At 42 years old, University of Connecticut legend Diana Taurasi knows the end of her basketball career is a lot closer than the beginning. She is averaging just 11 minutes per game for Team USA at the Paris Olympics, and the team’s 88-74 quarterfinal win over Nigeria was her first time coming off the bench for an Olympic game since 2004.

But ...Read more

PARIS — One three-pointer, then another, then another, then maybe the most ridiculous shot in the history of Olympic basketball … off the dribble, fading away, shot clock running down, two defenders all over him, 26 feet out … Steph Curry was leaving everyone in Bercy Arena agape and in awe, including his own teammates, including the one ...Read more

In what likely was their final game as Olympians, Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant willed Team USA to its fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal.

The trio of future Basketball Hall of Famers and the U.S. held off a spirited upset bid by host France to win 98-87 at Bercy Arena.

Curry, the hero of Thursday’s semifinal comeback ...Read more

A former University of Kentucky track and field star prevailed in the women’s 100-meter hurdles for the second straight Olympics.

In Paris on Saturday, American Masai Russell won in 12.33 seconds in a tight finish ahead of France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela (12.34) and defending champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico (12.36).

It was the...Read more

Team USA’s basketball reign continues — but Victor Wembanyama’s time is now.

The Americans claimed their fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball with a 98-87 victory over France on Saturday in an entertaining game tight until the very end, when Stephen Curry hit four threes in the game’s final 2:48 to turn a three-...Read more

PARIS — Chicago native Shamier Little has ended these Summer Games just like she started them: with an Olympic medal and a record-setting run.

Little won gold Saturday with the U.S. women’s 4×400 relay team, which crossed the finish line in 3 minutes, 15.27 seconds to break a North American record. The Americans’ time was just 0.1 ...Read more

PARIS — Chicago native Kennedy Blades will wrestle for a gold medal Sunday after a stellar Olympic debut that included one of the tournament’s best throws by any competitor — regardless of gender or weight class.

Blades, 20, went 3-0 Saturday to reach the 76-kilogram final, notching wins against three higher-seeded opponents. She will ...Read more

PARIS — It’s gotta be the shoes.

With these metallic gold sneakers on, of course LeBron James wasn’t leaving Bercy Arena with anything less than an Olympic crown.

The Los Angeles Lakers superstar won his third Olympic gold medal on Saturday, leading the United States to a 98-87 win over host nation France. The United States has won five...Read more

PARIS — U.S. Soccer has been searching for a nickname for the dynamic trio of young forwards leading its women's national team. Saturday it found one.

Olympic champions.

Mallory Swanson, one of that terrific trio, scored the game's only goal 13 minutes into the second half to lift the U.S. over Brazil 1-0 in the gold-medal final of the Paris...Read more

PARIS — Jordan Chiles cried in her coach's arms, stood on an Olympic podium with a bronze medal around her neck and is memorialized in one of the viral moments of these 2024 Summer Games when she joined Simone Biles bowing to gold medalist Rebeca Andrade.

A court ruled Saturday that none of it should have happened.

After a judging inquiry ...Read more

PARIS — Brooke Raboutou’s foot slipped on a blue hold and she fell off the climbing wall near the top. After the safety rope guided her back to earth, she started crying.

Not because she failed, but because she hadn’t.

The unique part of Olympic sport climbing is athletes are isolated in a room behind the wall, with no Bluetooth ...Read more

This year, quotas requiring equal numbers of female and male athletes delivered a Summer Games closer to gender parity than any other Olympics in history.

The International Olympic Committee’s emphasis on balancing its medal opportunities and participant list by gender creates an undeniable win for female athletes. They weren’t even allowed...Read more

SAINT-DENIS, France — On a night when U.S. hurdler Rai Benjamin, forever the silver prince, finally became golden and Canada’s Andre De Grasse completed his relay medal set, Team USA’s reliably unreliable men’s 4×100 relay team found yet another way to blow an Olympic Games final.

Benjamin, who took silver in the Tokyo Games and two ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — U.S. skateboarder Nyjah Huston won his first Olympics medal last week in Paris.

It's bronze.

Or at least it was.

Now it is bronze and black. And also kind of chipped.

The Laguna Beach-based athlete posted a video Thursday on his Instagram Stories in which he showed the medal he won in the street skateboarding competition a ...Read more

PARIS — The B-girls were spinning on their heads.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin was spinning in his grave.

The founder of the modern Olympics couldn’t have imagined what transpired Friday at Place de la Concorde in his beloved Paris. The temporary 3×3 basketball stadium was converted to a performance venue for breaking, the newest sport on ...Read more

PARIS — While still in grade school, Kennedy Blades walked into the Martinez Fox Valley Elite Wrestling Club and immediately started drilling with the boys.

Veteran youth coach Jose Martinez liked what he saw in Blades and her younger sister, Korina. The two had been taking Brazilian jiujitsu lessons since preschool and had begun wrestling in...Read more

PARIS — United States coach Steve Kerr poked his head out of the locker room Thursday to see the fourth quarter of the first men’s basketball semifinal between France and Germany.

He retrieved his phone from his pocket and pressed record.

“The crowd was incredible,” Kerr said. “They kept playing that European anthem that I can’t ...Read more

PARIS — Lashinda Demus made her way down an elevated runway through the middle of Champions Park at the foot of the Trocadero, the Eiffel Tower just across the River Seine and a gold medal ahead of her.

A crowd of thousands cheered and crowded up against the runway as Demus, the former Long Beach (Calif.) Wilson High School and University of ...Read more