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Santa Monica 'very close' to agreement to host beach volleyball during 2028 Olympics

Sports / Olympics /

LOS ANGELES — Santa Monica officials say they are “very close” to reaching an agreement to host beach volleyball during the 2028 Summer Olympics, even though it might end up costing the city more than $12 million.

That worst-case scenario is outlined in a 36-page report issued Tuesday night, a week ahead of an Oct. 8 City Council meeting ...Read more

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A crew filmed Simone Biles at Olympics. Netflix doc may help Jordan Chiles get bronze medal back.

Sports / Olympics /

LOS ANGELES — U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles is looking to overturn a decision that stripped her of her first individual Olympic medal.

Video footage shot for the Netflix docuseries "Simone Biles Rising" might help her do it.

Attorneys for Chiles filed an appeal Monday to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland looking to reverse a decision by ...Read more

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Raygun now ranked No. 1 breakdancer in the world by sport's governing body

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Rachael Gunn, the Australian breakdancer who broke the internet with her performance at the 2024 Paris Games, has been ranked the best breaker in the world by the sport’s governing body.

Gunn — more widely known by her nickname, Raygun — failed to score a single point during her Olympics showing, landing her in second to last place, ahead...Read more

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Hunter Woodhall dedicates Paralympic gold win to his uncle, celebrates with his wife

Sports / Olympics /

Hunter Woodhall, who made fans swoon by being a supportive husband as his wife won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, clinched a gold medal of his own on Friday.

Woodhall won the men's 400-meter T62 final with a time of 46.36 seconds during the Paris Paralympics to complete the golden summer for the power couple who have cultivated a large fan...Read more

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Raygun is 'sorry,' but believes she's Australia's top breakdancer: 'My record speaks to that'

Sports / Olympics /

LOS ANGELES — The B-girl known as Raygun has apologized to Australia's breakdancing community for the negative reactions that followed her viral performance while representing the country at the Paris Olympics last month.

In the same interview, however, Rachael Gunn defended her qualifications to compete during breakdancing's debut as an ...Read more

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US Paralympic swimmer responds to 'toxic behavior' after her silver-medal finish

Sports / Olympics /

"Horrific" is not a word you normally hear from an athlete who has just medaled in a big-time race.

"I'm going to be full-on honest," Christie Raleigh Crossley said. "Today was absolutely horrific."

The U.S. swimmer expressed dismay shortly after winning silver in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paralympic Games. She was responding to ...Read more

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For Paralympian Ezra Frech, normalizing disability is his ultimate gold medal

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LOS ANGELES — Ezra Frech made history, extended his arms wide and flashed a knowing smirk to the cheering crowd. On an NBC interview after he soared to a world-record 1.97-meter high jump at the U.S. Paralympic trials, the budding superstar nonchalantly called it "all a part of the plan."

And this plan is only getting started.

Frech won't ...Read more

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This flag football quarterback says he's 'better than Patrick Mahomes,' best fit for LA Olympics

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LOS ANGELES — Darrell Doucette didn't play NCAA football.

He never played in the NFL.

But the 35-year-old New Orleans native thinks he's a better player than Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl champion and MVP.

In flag football, that is.

"I feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of ...Read more

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Will Joel Embiid return to Team USA for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles?

Sports / Olympics /

PHILADELPHIA — Is Joel Embiid one-and-done in representing Team USA in the Olympics?

After winning a men's basketball gold medal on Aug. 10 in Paris, the Philadelphia 76ers star center hinted he could play for another country for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

"It's been a good experience," Embiid said of the Olympics. "It's been a ...Read more

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Mark Story: A lot of ex-Kentucky Wildcats played hoops at the Paris Olympics. There could be even more in LA.

Sports / Olympics /

LEXINGTON, Ky. — There were nine former Kentucky Wildcats basketball players, men’s and women’s combined, competing in the Paris Olympics.

