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2024 Paris Olympic Games

The Pride House is pictured in Paris, Friday, May 17, 2024. The boat, moored between the Grand Palais and the Place de la Concorde in the city center, is meant to be a safe space for LGBTQ athletes and visitors during the Olympics and Paralympics this summer. (AP Photo/Tom Nouvian)

Pride House on Seine River barge is inaugurated by Paris Olympics organizers

Paris Olympics organizers have inaugurated the Pride House on a barge in the Seine River. The boat is moored between the Grand Palais and the Place de la Concorde in the city center, and is meant to be a safe space for LGBTQ athletes and visitors during the Olympics and Paralympics.
 
FILE - Alise Willoughby of the United States competes in the women's BMX Racing quarterfinals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 29, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The BMX racing world championships are this weekend in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and there are spots on the American team for the Paris Olympics riding on the outcome. Willoughby, a two-time world champ and former Olympic silver medalist, is among the favorites along with U.S. teammates Felicia Stancil and Payton Ridenour. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

BMX racing world championships hit South Carolina with Olympic berths on the line

 
FILE - San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) shoots in front of Memphis Grizzlies forward GG Jackson (45) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. Wembanyama has been named NBA Rookie of the Year after a record-setting season. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill, File)

Wembanyama headlines France’s preliminary roster for Paris Olympics basketball tournament

 
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles Owens is interviewed after training at the Stars Gymnastics Sports Center in Katy, Texas, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Biles begins preparations for the Paris Olympics when she returns to competition at the U.S. Classic in Hartford, Connecticut on Saturday. Biles, who cited mental health concerns while removing herself from several competitions at the Tokyo Olympics, says she is better prepared for the pressure competing presents this time around. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Simone Biles is stepping into the Olympic spotlight again. She is better prepared for the pressure

 
FILE - Netherland's Mathieu van der Poel holds his bike up at the finish line after taking first place in the Tour of Flanders in Oudenaarde, Belgium on March 31, 2024. World champion Mathieu van der Poel will focus on the Olympic road race at the Paris Games this summer after the Tour de France, skipping mountain biking. The versatile Dutch racer said on Wednesday that combining the Tour and the Olympic road race is “the most logical” choice. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Van der Poel will skip mountain bike event at Paris Olympics to focus on road race

 

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FILE - Flavor Flav arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday, April 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Maggie Steffens asked for more support for the U.S. women's water polo team, and the captain received one particularly surprising response. From a clock-wearing rap icon.(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Flavor Flav is the official hype man for the US women’s water polo team in the Paris Olympics

 
Mariia Vysochanska of Ukraine, accompanied by 27 EU athletes and paraathletes, participates in the Olympic torch relay in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Torchbearers are to carry the Olympic flame through the streets of France' s southern port city of Marseille, one day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for the welcoming ceremony. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

A Ukrainian gymnast carried the Paris Olympic torch with an EU team, in a sign of support

 
FILE - Shoma Uno of Japan shows off his gold medal after winning the men's free skating in the World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on March 25, 2023. Olympic medalist and two-time world champion Uno said Thursday, May 9, 2024, he is retiring. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japan’s Olympic medalist and world champion Shoma Uno says he’s retiring from figure skating

 
Torchbearer Didier Drogba of France holds the torch to light the cauldron at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Torchbearers are to carry the Olympic flame through the streets of France's southern port city of Marseille, one day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for the welcoming ceremony. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Torchbearers in Marseille kick off the Olympic flame’s journey across France

 

Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou becomes first torch carrier as flame arrives in Marseille

French Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou became the first Olympic torch carrier in France after the Olympic flame arrived in Marseille’s Old Port Wednesday on a majestic three-mast ship from Greece for the welcoming ceremony at sunset. (AP Video shot by Oleg Cetinic, Production by Jeffrey Schaeffer)
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Paris inaugurates giant storage basin meant to allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine

Horses show off in Versailles, keeping alive royal tradition on soon-to-be Olympic equestrian venue

Lantern carrying 2024 Olympic flame sets sail from Greece for France

Most of the US contingent advances to Saturday at the BMX racing world championships

Two-time world champion Alise Willoughby, Felicia Stancil and Jeremy Smith led a strong American contingent at the BMX world championships.
 

In boost to Olympic ambitions, Istanbul moves closer to hosting 2027 European Games.

The European Olympic Committees’ chief and Turkish officials have inked an initial agreement for Istanbul to host the 2027 European Games.
 
First torch bearer carrier in France French Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou holds the Olympic torch aboard The Belem, the three-masted sailing ship in the Old port of Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. After leaving Marseille, a vast relay route is undertaken before the torch odyssey ends on July 27 in Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to Aug.11, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Olympic torch begins journey across France after festive welcome in Marseille before Summer Games

Tens of thousands welcomed the Olympic torch in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris.
 

