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Olympic torchbearers in Marseille kick off the flame’s journey across the country

Torchbearers will carry the torch through the streets of Marseille, a port city in southern France, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-masted ship for a welcoming ceremony. The torch will begin an 11-week journey across the country, passing through more than 450 towns with around 10,000 torch bearers, until the Olympic opening […]

Paris mayor confident Seine’s water quality good enough for Olympic swimming

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was confident the Seine’s water quality would reach Olympic standards this summer and could prove it by perhaps swimming there with President Emmanuel Macron. The Seine is the venue for Olympic marathon swimming and Olympic and Paralympic triathlon swimming competitions. Paris struggles to prepare for security and transportation ahead […]

Jalen Brunson snubbed by Team USA for 2024 Olympic roster

Jalen Brunson was despised by his country. The point guard, perhaps the best player in the Eastern Conference this season, and arguably the best guard, was left off the 11-man Olympic roster revealed by ESPN on Monday. American guards are Tyrese Haliburton, Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday, and Stephen Curry. Of this group, Halliburton is the […]

Track and field to become first Olympic sport to award gold medalists prize money

Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics announcing on Wednesday that it will pay $50,000 to gold medalists at the Paris Games. The move marks a symbolic break with the amateur past of one of the most-watched Olympic sports. Athletics’ governing body […]

Caitlin Clark gets US Olympic camp invite amid March Madness run

Caitlin Clark’s schedule for the Final Four weekend is pretty packed. On Thursday, USA Basketball announced that Iowa basketball stars have been invited to attend Olympic training camp in Cleveland from April 3-5. That could create a bit of a problem when Clark and the top-seeded Hawkeyes play in their second consecutive Final Four on […]

Bottom Line: Olympic committee taps former Senate majority leader

sports of International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted daschle group Lobbying on a variety of issues related to international sport and the Olympics, including athletics, foreign policy, health, environment, communications and broadcasting, immigration, and human rights. The IOC has hired former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D.S., to work on the account as it prepares for […]

Three-time Olympic medalist Shane Rose in ICU after ‘nasty fall’ results in serious injuries

Three-time Olympic medalist Shane Rose was hospitalized this week after sustaining serious injuries in a “severe fall” during a school session, his team announced Friday. Rose’s team posted an update on Facebook confirming that the equestrian suffered multiple injuries in a fall the previous day and is currently in intensive care. “Yesterday, during cross-country class, […]