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• Gregg Popovich updates: Spurs coach out indefinitely after health scare

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images The Spurs coach will be away from the team indefinitely. Gregg Popovich is a living legend for the San Antonio Spurs. At 75 years old, Popovich is the oldest head coach in the NBA today, and with five championship rings, he’s one of the most accomplished coaches in league history. Popovich’s 1,391 wins ranks No. 1 all-time in the NBA. Popovich is steppin...2024
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• Erik Spoelstra, Ty Lue Favorites To Replace Steve Kerr As Team USA Coach

Steve Kerr is expected to step down as the head coach of Team USA. Kerr has coached the team through the last cycle, which included the 2023 FIBA World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics. Kerr also assisted Gregg Popovich at the 2019 FIBA World Cup and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. USA Basketball is expected to choose between Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra and LA Clippers head coach Ty Lue to take o...2024
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• How did the U.S. women’s soccer team win gold in Paris? ‘Just love’

Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images It was the intangibles of the U.S. women’s national team that won the Olympics and returned them to world No. 1 For the first time since 2012, the U.S. women’s national team won gold at the Olympic Games. To what is the team crediting most for all of their victories this tournament? Love, fun, and joy. Under new head coach Emma Hayes, the USWNT has unde...2024
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• Grading the performance of every player on the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images How did A’ja Wilson, Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart, and other WNBA stars fare at the Paris Olympics? The U.S. women’s basketball team secured yet another gold medal with a 67-66 defeat of France — and while the final game may have been too close for comfort, USA Basketball was able to cap off another dominant Olympic run with the ultimate prize. It...2024
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• Stephen Curry tortured French announcers with Olympics takeover

Stephen Curry’s nuclear Olympics takeover is even better with French commentary. Stephen Curry saved one of the greatest stretches of his historic career for the closing minutes of the gold medal game in his first and only Olympics appearance. Curry iced the win for the United States against France with four straight three-pointers, and his final dagger will survive as one of the most amazing shot...2024
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 15 Results Includes Two Uzbek Golds

Boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics officially came to a close today with four fights for gold. Fight fans in the United States were able to catch the action live on Peacock. Those in the United Kingdom and a few other regions could do so with Discovery+. CBC Gem were the broadcasters for those in Canada. Click here for the entire schedule, including past results. Also be sure to check out our recap...2024
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• Team USA had another disaster in men’s 4x100 relay in 2024 Paris Olympics

Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images There are three things guaranteed in life: Death, taxes, and the United States 4x100m relay team botching a baton exchange. After a gold medal performance from the United States women in the 4x100 meters relay on a rainy night at the Stade de France in Paris, expectations were high that the American men would exorcise their past demons and...2024
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• Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (again) annihilates 400m hurdles world record for Olympic gold

Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images The greatest 400-meter hurdler of all-time has run six world records in her last six championship races. One of the most anticipated head-to-head matchups of the track and field portion of the 2024 Paris Olympics was Team USA’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and The Netherlands’ Femke Bol in the women’s 400-meter hurdles. McLaughlin-Levrone entered as the re...2024
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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images France benched Rudy Gobert to pull off two huge upsets in the Olympics. Rudy Gobert has been the star player during the best years in the history of France men’s basketball. With Gobert as its starting center, France won a silver medal in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Eurobasket, and took home bronze in the 2019 FIBA World Cup. Even as ...2024
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• These Olympic high jumpers are forging the most heart-warming story of the Games

Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images After sharing gold in Tokyo, high jumpers Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi deliver another incredible moment in Paris One of the most memorable moments of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics came in the men’s high jump, when Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi agreed to share the gold medal, having turned in the same performance. It was a moment replayed...2024
• Armand Duplantis captures the crowd, and another world record, at the Olympics

Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Olympic pole vault winner Armand Duplantis adds to his legacy, and his bank account, one centimeter at a time As Monday’s competition at Stade de France wound down there was one final matter to be decided, and one competitor with every set of eyes upon him. Having already captured gold in the pole vault — defending his title from the Tokyo Olympics — A...2024
• USA Basketball blows out Germany, 87-68, behind Jackie Young’s monster night

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images It was a well-balanced attack for Team USA, which secured its 58th consecutive Olympic victory in the last game of pool play. Jackie Young led the way with 19 points, A’ja Wilson added 14, and Breanna Stewart finished with 13. It appeared likely that an Olympic team would finally give USA women’s basketball a close game when Germany led the U.S. by thr...2024
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• A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart dominate in USA Basketball women’s 102-76 win over Japan in the Paris Olympics

