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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 …

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Anti-investor protests in German soccer escalated on Friday when fans attached bicycle locks to a goal and displayed banners showing a club executive’s face in crosshairs. There have been regular protests since last year against a plan to sell a stake in marketing revenues to a private equity investor for an up-front payment. As the league …

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 …

BRUSSELS (AP) — France is siding with UEFA against closed breakaway soccer leagues. On the eve of the UEFA Congress to be held in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin expressed “their shared vision in favor of the European sporting model, based on open competitions, the principle of solidarity, sporting merit and recognition of the social …

LONDON (AP) — England will prepare for the European Championship by playing warmup games against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iceland in the days leading up to the tournament. It will be a first ever meeting against Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Newcastle’s St. James’ Park hosting the match on June 3. The game against Iceland will be at Wembley Stadium on June 7. Both of …

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada captured their first International Skating Union title on Sunday, winning the gold medal in ice dance at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. Skating to music from “Wuthering Heights,” two-time world bronze medalists Gilles and Poirier obtained level fours on their lifts, twizzles and dance spin to receive 128.87 …

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Defender Jarrad Branthwaite headed home a stoppage-time equalizer as Everton salvaged a 2-2 draw with Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday after Richarlison had scored twice against his former team. Richarlison looked to have boosted Tottenham’s push for a top-four finish by taking his tally to nine goals in his last eight league games. But …

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid did not comment Saturday on the latest media speculation saying star forward Kylian Mbappé has decided to leave PSG for Madrid next season. According to online reports from French newspaper Le Parisien and ESPN, the 25-year-old Mbappé will join the Spanish giant after his PSG contract runs out at the end of …