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Paris 2024: The final four Olympic basketball places up for grabs

  • Basketball

From today, Tuesday 2 July, until next 7 July, 24 teams will be competing for the last tickets to Paris this summer. The competition will take place in four venues: Valencia (Spain), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Athens (Greece) and Riga (Latvia). Only the champion of each venue will secure a place at the Olympic Games.

While some teams, such as the USA with its new 'Dream Team' featuring the ambitious LeBron James, Stephen

will join the eight countries that have already qualified: France (who host), Germany, Serbia, the USA


GAMMA World Gold medallist Zoe Nowicki secures debut victory

  • GAMMA

GAMMA World Gold medallist Zoe Nowicki secured an unanimous decision victory in her professional debut at Invicta Fighting Championships 55 in Kansas City on Friday. Her win came against amateur MMA world champion and multiple medallist Josiane Oliveira, who was also making her professional debut.

Nowicki was one of two GAMMA USA athletes debuting professionally at Invicta FC before heading to Argentina

Nowicki and Johnson are part of an impressive USA team lineup that includes GAMMA and World Combat Games


Shericka Jackson impresses in Kingston, doubles down for Paris

  • Athletics

After imposing her will on the 100metre race on Friday, the Jamaican sprinter won the 200m final on Sunday at the Caribbean country’s athletics trials and set up her sprint double gold bid at the upcoming 2024 Games.

which only reinforced her standing as the biggest threat to Jamaica’s longtime sprinting rival, the USA


SwissBoxing announces withdrawal of national subsidies as of 31 December

  • Boxing

Amir Orfia, president of SwissBoxing, addressed a letter to the members of the Swiss Boxing Federation to outline the current scenario and the difficult situation following the announcement of the withdrawal of national subsidies as of 31 December 2024,

World Boxing will host its first Youth World Championships from 25 October to 5 November 2024 in the USA

SwissBoxing also informed his members of the contacts he had in Bangkok with Elise Seignolle, a member of the USA


Team USA shows poker hand and good Vegas vibes

  • Basketball

After four consecutive gold medals, the American basketball team kicks off training camp this week with hopes of notching its fifth Olympic win in a row thanks to another star-studded roster led by veterans LeBron James and Stephen Curry.

through the years; and now, on the wrong side of 30, they have come to share a common goal: lead the USA

idea of being together after going against one another with such high stakes over the years,” Team USA

Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins’ participation with the Canadian squad, good vibes seem all but assured at Team USA


US Olympic Trials: Knee injury ends Shilese Jones's gymnastics bid

  • Gymnastics

Shilese Jones withdrew from the US Olympic gymnastics trials on Saturday, a day after she injured her left knee on a warm-up vault and had to opt out of three apparatus. Jones, a world championships bronze medallist last year, landed awkwardly on the vault shortly before competition began and limped off with the help of her coach.

routine of the night —but she skipped the other apparatus and after further evaluation of the injury, USA


A golden “no” to Andrew Wiggins’ medal hopes with Canada

  • Basketball

The Warriors are putting up a fight to release the forward, a key contributor in their 2022 NBA title and now trade candidate, in order for him to compete at the Paris 2024 Games, Canadian team officials complain.

But Golden State, whose coach Steve Kerr will also be managing Team USA in Paris 2024, seems to be in


WADA announces Athlete Engagement program teams for Paris 2024

  • Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency made public its plan to promote clean sport directly with the athletes competing at the upcoming 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, including representatives from 12 countries across five different continents from various athlete representative bodies. 

responsibilities in the future.”Aerobic gymnast Dora Hegyi, from Hungary, and bobsleigher Chris Kinney, from the USA


Grant Holloway makes Olympics with 110 hurdles win as Lyles, Richardson roll on

  • Athletics

Three-time world champion Grant Holloway punched his ticket to the Paris Olympics on Friday in the 110m hurdles at the US trials, while Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson cruised into the 200m finals. Holloway won the 110 hurdles final in 12.86secs, the fastest time in the world this year, with Freddie Crittenden second in a personal best 12.93 and Daniel Roberts third in a personal best 12.96.

Nothing will stop it and I will feel like it's my responsibility to the USA to go to Paris and bring


Chris Roberts: "The IOC moves the goalposts every time we get to the line"

  • Boxing

In a one-on-one interview with Inside The Games, the International Boxing Association’s secretary general addresses the federation’s "combative relationship" with the International Olympic Committee and the future of the sport, including its uncertain status for Los Angeles 2028.

This is an event that has been put in USA Boxing’s performance centre, where they have been a running


Curling: Fredericton to host 2025 World Mixed Doubles and World Seniors

  • Curling

The 2025 World Mixed Doubles and World Senior Curling Championships will be held at the Willie O'Ree Place in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada from 26 April to 3 May. The city is located on the east coast of Canada, between the provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and the US state of Maine.

The World Senior Curling Championship is an open entry event and made its debut in 2002 in Bismarck, USA


New coach drops star Alex Morgan from US women's squad for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan has been left out of the US women's team for the upcoming Paris Olympics by new coach Emma Hayes, who has opted for a younger squad.

New USA head coach Emma Hayes named her 18-man squad for the tournament and there was no place for the

in the team's bid for a fifth Olympic gold medal and first since Paris 2012.Morgan was part of the USA

also her professionalism and her record speaks for itself," said the England coach, who took over the USA

last-minute replacement due to injury.Naomi Girma #4, Alex Morgan #13 and Lindsey Horan #10 of the USA

GETTY IMAGESMorgan, a star of her country's football, has been a member of the USA squad since the 2011


Simone Biles seeks Paris ticket in fierce competition

  • Olympics

As she competes to secure her spot at the Paris Olympics, Simone Biles appears increasingly steadfast in a fierce competition to join the US gymnastics team.

will be announced.Brody Malone competes in the Rings during the Senior Men's competition of the 2024 USA


Masomah Ali Zada 'proud' to be a voice for refugees at Olympics

  • Olympics

Masomah Ali Zada is "proud" to represent "all those who have been forced to flee their country" in her role as chef de mission of the Refugee team at the Paris Olympics, she told Agence France-Presse. 

@‌RefugeesOlympic pic.twitter.com/YPzZFCaqAi— USA for UNHCR (@UNRefugeeAgency) June 23, 2024"I grew up


IBA denounces IOC's 'unprecedented pressure' on national boxing federations

  • Boxing

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has reported that the IOC, through its respective NOCs, is interfering in the activities of the federations with the threat of "funding cuts as a result of their affiliation to the International Boxing Association". The IBA adds that it will "take appropriate action".

together more than 100 nations, while the most recent event announced by World Boxing, to be held at the USA