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Their viral underwater routine to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" helped propel them to the silver medal position.

Team USA Women Secure Nation’s First Artistic Swimming Medal in Two Decades

New York Post

The U.S. has suffered an unexpected heartbreaker on the Paris sand.

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U.S. beach volleyball world champions Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng were defeated in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday night (21-18, 21-19) by Switzerland’s Tanja Huberli and Nina Brunner in an early quarterfinal exit.

The defeat marks the first time the U.S. has missed the podium in women’s beach volleyball in 24 years, since the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Hughes and Cheng were the country’s sole hope after the other American duo of Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth fell in the Round of...

US women eliminated by Switzerland in Olympic beach volleyball shocker

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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — This time at the Olympics, hammer thrower Annette Nneka Echikunwoke got to compete. Not only compete, but win a medal — for the United States. Three years ago, Echikunwoke arrived at the Tokyo Games ready to represent Nigeria, but she wound up needing to leave before even getting to take a throw. Nigeria was among a handful of countries deemed “high risk” by track’s anti-doping regulators in the lead-up to those Olympics — forcing its athletes to be subjected to more drug testing.

Unable to throw at the last Olympics, Echikunwoke changes countries and wins a hammer silver for US

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. For Ashleigh Johnson, the star goalkeeper of the U.S. women’s water polo team, the Paris Olympics have been something of a reunion — a moment to reconnect with former teammates from her days competing on Greek and Italian teams.

Ashleigh Johnson is a water polo champion. She might lead the U.S. to another gold

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What's in the box?! What's in the boooox?!No, we're not quoting that scene from Seven (or actually yes we are, but that's besides the point). We're really just trying to figure out what's in the box that Olympic medalists are given at the podium.That's right — we're talking about those mysterious rectangular boxes that medalists receive after they've won big.Well, let it be a mystery no more, as we delve into its secrets...What is in the box that Olympic medalists receive?You may have noticed while watching the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris that when athletes receive their medals, they're...

What's in That Mysterious Box That Olympic Medalists Receive on the Podium?

The US Sun

FLASHY swimmer Luana Alonso has hit out at her “North Korea” style punishment after Paraguay claimed to boot her out of the Olympics. Alonso failed to progress past the women’s 100m butterfly heats and allegedly decided to spend a day out in Paris complete with a trip to Disneyland, infuriating team bosses. The 20-year-old Paraguayan […]

Olympic star Luana Alonso rages at ‘North Korean’ punishment after claim she was booted out for ‘acting inappropriately’

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The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence. Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died...

Crew of Titan sub knew they were going to die before implosion, according to more than $50M lawsuit

Us Weekly

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images After Stephen Nedoroscik nailed his now-iconic pommel horse routine at the 2024 Paris Olympics, he underwent drug testing. “It took three hours after that competition for me to even check my phone, because right afterwards, of course, with how drug testing works out here, I got chosen,” Nedoroscik, 25, told GQ on […]

Stephen Nedoroscik Got Drug Tested After His Iconic Pommel Horse Routine at 2024 Paris Olympics

CBS News

Caroline Marks from the United States won the women's surfing gold medal while French Polynesian Kauli Vaast won the gold medal in men's surfing on Monday at the Paris Olympics in Tahiti.Cheers and tears erupted from boats floating near the wave and crowds of spectators along the shore as the men's final match ended in the afternoon. Vaast pumped his arms into the air in victory after beating Jack Robinson from Australia, who received the silver medal."I don't really realize it, but I just made history," said Vaast. "I can't be prouder to represent Tahiti and France at home."The women's...

American Caroline Marks wins surfing gold at Paris Olympics

The Spun

Noah Lyles is the Summer Olympics champion in the men's 100m dash, but the 200m dash might be his best event. However, Lyles had a surprising outcome during Wednesday afternoon's men's semifinals race. The gold medalist, who is coming off a historic 9.7984 performance in the 100m dash, did not win ...

Noah Lyles Loses Olympics Semifinals Race In Surprising Fashion

The New Republic

Nicknaming President Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe” doesn’t seem to be looking so good for Donald Trump now that he’s the old man in the race.A Morning Consult poll published Monday revealed that voters are suddenly viewing Trump as the decrepit candidate after Biden dropped his campaign. Americans are apparently far more likely to describe Vice President Kamala Harris as healthy, mentally fit, and a strong leader than the 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee.According to the poll, 71 percent of respondents agreed that Harris was “in good health,” while 52 percent said the same about Trump—6 percent fewer than believed the same...

Trump Just Got an Embarrassing Wake-Up Call From a Stunning New Poll

The best athletes in the world are dealing with some of the worst Olympic Village living conditions in recent memory, according to British swimmer Adam Peaty.  When it comes to the food options inside the Village, Peaty — who won his sixth overall Olympic medal at this year’s Summer Games in Paris — told iNews […]

Silver Medalist Adam Peaty Says Athletes Found Worms in Their Olympic Village Food

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Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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The Semi-Final matchups are set, as Germany, Serbia, France, and USA advance to the top four.

WILD Finishes In Men’s Olympic Basketball Quarter-Finals

West Virginia State

Actor Bob Denver, who passed away in 2005, will forever be remembered for his leading role on the classic 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Denver also played another famous TV character: the beatnik-type Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

TV's 'Gilligan Island' Stars Dawn Wells and Bob Denver and Their Controversy Behind the Scenes

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

PARIS (AP) — Gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci was furious after fellow Romanian Ana Barbosu lost her bronze to American Jordan Chiles on Monday when U.S. coaches called for an inquiry that boosted Chiles’ score and left Barbosu off the podium and crying on the floor at the Paris Olympics.

Comaneci says Chiles’ score change after inquiry was playing ‘with athletes mental health’

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More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

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The U.S. men's national basketball team are one game away from the gold medal match, but must get past Serbia first. Here is how to watch.

Team USA men's basketball vs. Serbia schedule: TV, time and how to watch

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Adrian Weinberg the Hero of U.S. Water Polo Victory

Former Cal goaltender makes two big stops in the penalty shootout win over Australia in the quarterfinals at the...

Adrian Weinberg the Hero of U.S. Water Polo Victory

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