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images A’ja Wilson finished with 24 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks and Breanna Stewart with 22 points as Team USA blew out Japan in the first official game of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Powered by Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson, a historically dominant U.S. women’s basketball program blew out Japan, 102-76, to win their first pool game of the 2024 Paris Oly...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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• Djokovic on Potential Nadal Showdown and Realizing Dream
"Expectations are always high," top-seeded Novak Djokovic said of his Paris Olympic goal. By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Thursday, July 25, 2024 Photo credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty The City of Light is abuzz over potential electrifying encounter. Novak Djokovic is pumped for a Paris reunion with rival Rafael Nadal. More: Alcaraz Dismisses Djokovic to Defend Wimbledon ...2024
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• 2024 Olympics Men’s Boxing Preview: Schedule, seeding, medal picks

Bakhodir Jalolov is a big favorite to repeat his 2020 gold medal performance | Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images A deeper look at the field for all men’s boxing divisions at the Paris Olympics. The Olympics are back! And that means Olympic Boxing coverage is back! Bad Left Hook will once again have full live coverage and recaps of all 14 days and 236 fights across the men’s and women’s t...2024
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• Paris 2024 Olympics: Why the men’s 400m hurdles is poised to be historically great

Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin, and Alison dos Santos have rewritten the record books, and it may take another historically great performance to win gold in Paris. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, American 400-meter hurdler Kevin Young won the gold medal with what was a world-record time of 46.78 seconds. Young became the first man to b...2024
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• US Olympic basketball: Get to know Jackie Young, the WNBA’s Silent Assassin

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Getty Images The Ace’s Jackie Young is a second-time Olympian and one of the best two-way guards in the world. Over the following week, SB Nation will be introducing each of the 12 members of the US Olympic Women’s Basketball team. Here’s what you need to know about Jackie Young, one of the best two-way guards in the world. Fast Facts Team: Las Vegas Aces (1...2024
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• USA Athletes Eager to Participate in 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
Danny Logan is already doing the math in his head. So are Dempsey Arsenault and Tom Schreiber. Established USA athletes are wondering what it will take to represent the United States in the 2028 Olympics. “I’ll be just on the other side of 30,” said Logan, a short-stick defensive midfielder for the gold medal-winning 2023 U.S. men’s national team and part of the 2024 U.S. men’s box national team p...2023
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"16 seconds by Dalilah Muhammad) 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) - 51."

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"Gable Steveson’s insane performance at the Tokyo Olympics back in 2021 made him a household name."

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"In his first public comments since the Tokyo Olympics, NBA center Aron Baynes details the freak injury that left him unable to walk and alone inside a Japanese hospital."

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"Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was absolutely hyped after witnessing Kevin Durant and Team USA beat France to win the gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics."

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"women's softball team, which already is assured a spot in the Tokyo Olympics while the American men's baseball team struggles to qualify."

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"Russia banned from 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2022 World Cup over doping scandal"

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"Team USA sprinter Justin Gatlin: Robert Griffin III would have contended for spot at 2020 Tokyo Olympics"

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"Stephen Curry says he plans to play for Team USA in World Cup, Tokyo Olympics"

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"Simone Biles plans to compete for America in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics"

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"Baseball seeks inclusion in 2020 Tokyo Olympics"

• How did the U.S. women’s soccer team win gold in Paris? ‘Just love’
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• Grading the performance of every player on the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team
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• Team USA had another disaster in men’s 4x100 relay in 2024 Paris Olympics
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• Letsile Tebogo wins historic 200-meter Olympic gold over Covid-stricken Noah Lyles

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images It’s the first time Lyles has lost in the 200 since the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. There will be no sprint double for Noah Lyles. The Olympic 100-meter champion was unable to win his first Olympic 200-meter gold medal, finishing with a bronze medal behind fellow American Kenny Bednarek and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, whose 19.46-second gold medal perfor...2024
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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run
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• These Olympic high jumpers are forging the most heart-warming story of the Games
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• Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart dressed the part for dressage at Olympics

Photo by Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images When it was time for dressage at Versailles Snoop Dogg brought a friend, and they were dressed for the occasion Snoop Dogg has been perhaps the greatest part of the 2024 Summer Olympics. But the moment that vaulted him into Olympic lore came during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics when he and comedian Kevin Hart offered their commentary on a few diff...2024
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• Raw’s numbers take a hit with move to SyFy, but not as big as expected

WWE.com WWE is in the unenviable position of having their pre and post-SummerSlam television shows competing with the Summer Olympics. For Raw (and NXT), that also means being moved from their usual cable home at USA Network to SyFy. On Mon., July 29, it led to substantial declines in ratings and viewership... but not as bad as we might have expected. According to PWTorch, this week’s Raw ...2024
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• US women’s 3x3 basketball tips off today: here’s everything you need to know

