Brisbane, where a crowd had gathered to watch the announcement on big screens, becomes the third Australian city to get the Games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000. Its selection means ...
The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s, when the wealthy Victorians in England created an indoor version of lawn tennis using items laying around the house to assemble a ...
Swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place inside Paris La Defense Arena, the largest indoor events venue in Europe. Located just to the northwest of Paris in Nanterre, the domed stadium ...
After Serbia missed out on the Tokyo Games, Nikola Jokic is back in the Olympics for the second time. His country qualified for Paris thanks to a second-place finish at last year's FIBA World Cup. Now ...
Downhill is considered a speed event. It features the longest course, the fastest speeds and the fewest turns. Each athlete gets one run down the mountain, with the gold medal going to the athlete ...
The team features three silver medalists from the Tokyo Olympics: Delaney Schnell, Jessica Parratto and Andrew Capobianco. Three divers will compete in multiple events. Schnell (10m platform) and ...
Both individual and team competition matches use a best-of-three format. One loss in Olympic tournament format will result in elimination from the tournament, save for in the semifinals when the two ...
Two more Team USA boxers enter the fray at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Wednesday as the women's lightweight (60kg/132lbs) competition enters its quarterfinal round. Omari Jones was the silver medalist ...
They were trailing Kerri Walsh Jennings and Brooke Sweat in points until the second-to-last Olympic qualifying tournament in May, where they won in a major breakthrough moment that allowed them to ...
Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...