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Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday – the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s Bastille Day military parade.

The U.S. Olympics gymnastics team has unveiled its line of leotards to be worn by the men and women in Paris for this year’s Olympic Games.

Duke basketball player Cooper Flagg is sending shock waves throughout basketball — college, professional, and the Olympics, alike.

An AI version of sports commentator Al Michaels will deliver “personalized” recaps to Peacock subscribers during the 2024 Olympics.

Jackson James Rice, an 18-year-old who was set to become the first Caucasian to represent Tonga in the Olympics, died over the weekend in a tragic diving accident mere weeks before the Summer Games.

Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions during the Paris Olympics.

Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines is calling for the NCAA to strip transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of his titles.

Nuggets Star Michael Porter Jr. gave WNBA star Caitlin Clark high praise and said she could probably hold her own against the men of the NBA.

WNBA rookie star Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever feels “no disappointment” after being snubbed for the U.S. Olympics team. 

The IOC’s “Portrayal Guidelines” has declared it “harmful” to reference transgender athletes as “biological male” or “biological female.” 

French authorities on Friday arrested an 18-year-old man from Chechnya on suspicion of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack on the Olympics.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected calls from French leader Emmanuel Macron for a truce with Russia during the Paris Olympics and criticised the West for seeking a swift end to the war.

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Huge crowds gathered Wednesday in the southern French city of Marseille, where a majestic three-mast ship carrying the Olympic torch arrived from Greece ahead of a welcoming ceremony at sunset.

US Olympians are feeling cheated after a report said Olympics officials buried the 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for banned substances

Action part of a push by local authorities to dismantle makeshift camps as the city prepares to host the Olympics from July 26 to Aug. 11.

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics could be forced to relocate in light of terror threats, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympics in a bid to avoid strikes.

A former Olympic judoka named Maricet Espinosa has died at the age of 34, according to reports.

Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29.

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will put increased restrictions on transgender athletes amid controversy over their advantages over women. 

The giant opening ceremony to launch the Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks.

Migrants living in camps along the Seine River in Paris were removed on Tuesday amid a cleanup effort for next year’s Summer Olympics.

Ex-U.S. fencing coach Mauro Hamza has been ruled permanently ineligible for membership by the U.S. Center for SafeSport following allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor.

Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has finally spoken out about her frightful bout with pneumonia after her release from the hospital.

U.S. Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is back home and recovering after a scary battle with pneumonia that threatened her life.

Cricket is an Olympic sport again. Flag football gets in for the first time.

Former Team U.S.A. Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton is making “truly remarkable” progress after “fighting for her life” against a rare form of pneumonia last week, her daughter says. 

U.S. Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” in an intensive care unit as she battles a rare form of pneumonia, according to her daughter.

The NFL’s ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost Monday when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years.

Bedbugs have plagued France for decades. They get around easily as people travel from city to city and have become resistant to insecticides.

Former Canadian Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul died in a multi-car accident in Ontario on Tuesday. She was 31.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Track, and fame, can be brutal games. Nobody felt that more over the past two years than American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.

Paris Olympics organizers canceled a swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.

Former Olympic swimmer Helen Smart, who represented Britain during the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, has died at the age of 43.

Heavy rains in Paris have led to the cancellation of a swimming event in the Seine River that was to be a test for next year’s Olympics.

An Olympic-style gaming event that allows for the use of performance-enhancing drugs will launch in 2024 with the aim of breaking records.