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She's a basketball star. She wears a hijab. So she's barred fromFrance's Olympics team
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoIn her senior year playing for the University of California, Irvine, she averaged 7.5 points, 2.4...
Judo at 2024 Paris Olympics: How it works, Team USA stars, what else to know
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Canada Sports· 1 day agoHost nation France (57 medals) is another force and automatically qualified a judoka for every...
'Crazy idea': How Paris secured its Olympics opening ceremony
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoTony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, told reporters in a briefing on...
10 Idaho athletes go for gold in Paris. How to follow them at the 2024 Olympics
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo Canada Sports· 4 days agoYoung Rider Development Squad) before blossoming into one of the top American riders. The...
How many athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics have Texas connections?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo Canada Sports· 4 days agoField Hockey Kelsey Bing is a field hockey player from Houston. Golf Scottie Scheffler went to the ...
'My heart is broken by France's Olympic hijab ban'
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoBut she has mixed feelings about being back home - because she's banned from competing in France. The reason? She wears a hijab. Last year, when...
Swimming has a diversity problem. Can this generation of Olympians change that?
LA Times via Yahoo Canada Sports· 23 hours agoThat event begins Aug. 1. Manuel, who...Associated Press) If both can repeat their success in France...
Paris Games set to go off against backdrop of security concerns and political upheaval
The Globe and Mail· 4 days agoWhen the Olympic Games officially open in Paris on Friday there will be lots of fanfare and...
When the Paris Olympics Begin, the Seine Is His Stage
New York Times· 4 days agoTo open the Games, the theater director Thomas Jolly has masterminded a spectacular waterborne...
Adam Pankratz: The Paris Opening Ceremonies weren’t awful, they were French
National Post· 17 hours agoThe Opening Ceremonies were unique and special as athletes rode the waves of the Seine through one ...