2024 Paris Olympic Games

This image provided by Mattel in April 2024 shows the company's Kristi Yamaguchi Barbie doll. Yamaguchi became the first Asian American to win an individual gold medal for figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. (Mattel via AP)

Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
 
A worker carries a suitcase in the "baggage factory", where athletes' luggages for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be collected, are seen in Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy-en-France, north of Paris, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris main airport unveils new baggage handling system ahead of the 2024 Olympics

 
FILE - Competitors swim in the Seine River during the Paris Triathlon competition in Paris Sunday, July 10, 2011. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo saidTuesday April 23, 2024 she was confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer _ and that she'll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File )

Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine

 
Activists help migrants to pack their belongings in a makeshift camp, early Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Paris. French police officers have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River, as similar operations have been carried out by authorities ahead of the Olympics. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep

 
FILE - United States' Allisha Gray (15) heads to the basket past Evgeniia Frolkina (16), of the Russian Olympic Committee, during a women's 3-on-3 gold medal basketball game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye toward being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer. She is the only player returning from the foursome that took home the gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Olympic gold medalist Allisha Gray hopes to be part of US 3x3 team in Paris Games

 

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FILE - Italy's Arianna Errigo celebrates on the podium her silver medal after the women's Individual Foil final against Italy's Alice Volpi, at the Fencing World Championships in Milan, Italy, on July 26, 2023. Fencer Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi were named as Italy’s flagbearers Monday, April 29, 2024 for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Fencing mom Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi named Italy’s Olympic flagbearers

 
A cauldron with the Olympic flame burns in front of the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill, Friday, April 19, 2024. The flame that will burn at the summer Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Olympic torch makes Acropolis overnight stop a week before handover to Paris organizers

 
French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera attends the inauguration of the Roucas Blanc Marina constructed for the upcoming summer Olympic Games in Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Marseille will host the Olympic sailing events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games that run from July 26 to Aug.11, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

French athletes at Paris Olympics will receive better mental health protection

 
The countdown clock, set up on the banks of the Seine river and in front of the Eiffel Tower, reads 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony,Tuesday, April 16, 2024 in Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to Aug. 11(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris Olympics opening ceremony on river Seine will last nearly 4 hours

 

Olympic rings unveiled at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet said Tuesday that France is “ready” to welcome the world to the Olympic Games at the unveiling of Olympic rings at Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport. (AP video by Patrick Hermansen and produced by Yesica Brumec)
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High priestess hands over Olympic flame to the first torchbearer at ceremony in Ancient Olympia

Olympic torch is lit at site of the ancient games in Greece, ahead of Paris Olympics

Cycling star Evenepoel targets June return from crash ahead of Tour de France and Paris Olympics

Two-time world champion cyclist Remco Evenepoel is targeting a June return to racing after a bad crash this month.
 
The countdown clock reading 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony is seen Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to Aug. 11. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Despite security risks, plans to open Paris Olympics on River Seine remain unchanged and on track

The question of holding the Paris Games opening ceremony on the Seine River loomed large as countdown clock to the Olympics passed the 100-day mark.
 
FILE -Oregon State's Jade Carey competes on the balance beam during an NCAA gymnastics meet Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, in Las Vegas. Carey, the 2020 Olympic champion on floor exercise, is competing for Oregon State in the all-around at this week's NCAA Championships. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

Jade Carey and Leanne Wong are hoping their path to the Olympics goes through the NCAA Championships

Gymnastic stars Jade Carey and Leanne Wong are carving out a unique path in their quest to reach the Paris Olympics.
 
FILE - Suni Lee competes on the balance beam at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed this week that at the height of a mystery kidney ailment last year, she gained around 45 pounds in water weight that made her question whether a return to top form was even possible. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn, File)

Olympic champion Suni Lee back in form after debilitating kidney ailment

Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last year, she questioned whether a return to top form was even possible.
 
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry warms up for the team's NBA basketball play-in tournament game against the Sacramento Kings, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Stephen Curry tells the AP why 2024 is the right time to make his Olympic debut

Golden State guard Stephen Curry knew he was running out of chances to play in what would be his first Olympics, so he and his wife Ayesha started planning many months ago about how to make the Paris Games work for their family.
 
