April 19, 2024
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
April 17, 2024
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
April 17, 2024
Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer
April 17, 2024
The names have been trickling in, one or two at a time
April 17, 2024
Dozens of Russian athletes will likely be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics
April 17, 2024
LeBron James plans to go back to the Olympics
April 16, 2024
Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash
April 16, 2024
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
April 16, 2024
The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece
April 16, 2024
The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands
April 15, 2024
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
April 15, 2024
Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games
April 14, 2024
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
April 10, 2024
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
April 10, 2024
Police in Paris have removed about 50 migrants, including families with young children, from the Paris City Hall plaza as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games
April 03, 2024
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
April 03, 2024
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
April 01, 2024
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
March 30, 2024
France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics
March 29, 2024
Caitlin Clark was invited to the USA Basketball national team training camp during the Final Four in Cleveland, contingent on Iowa’s season being over
March 28, 2024
An exhibit in the French capital before this summer's Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century
March 27, 2024
American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-record holder
March 24, 2024
The United States men’s team will face France at the Paris Games after being drawn in the same group as the host nation for the Olympics soccer tournament
March 20, 2024
USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer
March 19, 2024
The IOC says Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC
March 19, 2024
A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves
March 19, 2024
The IOC is facing a Russia-organized potential rival to the Olympics and has urged sports and political leaders not to take part
March 19, 2024
The doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left a “very unpleasant” taste with the World Anti-Doping Agency because the teenager was the only one punished with a ban while her coaches and entourage have not been sanctioned
March 12, 2024
Lindsey Horan scored on a header in first-half stoppage time and the United States beat Brazil 1-0 on Sunday to win the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup
March 11, 2024
France's public administration minister says the government will offer bonuses to civil servants mobilized to work in Paris during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a bid to avoid strikes
March 09, 2024
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