VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Nigeria is headed to the quarterfinals, the first African team to ever make it that far at the Olympics. The reward is a matchup with seven-time defending champion U.S. in Paris on Wednesday. The Olympic women’s basketball draw was announced late Sunday night. The other matchups were Spain against Belgium, France
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woeful Chicago White Sox lost their 20th consecutive game Sunday, the majors’ longest skid in 36 years and one short of the American League record, as Chris Flexen was chased early in a 13-7 defeat against the Minnesota Twins. Royce Lewis hit a three-run homer off Flexen in a six-run second
PARIS (AP) — Japan won its second fencing gold medal of the Paris Olympics by beating Italy 45-36 in the last bout of the Games in the men’s team foil final Sunday. Japan’s alternate, Yudai Nagano, came in for the eighth leg and gave Japan a commanding lead with a 5-0 matchup with Italy’s replacement
PARIS (AP) — Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016, was eliminated from the Paris Olympics on Sunday night when he and partner Matthew Immers lost to Brazil in straight sets. In his fourth and final match, Van de Velde was again
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100 meters by .005 seconds Sunday, waiting some 30 seconds after the finish of an excruciatingly close sprint to find out he’d beaten Kishane Thompson of Jamaica. The word “Photo” popped up on the scoreboard after Lyles and Thompson dashed to the line. Lyles paced the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ordinary Americans are “getting whacked” by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield. “Too little law and we’re not safe, and our liberties aren’t protected,” Gorsuch told The Associated Press in an
PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles wraps up competition with two events as gymnastics comes to a close, surfing hands out its medals and the U.S. women chase a second straight gold medal in 3×3 on Monday at the 2024 Olympics . After dominating the first week of the Olympics by winning three gold medals in
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh , who was forced to flee her country due to the war with Russia, won gold at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. It was Ukraine’s first individual gold of these Summer Games, following a victory in women’s team saber fencing . Mahuchikh cleared 2.00 meters to
PARIS (AP) — The U.S. men’s team was eliminated from the 3×3 competition on Sunday at the Paris Olympics after finishing 2-5 in pool play while playing its last five games without star Jimmer Fredette. “We fought hard, I think we just ran out of gas playing with three,” Canyon Barry said. “It’s so tough
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Sarah Sjöström of Sweden won the 50-meter freestyle Sunday night in her fifth Olympics, a perfect complement to the 100 free she won earlier in the Paris Olympics. Sjöström touched in 23.71 seconds, just shy of the world record of 23.61 she set at the 2023 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
