A staff member of the Canada women’s soccer team was given a suspended eight-month prison sentence after French authorities arrested the man for flying a drone over Auguste Dury Stadium on Monday and filming two closed-door training sessions of the New Zealand women’s soccer team. Canada Soccer analyst Joseph Lombardi, 43, was taken into custody...
The opening ceremonies for the highly anticipated 2024 Summer Olympics are scheduled for Friday. Meanwhile, surfers, residents and Olympic workers across Tahiti, French Polynesia, are gearing up for the start of the Paris Olympics and the surfing competition. Competitors appear to be in store for good waves at the reef break of Teahupo’o beginning this...
The Canadian Olympic Committee has removed women’s national soccer head coach Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris Games after staffers allegedly used a drone to spy on an opponent. Two Canadian team staffers, assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi, were “sent home immediately” for allegedly using a drone to spy on...
Three drag queens were among the 10,000 torchbearers who had the opportunity to hold the Olympic flame as it started in Greece, passed through French territories and made its way to Paris. Minima Geste was the last of the three drag queens to hold the torch. Geste held it last week as the Paris Olympics...
The Paris Olympics’ men’s and women’s volleyball matches will take place underneath the Eiffel Tower over the next few days and the training sessions have left players in awe. The stadium will seat 12,000 spectators and is going to be the centerpiece of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics. The venue was put together in a...
Joel Embiid decided to play for Team USA over France and Cameroon in the Olympics and bolstered a lineup filled with NBA stars, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry. Embiid was granted French citizenship in July 2022 and United States citizenship a few months later. He decided in October 2023 he was going to play...
Team USA men’s basketball star Stephen Curry and head coach Steve Kerr backed Vice President Kamala Harris for president while talking to reporters on Thursday. President Biden announced Sunday he was withdrawing from his re-election campaign and endorsed Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. Biden’s decision came after weeks of upheaval from top...
The Israel men’s soccer team received a cold welcome from the fans at the Parc des Princes in Paris on Wednesday night as it started its Olympics against Mali. Fans booed and whistles rang out inside the stadium as the Israeli national anthem played. The stadium speaker got louder in an apparent effort to drown...
A chaotic scene broke out in one of the first Olympic men’s soccer matches, but there was a ton of chaos beforehand, as well. In their game against Morocco, Argentina thought it had scored the game-tying goal in added time, which would have earned them a draw and points toward possibly entering the knockout stage....
With the 2024 Paris Olympic Games underway, here are some of Team USA’s stars to look out for over the next couple of weeks. Jimmer Fredette (3×3 men’s basketball) Jimmer Fredette, a 3v3 basketball athlete, poses for a portrait during the 2024 Team USA Media Summit at Marriott Marquis Hotel April 17, 2024, in New...
