PARIS (AP) — On the first sunny day of the Paris Olympics, the stars from the United States shined bright. Simone Biles and LeBron James dazzled, so did the U.S. women’s soccer team. Torri Huske grabbed some of the spotlight, and Haley Batten made a name for herself by earning a silver medal in mountain […]
The top four ranked teams all finished Sunday on two wins apiece, with the United States and France also unbeaten ahead of their Pool C showdown on Day 2.
Sophia Smith scored a pair of goals to help the United States beat Germany 4-1 and advance to the quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics. Mallory Swanson and Lynn Williams also scored for the Americans.
Coco Gauff is 2-0 so far at the Paris Olympics after adding a 6-3, 6-0 singles victory over Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic to a win a day earlier in doubles alongside Jessica Pegula.
Lee Kiefer has won back-to-back gold medals in foil fencing and her teammate Lauren Scruggs took the silver to make history as the first Black U.S. fencer to win an Olympic medal in an individual women’s event.
Torri Huske knocked off world-record holder Gretchen Walsh in the women’s 100 butterfly by about the length of a finger.
The Tampa Bay Rays traded right-handed reliever Jason Adam to the San Diego Padres for three minor-league prospects Sunday.
Surfers rode through and wiped out on barrel-shaped waves in their quest for gold during the first day of the Paris Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti on Saturday, with some of the biggest names in the sport side-by-side on their boards in the ocean.
Brody Malone has spent the last 16 months defying the odds, improbably coming back from a catastrophic right knee injury in the spring of 2023 to reach the Olympics for a second time.
Serbia jumped out to a 10-2 lead, putting the Americans into a quick hole, but it was the U.S. that came out on top.