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Flavor Flav wants to make a bronze clock necklace for Jordan Chiles, whose heart is a bit broken
The Olympics have had their share of heartbreak for Jordan Chiles, the U.S. gymnast who was stripped of her bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee. Chiles posted four broken heart emojis on her Instagram over the weekend after a finding by the Court of Arbitration of Sport that her original fifth-place score in the women’s floor ...Read more
Iconic venues will be Paris' Olympic legacy -- and one Los Angeles will find difficult to surpass in 2028
PARIS — As Paris prepares to say au revoir to the 2024 Summer Games, it leaves a legacy of some of the most iconic venues in modern Olympic history.
From fencing in the Grand Palais to cycling along the Champs-Elysees, it incorporated the city’s grandeur as well as any host city ever has and created a standard that the 2028 Games in Los ...Read more
Mark Zeigler: A look at the winners and losers as curtain closes on memorable Olympic Games
PARIS — First, a big thank you to the French for going on vacation and leaving Paris to us, like an Airbnb without a security deposit.
Parisians considered the specter of packed Metros, terrorism, crowds, random acts of Ugly Americanism, and headed for the Cote d’Azur or the Alps. The result was an eerie scene out of a dystopian novel: one ...Read more
Mike Sielski: Ranking our top 10 moments and stories from the US in the Paris Olympics
PARIS — These were the Olympics of Katie Ledecky and Leon Marchand, of Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade, of Noah Lyles’ microscopic victory in the 100-meter dash and Stephen Nedoroscik’s telescopic lenses in his glasses. And these were the Olympics of a provocative opening ceremony, of chromosomal controversies in women’s boxing, and of ...Read more
Australian breakdancer RayGun responds to critics of viral performance
RayGun has broken her silence.
Not long after her breakdancing performances during the 2024 Paris Olympics were widely mocked across social media, the Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn also known as “RayGun,” responded to the criticism.
During a news conference with ESPN on Saturday, Gunn said she wanted to bring a unique style of dance ...Read more
Review: In the Olympics closing ceremony, Paris' inspired story sputters with a Hollywood ending
And so the two weeks when I become interested in athletics every four years have drawn to a close, with a ceremony to mark the occasion. There were many ceremonies along the way, of course, and the Olympic Games are themselves a sort of ceremony writ large, a ritual against which the athletes of Earth measure their worth — though obviously ...Read more
Bill Plaschke: Bring it on! Los Angeles begins countdown to 2028 Olympics
Finally, dramatically, it has ended, the 2024 Paris Olympics finishing its last lap Sunday with incomparable enthusiasm, unbridled joy, and one last look at the gloriously intimidating tour Eiffel.
All of which means one thing.
We've got next.
Gulp.
How on earth can the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics surpass what the world just witnessed in a ...Read more
Sifan Hassan wins Olympic marathon, makes statements on and off the road
SAINT-DENIS, France – It was a fashion statement that was true Sifan Hassan, fearless, defiant.
At end of a day in which she confirmed her status of the greatest female distance runner ever by winning the Olympic Games marathon, Hassan, the quiet, soft-spoken Dutch runner, sent a message around the world without saying a word.
Hassan stepped...Read more
Paris hands off Olympic Games to Los Angeles
SAINT-DENIS, France – In the parlance of the next Summer Olympics host city, Los Angeles’ portion of the Paris Games’ closing ceremony Sunday night was a coming attraction, a global trailer for what International Olympic Committee and local officials hope is the blockbuster hit of the summer of 2028.
“Our chance to give a glimpse to the...Read more
LA28 touts 'authentically Los Angeles' Olympics as it takes handoff from Paris
PARIS — No other city in the world can do what Paris has done over the last three weeks, staging the drama of Olympic competition against the mise-en-scene of a glowing Eiffel Tower and the lush gardens of Versailles.
The 2024 Summer Games, with their classical trappings and sheer visual beauty, raised an important question.
How can Los ...Read more
Wrestler Kennedy Blades brings home a silver medal in her Olympic debut: 'A huge accomplishment'
PARIS — Chicago’s Kennedy Blades won a silver medal Sunday to finish a remarkable Olympic debut and usher in a new era of U.S. wrestling.
Blades, 20, lost to reigning world champion Yuka Kagami of Japan in the 76-kilogram final. The 3-1 defeat marked Blades’ lowest-scoring effort over four matches at the Champ-de-Mars Arena.
“Honestly,...Read more
Jennifer Valente wins back-to-back golds in track cycling's Omnium
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINE, France – The profile photo on Tom Valente’s Facebook page is from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a jubilant shot from the cycling velodrome of their family surrounding daughter Jennifer with her silver medal.
“We’re like, it would be nice to recreate that someday,” Tom said.
They had to wait eight ...Read more
US fights to keep Jordan Chiles' medal, submitting video evidence to support appeal
PARIS — USA Gymnastics is not letting Jordan Chiles give up her bronze medal without a fight.
Hours after the International Olympic Committee ruled that the U.S. gymnast should return her medal because of a score change, USA Gymnastics will now submit a new appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport arguing that everything was done ...Read more
US women's basketball edges upset-minded France for 8th straight Olympic gold
PARIS — It's not easy making history.
The United States survived a scare from France to win an unprecedented eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal Sunday with a 67-66 victory at Bercy Arena. The Americans trailed by 10 in the third quarter, never led by more than eight and won by inches as French star Gabby Williams momentarily thought she ...Read more
Women experienced the best of the Olympics -- and the worst -- in Paris
PARIS — After punching her way to a gold medal, winning bout after bout, the Algerian boxer felt like she had to keep fighting.
Throughout the 2024 Summer Olympics, Imane Khelif faced withering attacks on social media because she did not look stereotypically feminine. Internet trolls accused her of being transgender or a man in disguise.
"I ...Read more
Kevin Baxter: Final finisher of women's marathon shows what it means to be an Olympian
PARIS — The original Olympic motto translates from Latin as "swifter, higher, stronger." And those who live up to it are the ones who win gold medals and climb to the top step of the podium.
But what about those who go slower, lower and are weaker? Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, had them covered too.
"The most important...Read more
Mike Sielski: Kahleah Copper met the moment for Team USA in its thrilling victory over France
PARIS — There was this flicker of an instant within a moment Sunday, Kahleah Copper standing at the free-throw line, 3.8 seconds remaining in the gold-medal game of the Olympic women’s basketball tournament, the United States — the mighty United States, winner of seven straight golds and 60 straight Olympic games heading into tipoff at ...Read more
IOC says Jordan Chiles must return her Olympic bronze medal; U.S. will appeal
At the Olympics, there are take-backs.
Jordan Chiles must return the bronze medal she was awarded on floor exercise, the International Olympic Committee announced Sunday, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided the inquiry that boosted the U.S. gymnast from fifth place to third.
U.S. Olympic officials said they will appeal the CAS ...Read more
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass touts a 'car-free' Olympics, but plans still call for some cars
PARIS — Rush hour all but disappeared. There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets.
Long-time residents of Southern California remember that, in terms of driving, the 1984 Summer Olympics felt something like heaven. Businesses switched to staggered schedules. Lots of people left town for a few weeks. ...Read more
Why the man who fought to make Olympic artistic swimming co-ed was shut out of competition
PARIS — The hotel where they put Bill May is nice, expensive, across from the Jardin des Tuileries. He sits in a tastefully furnished lounge off the lobby, smiling, telling stories, bursting into jolts of laughter.
"It's been a dream coming to the Olympics," he says. "I'm just cheering, screaming, making a fool of myself."
Which doesn't ...Read more
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