Paris Olympics 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines celebrated members of Team USA on Wednesday at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport before the athletes flew to Paris for the Summer Olympic Games. The airline had T-shirts and water bottles at the gate where archers, fencers, basketball players and other athletes were scheduled to …

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Logan Edra knows her journey to securing a spot as one of the breakers on the U.S. team heading to the Olympics took longer than some expected. The 21-year-old Filipina American didn’t officially qualify for the Paris Games until last month. It was the last …

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer There is one goal, and it’s always the same goal for USA Basketball. The only acceptable result from these Paris Olympics is another gold medal. And the most recent gold was one of the toughest to get. At the Tokyo Games three years ago, …

By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a symbolic dip in the Seine on Saturday in a bid to ease concerns about water quality before the start of the Paris Olympics. Oudéa-Castéra, dressed in a body suit, dove into the famous river after …

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Olympic athletes have lost faith in the World Anti-Doping Agency to rid their sports of cheaters ahead of next month’s Summer Games in Paris, two former gold medalists told a House subcommittee on Tuesday night. Travis Tygart, Chief Executive Officer of …

By EDDIE PELLS AP National WriterEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The bright red running suit, the white pearls and the gold medal said it all.Noah Lyles is the flashiest, and the fastest, sprinter in the United States — maybe even the world.We’ll all get to find out later this summer in …

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports WriterAfter seven years in the NBA, Chase Budinger still had some goals left on his dream board.The former Rockets and Timberwolves forward has wanted to compete in the Olympics ever since he was a child, when his family would pore over the TV schedule to …

By EDDIE PELLS AP National WriterEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Two steps before she reached the finish line, Sha’Carri Richardson started pounding her chest.She knew she had it won. Anyone who doesn’t see her as the sprinter to beat later this summer at the Paris Olympics should probably think again. Sha’Carri …

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports WriterEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Two-time defending Olympic shot put champion Ryan Crouser took one attempt and packed up for the night.No sense pushing his sore elbow. Or a healing torn pectoral muscle.Crouser took a business-like approach to qualifying on Friday at the U.S. Olympic track …

By EDDIE PELLS AP National WriterEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Her burst out of the starting block was more like a wobble. Sha’Carri Richardson also raced with one of her shoelaces untied.None of it mattered much on the opening night of U.S. Olympic track trials. Even in a race that was …