USA’s Roderick Townsend wins T47 men’s high jump
Olympics, Sports
September 3, 2024
PARIS (AP) — With his hair colored in a design reminiscent of the eyes in a Picasso painting, Team USA athletics captain Roderick Townsend was ready to go for a three-peat at the Paralympics. “I’m a s...
USA’s first para badminton pair wins silver
Olympics, Sports
September 3, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Team USA’s first two para badminton players are leaving Paris with a couple more pieces of Paralympic history around their necks. Miles Krajewski and Jayci Simon won silver medals in the ...
Olympics, Sports
August 26, 2024
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Just four days before the start of the Paralympic Games, the athletes village was buzzing with activity on Saturday as athletes from 168 delegations were settling into their...
Romanian gymnast presented bronze medal awarded to Chiles
Olympics, Sports
August 17, 2024
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu received her Olympic bronze medal during a ceremony in the capital Bucharest on Friday that marked the conclusion of a swirl of controversy after...
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How LA is preparing for the 2028 Olympics
August 13, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s Los Angeles’ turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA’s local bu...
U.S. again beats China on medal table, tie for gold
Olympics, Sports
August 13, 2024
PARIS (AP) — The contest for most gold medals at the Paris Olympics ended in a 40-40 tie between China and the United States. But the U.S. topped the medals table with a whopping 126 overall, compared...
Chiles’ bronze medal stripped, awaiting appeal
Olympics, Sports
August 12, 2024
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Olympic officials are appealing a court ruling that resulted in American gymnast Jordan Chiles being asked to return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise. Th...
Olympics, Sports
August 12, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Asthma didn’t stop Noah Lyles from taking on the 200 meter at the Paris Olympics, even after testing positive for COVID-19. Despite fears of bronchitis and conflicting reports about his f...
Olympics, Sports
August 12, 2024
PARIS (AP) — The U.S. women’s basketball team had never been challenged during its 32-year run in the Olympics like the Americans were Sunday by France. They met the moment and made history, winning a...
Olympics, Sports
August 12, 2024
PARIS (AP) — If historic waterway settings are the new must-have accessory for Olympic host cities, then Istanbul’s mayor wants the IOC to know his city has one. If the key to getting the 2036 Summer ...
Spencer Lee falls in gold-medal match
Olympics, Sports
By By PAUL SCHOFIELD Trib Total Media 
August 10, 2024
Spencer Lee’s dream of becoming an Olympic champion fell just short Friday afternoon in the men’s freestyle 57 kg final. Japan’s Rei Higuchi, the top seed, used a takedown early in the second period t...
Stewart, U.S. women off to gold-medal game
Olympics, Sports
August 10, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Breanna Stewart and the U.S. women’s basketball team cruised to a familiar place — the Olympic gold medal game. Stewart led a balanced offense as the Americans beat Australia 85-64 on Fri...
Olympics, Sports
August 10, 2024
Richardson helps U.S. win 4x100 relay SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson made her first Olympic gold-medal moment memorable — giving the sprinters behind her the side-eye, then stomping h...
Japan’s Ami wins breaking gold
Olympics, Sports
August 10, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Japan’s b-girl Ami won gold at the Olympics ‘ first breaking event by spinning, flipping and toprocking past a field of 16 dancers Friday in a high-energy competition that may not return ...
U.S. men survive Serbia’s upset bid
Olympics, Sports
August 9, 2024
The Americans will play France for the gold medal after Steph Curry hits 9 3-pointers and ends with 36 points. PARIS (AP) — Down by 11 in the fourth quarter, against what looked like overwhelming odds...
Olympics, Sports
August 9, 2024
U.S. team gets a world record, breaks the 100-medal mark The United States now has more golds and more overall medals than any other nation. With three days left of competition, American athletes tota...
Street art adding color throughout Paris
News, Olympics, Sports
August 9, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces that have popped up on bustling metro station walls, a large billboard at the airpor...
Pa. Olympians representing home and the USA proudly
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Merci and au revoir,
August 8, 2024
While Pittsburgh sports fans normally bleed black and gold, for three weeks every four years, they bleed red, white, and blue. Get out your Terrible Towels as we count down medal-worthy moments from W...
Wilson, Young lead U.S. women
Olympics, Sports
August 8, 2024
PARIS (AP) — The U.S. made a change in its starting lineup, inserting Jackie Young for Diana Taurasi, to try to get off to a better start. It paid immediate dividends as the Americans started strong a...
Israeli athletes receiving threats in Paris over Gaza
Olympics, Sports
August 8, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Israel’s Olympic team said some athletes have received threats as they compete in Paris amid larger tensions over Palestinian deaths during the war in Gaza and the threat of a wider regio...