Olympics
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With big goals and gambles, Paris aims to reset the Olympics with audacious Games and a wow opening
Jul 25, 2024 5:10 pm - PARIS — Paris has long been a city of dreamers: Just look at the Eiffel Tower, for decades the world's loftiest structure. Audacity also underpins the French capital's pl...
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Going for Gold: Here are the suburban athletes on Team USA competing in ParisJul 25, 2024 4:58 pm - Who’s doing what and when for Team USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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How to watch the Paris Olympics on streaming, social media and cable
Jul 25, 2024 12:13 pm - The Summer Olympics are back, and rights-holder NBC is going big compared to past games. First, it’s creating more content. The 2024 Summer Olympics will come with more p...
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How to watch the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
Jul 25, 2024 8:54 am - The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics is set for Friday. Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 10,500 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River. This will start the ceremony, not mark the end of it, another break from tradition.
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Snoop Dogg aims to inspire global audience at Paris Olympics as torch bearer before opening ceremony
Jul 25, 2024 7:55 am - When Snoop Dogg agreed to become an Olympic torch bearer, the hip-hop star recalled an emotional, iconic moment watching Muhammad Ali light the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Now, Snoop Dogg hopes to re-create some of that magic for a global audience.
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U.S. men’s soccer team returns to Olympics with 3-0 loss to France
Jul 24, 2024 6:24 pm - MARSEILLE, France — The U.S. men’s soccer team returned to the Olympics after a 16-year hiatus Wednesday with the most daunting of tasks: an opening match against not jus...
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Olympics 2024: How to watch, when it starts, key dates in Paris
Jul 24, 2024 5:36 pm - The 2024 Olympics is getting underway this week. Stay on top of all the action — everything on the track, courts and fields, in the pools and all the other events — with ...
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IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Utah and pushes state officials to help end FBI investigation
Jul 24, 2024 5:31 pm - PARIS — What was expected to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City as the 2034 Winter Olympic host turned into complicated Olympic politics Wednesday, as the IOC pushe...
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Israel's national anthem loudly jeered before Olympic soccer match against Mali
Jul 24, 2024 5:25 pm - PARIS — Israel's national anthem was loudly jeered before its soccer team kicked off play at the Paris Olympics against Mali on Wednesday night. The game began with a mas...
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Coco Gauff to be female flag bearer for U.S. team at Olympic opening ceremony, joining LeBron James
Jul 24, 2024 5:21 pm - PARIS — Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday’s opening ceremony. Gauff, the reigning U.S. Open champion, is ...