USA Badminton leader’s 5-year ban upheld for interfering in reporting of sex-abuse case

An arbitrator has upheld the five-year suspension of USA Badminton’s CEO for interfering in the reporting of misconduct in a long-running case about a coach accused of sexually abusing a teenager.
 
FILE - Actress Mary Mina, playing high priestess, right, lights a torch during the official ceremony of the flame lighting for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, April 16, 2024. The Olympic torch finally enters France when it reaches the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday May 8, 2024, on an armada from Greece. After leaving Marseille a vast relay route will be undertaken before the torch's odyssey ends on July 27 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

From Marseille to Mont-Blanc: What to know about the journey of the Olympic torch to Paris

The Olympic torch will finally enter France. It’s due to reach the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday and already, it has been quite a journey.
 
A cyber-security experts hold a tablet at the Yves du Manoir stadium, Friday, May 3, 2024 in Colombes, outside Paris. Cyber-security teams working to protect the Paris Games from hackers and other attackers aren't willing to divulge too much detail about their work. But they no doubt that cyber-criminals are going to keep them busy. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French cyberwarriors ready to test their defense against hackers and malware during the Olympics

Just like the Olympic athletes, the cyberwarriors that will be crucial for the success of the Paris Games are deep into training for the big event.
 

Iraq qualifies for Paris Olympics men’s soccer tournament with win over Indonesia at U23 Asian Cup

Iraq qualified for the men’s soccer tournament at the Paris Olympics with a 2-1 win over Indonesia in the third-place playoff at the Under-23 Asian Cup.
 
Iranian wrestler Iman Mahdavi, 28, a member of the Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics, poses at the Lotta Club Seggiano gym, in Pioltello, near Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the team was selected from more than 70 scholarships. Instead of competing under the Olympic flag, the refugees will have their own emblem featuring a heart at its center surrounded by arrows. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Refugee Team for Paris Olympics has 36 athletes from 11 countries across 12 sports

The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the team was selected from more than 70 scholarships.
 
Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and other officials attend the inauguration of the Austerlitz wastewater and rainwater storage basin, which is intended to make the Seine river swimmable during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The works underground next to Paris' Austerlitz train station are part of a 1.5 billion euro effort to clean up the Seine so it can host marathon swimming and triathlon events at the July 26-Aug 11 Summer Games and be opened to the general public for swimming from 2025. (Stephane de Sakutin, Pool via AP)

Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming

French officials have inaugurated a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine, which is to be the venue for marathon swimming at the Paris Games and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons.
 
FILE - Second place Britain's team celebrates after the women's team final during the European Gymnastics Championships in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. The head Great Britain’s women’s artistic gymnastics has stepped down on the eve of the European Championships in Italy and less than 100 days before the Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Britain’s women’s gymnastics coach steps down ahead of European event and Paris Olympics

The head coach of Britain’s women’s gymnastics has stepped down on the eve of the European championships and less than 100 days before the Paris Olympics.
 
FILE - Anjelina Lohalith, a native of South Sudan and member of the Refugee Olympic Team, speaks during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Anjelina Lohalith, a third runner on the Refugee Olympic Team has been suspended for a positive doping test, announced Tuesday, April 30, 2024 two days before the IOC confirms its selection of athletes for the Paris Games. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Olympic refugee athlete Lohalith suspended in the team’s 3rd doping case ahead of Paris Games

A third runner on the Refugee Olympic Team has been suspended for a positive doping test. The doping case of Anjelina Nadai Lohalith was announced two days before the IOC confirms its selection of refugee athletes for the Paris Olympics that open in July.
 
Demonstrators demanding the boycott of Israel during Olympic Games demonstrate outside the Paris Olympic organizing committee headquarters, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. About 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators took part on the protest. (AP Photo/Alexander Turnbull)

Pro-Palestinian protesters call on Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation in Paris Games

Pro-Palestinian protesters have called on Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation at the Summer Games in the French capital.
 
Police officers stand by a makeshift camp during an evacuation operation Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Paris. Similar operations are carried out by the police authorities on a daily basis in the months leading to the Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall

Paris police have evicted migrants from a makeshift tent camp next to City Hall, the latest clear-out that aid groups allege is a campaign of ’’social cleansing″ ahead of the Summer Olympics.
 

British gymnast Ondine Achampong suffers ACL tear ahead of Paris Olympics

Top British gymnast Ondine Achampong says she feels “devastated” after suffering an ACL tear that should rule her out of competing at the Paris Olympics.
 
A horsewoman trains with her horse in the main courtyard of the royal stables, in Versailles, Thursday, April 25, 2024. More than 340 years after the royal stables were built under the reign of France's Sun King, riders and horses continue to train and perform in front of the Versailles Palace. The site will soon keep on with the tradition by hosting the equestrian sports during the Paris Olympics. Commissioned by King Louis XIV, the stables have been built from 1679 to 1682 opposite to the palace's main entrance. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Horses show off in Versailles, keeping alive royal tradition at soon-to-be Olympic equestrian venue

The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports. Meanwhile, the select riders in the National Equestrian Academy who handle the palace’s famed royal stables are continuing to care for their beloved horses.
 
