Sports

Five things to watch from the swimming competition at this year’s Olympic Games

Paris CNN  —  The first week of the Olympics and with it comes one of the Games’ signature events: Swimming.…

Olympic moment of the day: Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz, tennis’ new favorite double act

Roland Garros, Paris CNN  —  After all these years, Rafael Nadal is still finding new ways to win matches on…

The showdown that wasn’t: Ariarne Titmus easily bests Katie Ledecky in hotly anticipated rematch

Nanterre, France CNN  —  The race that everyone turned out to see never really got going. The women’s 400-meter freestyle…

The world’s youngest country is making waves in international basketball, and ready to take on Team USA at the Olympics

CNN  —  The USA is the preeminent force in men’s Olympic basketball. It has won the gold medal on 14…

The IOC says the Olympic Games has reached gender parity, but historic gender inequality still lingers

CNN  —  Three years before the Olympics last visited Paris in 1924, a small gathering of female athletes led by…

5 takeaways from the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics

Paris CNN  —  It was wet, parts of it were weird, much of it was beautiful and all of it…

Olympic moment of the day: Married couple makes history as Romania’s flag bearers

Paris CNN  —  Romanian rowing athletes Ionela-Livia Cozmiuc and Marius Cozmiuc set a historic first at the opening ceremony Friday…

Katie Ledecky: The rise of an Olympic great

CNN  —  Michael Ledecky remembers the day he was first beaten by his younger sister Katie in the pool, wrenching…