SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Jason Day still regrets skipping the Olympics when golf returned to the program in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Day was the No. 1 player in the world at the time and cited concerns over the Zika virus. “Looking back on it, I should have just sucked it up and gone […]
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SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) — Ibrahim Adel scored a pair of goals and Egypt advanced to the men’s soccer quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics atop its group by beating Spain 2-1 on Tuesday. Spain had already reached the knockout round and was vying for a first-place finish in Group C but was instead leapfrogged by determined
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PARIS (AP) — Female in their passports, female at the Paris Olympics. The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday defended the right of two athletes to compete in women’s boxing despite being judged last year to have failed gender eligibility tests at the world championships. Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, who is a two-time world champion, and
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — South Sudan coach Royal Ivey says his life feels like a movie right now. He might be onto something: An underdog, under-funded team from a nation still dealing with the aftereffects of a civil war and bracing for its first free election stuns the basketball establishment by qualifying for the Olympics,
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Jon Rahm loves the big stage, the big crowd, the big moment. The Olympics provide one extra opportunity in a year marked by his departure to Saudi-funded LIV Golf, and the Spaniard arrived at the Paris Games with a shot of much-needed confidence. Rahm held on to win the LIV Golf
PARIS (AP) — It is not enough — it has never been enough — for Simone Biles to do gymnastics. The 27-year-old American star has been intent almost from the start on pushing the sport in new directions by doing things that have never been done before. That could continue this week when she tries
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Not so long ago at her Ontario elementary school, Summer McIntosh and her peers would practice singing the Canadian national anthem in both English and French. They would break it down into thirds. So when she stepped onto the medal stand at the Paris Olympics on Monday night after winning the
PARIS (AP) — Canyon Barry is a part-time basketball player. His full-time job is system engineer for a defense and space contractor. Barry, who will take the courts at the Paris Games searching for a 3×3 gold medal for the U.S. men’s team, has an undergraduate degree in physics and a master’s degree in nuclear
