PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team walked onto the floor at Bercy Arena on Sunday in leotards adorned with thousands of crystals, the kind designed to attract as much attention as possible. Don’t mistake all that glamour — both on the floor and in the stands, where…
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is moving on. The squad of Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera produced the high total score of 172.296 at the subdivision 2 qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday. Four gymnasts from each team perform each event, with the lowest score in the…
FRIDAY, July 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Older people who avail themselves of the newest shingles vaccine could reap a hidden benefit: A significant drop in their odds of developing dementia. One expert applauded the new findings. “Dementia isn’t an inevitable part of aging; it’s caused by diseases like Alzheimer’s,” said Dr. Sheona Scales, director…
There is nothing like climbing on to a skateboard at the age of 60 to start you thinking about the unforgiving hardness of concrete. It’s my first proper go in about 45 years, and instead of losing myself in the moment, I’m obsessing about x-ray departments and fracture clinics. But I keep going because when…
A Reuters journalist was killed and six journalists from AFP, Reuters and Al Jazeera were injured in the October attack. A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli strike in south Lebanon has carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honour the journalists wounded and killed in the field. The torch relay, which…
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The Paris Olympics will provide an opportunity for South Africa’s skateboarders to show out on the global stage, with 18-year-old Boipelo Awuah looking to finally make her debut after injury in Tokyo four years ago. The street skateboarding sensation from Kimberley in the Northern Cape was already in Tokyo for the Olympics at age 15…
BBC There are few photos of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada (left) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez “They look for him everywhere and the man is not even hidden” go the lyrics to a song by Los Tucanes de Tijuana, in honour of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. The infamous 76-year-old drug trafficker, one of the three founders…
The Paris Olympics kicked off with an extravagant opening ceremony on Friday night when an armada of boats carried 10,500 athletes along the Seine — the first outdoor version of the spectacle that was expected to be watched by a billion people. Earlier, a shadow was cast over the event by an act of criminal…