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Athletes who are part of the Refugee Olympic Team participate in the Parade of Nations on the River Seine during the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on July 26.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2024
Refugee Olympic Team representing displaced people and making its mark in Paris
The refugee team, which first competed at the 2016 Games, will walk away from the Paris Olympics with one medal and potentially more.
The International Boxing Association holds a news conference in Paris on Monday, with the association's president, Umar Kremlev, appearing on a video feed from Moscow.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2024
A chaotic news conference offers little clarity on an Olympic boxing dispute
The International Boxing Association’s Russian president delivered wild accusations, personal attacks and used questionable language when detailing the two women's cases.
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates her victory in the quarterfinals of the women's 66-kg weight class at the Paris Games on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Aug 4, 2024
Algerian boxer at center of Olympic eligibility fight clinches medal
Imane Khelif, the boxer at the center of a controversy that has made the women’s boxing tournament in Paris a cultural flashpoint, advanced to the semifinals.
Algeria's Imane Khelif walks to the ring for her bout against Italy's Angela Carini during the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Aug 2, 2024
IOC addresses boxing controversy at Paris Olympics
The IOC says boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting will remain in the competition at the Paris Olympics.
Members of the Romanian Olympic women's gymnastics team check their smartphones during a training session early last month.
OLYMPICS
Aug 2, 2024
Social media trolls beware: Olympic athletes have had enough
Online abuse has become such an issue that the Japanese Olympic Committee released a statement asking fans to mind their manners on the internet.
London Stadium, which hosted track and field during the 2012 Olympics. The stadium's primary tenant is West Ham United, but it hosts a variety of major events throughout the year.
OLYMPICS
Jul 26, 2024
How London paved the way for Olympics sustainability
Before Paris, London demonstrated in the 2012 Olympics that host cities didn’t have to end up with empty venues long after the Games are over.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach announces that the French Alps will host the 2030 Winter Olympics during an IOC session on Wednesday in Paris.
OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2024
France conditionally confirmed as 2030 Winter Games hosts
France previously staged the Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968 and Albertville in 1992.
French maritime police patrol the waters of the River Seine in Paris on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Jul 21, 2024
Paris Olympics preparations hit the home stretch
Police with sniffer dogs checked the 6-kilometer route along the Seine ahead of the opening ceremony on the river.
Ukrainians walk past the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee to protest the organization's plan to have Russian athletes compete in Paris under a neutral flag.
OLYMPICS
Jul 18, 2024
Russian athletes headed to Paris break IOC’s rules, NGO says
A total of 33 out of 59 athletes were in violation of the IOC’s guidelines on participation, a report from The Hague-based Global Rights Compliance concluded.
The former chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, speaks during a news conference in Munich in 2016.
OLYMPICS
Jul 17, 2024
U.S. doping probe puts Olympic hosting at risk, former WADA chief says
Any country wanting to stage an international sporting event must be compliant with the anti-doping code and a U.S. probe may violate those rules, Dick Pound said.
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
OLYMPICS
Jul 14, 2024
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
While news sites have suggested that being a volunteer is a way to attend the Games for “free,” that doesn’t apply to international volunteers like Mai Tarumi.
A competition at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh on July 4.
MORE SPORTS / esports
Jul 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia to host first Esports Olympics in 2025
Riyadh is already hosting the Esports World Cup in July and August, during which 2,500 gamers are battling for $60 million in prize money.
Russian Andrey Rublev holds his gold medal on the podium after the Tokyo Olympic mixed doubles competition in August 2021. Rublev declined an invitation to the Paris Games.
OLYMPICS
Jul 11, 2024
List of Russian athletes for Paris Games continues to shrink
Athletes from Russia and Belarus, Moscow's closest ally in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, are barred from the Paris Games unless they compete as neutrals.
The Olympic rings are seen outside of the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, in March.
OLYMPICS
Jun 28, 2024
IOC invites 39 athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete as neutrals at Olympics
Twenty-two Russian and 17 Belarusian athletes were invited to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals.
Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya celebrates after winning gold in the women's Olympic marathon in Sapporo in August 2021.
OLYMPICS
Jun 26, 2024
At Paris Olympics, women athletes finally reach parity
When the event was revived by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin, he saw it as a celebration of gentlemanly athleticism "with female applause as its reward."
The International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland
OLYMPICS
Jun 15, 2024
IOC issues first list of Russians and Belarusians eligible for Olympics
Each qualified athlete must undergo the vetting process by a three-member panel appointed by the IOC to make sure they meet eligibility criteria.
During a visit to an Olympic exhibition in Paris on Tuesday, former U.S. athlete and Olympic champion Tommie Smith raises his fist in front of a photograph taken by Neil Leifer in which Smith (center) and his countryman John Carlos are raising their fists to protest racial discrimination during the 1968 Games in Mexico City.
OLYMPICS
Jun 13, 2024
Olympic anti-racism icon Tommie Smith sees no successors
Smith believes modern athletes are less political than before despite the need to continue fighting racism, including in the U.S. where it "could not get any worse."
The Russian Olympic Committee's headquarters in Moscow
OLYMPICS
Jun 13, 2024
Vetting of Russian athletes for Paris Games ongoing, IOC says
Not having actively supported the war in Ukraine and not having been contracted to any military or security agency are among the criteria for qualified Russian athletes.
IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Apr 28, 2024
Interest in hosting Olympics 'never so high,' says IOC boss
After a string of Games in wealthy democracies, 2036 could be an opportunity for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Indonesia or India.
Sebastian Coe delivers a speech during the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2023.
OLYMPICS
Apr 19, 2024
Sebastian Coe divides Olympic movement with move to offer prize money
Coe's compatriots have been critical of World Athletics' decision to offer prize money at the Olympics.

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