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Defending Homestead winner Christopher Bell looks to bounce back from disappointing Las Vegas race
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — It didn't take long for Christopher Bell to move on from what he called a disappointing race last Sunday. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver lost to Joey Logano in Las Vegas last weekend despite dominating the race. Bell led a race-high 156 laps but was beaten by...
Venezuelan mother pushes her way to Paralympics record in powerlifting
PARIS (AP) — Venezuela’s powerlifting champion didn’t know when her hands would stop trembling after setting a Games record at the Paris Paralympics on Thursday. “I’m out of words, I’m emotional,” Clara Sarahy Fuentes Monasterio said after bench-pressing 124 kilograms...
Bulgaria weightlifter wins gold 15 months after a hotel sink fell and severed his Achilles tendon
PARIS (AP) — Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria won weightlifting gold at the Olympics and broke two world records on Friday, just over a year after a hotel sink fell on him and severed his left Achilles tendon. Nasar was showering the night before an awards ceremony in May 2023 when he...
Hampton Morris is 1st US men's weightlifter to medal at the Olympics since '84. Li Fabin wins gold
PARIS (AP) — Hampton Morris does not have a driver's license. He does have an Olympic bronze medal. The 20-year-old who trains in his garage at home in Marietta, Georgia, on Wednesday became the first U.S. men's weightlifter to take home a medal of any color at the Games in four...