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. The United States and China are expected to finish 1-2 in the gold and the overall medal counts at the Paris Olympics, which open in 100 days. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Noah Eagle picked by NBC as play-by-play voice for basketball at the Paris Olympics

Noah Eagle is broadcasting his second Olympics this summer. He’s going to his first. NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Eagle will be the play-by-play voice for USA Basketball’s men’s games, women’s games and the medal rounds at this summer’s Paris Olympics.
 
This photo provided by the Collectif Acces au Droit, shows riot police officers outside a squat Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Vitry-sur-Seine, outside Paris. With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police carried out a large-scale eviction at France's biggest squat in the south of the capital. Authorities, including dozens of gendarmes, cleared out the makeshift camp at an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine. (@CAD_asso, Collectif Acces au Droit via AP)

French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics

The Paris Games are 100 days away, and police have carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squat in the south of Paris.
 
FILE - Gold medalist Norah Jeruto, of Kazakhstan, poses during a medal ceremony for the women's 3000-meter steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships on July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. Former world champion steeplechase runner Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case hearing in June ahead of Paris Olympics

Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open.
 
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech during an awarding ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee medalists of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing and members of the Russian Paralympic team, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Dozens of Russian athletes are likely to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Will Moscow let them go?

Dozens of Russian athletes will likely be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics. They might not go.
 
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. The United States and China are expected to finish 1-2 in the gold and the overall medal counts at the Paris Olympics, which open in 100 days. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

The United States and China are expected to win the most medals at the Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics open in 100 days and the United States and China are expected to finish 1-2 in the overall and gold-medal count.
 
Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant gestures during warmups before an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings Friday, April 12, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy)

USA Basketball announces its men’s team for the Paris Olympics

LeBron James is going back to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years. Stephen Curry is headed to the games for the first time.
 
FILE -Zambia's Barbra Banda chases the ball during the Women's World Cup Group C soccer match between Zambia and Japan in Hamilton, New Zealand, Saturday, July 22, 2023. Forward Barbra Banda has officially joined the Orlando Pride after helping the Zambian women's national team secure a spot at this summer's Olympics. (AP Photo/John Cowpland, File)

Barbra Banda joins her Orlando Pride teammates for her first practice with the team

Forward Barbra Banda has officially joined the Orlando Pride after helping the Zambian women’s national team secure a spot at this summer’s Olympics.
 
The countdown clock reads 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony,Tuesday, April 16, 2024 in Paris. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to Aug. 11(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Countdown clock for Paris Olympics hits 100-day mark on same day Olympic Torch is lit

The Olympic Torch is lit and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is 100 days away. The countdown clock in Paris hit the 100-day mark Tuesday.
 
Workers build constructions on the Champ-de-Mars, near the Eiffel Tower, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

US Olympic committee strikes sponsorship deal to help athletes get degrees after they retire

American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills for life after sports thanks to a partnership U.S.
 
FILE - Police officers patrol the Trocadero plaza near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics. Organizers are finalizing security planning for the July 26-Aug. 11 Games, the French capital’s first in a century. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

The Paris Games’ grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues

The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds.
 
Performers take part in the official ceremony of the flame lighting for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The flame will be carried through Greece for 11 days before being handed over to Paris organizers on April 26. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.
 
FILE - Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch during the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southwestern Greece Oct. 18, 2021. On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 the flame for this summer's Paris Olympics will be lit and be carried through Greece for more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) before being handed over to French organizers at the Athens site of the first modern Olympics. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Torch and sandals: What to know about the flame-lighting ceremony in Greece for the Paris Olympics

In a meticulously choreographed ceremony on Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics will be lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece.
 
The Eiffel Tower and the Champs-de-Mars at its feet, the Invalides monument and its dome, right, are seen Monday, April 15, 2024 in Paris. The Champ-de-Mars will host the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football and the Invalides will host the Cycling road, Archery and Athetics events at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

AP PHOTOS: Paris Olympics venues mix history and modernity and showcase cultural heritage

PARIS (AP) — Iconic or historic venues are at the heart of the Paris Olympics — organizers want the event to be about the spectacle as well as the sports.
 
Gymnast Evita Griskenas is shown during a press conference at the Team USA Media Summit Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)

Paris-bound Olympians look forward to a post-COVID Games with fans in the stands

The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands.
 