Gabby Douglas competes on the vault at the American Classic Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Katy, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

2012 Olympic champion Gabby Douglas competes for the first time in 8 years at the American Classic

Gabby Douglas is officially back. The 2012 Olympic gymnastics champion posted an all-around total of 50.65 at the American Classic, her first competition since the 2016 Olympics.
 
Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, holds the Olympic flame during the flame handover ceremony at Panathenaic stadium, where the first modern games were held in 1896, in Athens, Friday, April 26, 2024. On Saturday the flame will board the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship, built in 1896, to be transported to France. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Paris organizers take delivery of Olympic flame at Greek venue of first modern Games

The flame that will burn at the Paris Olympics has been formally handed over to French organizers. The ceremony on Friday was held in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896.
 
FILE - Simone Biles gets a hug from her coach, Cecile Landi, after competing in the floor exercise in the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Aug. 27, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. Landi agreed Thursday, April 25, 2024, to become the co-head coach of the women's gymnastics program at Georgia. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Georgia tabs Cecile Landi, Simone Biles’ longtime coach, as co-head coach of women’s gymnastics team

Georgia has hired Cecile Landi, the longtime personal coach of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles, to help lead the GymDogs.
 

Indonesia and Japan advance at U23 Asian Cup. South Korea out of contention for Paris Olympics

South Korea will miss the men’s soccer tournament at the Olympics for the first time since 1984 after losing a penalty shootout to Indonesia at the Under-23 Asian Cup quarterfinals.
 
A gendarmes patrol in front of the Charles de Gaulle airport, terminal 1, where the olympic rings were installed, in Roissy-en-France, north of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Massive policing for Paris Olympics to include security checks for some of the capital’s residents

Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route.
 
FILE - A Chinese flag is unfurled on the podium of a swimming event final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 29, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. An Australian newspaper said Saturday, April 20, 2024, 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive to doping because world governing bodies agreed with Chinese authorities and ruled that the tests had been contaminated.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Anti-doping watchdog asks Swiss prosecutor to review its handling of Chinese Olympic swimming case

The World Anti-Doping Agency has been heavily criticized this week for its secretive oversight of positive tests by 23 Chinese swimmers before the Tokyo Olympics.
 
The crowd watch Norway's Casper Ruud playing Spain's Rafael Nadal on the court Philippe Chatrier, known as center court, during their final match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Sunday, June 5, 2022 in Paris. The Roland Garros stadium will host the tennis competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

French Open to reveal second retractable roof court at Roland Garros ahead of Olympics

Organizers of the tennis French Open say the second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of main draw play next month.
 
This image provided by Mattel in April 2024 shows the company's Kristi Yamaguchi Barbie doll. Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual gold medal for figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. (Mattel via AP)

Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
 
A worker carries a suitcase in the "baggage factory", where athletes' luggages for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be collected, are seen in Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy-en-France, north of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris main airport unveils new baggage handling system ahead of the 2024 Olympics

Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
 
FILE - Competitors swim in the Seine River during the Paris Triathlon competition in Paris Sunday, July 10, 2011. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo saidTuesday April 23, 2024 she was confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer _ and that she'll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File )

Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer.
 
Activists help migrants to pack their belongings in a makeshift camp, early Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. French police officers have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River, as similar operations have been carried out by authorities ahead of the Olympics. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep

French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River.
 
FILE - United States' Allisha Gray (15) heads to the basket past Evgeniia Frolkina (16), of the Russian Olympic Committee, during a women's 3-on-3 gold medal basketball game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye toward being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer. She is the only player returning from the foursome that took home the gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Olympic gold medalist Allisha Gray hopes to be part of US 3x3 team in Paris Games

Allisha Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye towards being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer.
 
FILE - Italy's Arianna Errigo celebrates on the podium her silver medal after the women's Individual Foil final against Italy's Alice Volpi, at the Fencing World Championships in Milan, Italy, on July 26, 2023. Fencer Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi were named as Italy’s flagbearers Monday, April 29, 2024 for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Fencing mom Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi named Italy’s Olympic flagbearers

Fencer Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi have been named as Italy’s flagbearers for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
 
A cauldron with the Olympic flame burns in front of the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill, Friday, April 19, 2024. The flame that will burn at the summer Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Olympic torch makes Acropolis overnight stop a week before handover to Paris organizers

The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers.
 

Cycling star Evenepoel targets June return from crash ahead of Tour de France and Paris Olympics

Two-time world champion cyclist Remco Evenepoel is targeting a June return to racing after a bad crash this month.