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PARIS 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ledecky​


Katie Ledecky, the most decorated women's swimmer in history, and Jim Thorpe, a multisport athlete who was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States, were among 19 people to be honored on Friday by President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Ledecky is a seven-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, taking home at least one gold in each of the past three Olympics. She will compete at the Paris Olympics this summer. Her 16 individual gold medals at the world championships are the most by any swimmer, man or woman.

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victor wembanyama headline france's preliminary olympic roster
Fresh off winning the NBA Rookie of the Year, the 7-foot-3 Wembanyama will bolster France's medal aspirations alongside key players such as Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum, and Evan Fournier. In Gobert and Wembanyama, France boasts two of the NBA's best defensive players. Gobert won the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year award for the fourth time of his career, narrowly beating out Wembanyama. At the Olympics, France will be in Group B alongside Germany, Japan and the winner of an upcoming qualifying tournament.

u.s. triathlete taylor knibb also nabs game spot in cycling
Knibb, 26, ripped over the flat, out-and-back course around Charleston, West Virginia, in 45 minutes, 54 seconds Wednesday, beating favorite Kristen Faulkner by 11 seconds. Three-time Olympian Amber Neben was 49 seconds back in third place. Three years ago, Knibb became the youngest woman ever on the U.S. triathlon team for the Olympics. She finished 16th in the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics and helped the Americans win the silver medal in the mixed team relay.
 

UFC's Gane will carry Olympic torch ahead of 2024 Paris Games​


Ciryl Gane is set to be a torchbearer for the 2024 Olympic Games for his home country of Paris, France. The former UFC interim heavyweight champion will be part of the traditional Olympic flame relay that goes through the host nation in the lead-up to the opening ceremony and Gane will be part of that historic event. The French fighter proudly revealed the news on his Instagram. The relay is currently underway and started on Thursday, May 9 in Marseille, France. The relay will spend the next eleven weeks traveling through France as nearly 10,000 individuals will serve as torchbearers this year. Gane will take his position during the 24th stage of the relay, which goes from the Deux-Sèvres region to Les Sables-d'Olonne.

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2024 U.S. Classic: Who made a case for the Olympic gymnastics team?​


The best gymnasts in the country competed at the U.S. Classic on Saturday night at the XL Centerr, giving an early look at who has the best chance to make the roster for the five-member Olympic team headed for Paris in July. It was a night blemished by injuries and falls, with Konnor McClain suffering an Achilles' injury during floor warmups and Gabby Douglas withdrawing from the competition after recording two falls during her opening rotation on bars. But there still were several bright spots. Simone Biles won the all-around title and floor, and finished second on bars and beam, and a number of other gymnasts made solid cases for their spot on the Olympic team. So, with two major competitions left to go -- the U.S. gymnastics championships and the Olympic trials -- who has the best chance at this point at booking their ticket to Paris? Here's our look so far, based solely on Saturday's competition.

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gabby douglas pulls out of u.s. championship, ends 2024 olympic bid
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas has withdrawn from competition at the U.S. gymnastics championships this weekend in Fort Worth, Texas, citing an ankle injury she suffered during training this week.

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The injury ends Douglas' improbable bid to make the 2024 Paris Olympic team after an eight-year hiatus. At 28, Douglas would have been the oldest American woman to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics since 1952. Despite the injury, Douglas said she is proud of what she accomplished over her 18-month comeback. Douglas became the first Black gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title at the 2012 London Games

olympics 2024: iba to award prize money for boxing medals
Based on the placings of boxers at the July 26-Aug. 11 Games, the IBA said it will award $100,000 to gold medalists, $50,000 for silver medals and $25,000 for bronze.

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The boxing tournaments at the Paris Games are being organized by the IOC, but there are fears it might be excluded from future Games, with the sport not on the initial program for Los Angeles 2028.
 
kathy rinaldi , bob bryan to coach u.s. olympic tennis teams
The U.S. Tennis Association announced the appointments Monday. The American athletes for tennis will be named at a later date. For the Olympics, the choices will be based on the WTA and ATP rankings on June 10, the day after the French Open ends.

carapaz misses out on ecuador's road cycling olympic sport
Carapaz was the first Ecuadorian to win a grand tour, the 2019 Giro d'Italia. He also made the podium at the Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta, but hasn't finished any grand tour since 2022. This year, he won a stage and finished seventh in the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland in April.
 
simone biles cruises to her 9th u.s. gymnastics championship
Biles is at a stage in her unparalleled career where the joy she gets from the sport is no longer centered strictly on the quality of her performance. Biles finished with the highest two-day score on all four events, something she'd done only once before at nationals (2018). if healthy -- figure to be serious contenders to earn an invitation to Paris.Biles' ticket is essentially punched. Same as it ever was.


