Simone Biles is back. The 2016 Olympic gymnastics champion will return to competition in the balance beam final on Tuesday, a little over a week after stepping away from the meet to focus on her mental health.
The race that has long defined Olympic royalty went to a Texas-born Italian who hadnβt cracked 10 seconds until this year.
The first Black female swimmer on Britainβs Olympic team uses the the Soul Cap, an extra-large silicone covering designed specifically to protect dreadlocks, weaves, hair extensions, braids, and thick and curly hair. But Dearing has been forbidden from using the cap in her Olympic debut next week in the womenβs 10k marathon swim.
This is the strongest earthquake to shake the state since 1965.
Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million).
For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up β to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: winning. Dominating. Getting it done.
Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic title.
Reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles is out of the team finals after apparently sustaining an injury during the vault.
Chaos and confusion over travel rules and measures to contain new virus outbreaks are contributing to another cruel summer for Europeβs battered tourism industry.
The Americans rebounded from their opening loss with a 6-1 rout of New Zealand in front of the First Lady on Saturday in the womenβs soccer tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.
About 100 of the 613 U.S. athletes descending on Tokyo for the Olympics are unvaccinated, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committeeβs medical chief said hours before Friday nightβs opening ceremony.
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.
Jill Biden embarked on her first solo international trip as first lady, leading a U.S. delegation to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where the coronavirus is surging and COVID-19 infections have climbed to a six-month high.
Let the fashion policing begin. The Olympics in Tokyo open Friday, when the worldβs athletes will march behind their flag-bearers. And when they do, the peanut gallery on what theyβre wearing will be open, too.
Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket companyβs first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.
Over two months worth of rainfall has fallen in just two days as water levels continue to rise.
The Weeknd, BTS and Billie Eilish will take part in Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour event on Sept. 25 thatβs intended to raise money and awareness to fight worldwide threats including COVID-19, climate change and extreme poverty.
President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31, saying βspeed is safetyβ as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war.
Fans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said after meeting with IOC and Japanese organizers on Thursday.
This could be it for Caster Semenya and the Olympics.
