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News Articles: Paris Olympics 2024

American Vincent Hancock competes in the Shooting Skeet Men's Final Saturday at Chateauroux Shooting Center in Chateauroux, France.

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Team USA's Vincent Hancock makes history with his 4th Olympic gold in skeet

Only seven athletes ever have won gold in the same event in four different Olympics. On Sunday, the 35-year-old Army veteran joined the exclusive club with his win in the shotgun discipline skeet.

August 04, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Katie Ledecky has done it again, winning a second gold medal at the Paris Olympics, her ninth career gold. She is the most decorated U.S. woman Olympian in history and has carried the U.S. swim team in these Summer Games.

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Katie Ledecky wins 800m, her 9th Olympic gold, as U.S. swimmers bounce back in Paris

Katie Ledecky has come through again winning her second gold medal in Paris in the women's 800-meter freestyle. The U.S. also won gold and a new world record in a relay race, edging out China.

August 03, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Simone Biles performs her signature 'Yurchenko double pike' to win gold in the gymnastics women's vault final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Saturday at Bercy Arena.

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Simone Biles wins her 3rd gold of the 2024 Olympics with the vault named after her

The Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women's gymnastics, was named after Biles when she first landed it in international competition in 2023. Now, it has won her an Olympic gold.

August 03, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
The U.S. gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik won the bronze medal in Saturday's pommel horse final at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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Stephen Nedoroscik, the 'Pommel Horse Guy' who charmed the internet, wins bronze

Nedoroscik, the self-described dork who captured the nation's attention as he calmly awaited his turn in the Olympic men's gymnastics team final last week, won bronze in the pommel horse final on Saturday.

August 03, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Algeria's Imane Khelif (left) hits Hungary's Anna Hamori in their women's 66kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Saturday in Paris.

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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches Olympic medal after gender outcry

Imane Khelif clinched a medal in an emotional fight that followed sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender have exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports.

August 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Now it's four. Léon Marchand of France has won four individual gold medals during the Paris Summer Games, shattering an Olympic record each time.

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France's Léon Marchand claims his crown as the next big thing in Olympic swimming

Léon Marchand entered the Paris Summer Games with no gold medals. He now has claimed four gold - while shattering four Olympic records - and has emerged as a national French icon.

August 03, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
American Caeleb Dressel is the Olympic record holder in the men's 50-meter freestyle race. In Friday's finals in Paris, Dressel failed to reach the podium. He's shown here in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay final on Day 1 of the Paris Summer Games, where he won a gold medal.

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U.S. swimmers falter again on Day 7 of Olympics, winning a single silver medal

The U.S. swim team entered Paris confident after a strong showing in national trials. But the American team's stars struggled again on Friday night as swimmers from Australia and France dominated.

August 02, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Gold medalist China's Xie Yu poses with team members at the end of the shooting 10m air pistol men's final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Chateauroux Shooting Center. Chinese shooters have accounted for four of China's 13 gold medals.

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Let's talk about China's whopping Olympic gold medal count

At the halfway mark of the Paris Olympics, China is running well ahead of the U.S. and every other country in the gold medals tally. China's success stems from two sports: diving and shooting.

August 02, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz of Team Netherlands sailed to gold in the women's skiff 49erFX class medal race on Friday, in a dramatic race that included a small detour.

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Dutch sailors mistakenly stop short of the finish in gold medal race

The Dutch team had little margin for error. Heading into Friday's final, they were one point out of first place.

August 02, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Is the depth of the Paris Olympics pool preventing world records from being broken? Here, an underwater view shows (from left) South Africa's Kaylene Corbett, Ireland's Mona McSharry and South Africa's Tatjana Smith competing in a heat of the women's 200m breaststroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 31.

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Is the Paris pool slow and shallow? Experts say it’s not only about depth

Why have the Paris Olympics brought so many exciting swimming events — but not so many world records? It turns out that the pool's depth is just one possible reason.

August 02, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Nathan Harriel (#2) of Team United States battles for the ball during the Paris Olympic quarterfinal match against Morocco on Friday at Parc des Princes stadium.

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Bounced out: The U.S. men's soccer team loses Olympic quarterfinal game to Morocco

It was the first appearance at an Olympics by the U.S. men's soccer team since 2008. The quarterfinal loss to Morocco is a tough one for the U.S. as the squad exits the Paris Olympics.

August 02, 2024
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  • Russell Lewis
Kamila Valieva is banned from figure skating because of a doping scandal that rocked the Olympic world after the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. But an international sports tribunal has ruled that the rest of her Russian teammates will be honored with a bronze Olympic medal.

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Russian figure skaters awarded team bronze despite Valieva doping scandal

An international sports tribunal in Switzerland rejected an appeal by Canadian figure skaters and confirmed that the bronze medal would go to Russian athletes from the 2022 Beijing Games.

August 02, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Competitors at the U.S. canoe and kayak cross slalom trials in Montgomery, Ala. float through the coarse in April 2024.

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Action-packed and heart-thumping, Kayak Cross makes its Olympic debut in Paris

Kayak Cross, formerly known as Extreme Slalom, is mayhem. Kayakers bombard down strong currents, knocking other athletes out of the way while swerving around padded buoys hanging from above.

August 02, 2024
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  • Rolando Arrieta
The beach volleyball venue, with the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop, has turned into a hot ticket at the Paris Summer Olympics.

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How the beach volleyball venue became one of the Paris Olympics’ hottest tickets

At the Paris Olympics, the beach volleyball stadium, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, has been one of the most in-demand venues. It’s an energetic, club-like experience for the crowd, and the beach volleyball athletes who play there say it’s iconic.

August 02, 2024
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  • Juana Summers
Lee Kiefer, of Team USA, reacts as she competes with Canada's Yunjia Zhang in the women's team foil semifinal match Thursday at the Grand Palais in Paris.

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U.S. women fencers parry and riposte to Olympic gold in Paris, besting Italy

Italy's women are the top-ranked fencers in the world with the foil. But in a tense Olympic final on Thursday, the U.S. women prevailed for the gold medal.

August 01, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
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