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• Vikings player channels Olympic meme for NFL’s best celebration of Week 10

This celebration is true artistry. The Minnesota Vikings are winning at a level no one could have seen coming at the start of the season. The Vikings improved to 7-2 on the young season by sneaking by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. Minnesota’s 12-7 victory in Week 10 wasn’t pretty, but it kept them sitting pretty in the NFC playoff picture while also providing us with one of the best celebra...2024
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• Djokovic Vows to Hit the Ground Running in 2025
The Grand Slam king says he is motivated to chase down more glory next season, after he's full recharged. By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday November 8, 2024 Novak Djokovic is already setting his sights on chasing a record 25th major title in 2025. The Grand Slam king, who was seen taking in a Champion’s League football match between Crvena Zvezda and FC Barcelona earlier this wee...2024
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• Despite no title other than Olympic gold this year, Patrick Mouratoglou makes bold prediction about Novak Djokovic’s 25th Grand Slam title
Novak Djokovic‘s 2024 season fell short of expectations despite capturing the long-awaited Olympic gold at the Paris Games. Following a dominant 2023 with three Grand Slam titles, Djokovic failed to claim any tour-level trophies beyond his Olympic victory....2024
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• Rafael Nadal announces his retirement from professional tennis

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images The ‘King of Clay’ is calling it a career The “King of Clay” is calling it a career. In an announcement video posted to social media, Rafael Nadal announced that following the Davis Cup he would be stepping away from tennis. The 38-year-old will represent Spain at the Davis Cup Finals next month in Malaga. “I am here to let you know I am retiring from professional te...2024
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• Alcaraz and Bautista Agut secure spot for Spain in Davis Cup final round

After winning their singles matches against France in Valencia on Friday, Carlos Alcaraz and Roberto Bautista Agut guaranteed Spain a spot in the Davis Cup final round. With back-to-back major victories at the French Open and Wimbledon, as well as an Olympic silver medal at the Paris Games, Alcaraz has had another incredible season. In […]...2024
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• Raygun goes from Olympics meme to No. 1 ranked breakdancer in the world

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Raygun has kangaroo-hopped her way to No. 1. Australian b-girl Rachel Gunn, better known as “Raygun,” went viral during the 2024 Paris Olympics for her unique dance moves, while simultaneously mystifying the entire world as to how she made it all the way to the games. Now there’s a new twist to her story. On Thursday the governing body of international brea...2024
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• Rafael Nadal announces his retirement from professional tennis
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• Marketa Vondrousova has new boyfriend after divorce, tennis player Andrew Paulson

Reigning Olympic silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova is not participating in the Paris Games due to a hand injury, however, the Czech tennis star is finding joy in her personal life, having recently found romance with Andrew Paulson, a 22-year-old tennis player from Prague. The year 2024 has been challenging for Vondrousova. The 25-year-old endured the […]...2024
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• Team USA women’s gymnastics is more than just Simone Biles’ team

Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images Team USA women’s gymnastics is one of the best shows in the world. Don’t call it a comeback, they’ve been here for years. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is in the middle of a revenge tour in Paris the likes of which we haven’t seen before at the Olympic games. The band is back together, three years removed from a crushing campaign in Tokyo th...2024
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• Kevin Durant is the ultimate cheat code for Team USA at the Olympics

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images USA Basketball doesn’t need Kevin Durant to be the man, and that’s why he’s unstoppable A slow start in the 2024 Paris Olympics could have been excused — or even expected — from Kevin Durant. Durant had missed a month of practice with Team USA with a calf injury, and didn’t play a second in the team’s unblemished tune-up slate. With the Am...2024
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• Alcaraz, Nadal Together in Paris
The king of clay and reigning Roland Garros and Wimbledon winner ready to partner in Olympic dream team. By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Tuesday, July 23, 2024 Photo credit: Mutua Madrid Open Facebook The Olympic dream team is taking shape. Former world No. 1 Rafael Nadal and reigning Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz met up at practice on the red clay of Roland ...2024
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• De Minaur eager to finally fulfill Olympic dream

Australia's Alex De Minaur said he is ready to fulfill his Olympic dream after shaking off a hip injury that cut short his Wimbledon campaign and threatened his participation at the Paris Games....2024
• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Let’s rank the best men’s basketball players competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The most talented men’s basketball tournament in the history of the Summer Olympics is going down at the 2024 Paris Games. The best athletes in the sport are on display representing their home countries, and all of them want the glory that comes with leading their team to a...2024
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• 11 Olympic athletes who will become household names at 2024 Paris games

