MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Saya Sakakibara won the gold medal in the women’s BMX race at the Paris Olympics on Friday night, shortly after her partner Romain Mahieu took bronze to complete a French sweep of the men’s race. Sakakibara beat American rider Alise Willoughby to the first corner and was never tested again, cruising
MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Joris Daudet led a French sweep of the Olympic podium in BMX racing on Friday night, getting chased across the finish line by Sylvain Andre and Romain Mahieu to complete a dominant two-day performance just outside of Paris. Daudet, the three-time and reigning world champion, won two of his three semifinals
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The statement that upended Venezuela came 24 hours after polls closed in the presidential election. With the reassuring tone of someone who has consistently been considered an underdog, opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado announced that her coalition had gathered more than two-thirds of vote tally sheets from polling centers nationwide, and
PARIS (AP) — Exactly one week after thousands of athletes sailed through the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics , a gold medal was finally won Friday by a member of the neutral collective of athletes. Ivan Litvinovich was barred from boarding a boat on the River Seine — just like all 32 athletes from
PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s surgically repaired knee did not appear to slow him down a bit as he finally reached a Summer Olympics singles final for the first time, defeating Lorenzo Musetti of Italy 6-4, 6-2 on Friday night. Djokovic will play Carlos Alcaraz for the gold on Sunday. It is a rematch of
PARIS (AP) — Simon Biles will again be one of the highlights of the 2024 Olympics on Saturday as she tries to win the vault event for her third gold medal in Paris. Sha’Carri Richardson will go for her first Olympic medal in the women’s 100 meters, while in the pool Katie Ledecky will look
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The post from the Spanish basketball federation to congratulate Rudy Fernandez on his career came immediately after the game, and only one word was necessary. “Gracias.” Fernandez’s sixth and final Olympics — and presumably, the end of his time as a player — came to an end Friday, when Spain was
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 the more than 15,000 fans cheering him on in person, Marchand captured his fourth swimming gold with another runaway victory in
A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D.C. Christopher Rodriguez also bombed a sculpture of communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside the Texas Public Radio building in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022, according
PARIS (AP) — The Dutch Olympian who was convicted in 2016 of raping a girl in England advanced to the knockout round of the beach volleyball tournament on Friday, even with a loss in the final match of pool play. Steven van de Velde and his partner, Matthew Immers, will play in the round of
