VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won her opening Olympic boxing bout on Friday, beating Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan 5:0 in the women’s 57-kilogram division. Lin and fellow women’s boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria were disqualified from the world championships held last year by the International Boxing Association for supposedly failing gender eligibility
PARIS (AP) — Dearica Hamby made a layup with four seconds remaining to lift the defending champion U.S. women to a 14-13 win over France on Friday in 3×3 basketball at the Paris Olympics . The U.S. has won two in a row since it dropped its first three games in pool play. “We needed
Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ campaign announced Friday that it raised $310 million last month , an eyepopping sum showing that donors who once seemed spooked about the prospects for November’s election with President Joe Biden are now offering mountains of cash to boost his former No. 2. The haul by Harris, the Democratic National
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — New details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West were from its security services. Families of freed dissidents, meanwhile, expressed their joy at the surprise release. While journalists Evan Gershkovich
PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz moved one win away from becoming the youngest man to win an Olympics tennis singles gold medal by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the Paris Games semifinals on Friday. Alcaraz is a 21-year-old from Spain who already owns four Grand Slam titles — including in June at Roland Garros
PARIS (AP) — Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Belarus won the first medal by a neutral athlete at the Paris Olympics, taking silver in women’s trampoline on Friday behind Britain’s Bryony Page. Bardzilouskaya’s score of 56.060 was just behind Page’s tally of 56.480 in the eight-woman final. Sophiane Methot of Canada earned bronze at 55.650. Bardzilouskaya is
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Mourners gathered in Doha on Friday to hold funeral prayers for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as Iran and its regional allies vowed to retaliate against Israel. With the bodies of Haniyeh and his bodyguard in coffins draped with Palestinian flags, men knelt and prayed while senior leaders of Hamas’ Qatar-based
CHATEAUROUX, France (AP) — Chiara Leone has earned Switzerland’s first gold medal at the Paris Olympics , winning women’s 50-meter rifle three positions shooting on Friday. Leone narrowly edged Sagen Maddalena of the United States by 1.4 points in the final. China’s Zhang Qiongyue was third for bronze in the event that involves shooting while
VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — The Hungarian Boxing Association says it is sending letters of protest to both the IOC and Hungary’s Olympic committee over Anna Luca Hamori’s quarterfinal matchup with Imane Khelif of Algeria in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics . Hamori still will accept her fight on Saturday against Khelif, according to MTI
PARIS (AP) — Either China or Croatia will earn its first singles gold medal in Olympic tennis when Zheng Qinwen faces Donna Vekic in the Paris Games women’s final on Saturday. This would be the biggest title for both players: Neither Zheng nor Vekic has won a Grand Slam trophy. “I always wanted to be