Photo by Christian Liewig - Corbis/Getty Images These Olympic athletes aren’t household names yet — but they will be after the 2024 Paris games. The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics are almost here. Over the next few weeks athletes from all over the planet will compete for Olympic glory, and in the process the world will get to know some of the greatest athletes in the world. Many will become ho...2024
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• 4 Team USA men’s basketball takeaways after debut ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Here’s what we learned about USA Basketball’s men’s team for the 2024 Paris Olympics in their first exhibition game. The United States has dominated men’s basketball at the Olympics since it began using pros starting with The Dream Team in the 1992 Barcelona games. For the first time, it feels like the program’s supremacy is being challenged. After an emb...2024
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"Stephen Curry waited his entire career to make his Olympics debut, but the start of his run in the 2024 Paris Games was decidedly underwhelming."

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"The Lakers star has contacted a number of NBA superstars in hopes of assembling a powerhouse roster for the Paris Games."

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"He vows to sprint for Team USA in the 2024 Paris Games."

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"The sport, absent from the Olympics since 2008, will not be played in the 2024 Paris Games, but is expected to return in Los Angeles in 2028."

• Raw had one of its lowest ratings of the year opposite the DNC

WWE.com Raw was riding high coming out of SummerSlam. The Olympics were done, and they had almost a month until football season started. On Aug. 12, WWE’s Monday night show had its best numbers since the Raw After WrestleMania. It was a different story a week later. According to Wrestlenomics, the Aug. 19 Raw averaged an hourly audience of 1,641,000 and .50 rating among 18-49 year olds. Bo...2024
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• Collision cracked 400K viewers without Olympics competition

Ricky Havlik for All Elite Wrestling For the first time in nearly a month, AEW Collision didn’t face competition from the Summer Olympics this past Saturday night. So it’s not a shock that the Aug. 17 episode did the series’ best numbers since July 20. According to Wrestlenomics, the latest Collision had an audience of 406,000 and had a .13 rating with 18-49 year olds. Both are up for the ...2024
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• Hawks, Clippers Interested In Aleksa Avramovic
Aleksa Avramovic, one of the stars of the Serbian Olympic team, has received interest from the Hawks and Clippers, according to BasketNews, relaying a report from Ozon Press, a Serbian newspaper. Avramovic, who was named Best Defensive Player in the Paris Games, has an out clause in his contract with CSKA Moscow that permits him […]...2024
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• Raw has new ‘best since the episode after WrestleMania’ ratings

WWE.com After a couple weeks on SyFy due to the Olympics, Raw returned to its usual home on USA Network this week. That (and not having to compete with the Paris Games, natch) boosted WWE’s Monday night show to its best performance since April 8’s post-WrestleMania episode — the third time in the last couple months they’ve reset that mark. Per PWTorch, this week’s Raw averaged an hourly au...2024
• Collision’s numbers rebound, but still aren’t great

Ricky Havlik for All Elite Wrestling Airing opposite the Summer Olympics and moved to a late afternoon time slot to avoid going head-to-head with WWE SummerSlam, AEW Collision did its worst numbers ever on Aug. 3. A week later, they only had one of those challenges. How did it do? According to Wrestlenomics, the Aug. 10 Collision — which aired live in its usual 8 p.m. Eastern spot on TNT —...2024
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• Roman Reigns return moved the needle for SmackDown

WWE.com SmackDown again went head-to-head with the 2024 Summer Olympic Games one last time on Aug. 9, and this time WWE brought the Original Tribal Chief. According to Wrestlenomics, the latest SmackDown (which was also the SummerSlam fallout episode) had an audience of 2,269,000 and did a .64 rating among 18-49 year olds. Both numbers are up from the previous Friday. The demo was up 6%, a...2024
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• SummerSlam go home boosts SmackDown’s numbers, even against Olympics

WWE.com SmackDown was head-to-head with the Summer Olympics again on Aug. 2. But unlike the previous Friday, the latest offering from WWE’s blue brand was live — and the final push to the next night’s SummerSlam premium live event. It made a difference. According to Wrestlenomics, the Aug. 2 SmackDown had an audience of 2,179,000 and did a .60 rating among 18-49 year olds. That’s a nearly ...2024
• What happens to the Olympic medal count if we rank per capita?

