Both individual and team competition matches use a best-of-three format. One loss in Olympic tournament format will result in elimination from the tournament, save for in the semifinals when the two ...

There's a new champion: Alaska's 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby. The American shocked the field by winning in 1:04.95. She and teammate Lilly King sandwiched South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker for medals, ...

Here's a look at when players will be competing in the first round and how to watch (all times ET).

During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, track and field events will be held between Thursday, August 1 and Sunday, August 11. Track and field fans living in the U.S.’ Eastern time zone will wake up to ...

From Chase Kalisz's dream-realizing 400m IM victory to Caeleb Dressel's history-making fifth gold medal in the men's 4x100m medley relay, the Tokyo Olympic swimming competition delivered from start to ...

The Tokyo Games showcased extraordinary athleticism and resilience despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which ultimately delayed the start of the Games by a year. In the men's ...

When the dust settles, rugby at the 2024 Paris Games, for winning and losing athletes alike, will never be forgotten. During the week of competition athletes played in France’s largest stadium in ...

American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke her own women's 400m hurdles world record for an astonishing sixth time (50.37 seconds), and Swedish star Mondo Duplantis set a new men's pole vault mark (6.25 ...

Every night of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Primetime in Paris will showcase the biggest stars and most thrilling moments of the day's competition, with an emphasis on enhanced storytelling. Mike Tirico ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines. Athletes must swim, fence, ride an unfamiliar horse through a show jumping course — they get just 20 minutes to get acquainted — and ...

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The center of the medal takes the shape of a hexagon, a reference to the country’s shape and nickname, l’hexagone. This piece of the medal contains fragments of iron that were removed from the Eiffel ...