PARIS — A’ja Wilson is the best player on the planet and it’s not even close. The U.S. women’s basketball team has its eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal because of it. After decades of cakewalking…
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PARIS — Brittney Griner’s eyes began to fill as she heard the first notes of the Star-Spangled Banner. As she watched the U.S. flag rise, she cried unabashedly. It wasn’t long ago she was in…
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A surprise signing, the Jacksonville Jaguars are welcoming back safety Tashaun Gipson Sr., who played for the team from 2016-18 before being released for cap-saving purposes in March 2019. The team Jaguars/status/1822725070772646344′ target=’_blank’ rel=’noreferrer noopener’>announced…
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PARIS – There was just one more turn to go, around the side of Les Invalides, the French national military museum whose lawn is lined by cannons. Sifan Hassan, arguably the greatest distance runner in…
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PARIS — When Diana Taurasi was announced as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, her intentions were clear: She wanted to win one more gold medal than her…
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Among the highlights of countries competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics is seeing how many medals each nation can rack up, showing off its dominance to the rest of the world. During the 2021 pandemic-delayed…
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PARIS — Way back on July 27, Diana Taurasi told a group of reporters she thought France could push the U.S. women’s basketball team as the Americans sought an unprecedented eighth straight Olympic gold medal.…
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PARIS — In stripping Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee is not following the precedent it set for itself in the most publicized double-medal controversy in Olympic history. At the 2002…
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PARIS — Kennedy Blades felt the initially undesired Olympic medal in her hands, looked at it, tossed it slowly to gauge the weight. The she looked at it some more. Silver was growing on her…
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As the final buzzer sounded and the gold medal in women’s basketball came down to one foot, less than a foot inside the 3-point line, there were tears on both sides of the court. The…