Olympic athletes in Paris dried themselves off after Friday night’s soggy-but-celebratory opening ceremony and got to business on Saturday. China won the first gold medal Games when Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao beat South Korea’s Keum Jihyeon and Park Hajun in the final of the 10-meter air rifle mixed team event. Thirteen gold medals were
PARIS (AP) — Fresh off the year’s most extravagant wedding , Nita Ambani inaugurated the India House for the Paris Olympics on Saturday. The first of its kind at an Olympic Games for India, the temporary house is meant to promote Indian culture as the country aspires to host the 2036 Games. The endeavor was
BATH, Maine (AP) — With an Irish flag overhead and bagpipes playing, three sisters of an Irish-born recipient of the Navy Cross christened a warship bearing his name on Saturday — and secured a promise that the ship will visit Ireland. The future USS Patrick Gallagher is a guided missile destroyer that is under construction
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish state broadcaster on Saturday suspended a television journalist who during the Olympic Games opening ceremony reacted to a performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine” by saying it was a “vision of communism.” TVP, the broadcaster, issued a statement Saturday saying that the journalist and sports commentator, Przemyslaw Babiarz, would not
Kultura | Izvor: Beta-AFP | 27.07.2024 | access_time 17:30 Via Appia, čuveni rimski put iz doba antike koji počinje iz Rima i ide do Brindizija u Apuliji, na kranjem jugu poluostrva, uvršćen je na listu svetske baštine Uneska, saopštila je danas ta institucija UN. To je 60. mesto u Italiji na toj listi. Italijanski ministar
VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — Gennady Golovkin believes he owes his incredible boxing career in part to his Olympic beginnings, and the possibility of his sport vanishing after the Paris Games has staggered one of the greatest fighters of his generation. “The situation is sad,” Golovkin told The Associated Press recently. ”The question of boxing being
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Equestrian riders at the Paris Olympics say they were shocked by a recent video showing three-time gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin of Britain repeatedly whipping a horse during training, a scandal that has thrust the issue of animal welfare and abuse into the spotlight. American rider Boyd Martin, taking part in his
After a couple days of rain, sunny skies should be out for the second full day of action at the 2024 Paris Olympics . Sunday’s competition features more excitement in gymnastics, basketball and swimming. Here are the biggest storylines to follow: Gymnastics icon Simone Biles returns to Olympic stage Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Pat Woepse smiled. He cheered for his wife, Maddie Musselman. He hung out with a buddy at the Paris Olympics . It was a very special Saturday. A few precious moments away from the reality of lung cancer . Woepse was on hand as the U.S. women’s water polo team cruised
NEW YORK (AP) — Mets pitcher Kodai Senga is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season with a strained left calf. The team’s projected No. 1 starter this year, Senga got hurt Friday night in the sixth inning of his season debut against the Atlanta Braves. He had been sidelined by a shoulder