As impressive as that is, it is not farfetched to think there could be even more ex-Wildcats hooping it up in the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

The roll call of former Kentucky players who played men�...Read more

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Jordan Chiles says bronze medal ruling 'feels unjust,' thanks fans for support

Sports / Olympics /

Jordan Chiles said the International Olympic Committee’s request she return her Olympic bronze “feels unjust” in her first comments since the controversy over judges’ individual floor exercise scores.

USA Gymnastics’ latest appeal to keep Chiles’ Olympic bronze medal was denied, but the organization pledged to keep fighting on her ...Read more

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Australian breakdancer Raygun to the haters: 'I worked my butt off preparing for the Olympics'

Sports / Olympics /

She may have mimicked a kangaroo and performed other laughable moves during breakdancing's Olympic debut last week, but the Australian B-girl known as Raygun says her performance wasn't a joke.

"I went out there and I had fun," Rachael Gunn, a 36-year-old Sydney university professor, said in a video posted Thursday morning on Instagram, six ...Read more

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Why the Mets want MLB to participate in the 2028 Olympic Games

Sports / Olympics /

New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz was transfixed by the men’s gold-medal basketball game over the weekend. He watched as Steph Curry drained a flurry of 3s in the final three minutes of play against France.

As Diaz watched the game’s top players standing on the podium wearing their gold medals, he couldn’t help but think of how it would ...Read more

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Jordan Chiles' bronze medal snatched by head of panel who represents Romanian interests

Sports / Olympics /

LOS ANGELES — Like any world-class gymnast, Jordan Chiles is familiar with contortions and flips. But what she has endured since giving her all in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics makes the most difficult routine seem like child's play.

The latest: It appears that the head of the three-person Court of Arbitration for Sport panel that ...Read more

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Bond between Alyssa Naeher and Mallory Swanson was a game changer for US Soccer

Sports / Olympics /

Mallory Swanson loves to talk, always has a twinkle in her eye and doesn't so much walk as she does skip.

Alyssa Naeher has none of those traits. In fact, she and Swanson are as different as fire and ice.

Yet when the whistle sounded on the U.S. women's soccer team's 1-0 win over Brazil in last Saturday's gold-medal game at the Paris Olympics,...Read more

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Mark Story: Paris Olympics marked one of the great moments in Kentucky Wildcats sports history

Sports / Olympics /

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kentucky Wildcats athletes, current and former, combined three years ago to win 10 medals in the Tokyo Olympics, it stood as one of the proudest moments in University of Kentucky sports history.

With that very high bar to clear entering the 2024 Paris Olympics, ex-Cats sports stars went to France and did something ...Read more

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Mirjam Swanson: The Greatest Team of All Time? US men were better than the Dream Team.

Sports / Olympics /

The 2024 U.S. Men’s Basketball team > The Dream Team?

If I saw you suggesting before the Paris Olympics that this year’s American squad was greater than 1992’s, my reaction was visceral and immediate: You’re going to need to show your work on that calculation.

That they’d need to show it, the members of this year’s star-studded ...Read more

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Bay Area excellence: Stanford, Cal outperformed most countries in Paris Olympics

Sports / Olympics /

If Stanford and Cal merged as a country — only slightly less likely than them joining the Atlantic Coast Conference — the two eternal rivals would have been the seventh-most successful country in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Yes, you read that right.

Athletes who attended the elite Bay Area universities combined to win 43 medals, ...Read more

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Jayson Tatum opens up about 'tough' Olympic role after gold medal win

Sports / Olympics /

Jayson Tatum knows his surprisingly limited Olympic role will give him extra motivation when the Boston Celtics’ season begins this fall.

But that didn’t make it any more palatable in the moment.

After Team USA defeated France 98-87 on Saturday to claim its fifth straight gold medal, Tatum acknowledged that his lack of playing time was ...Read more

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'The clock is ticking.' Olympic flag arrives in LA and LA28 gets to work.

Sports / Olympics /

LOS ANGELES — The charter flight left Paris on Monday morning, carrying Mayor Karen Bass, local Olympic organizers and a few dozen athletes home from the 2024 Summer Games.

About eight hours into the trip, somewhere over Wyoming, a small group of officials walked to the back of the plane with a bubble-wrapped package. Using scissors, they ...Read more