The greatest Olympic nation, mathematically. There’s been a lot of talk about which is the most accurate way to count Olympic medals. The IOC has always used gold medals to determine rankings, with everything else being secondary. Meanwhile there’s an alternate school of thought that all medals are worthy of being counted, so it’s about the total a country earns that’s important. We count medals t...2024
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• Kevin Durant is the ultimate cheat code for Team USA at the Olympics
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• Raygun goes from Olympics meme to No. 1 ranked breakdancer in the world
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• Raw had one of its lowest ratings of the year opposite the DNC
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• Collision cracked 400K viewers without Olympics competition
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• Raw has new ‘best since the episode after WrestleMania’ ratings
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• Collision’s numbers rebound, but still aren’t great
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• Roman Reigns return moved the needle for SmackDown
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• Lydia Ko secures LPGA HOF ticket after her spectacular gold medal victory at 2024 Olympics

Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images Ko won gold at the 2024 Olympics, becoming a three-time medalist. The win also punched her ticket to the LPGA Hall of Fame. Lydia Ko could not hold back her tears of joy as she sank her birdie putt on the 18th hole on Saturday at Le Golf National in Paris, France. That birdie secured her the Gold Medal in women’s golf at the 2024 Olympics. Ko n...2024
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• Stephen Curry and LeBron James saved USA Basketball from humiliating Olympics loss

Photo by Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images USA Basketball was on the brink of defeat until Stephen Curry and LeBron James saved them. Stephen Curry waited his entire career to make his Olympics debut, but the start of his run in the 2024 Paris Games was decidedly underwhelming. In the United States’ first four games in the Olympics, Curry averaged only 7.3 points per game ...2024
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• SummerSlam go home boosts SmackDown’s numbers, even against Olympics
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• What happens to the Olympic medal count if we rank per capita?
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• "I Still Feel the Drive" - Djokovic Not Satisfied, Eyeing More History In New York
The 24-time major champion says he's hungry to keep racking up milestones. By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday August 25, 2024 Not since Roger Federer won his fifth and final US Open title in 2008 has a player successfully defended the men’s singles title at the US Open. Four-time champion Novak Djokovic is hoping to change all that. Ahead of his first round matchup with Moldov...2024
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• Raw has new ‘best since the episode after WrestleMania’ ratings
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• Zheng after winning the gold: “Nothing describes my emotions”

At the 2024 Paris Games, Zheng Qinwen defeated Donna Vekic of Croatia on Saturday to become the first Chinese tennis player to win the gold medal in the singles competition. She celebrated her victory, calling it a proud moment for both herself and her nation. With her 6-2, 6-3 victory, the 21-year-old became China’s second-ever […]...2024
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• Carmelo Anthony says his Olympics were ‘easy’ compared to 2024 Paris games

Olympic basketball has gotten so much better, according to Melo. The entire world is enraptured by the Olympic Games in Paris, and so are Evan Turner and Andre Iguodala of The Point Forward Podcast. This week the hosts dived into discussing what it’s like playing basketball for Team USA, and nobody is more knowledgeable on the topic than four-time medalist Carmelo Anthony. Among the long list of a...2024
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• Marketa Vondrousova has new boyfriend after divorce, tennis player Andrew Paulson
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• Team USA women’s gymnastics is more than just Simone Biles’ team
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• Rudy Gobert was brutally posterized with dunk in 2024 Paris Olympics

Rudy Gobert was dunked on so hard by Brazil in the Olympics. Expectations are always high for France in men’s basketball at the Olympics, and that’s particularly the case this year with the country hosting the 2024 Paris Games. Victor Wembanyama’s Olympic debut is the major storyline for the French, but this team is so talented even beyond the 20-year-old wunderkind. France took silver in men’s ba...2024
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• Shane Lowry receives ultimate Olympic honor for 2024 opening ceremonies in Paris

Photo By Sam Barnes/Sportsfile via Getty Images Shane Lowry is a proud Irishman, and now he gets to carry the flag for the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics. The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics is Friday night, and the PGA Tour’s own Shane Lowry will be one of the two athletes carrying the Irish flag for the proceedings. Joining him is Sarah Lavin, a 100-meter hurd...2024
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• Every USA Olympics flag bearer since 1908, now starring LeBron James

Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images LeBron is the first men’s basketball player to carry the flag for USA. LeBron James is set to make history at the Paris Olympics by being the first U.S. men’s basketball player to be a flag bearer at the games. This marks the third time in history a basketball player has been a flag bearer at the games, with Sue Bird carrying the flag during the opening ...2024
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• LeBron James Recruiting New Team USA ‘Redeem Team’ for 2024 Olympics, per Report