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Hailey Van Lith, Cierra Burdick, Dearica Hamby, and Rhyne Howard make up the U.S. 3x3 roster slated to begin Olympic play today at 11:30am ET vs Germany. The women’s 3x3 Olympic basketball team — comprised of Hailey Van Lith, Cierra Burdick, Dearica Hamby, and Rhyne Howard — tips off pool play today at 11:30am ET vs Germany. Games will be...2024
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• Kevin Durant is the ultimate cheat code for Team USA at the Olympics
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• Stephen Curry tortured French announcers with Olympics takeover
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 15 Results Includes Two Uzbek Golds
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 15 Results Includes Two Uzbek Golds
Boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics officially came to a close today with four fights for gold. Fight fans in the United States were able to catch the action live on Peacock. Those in the United Kingdom and a few other regions could do so with Discovery+. CBC Gem were the broadcasters for those in Canada. Click here for the entire schedule, including past results. Also be sure to check out our recap...2024
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• Team USA had another disaster in men’s 4x100 relay in 2024 Paris Olympics
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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 12 Results See Gold for Two Nations

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway, and boxing is again at the leading international sporting event. Big Fight Weekend are covering the action as it unfolds, so be sure to return to the site each day, for the daily result recap. To watch the boxing live, fight fans in the United States can watch on Peacock. Discovery+ will have the action for those in the United Kingdom (and a few other territor...2024
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 12 Results See Gold for Two Nations

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway, and boxing is again at the leading international sporting event. Big Fight Weekend are covering the action as it unfolds, so be sure to return to the site each day, for the daily result recap. To watch the boxing live, fight fans in the United States can watch on Peacock. Discovery+ will have the action for those in the United Kingdom (and a few other territor...2024
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• Paris Olympics 2024: Quincy Hall wins 400m gold medal in epic comeback

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Team USA’s Hall went from out of the medals with less than 100 meters left to Olympic champion in another dramatic finish at the Stade de France. Another race, another incredible late rally to win a track and field gold medal for Team USA at the Paris Olympics. First it was Noah Lyles in the 100 meters, then it was Cole Hocker in the 1500 meters, an...2024
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 11 Results Including Glory for Ireland

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway, and boxing is again at the leading international sporting event. Big Fight Weekend are covering the action as it unfolds, so be sure to return to the site each day, for the daily result recap. To watch the boxing live, fight fans in the United States can watch on Peacock. Discovery+ will have the action for those in the United Kingdom (and a few other territor...2024
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• Stephen Curry tortured French announcers with Olympics takeover
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 15 Results Includes Two Uzbek Golds
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 15 Results Includes Two Uzbek Golds
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• Letsile Tebogo wins historic 200-meter Olympic gold over Covid-stricken Noah Lyles
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 12 Results See Gold for Two Nations
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 12 Results See Gold for Two Nations
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• Paris Olympics 2024: Quincy Hall wins 400m gold medal in epic comeback
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• These Olympic high jumpers are forging the most heart-warming story of the Games
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• Armand Duplantis captures the crowd, and another world record, at the Olympics
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• Noah Lyles wins Olympics gold in 100M by a margin so slim the announcers got it wrong

Watch American Noah Lyles win by five THOUSANDTHS of a second in a wild photo finish at Olympics’ men’s 100-meter dash. The men’s 100 meter dash at the 2024 Paris Olympics promised to be one of the most compelling sprints ever with legit star-power and a wide open field. The race didn’t just live up to expectations, it blew them out of the water with maybe the closest finish you will ever see. Ame...2024
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• MLB plans to sponsor U.S. Olympic softball team
Major League Baseball is using its financial muscle to support the U.S. women's softball team, which already is assured a spot in the Tokyo Olympics while the American men's baseball team struggles to qualify....2020
• Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021
The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed to 2021 by the International Olympic Committee, it was announced Tuesday....2020
• Lakers star LeBron James reacts to Kevin Durant-led Team USA winning gold at 2020 Olympics vs. France
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was absolutely hyped after witnessing Kevin Durant and Team USA beat France to win the gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Team USA had a hard time against the Frenchmen, who didn’t allow them to pull away far throughout the contest. In fact, the last 10 seconds of […] The post Lakers star LeBron James reacts to Kevin Durant-led Team USA winning ...2021
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• The mysterious fall and harrowing story of an NBA center

