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The Paralympics kick off in Paris on Wednesday and run through Sept. 8. Thousands of athletes from a record number of countries will compete across 22 sports. Here's what to know and how to watch.

Paralympics 2024: When, who and how to watch the Paris games

Japan's Osaka missed last year's US Open after giving birth to her daughter Shai, and the former world number one is still trying to kick her return to the sport into top gear. But she was dialed in against 2017 French Open champion Ostapenko, firing 19 winners to wrap up...

Tearful Osaka triumphs in US Open return

Medals will be won in track cycling, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo. The action also started in archery, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, badminton, goalball -- a form of football for the visually impaired but played with hands -- and boccia, a version of bowls. Great Britain were quick...

First medals up for grabs as action begins at Paris Paralympics

The US Sun

BRITAIN’S Paralympic hopefuls lined up for the opening ceremony of the games in Paris last night. Tennis champ Lucy Shuker and basketball’s Terry Bywater were Team GB flagbearers. Lucy said: “It’s a dream come true to carry the flag at the biggest sporting event in the world. “When I was told, I started crying. Team-mates […]

Britain’s Paralympics 2024 hopefuls line up for opening ceremony of Games in Paris

Athlon Sports

Very unique tennis outfit for Noami Osaka

Naomi Osaka’s US Open Outfit Is Turning Heads

New York Post

Naomi Osaka returned to the U.S. Open stage in style — in more ways than one.

The former World No. 1 not only competed in her first match in Flushing in two years, but Osaka also looked dominant at times on her way to defeating the 10th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday inside Louis Armstrong Stadium to pick up her first top-10 victory in four years.

It was Osaka’s first match on the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center grounds since she gave birth to her daughter, Shai, 13 months ago — and the 26-year-old was overcome with emotion...

Naomi Osaka dominates 10th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko in US Open return

Prayers are pouring out for Yoshihito Nishioka.

U.S. Open Player Yoshihito Nishioka Forfeits Match After Terrifying Incident

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Starting on August 28th with the opening ceremony, more than 4000 athletes will participate in 22 sports adapted for different abilities.

Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Opening Ceremony, how to watch, sports included

New York City, NY

NEW YORK -- It’s been a bravura breakthrough season for Emma Navarro. Back in January, the 23-year-old American won her first Hologic WTA Tour title in Hobart. She reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, her best Grand Slam result to date. Navarro already has won 41 matches, a total exceeded only by World No.1 Iga Swiatek.

In a year of career milestones, Navarro adds another at the US Open

The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Miles Krajewski and Jayci Simon barely spoke throughout the most pivotal points of their Paralympic debut. Team USA’s mixed doubles para badminton pair offered brief encouragement between points but moved around each other without a word once the shuttlecock was in the air. The 19-year-olds’ chemistry was on full display on Thursday at La Chapelle Arena in northern Paris as they defeated India 23-21, 21-11 to start their pursuit of Paralympic gold.

Teenage Paralympians aiming for Team USA’s first badminton medal

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Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, recently introduced an adorably tiny dog named Cha Cha who is looking for her forever home. Sandy Paws Rescue explains that she is 5 to 6 months old, and "our best guess on breed is chi/frenchie mix". Cha Cha may be small in size, but she's bursting with personality and love to give. This pint-sized pup is eagerly awaiting her chance to find her forever home, with her arrival in Massachusetts scheduled for Monday, August 26th.

Meet The Tiny 8lb Puppy Looking For Love

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When I learned the brown tarantula is also native to Missouri, I gasped, and when I say I'm not too fond of spiders of any genus is an understatement. It's psychological. They have too many legs.

It's mating season for the Texas brown tarantula also known as the Missouri tarantula

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To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

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Daily Coffee Press

A developing tropical disturbance in the Caribbean is showing increasing potential to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico, intensify, and impact areas along the Gulf Coast, likely between Florida and Louisiana. If the system gains a name, it will be designated Tropical Storm Debby. This system has the potential to bring significant rainfall to the eastern Gulf Coast, and depending on its strength, could also generate hazardous winds and a dangerous storm surge.

Potential Tropical Storm Debby Could Bring Heavy Rain and Strong Winds to Gulf Coast and SE GA

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The Lens

During my childhood, when my family visited relatives “across the river,” in Bayou Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, Caddo, the Pointe, and White Castle, my siblings and I would sometimes race up and down the levees, some distance away from the cows grazing there. At the summit of the hill, you could see the Mississippi River waters through stands of trees and brush. It never occurred to me that our “playground” was the living testimony of Black men, prisoners of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola whom the state of Louisiana had re-enslaved in the convict leasing system.

No longer ‘half slave, half free’

The Mirror US

Everything you need to know about goalball, the unique sport which must be played in complete silence and has been part of the Paralympics for almost 50 years

What is goalball? Paralympics rules for unique game at Paris 2024

Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris Games will represent a turning point for the Paralympic movement, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons told Reuters on the eve of the opening ceremony.

Paralympics-Paris 2024 will be turning point for Paralympics, says IPC president

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(MA) Meet Jack Jewel, a teeny tiny Miniature Poodle mix boy who is ready to completely take over every aspect of your life. For unspecified reasons, this 4-and-a-half-month-old puppy was placed in Great Dog Rescue New England's care. He is now living safely with a foster family where he is being spoiled. While he is okay with waiting in foster care for the time being, he hopes you will come bring him to YOUR house soon!

Tiny 4-Pound Miniature Poodle Is Searching For A Home

The Independent

  Top-ranked Iga Swiatek fought through a tough first-round match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday, while two-time champion Naomi Osaka made an impressive return to the tournament by beating No. 10 Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2.Osaka, the 2018 and 2020 champion in Flushing Meadows, needed only 64 minutes to oust Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion. It was the kind of performance that was standard from Osaka when she reached No. 1 in the rankings and won four Grand Slam titles between 2018-21.But she had missed large gaps of time since, first for mental health breaks and then after...

No. 1 Swiatek shakes off tough test, Naomi Osaka wins impressively in her return to the US Open

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SSFC Spotlight: Taishi Brandon Nozawa thriving in Japan

The United States Men’s National Team has several options at goalkeeper, although there is yet to be a standout solution with the 2026 World Cup approaching....

SSFC Spotlight: Taishi Brandon Nozawa thriving in Japan

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