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Olympics and unfinished business await for hurdler Holloway while Sha'Carri and Lyles keep blazing

Jun. 29, 2024 01:18 AM EDT

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — When the track announcer asked Grant Holloway what he thought of his latest win at U.S. track trials, America's best hurdler made it clear there are bigger things to come. “If you're not training to win an Olympic gold medal," Holloway said, "then what the...

Gymnast Simone Biles moves closer to a third trip to the Olympics after solid opening performance at the U.S. trials

Jun. 28, 2024 22:07 PM EDT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gymnast Simone Biles moves closer to a third trip to the Olympics after solid opening performance at the U.S. trials.

Canadian Olympic basketball GM: Warriors blocking Wiggins from playing in Paris

Jun. 28, 2024 21:36 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Olympic basketball team general manager Rowan Barrett said Friday that Golden State is blocking Andrew Wiggins from competing in Paris, while the Warriors countered it was a mutual decision between the team and Wiggins. Wiggins was among the 20 players who...

Olympic gymnastics hopefuls DiCello and Jones scratch from U.S. trials due to injuries

Jun. 28, 2024 20:43 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Olympic gymnastics hopefuls Kayla DiCello and Shilese Jones scratched from the first night of the U.S. Olympic trials on Friday due to injury. The 20-year-old DiCello, an alternate on the 2020 Olympic team, failed to complete her vault, instead opting to flip...

While Simone Biles competes across town, Paralympic star Jessica Long rolls at swimming trials

Jun. 28, 2024 15:50 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — She’s the face of her sport, and was among the best in the world before some athletes here even began competing. Now she’s in Minneapolis, aiming to earn a trip to Paris to lead the U.S. team — again. And her name is not Simone Biles. Jessica...

After Tokyo setback and knee surgery, Nyjah Huston is growing up as he skates toward Paris Olympics

Jun. 28, 2024 14:16 PM EDT

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Nyjah Huston says he isn't going out to the clubs much in Hollywood this year. He also isn't throwing many of his infamously wild house parties, even though he recently learned to DJ while he was laid up with a torn knee ligament. Huston is rising...

Sport climbing star recovers from a broken big toe to fight for another gold at Paris Olympics

Jun. 28, 2024 13:57 PM EDT

It wasn’t going to be a toe injury that would keep one of the world’s biggest stars in sport climbing from getting to the Paris Olympics. Defending champion Janja Garnbret kept practicing on one leg after her big toe “just broke” during a climb last year, grinding and...

Olympics 2024: How to watch, when it starts, key dates in Paris

Jun. 28, 2024 13:15 PM EDT

It's almost time for the 2024 Olympics. Get ready for all the action — everything on the track, courts and fields, in the pools and all the other events — with a guide that tells you everything you need to know about the global gathering in Paris. How can I watch the Olympics? ...

USA's Casey Kaufhold, the world's No. 1-ranked women's archer, seeks gold in Paris

Jun. 28, 2024 11:57 AM EDT

It didn't take long for Brady Ellison to see that Casey Kaufhold was heading toward greatness. Ellison is a former world No. 1 men’s archer who is heading to his fifth Olympics this year. He said when he first started teaming up with Kaufhold in 2019, the 15-year-old sometimes...

Tests show Paris' Seine River still has unsafe E. coli levels with Olympics less than a month away

Jun. 28, 2024 09:23 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Unsafe levels of E. coli have been found in the Seine River for the third consecutive week, according to test results published Friday, less than a month before the Paris Olympics. The test results by monitoring group Eau de Paris reveal contamination levels...