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• LeBron on star-studded list of US Olympic finalists
LeBron James is among 44 players announced by USA Basketball on Monday as finalists for the team that will play in the Tokyo Olympics this summer....2020
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• Tokyo Olympics: Kevin Durant passes Carmelo Anthony to become Team USA's all-time leading scorer
Durant passed Anthony for the top spot against the Czech Republic...2021
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• Leo Messi pays homage to Argentina legend Luis Scola following retirement from national team
Luis Scola finally hung them up on Tuesday after Argentina lost to Australia in the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics. It’s been a long, successful career for the 41-year-old with the national team and fellow Argentine legend Leo Messi recognized his compatriot. Take a look: View this post on Instagram A post shared […] The post Leo Messi pays homage to Argentina legend Lu...2021
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• Warriors star Stephen Curry will get another shot at Olympic glory
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has a very accomplished basketball résumé, but one thing he doesn’t have is an Olympic gold medal. Curry opted against participating in the Tokyo Olympics, where Team USA just won gold, and he wasn’t selected in 2012 and didn’t play in 2016 because of injuries. Curry will be 36 years […] The post Warriors star Stephen Curry will get ...2021
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• Rai Benjamin gets revenge on Karsten Warholm with golden run in Olympics’ 400m hurdles

Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images After three silvers and a bronze in major championships, Rai Benjamin is finally the king of the 400m hurdles. American 400-meter hurdles sensation Rai Benjamin would not be denied this time. Three years after running a preposterous 46.17 seconds, only to lose the gold to Karsten Warholm’s world record of 45.94 seconds in the Tokyo Olympics, Benjam...2024
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• Team USA had another disaster in men’s 4x100 relay in 2024 Paris Olympics
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• Sha’Carri Richardson’s face gave us a gold medal meme in Olympics’ 4x100 relay

Sha’Carri Richardson’s gold medal run in the 4x100 relay gave us another great Olympics meme. Sha’Carri Richardson is writing the ultimate redemption story in the 2024 Paris Olympics. After being booted off the United States’ track and field team for testing positive for weed ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Richardson is one of the faces of the women’s track team this time around. She put that f...2024
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• Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (again) annihilates 400m hurdles world record for Olympic gold
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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run
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• Boxing at the Olympics: Day 12 Results See Gold for Two Nations
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• Grading the performance of every player on the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team
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• USA Basketball blows out Germany, 87-68, behind Jackie Young’s monster night
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• Pan Zhanle’s new swimming world-record at Olympics makes no sense, and that’s the problem

Grace Hollars-USA TODAY Sports One swimmer, a slow pool, and the biggest world record jump in 25 years. Pan Zhanle did the unthinkable on Wednesday in the men’s 100 meter freestyle. The 19-year-old didn’t just break the most difficult world record in swimming, but he smashed it by 0.4 seconds — and beat second place by 1.08 seconds, a full body length. What has ensued from that moment is, ...2024
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• Djokovic on Potential Nadal Showdown and Realizing Dream
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• 2024 Olympics Men’s Boxing Preview: Schedule, seeding, medal picks
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• Vondrousova Withdraws from Paris Olympics
A hand injury forces the Olympic silver medalist out of Paris. By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, July 22, 2024 Photo credit: Rob Newell/CameraSport Marketa Vondrousova is out of the Paris Olympics due to a hand injury. The Olympic silver medalist announced today she has withdrawn from the Paris Olympic event, which starts on Saturday at Roland Garros. More: Alcaraz Dis...2024
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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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• Meet Team USA’s FIBA Basketball World Cup roster, featuring one of its youngest groups ever

Photo by Joe Amati/NBAE via Getty Images USA Basketball’s World Cup roster has tons of young talent, but no international experience. The United States is supposed to be the preeminent international power in men’s basketball, but the last FIBA World Cup issued a harsh reminder that rest of the globe is catching up. The Americans finished in seventh place in the 2019 FIBA World Cup, and sna...2023
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• Jared Anderson and the best heavyweights 25 and under
Richard Torrez Jr, Jared Anderson, and Daniel Dubois are among today’s top young heavyweights | Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images and Elsa/Getty Images Jared Anderson returns Saturday and has built real buzz as a future heavyweight star, and there are other young names around the world who might be there with him in a few years. Boxing’s heavyweight division, even it is most bor...2023
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• Rudy Gobert crying on the bench after France loses gold to Kevin Durant-led Team USA at the Olympics
Rudy Gobert and Team France had a heartbreaking finish to their campaign at the Tokyo Olympics, losing to Kevin Durant and Team USA in the gold medal match, 87-82. Gobert and co. gave it their all against the Americans until succumbing in the closing moments of the game. After the final buzzer, the Utah Jazz […] The post Rudy Gobert crying on the bench after France loses gold to Kevin Durant...2021
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