• Au revoir, Paris. Here's how Los Angeles is preparing for the 2028 Olympics

    Au revoir, Paris. Here's how Los Angeles is preparing for the 2028 Olympics

    Aug 12, 2024 04:58 PM EDT

    ... the soon-to-open Inglewood home of the NBA's Clippers, would be the games' newest major venue and is the planned home for Olympic basketball. The Lakers' downtown Crypto.com Arena will host gymnastics. The toxicity of swimming in the Seine became a serious issue in Paris. That could ...

  • News Wrap: Trump campaign claims it was hacked by ‘foreign sources hostile to the U.S.’

    News Wrap: Trump campaign claims it was hacked by ‘foreign sources hostile to the U.S.’

    Aug 11, 2024 09:45 PM EDT

    ... American cyclist, Jennifer Valente, cruise to victory in the women's Omnium, a multi race track cycling event, then in an adrenaline filled women's basketball final Team USA beat France by one point. The win was the eighth consecutive title for the women's team, and tied the US ...

  • WATCH: Harris and Walz speak at campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada

    WATCH: Harris and Walz speak at campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada

    Aug 10, 2024 08:56 PM EDT

    WATCH: Harris campaign continues battleground state blitz as Trump agrees to debate There were 12,000-plus people inside the campus basketball arena on Saturday and, before the event started, local law enforcement halted entry to the event because people were becoming ill while waiting outside in 109-degree heat ...

  • A look at Team USA's golden run at the Olympics in Paris

    A look at Team USA's golden run at the Olympics in Paris

    Aug 09, 2024 10:25 PM EDT

    ... that COVID diagnosis and certainly not performing as he had hoped in the 200. Amna Nawaz: Big hopes, meanwhile, for the U.S. women's basketball team, which beat Australia in the semifinals, will now play France in a gold medal game. What are their chances of winning an eighth ...

  • Democratic, GOP strategists analyze Harris-Walz ticket and Trump's tactics against them

    Democratic, GOP strategists analyze Harris-Walz ticket and Trump's tactics against them

    Aug 07, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    Democrats are very enthusiastic. They're united now, no doubt about it. Part of that is because they have moved from existential dread to happiness, right? So if you're a team in basketball and you're down nine points and you have hit two or three baskets in a ...

  • For women athletes of color, outsized scrutiny over gender is nothing new, historians say

    For women athletes of color, outsized scrutiny over gender is nothing new, historians say

    Aug 04, 2024 10:52 PM EDT

    ... in place in 2011 and have tightened over the years — have considered naturally high testosterone levels to be a genetic gift, comparing it to a basketball player’s height or a swimmer’s long arms. “Nobody was disqualifying Michael Phelps for having particular biological features that allowed him to excel ...

  • Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 8

    Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 8

    Aug 04, 2024 12:03 AM EDT

    ... win at least a bronze medal after defeating Hamori for the second victory of her tumultuous second trip to the Olympics. U.S. men's basketball rolls The U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the men's basketball medal round. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, and the ...

  • Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 6

    Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 6

    Aug 02, 2024 12:11 AM EDT

    ... Madden, Katie Ledecky and Erin Gemmell got the U.S. silver, and China finished with bronze. U.S. beats Belgium The U.S. women's basketball team clinched a spot in the quarterfinals by beating Belgium 87-74. Breanna Stewart led all scorers with 26 points, while A'ja Wilson ...

  • Simone Biles holds off Brazil's Rebeca Andrade to win all-around gold in women’s gymnastics

    Simone Biles holds off Brazil's Rebeca Andrade to win all-around gold in women’s gymnastics

    Aug 01, 2024 06:46 PM EDT

    Yet the sixth gold and ninth overall medal — the same as Romanian great Nadia Comaneci, who was among the star-studded crowd that included the U.S. men's basketball team — of Biles' unparalleled career did not come as easy as so many that came before. She misjudged a transition ...

  • Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 5

    Photos and takeaways from Paris Olympics Day 5

    Aug 01, 2024 12:02 AM EDT

    ... end to catch and pass Hayden Wilde of New Zealand to win the gold medal by six seconds. U.S. men beat South Sudan in basketball The U.S. men’s basketball team had an easier time with South Sudan in the rematch than it did when the teams first ...