Stephen Curry drove to the basket, laid the ball in, got fouled and ended up on the floor after drawing the contact. He noticed he was near the on-court photographers. So, he decided to go viral. Curry posed for a few seconds — one hand on his hip, the other… Read
Olympic gymnastics, to be more specific. “I was like, ‘I think I’m going to be a gymnast,'” Larson, now 37, said of her reaction to watching the Games play out on the small screen. Nature disrupted those plans. Larson grew to be 6-foot-2, so when it came to her dreams… Read
China has lashed out at the United States over allegations of doping by Chinese swimmers ahead of this year’s summer Olympics in Paris. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian spoke a day after the World Anti-Doping Agency released an interim report from an investigator who concluded he found no evidence that… Read
The Australian Olympic team will head to the Paris Games with its highest-ever percentage of women — 55.6%. The Australian Olympic Committee on Wednesday said that when the Olympics were last held in Paris in 1924, no women were on the team. This time, there's 256 women on the 460-member… Read
Less than 500 meters separate the Stade de France -- the sparkling centerpiece of the Paris Olympics -- and the crumbling Francs-Moisins estate plagued by poverty and crime. Samia Achoui, a secretary who lives in one of the grey blocks dogged by drug dealing, does not have a ticket to… Read
In the touristy Saint-Ouen flea market, not far from the Stade de France where athletes will compete in this summer's Paris Olympics, police officers swarmed in at dawn on April 3 and shut down 11 stores selling counterfeit bags and shoes. They confiscated 63,000 items of clothing, shoes and leather… Read
For Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova, each stride on the Paris Olympic track will have meaning far beyond the time she clocks. Her competitions are no longer strictly an individual battle, but war on a different front. Her goal is not just gold, but also to rivet global attention on her… Read
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Tuesday unveiled a nine-member refugee team for the upcoming Games in Paris. The team is made up of eight competitors and one guide runner. They will take part in taekwondo, athletics, triathlon, power lifting, table tennis and wheelchair fencing. "The world has more than… Read
As synchronised swimmers, Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva are used to having to smile no matter what. The sisters are one of Ukraine's best hopes of a gold medal at the Paris Olympics after winning a bronze in artistic swimming at the Tokyo Games three years ago. But the trials the… Read
France was plunged into political turmoil on Monday three weeks before hosting the Olympics, while a call for strikes at Paris airports added fresh uncertainty to the already tense build up. The run-up to the world's biggest sporting event is usually fraught for host nations, but French President Emmanuel Macron… Read