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Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games, 2024 April 16
Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.
Athletes object to Nike's skimpy leotards for Team USA's female track and field athletes, 2024 April 15
Athletes are voicing dissatisfaction with the U.S. Olympic track and field uniforms for the upcoming Paris Games, particularly a leotard component that they say provides insufficient coverage.
Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games, 2024 April 15
In Paris' outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end.
Macron says the Olympic opening ceremony on the Seine could be moved to stadium for security reasons, 2024 April 15
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security threat is deemed too high.
At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past, 2024 April 15
No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved.
The French connection: Paris flame to make first stop in Greece at heart of modern games' founder, 2024 April 14
Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what's left of a singular Frenchman's heart.
40 years after competing in Los Angeles, Venezuelan shooter returns to the Olympics at age 60, 2024 April 12
It's been a while - 40 years to be exact - since Venezuelan trap shooter Leonel Martinez last competed at the Olympics.
$50K Olympic track prize the latest in a long, conflicted relationship between athletes and money, 2024 April 11
Since the day they were founded, the Olympics have had a confusing relationship with money. The games were supposed to celebrate sport for sport's sake. But the price athletes paid to be any good was far too high, and it took virtually no time for the concept of amateurism that the Olympics rested on to be viewed as unrealistic, if not an all-out ruse.
Breakaway body World Boxing in talks with up to 30 new members as it seeks to run 2028 Olympic event, 2024 April 11
Breakaway governing body World Boxing says it is holding talks with 25 to 30 prospective new member nations as it seeks to be the International Olympic Committee's preferred partner to run boxing tournaments at the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
Going for green: Olympic gold medalists will get cash prizes, 2024 April 11
World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field, will pay $50,000 to the gold medalists for its events.