By JAIMIE DING and ANDREW DALTON Updated 9:26 PM CDT, August 12, 2024 LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s Los Angeles’ turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative…
The 2024 Olympics in Paris are a wrap, and several great athletes with ties to Mississippi represented Team USA and other countries on the world stage. Special thank you to Sam…
PARIS (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 21 points and the U.S. women’s basketball team survived the biggest challenge of its unprecedented run to eight straight Olympic gold medals with a 67-66 win over France at the Paris Games on Sunday.…
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Breanna Stewart scored 16 points and the U.S. women advanced to their eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal game with a 85-64 victory over Australia on Friday. The Americans, who extended their Olympic winning streak…
By JANIE McCAULEY Updated 10:57 AM CDT, August 9, 2024 PARIS (AP) — Four-time U.S. Olympians Matt Anderson and David Smith are medalists once more. They came back for this chance. The Americans are taking home men’s volleyball hardware from the…
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer They scored six points in two seconds. And just like that, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic team was on its way. To a comeback. To a win. And to another…
By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters Thursday, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then being tended to by medics who carted him off the track in a wheelchair suffering with what The Associated Press…
By EDDIE PELLS Updated 2:39 PM CDT, August 7, 2024 SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Quincy Hall became the latest American to electrify Olympic track and field with an out-of-nowhere comeback Wednesday night, sprinting from far behind in the 400 meters to…
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Gabby Thomas sped to the victory in the women’s 200 meters at the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday night, finishing in 21.83 seconds — finishing by a wide margin in a sprint — to add a gold…
By ANNE M. PETERSON LYON, France (AP) — Sophia Smith scored in extra time and the United States earned a spot in the gold medal match at the Paris Olympics with a 1-0 victory over Germany on Tuesday. The Americans, undefeated…
PARIS (AP) — The reigning Olympic champion U.S. women’s volleyball team posted a straight-set victory against Poland on Tuesday night at the Paris Olympics. The Americans led throughout while taking the first two sets, 25-22 and 25-14. They fell behind…
Cole Hocker set a new Olympic record with a time of 3:27.65 and took home the gold in the Men's 1500 meter run on Tuesday. His teammate, Yared Nuguse came on late to grab the bronze at 3:27.80, just edged…
By EDDIE PELLS Updated 4:45 PM CDT, August 5, 2024 SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The pole vaulter they call “Mondo” really can put on a show. With the rest of the action at the Olympic track wrapped up for the evening…
By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer American gymnast Simone Biles didn’t get the golden sendoff she hoped. Biles earned silver in the floor exercise finals on Monday after a routine that included a couple of costly steps out of bounds.…
By RAPHAEL LEICESTER Updated 12:26 PM CDT, August 2, 2024 PARIS (AP) — On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market — more wholesome than cutthroat — has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center…
U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky has won the women’s 800-meter freestyle for her ninth Olympic gold medal. It is the fourth time she has won this event. Ledecky joins Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, American swimmer Mark…
U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson finished second in the 2024 Olympics women’s 100-meter finals, losing to Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia. Two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica abruptly pulled out of the women’s 100-meter dash, giving no immediate reason for…
Simone Biles won her third gold in the vault final at the 2024 Olympics as part of an action-packed day of events. It is his her seventh Olympic gold medal and 10th overall. Biles performed her iconic namesake vault, the…
By PAUL NEWBERRY Updated 3:35 PM CDT, August 2, 2024 NANTERRE, France (AP) — Léon Marchand held up four fingers. One for every gold medal at the Paris Olympics. His dominating run through the Summer Games is complete. With French President Emmanuel Macron among…
By STEPHEN WADE Updated 1:16 PM CDT, August 2, 2024 NANTERRE, France (AP) — Katie Ledecky advanced to the finals of the women’s 800-meter freestyle Friday at the Paris Olympics with a chance to make even more history. With a victory, Ledecky would join fellow…
By KRISTIE RIEKEN PARIS (AP) — Hailey Van Lith delivered a message after the defending champion U.S. posted its third straight win with an overtime victory against Canada in women’s 3x3 basketball pool play at the Paris Olympics after opening the tournament with…
By TIM REYNOLDS Updated 10:10 AM CDT, August 2, 2024 VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team had a 23-point lead over Serbia with seven seconds remaining in its opening contest at the Paris Games earlier this week. Had this…
By EDDIE PELLS Updated 12:24 PM CDT, August 2, 2024 SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson blazed through a no-fuss opening round in the 100 meters Friday, winning her first-ever race at the Olympics in 10.94 seconds to easily qualify for the semifinals.…
By JAMES ROBSON Updated 10:09 AM CDT, August 2, 2024 PARIS (AP) — The United States was eliminated from the Olympic men’s soccer tournament on Friday after a 4-0 loss to Morocco in the quarterfinals. Soufiane Rahimi, Ilias Akhomach, Achraf Hakimi and Mehdi…