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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve will have Mike Thibault, Duke coach Kara Lawson and Texas A&M coach Joni Taylor as her assistants at the Paris Olympics. USA Basketball announced Reeve’s coaching staff for the women’s national team Tuesday. It keeps together the staff that clinched an automatic berth for the 2024 Olympics by winning the World …

The women’s basketball field is set for the Paris Olympics, with eight teams joining the U.S. and France. The most unlikely of the bunch to qualify was Canada. The Canadians lost on Sunday and needed host Hungary to lose to Spain to get into their fourth straight Olympics. Spain had already qualified and didn’t have much to play for. It …

NOISY-LE-GRAND, France (AP) — One of France’s leading fencers has been suspended following an “abnormal” doping test result, less than six months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games. Ysaora Thibus is a three-time Olympian in fencing and won the team foil silver medal at the last Olympics in Tokyo. She was the individual world champion in foil in 2022. The …

NOISY-LE-GRAND, France (AP) — One of France’s leading fencers has been suspended following an “abnormal” doping test result, less than six months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games. Ysaora Thibus is a three-time Olympian in fencing and won the team foil silver medal at the last Olympics in Tokyo. She was the individual world champion in foil in 2022. The …

PARIS (AP) — Athletes who win Olympic and Paralympic medals at the Paris Games will be taking home a bit of the French capital’s most famous landmark. Metal from beams and girders that have been swapped out of the iconic Eiffel Tower down the years has been stored, chopped up, polished and inserted in the heart of each of the …