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Five-time Olympic medalist Tom Daley announces retirement from diving (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Daley had won five gold medals)
Five-time Olympic medalist Tom Daley announces retirement from diving
LONDON (AP) — Five-time Olympic medalist Tom Daley announced his retirement from diving on Monday. Daley told British Vogue magazine he had decided to call time on his career. The 30-year-old British diver competed at five Games, making his debut at Beijing 2008 and...
Paris Olympics set record for number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes, but some say progress isn't finished
PARIS (AP) — When Charline Van Snick flirted with another female athlete after winning the bronze medal in Judo in the 2012 London Olympic Games, she said her coach told her she needed to stay in the closet for the future of her career. “It was a moment when I didn't feel like...
China makes it 2 for 2 in Olympic diving, leaving Britain's Tom Daley with a silver
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — With Tom Daley out of the way, China is another step closer to an unprecedented sweep at the Olympic diving pool. Lian Junjie and Yang Hao breezed to victory in the synchronized 10-meter platform Monday to give the Big Red Machine its second straight gold...
Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony went off with only minor hitches after a rough start to the Summer Games. Following suspected acts of sabotage targeting France’s flagship high-speed rail network, a soggy but celebratory parade down the Seine River brought an official start...