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
Few swimmers have made a splash as big as Katie Ledecky, the Olympic gold medalist and two-time winner of The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award
March 07, 2024
Alyssa Naeher had three saves in the penalty shootout after a rain-soaked 2-2 draw with Canada on Wednesday night, earning the United States a spot in the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup final
March 07, 2024
IOC president Thomas Bach confirms Israel faces no threat to its Olympic status ahead of the Paris Games despite the conflict in Gaza
March 06, 2024
Russian and Belarusian athletes have been barred from marching in this year's Paralympics opening ceremony in Paris even if they are approved to compete as neutrals
March 06, 2024
Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia have won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics following nine days of volatile weather
March 03, 2024
A commission charged with reviewing the Olympic system in the United States recommended Congress rework key facets of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, including making it completely independent of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and reimagining the way it deals with cases in the grassroots
March 01, 2024
Four appeals filed at sport’s highest court in fallout from the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva are set to delay awarding medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics yet again
February 26, 2024
Kayla DiCello seized the accolades projected for some of her higher-profile counterparts by winning the uneven bars and floor exercise on the way to the all-around title at the USA Gymnastics Winter Cup on Saturday
February 24, 2024
Major League Baseball’s move to slice two seconds off the pitch clock with runners on base is too much, too soon, according to the head of the players’ union
February 24, 2024
Simply competing is an encouraging sign that Sunisa Lee is in a healthy place
February 23, 2024
The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee
February 23, 2024
Gabby Douglas’ return to competition is going to have to wait
February 22, 2024
It has been two years since hockey at the Beijing Olympics went ahead without NHL players because of COVID-19 pandemic-related scheduling issues
February 21, 2024
Striking workers have again closed down the Eiffel Tower
February 21, 2024
LeBron James still wants to participate in the Paris Olympics this summer, sure sounds like extending his NBA career for at least a couple more seasons is an option and said he would like to see his playing days end as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers
February 18, 2024
As most of Europe moves into the solemn weeks before Easter, the party is just getting started on the French Rivera
February 18, 2024
Marrit Steenbergen won gold for the Netherlands in the women’s 100-meter freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships
February 16, 2024
The United States held off Hungary 8-7 to capture the women’s water polo title for the fifth time in the last six championships and eighth time overall
February 16, 2024
Siobhán Haughey of Hong Kong has captured her first long-course world title, winning the women’s 200-meter freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar
February 14, 2024
Swiss bobsled athlete Sandro Michel is recovering from emergency surgery after a training crash that has some sliders considering whether it’s safe or appropriate to compete in World Cup races this weekend
February 14, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has canceled plans to move Paris’ famed second-hand booksellers’ boxes from the banks of the Seine River in preparation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in July
February 13, 2024
The governing body that oversees figure skating has defended its decision to award the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics to the Russian squad
February 09, 2024
Chang Yani has topped teammate Chen Yiwen in the 3-meter springboard, giving the powerhouse Chinese team its eighth diving gold medal of the World Aquatics Championships
February 09, 2024
Katie Ledecky’s 13-year unbeaten streak in the 800-meter freestyle is over
February 09, 2024
Jamaican great Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says the Paris Games will be her fifth and final Olympics
February 09, 2024
A former Olympian and longtime track coach will spend as much a 11 years in state prison after pleading guilty to charges of sexually molesting young boys in the 1970s while working at a sports camp in western Massachusetts
February 08, 2024
Joel Embiid’s timeline to return to the Philadelphia 76ers is still unclear following knee surgery
February 08, 2024
A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication was offered in sport's highest court as a possible cause of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test
February 07, 2024
Italian sprinter Marcell Jacobs still feels like he has something to prove as he prepares to defend gold in the 100 meters at this year's Paris Olympics
February 07, 2024
Parisians are voting whether to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park
February 04, 2024
Tyreek Hill is a five-time All-Pro, eight-time Pro Bowl selection and Super Bowl champion
February 03, 2024
Fiona O’Keeffe smashed the women’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials record in her debut at the distance to secure her spot in the Paris Games
February 03, 2024
Paris police say a man has injured three people in a stabbing attack at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris
February 03, 2024
NHL players are returning to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade
February 02, 2024
With China sitting out the first two diving events, other nations got a chance to shine on Day 1 of the World Aquatics Championships
February 02, 2024
The U.S. figure skating team from the Beijing Olympics will receive a gold medal now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping
January 30, 2024
The Russia figure skating team still stands to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case
January 30, 2024
The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022 Beijing Olympics
January 29, 2024
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics
January 29, 2024
Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their fifth U.S. figure skating title in the ice dance despite an illness that began to set in two days earlier when they performed their rhythm dance
January 27, 2024
Mikaela Shiffrin has crashed into the safety nets after losing control while landing a jump during a World Cup women’s downhill
January 26, 2024
The United States is predicted to top the medals tables — both the overall count and gold-medal count — for the 2024 Paris Olympics
January 26, 2024
USA Basketball says it wants the best for Draymond Green, which is why the federation does not have him in its plans for the Paris Olympics
January 24, 2024
The U.S. women’s basketball national team will get together for a few days in New York next month before playing in the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgium
January 22, 2024
The International Gymnastics Federation has granted neutral status to 30 athletes and officials from Belarus allowing them to take part in international competitions
January 15, 2024
South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
South Korea opposition leader convicted of violating election law, Yonhap reports
Health advocates press Cepheid for cheaper mpox tests
As airlines avoid Israel, UAE's FlyDubai and Etihad keep up flights for both diplomacy and dollars
Traders chase post-election stock gains in US options market
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Commanders fail on crucial fourth down vs. Eagles, and signature win under Daniels will have to wait
Taiwan president plans Hawaii visit on sensitive trip to Pacific, sources say
Saquon Barkley runs for 2 TDs, Eagles beat Commanders 26-18 to stretch NFC East lead