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Ex-NBA player Chase Budinger makes Olympics in beach volleyball​


Former college basketball standout and seven-year NBA veteran Chase Budinger will head to Paris next month to compete for the United States' beach volleyball team in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Budinger and partner Miles Evans qualified Wednesday for the U.S. men's team. They are tied for 13th in the most recent world rankings and are the No. 2 U.S. team behind Miles Partain and Andy Benesh, ranked No. 5. Budinger, 36, grew up playing basketball and volleyball, starring in both at La Costa Canyon High School in Encinitas, California. A 2006 McDonald's All American in basketball, he also was named Volleyball Magazine's National High School Player of the Year in 2005. The 6-foot-7 athlete played college basketball at Arizona, where he averaged 17.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 100 games (all starts) over three seasons (2006-09).

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Paris organizers unveil Olympic rings display on Eiffel Tower​


The Paris Olympics organizers on Friday unveiled a display of the five Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower as the French capital marks 50 days until the start of the Summer Games. The structure of rings, made of recycled French steel, will be displayed on the south side of the 135-year-old landmark in central Paris, overlooking the Seine River. Each ring is 9 meters (30 feet) in diameter. Thousands of athletes will parade through the heart of the French capital on boats on the Seine along a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) route in the opening ceremony at sunset on July 26. There will be no shortage of iconic venues at the Paris Olympics. The tower, nicknamed La Dame de Fer (The Iron Lady), will feature prominently in the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games and the following Paralympics.

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olympic vets blevins, batten lead u.s. mountain bike team for paris
The U.S. earned the maximum quota of mountain bike riders after its men finished in the top five and women in the top three in the qualification rankings compiled by the UCI, the governing body for global cycling.

rafael nadal chosen for olympics, also in doubles with alcaraz
Nadal, who has been limited the past two years by a number of injuries, has said the Games were his focus and that he could skip Wimbledon to prepare. Nadal and Alcaraz will play in both singles and doubles at the Games. The tennis competition will be held at Roland Garros, where Nadal is a 14-time Grand Slam champion and Alcaraz just won the French Open on Sunday.
 

Sixers' Joel Embiid recovering well, on target for Olympics​


Joel Embiid was at the NBA Finals on Friday night and said his next stop is the Olympics. The Philadelphia 76ers center, who missed more than half of the regular season and then was hobbled in the playoffs because of a knee injury, said in a televised interview that his recovery is going well and he believes he'll be ready to play for the U.S. at the Paris Games starting next month. Embiid's health has been one of the questions surrounding the U.S. roster since it was revealed earlier this spring. He's one of three centers on the roster, along with Miami Heat's Sam Adebayo and the Los Angeles Lakers' Anthony Davis. Embiid had options on which team to play for this summer. He could have played for France, and even his native Cameroon, which still has a chance to qualify for the 12-team field. But in October, he chose to play for the U.S., in part because his son is American.

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Ben Hailock headlines U.S. Olympic en's water polo roster
Ben Hallock is going back to the Olympics for the third time. The 26-year-old Hallock played sparingly at the 2016 Olympics. But the 6-foot-6 center was a force in Tokyo, scoring 12 times while causing all sorts of matchup problems for a couple of the world's biggest water polo powers.

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The 13-player roster was announced at a Los Angeles restaurant. The U.S. plays its first game at the Paris Games on July 28 against Italy.

Novak Djokovic confirmed for Paris Olympics
The 24-time Grand Slam winner will be attending his fifth Olympics since his first in 2008 when he won a bronze medal. Djokovic, 37, had knee surgery last month after he was forced to pull out of the French Open with an injury suffered in a fourth-round win that cast doubt over his chances of playing at Wimbledon and at the Paris Games.
 
russia cyclist aleksandr viasov declines neutral olympic nod
Russian and Belarusian athletes can only participate as neutrals -- without flags, anthems or any role in the opening parade -- because of the war in Ukraine, which Russia call a 'special military operation'

coco gauff heads u.s. tennis at paris olympics after missing tokyo
Gauff, ranked No. 2, will be joined by Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro in women's singles, along with Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Christopher Eubanks and Marcos Giron in men's singles. Gauff tested positive for COVID-19 days before the start of the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in July 2021.[/size]

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Olympic tennis starts July 27 at Roland Garros, the site of the French Open.
 
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