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• LeBron James ready to commit to 2024 Olympic team, recruiting fellow stars: Sources
MANILA, Philippines — In a happier time for USA Basketball, when gold medals were being draped around the necks of the mix of victorious American All-Stars and role players at the Tokyo Olympics, speculation was already rampant that the Paris Games would attract this country’s best. Less than a year out from the 2024 Olympics, and with the USA coming off a disappointing fourth place at the FIBA Wo...2023
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• Argentinian Basketball Legend Calls Out Eric Gordon After Bahamas Win
The Bahamas men’s national basketball team have the chance to make history after qualifying for the Olympic tournament for the 2024 Paris games but not everyone is happy about their success. NBA players Buddy Hield, Deandre Ayton and Eric Gordon led the way for the side, who had two victories against Argentina – meaning Argentina […] The post Argentinian Basketball Legend Calls O...2023
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• Stephen Curry and LeBron James saved USA Basketball from humiliating Olympics loss
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• Sources: LeBron, AD, Curry eyeing Paris Games

NBA stars LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Stephen Curry are showing interest in participating for Team USA in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, sources said....2023
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• MLB has cancelled the 2025 Paris Series

Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images There will be one fewer international baseball series going forward. This announcement went a bit under the radar, but a planned MLB series in Paris, France in 2025 isn’t going to happen: Major League Baseball has canceled plans to play regular-season games in Paris in 2025 after failing to find a promoter, two people familiar with the decision ...2023
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• What happens to the Olympic medal count if we rank per capita?
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• Nadal Pumped to Partner Alcaraz in Olympics
The king of clay is excited to form the ultimate Olympic Dream Team with Carlos Alcaraz. By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Sunday, April 28, 2024 Rafael Nadal's right hand was working overtime in Madrid. About an hour after Nadal knocked off Alex de Minaur 7-6(6), 6-3 on Saturday, he was a man in motion still giving back. Rafa Nadal: Not Fully Fit F...2024
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• Vikings player channels Olympic meme for NFL’s best celebration of Week 10
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• Rafael Nadal announces his retirement from professional tennis
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• "I Still Feel the Drive" - Djokovic Not Satisfied, Eyeing More History In New York
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• Patrick Mahomes has beef with flag football star after outrageous claim

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images That is right friends, we have some flag football beef featuring Patrick Mahomes As the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics wound down, many sports fans began thinking of the 2028 Summer Olympics, coming to Los Angeles. Those Games will feature some new sports, including flag football. The NFL leaned into that fact as the Paris Games wound down, unveiling an adver...2024
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• Collision cracked 400K viewers without Olympics competition
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• French basketball star eyeing NBA comeback after strong Olympics

One French Olympian is hoping to use his standout performance at the Paris Games as a springboard back into the NBA....2024
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• Olympics men’s basketball bracket, schedule, and results for knockout rounds at 2024 Paris

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Heres’s everything you need to know about knockout rounds in men’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The most talented men’s basketball tournament in the history of the Olympics has reached the knockout rounds. The tournament began with 12 teams, and is now down to eight teams after group play finalized the bracket. South Sudan, Japan...2024
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• “Shooting heads:” Finnish Olympic golfer gives blunt reply about military role

Sami Valimaki of Finland during a practice round ahead of The 152nd Open. | Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Olympic golfer Sami Valimaki did not hold back when discussing his mandatory service for the Finnish military. Sami Valimaki is representing his native Finland at the Olympics this week, but he served his country in a much greater capacity before the Paris games. Before turning pr...2024
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• The World Games are a proving ground for new Olympic sports

The World Games gives so many athletes a shot to make their Olympic dreams come true. Everyone’s familiar with the Olympics. But do you know how new Olympic sports, like breakdancing, make their way onto the big stage? They get their start at The World Games. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO did a segment on their July 21 show on The World Games, and I was instantly obsessed. Let me bring...2024
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• Patrick Mahomes has beef with flag football star after outrageous claim
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• Canada loses women's soccer drone spying appeal

Canada's appeal against their soccer team's points deduction at the Paris Games amid a drone scandal was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS said Wednesday....2024
• Canada great Sinclair: Never saw drone footage

Canada soccer great Christine Sinclair said on Friday national team players were never shown drone footage during the more than two decades she was on the team, following a spying scandal that cast a shadow over the Canadians at the Paris Games....2024
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• LeBron James ready to commit to 2024 Olympic team, recruiting fellow stars: Sources
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