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 U.S. men’s national soccer team had a Paris Olympics opener they’d likely want to forget. France welcomed Team USA to the Velodrome stadium in Marseille on Wednesday night and routed them 3-0 behind goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Michael Olise and Loic Bade. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM France’s Loic Bade (4)...
Many athletes get into competitive mode by listening to a pump-up playlist before they compete. Eminem’s “Till I Collapse” and “Lose Yourself,” “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor and “We Will Rock You” by Queen are among the classics for athletes to warm up to. On Friday, July 26, the 2024 Olympics will officially kick...
American Olympic medalist Jordan Chiles is hoping to return from the Paris Games with gold after being a part of the team’s silver medal in Tokyo three years ago. As Chiles prepped for the Olympics, she recalled in an interview with Teen Vogue the racism she experienced as she grew up in the sport. She...
Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis superstar ranked No. 1 in the world, withdrew from the Paris Olympics Wednesday because of tonsillitis days before matches begin. Sinner wrote on social media he was advised by a doctor to sit out the Games because of it. “Missing the Olympics is a big disappointment, given that it was...
Salt Lake City was formally awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics following a Wednesday vote by the International Olympic Committee in Paris, which gives Utah its second Games after hosting in 2002. A watch party was planned at 3 a.m. local time — 11 a.m. in Paris — to celebrate the announcement. Large crowds were expected...
U.S. Olympic tennis star Coco Gauff on Wednesday was named the female flag bearer for the opening ceremonies at the Paris Games and will join LeBron James with the honor. Gauff, 20, is making her second Olympics appearance. In the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she was 17 when she was named to the roster –...
The Summer Olympics in Paris begin this week with what will be a historic opening ceremony that takes center stage on the Seine River Friday. This year’s Games marks a return to normalcy after the 2020 Games in Tokyo were delayed a year after the COVID-19 pandemic. Some sports will be returning to Paris, while...
