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In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
FILE - United States' Stephen Curry (4) celebrates after beating France to win the gold medal during a men's gold medal basketball game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug ...
Noah Lyles of the U.S. proved he is the fastest man in the world at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Lyles won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in the men's 100 meters since Justin Gatlin at ...
At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the gold medal in the Women’s 800m. Defending champion Athing Mu of the United States failed to qualify for the Games. In the final, Hodgkinson led the race from early on, breaking away in the final 100 metres, and beating Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s reigning World and Commonwealth Games champion ...
London became the first city to have hosted three Games with the 2012 Summer Olympics. Paris is the second city to do so with the 2024 edition and will be followed by Los Angeles as the third in 2028. As of 2024, a large majority of the Games (41 out of 54) have been hosted in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, or Australia. Eight Games ...
In the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Sindhu won both her games in group M but lost in the round of 16 to He Bingjiao of China, the same player she had beaten in the 2020 Games bronze medal match. [148] At the end of the year, Sindhu won the 2024 Syed Modi International title beating Wu Luoyu of China in the final. [ 149 ]
Simone Biles celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's vault finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Paris restores glory to the Olympic ...
Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Biles submitted a new skill for the code of points for the uneven bars, a Weiler kip with 1.5 pirouette, which would make her the only female gymnast to have a skill named on every apparatus. [182] She ultimately did not compete the skill. Biles at the 2024 Olympic Games