Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo, who became the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games, will not race for a medal in the women’s T12 400-meter sprint after a third place finish in Monday’s semifinal. The 50-year-old athlete, who began transitioning in 2019, qualified for the semifinal with a time of 58.35 in...
South African-British cyclist Jaco van Gass won gold in the men’s 3000-meter individual pursuit and set a new world record at the Paralympics just one week after being hit by a car in Paris. Just days ago, during a training exercise, van Gass was rounding a corner when a car pulled up and slammed into...
American Paralympic swimmer Christie Raleigh Crossley set a world record in her Paralympics debut in Paris on Thursday. The 37-year-old Tom’s River, New Jersey native posted a 27.28-second time in the 50-meter freestyle for the S9 class, which includes athletes with weakness, limb loss or coordination difficulties, torching the previous record. But then she went...
Nobody appeared to have more fun at the Paris Olympics than American rugby sevens star Ilona Maher. Maher went viral consistently on social media for her TikTok videos and dominated on the field as she helped lead the rugby sevens team to a bronze medal over Australia. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM...
Earlier this month, movie star Tom Cruise made an epic entrance at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony and the Olympic flag arrived in Los Angeles. While those events marked the conclusion of the Summer Games, the French capital was the site of another opening ceremony on Wednesday night. The highly anticipated 2024 Paralympic Games gets...
Romanian Olympic gymnast Sabrina Maneca-Voinea and the country’s gymnastics federation filed an appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal after she was socked 0.1 points for her floor exercise routine at the Paris Games earlier this month. Maneca-Voinea and Romanian officials initially filed their appeal to the Center of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) amid the controversy...
U.S. swimmer Hunter Armstrong had two impressive medals to bring back to his home in Columbus, Ohio, after the 2024 Paris Olympics. Armstrong scored a gold medal in the Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay and a silver medal in the Medley relay. Although this is not Armstrong’s first gold medal, he told Fox News Digital there...
U.S. gymnastics legend Simone Biles is behind her teammate Jordan Chiles all the way in regard to the 2024 Paris Olympics bronze medal dispute that is ongoing. “We’ve been FaceTiming, texting, just being girls,” Biles told People when asked about Chiles as she fights the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to...
American track and field star Rai Benjamin won his second and third Olympic gold medals in Paris. But now that he is back in the U.S., the New York native hopes his favorite NFL team will give him a chance to make his football dreams come true. Benjamin is a self-proclaimed New York Giants fan,...
Tennis great Martina Navratilova slammed Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo as a “pathetic cheater” as the 50-year-old athlete is set to become the first transgender woman to compete in the Paralympics next week. Navratilova, an outspoken supporter of protecting women’s rights in sports, took to social media on Thursday to call out Petrillo, who is slated...