FILE - Gold medalist Irene Schouten, of the Netherlands, poses for a photo during a medals ceremony for the for the women's speedskating 3,000-meter race of the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 6, 2022, in Beijing. The favored French candidacy to host the 2030 Winter Olympics is in talks with the Netherlands and Italy to stage speedskating races there. The IOC’s executive director of the Olympic Games, Christophe Dubi, suggested France's neighbors Italy — which will host the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo — and the Netherlands, a longtime power in speed skating. The Dutch team won six speedskating gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, including three for Irene Schouten. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

French bid to host 2030 Winter Olympics talks with Italy, Netherlands to stage speed skating

The favored French candidacy to host the 2030 Winter Olympics is in talks with the Netherlands and Italy to stage speed skating races.
 
Stands are under construction on the Champ-de-Mars with the Eiffel Tower, Monday, April 15, 2024 in Paris. The Champ-de-Mars will host the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Le Defense business district is seen in background. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games

April 17 marks the 100 days countdown to the Paris Olympics ambitious opening ceremony. The first Games in a century in France’s capital will be judged not only for the sporting spectacle.
 
The Seine river is seen Thursday, March 28, 2024 in Paris. The river will host the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony with boats for each national delegation. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Macron says the Olympic opening ceremony on the Seine could be moved to stadium for security reasons

French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security threat is deemed too high.
 
Performers, who will take part in the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, enter the Olympic Velodrome ahead of a practice in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame lighting ceremony in southern Greece at Ancient Olympia. The event is marked with a performance by dancers who assume the role of priestesses and male companions, their movement inspired by scenes on millennia-old artwork. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past

Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic Games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at ancient Olympia.
 
The purple athletics track at the Olympic Stadium, currently known as Stade de France, is being installed, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. The Olympic Stadium will host the athletics events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Fans get a new track color and maybe record-breaking times at Paris Olympics

Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games.
 
FILE - Yulimar Rojas, of Venezuela, reacts after winning the Women's triple jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 25, 2023. Rojas tore her left Achilles tendon and said on April 12, 2024 that she will miss the Paris Games. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Olympic triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas tears Achilles tendon and will miss Paris Games

Olympic triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas has torn her left Achilles tendon and says she will miss this year’s Paris Games.
 
FILE - Venezuela's Leonel Martinez competes in the men's shooting trap final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 27, 2023. Martinez was only 20 years old when he took part in the Los Angeles Games in 1984, but says he’s in better shape now, at 60, as he prepares to compete in Paris after the second-longest gap between Olympic appearances in history. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

40 years after competing in Los Angeles, Venezuelan shooter returns to the Olympics at age 60

It’s been 40 years since Venezuelan trap shooter Leonel Martínez last competed at the Olympics. He was only 20 when he took part in the Los Angeles Games in 1984, but says he’s in better shape now, at 60, as he prepares to compete in Paris after the second-longest gap between Olympic appearances in
 
FILE - A general view of National Stadium during an athletics test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo, on May 9, 2021. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. The modern Olympics originated as an amateur sports event and the IOC does not award prize money, though many medalists receive payments from their countries' governments, national sports bodies or from sponsors. The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee awarded $37,500 for gold medalists at the last Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

$50K Olympic track prize the latest in a long, conflicted relationship between athletes and money

Since the day they were founded, the Olympics have had a confusing relationship with money. The games were supposed to celebrate sport for sport’s sake.
 
Miami Heat guard Patty Mills (88) brings the ball up the court after stealing a pass against the Portland Trail Blazers during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, March 29, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Jim Rassol)

NBA players Patty Mills and Jock Landale are in 22-man Australia squad for Paris Olympics

Ten players from Australia’s Tokyo 2020 bronze medal-winning side have been named in an extended 22-man squad for the Paris Olympics.
 
FILE - Max Whitlock of Great Britain celebrates winning the gold medal on the pommel horse in the men's apparatus finals at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. Triple Olympic gold medalist Max Whitlock says he will end his 24-year gymnastics career after the Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

British gymnast Max Whitlock to retire after Paris Olympics

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Max Whitlock of Britain plans to end his gymnastics career after the Paris Games.
 
Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson celebrates his goal against the Boston Bruins during the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, March 30 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

A decade since Sochi, John Carlson is still playing big minutes for the Capitals at age 34

A decade after representing the United States at the Sochi Olympics, John Carlson is still logging big minutes at age 34 and playing a huge role for the Washington Capitals as they try to return to the playoffs.