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After coach's life was likely saved backstage, Uzbekistan dominates Olympic boxing tournament 08/10/2024 06:56pm • PARIS (AP) — Uzbekistan's beloved head boxing coach was revived from apparent cardiac arrest Thursday by two members of Britain's training staff after celebrating his team's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, his fighters confirmed Saturday night. The Uzbek team went on to win five golds — Paris Olympics Day 15: US wins gold in men's basketball and women's soccer, adds 3 golds in track 08/10/2024 06:27pm • PARIS (AP) — The U.S. collected gold in men’s basketball and women’s soccer and earned three more golds in a huge night at the track Saturday at the Paris Olympics. Stephen Curry scored 24 points to lead Team USA over France 98-87 at Bercy Arena to win its fifth straight gold medal and 17th ov Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia three-peats as Olympic weightlifting champion 08/10/2024 06:12pm • PARIS (AP) — Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia has won his third consecutive Olympic title in the heaviest weightlifting division, taking gold in the men's +102 kilograms on Saturday. Talakhadze won gold in the men’s +102 kilograms after winning at +109 kilograms in Tokyo three years ago and +105 kilo More waiting: Decision on Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's appeal is delayed 08/10/2024 03:07pm • PARIS (AP) — Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's appeal for a shared silver medal after she was disqualified from an Olympic final for missing weight could come as late as Tuesday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saturday. Sports’ highest court originally said the decision was expected to be Lydia Ko finally gets her Olympic gold. It puts her into the LPGA Hall of Fame 08/10/2024 02:34pm • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — One gold short of the Olympic medal collection, one win away from the LPGA Hall of Fame, Lydia Ko pondered what it would be like to knock out both at the same time and said when she arrived, “It would be a hell of a way to do it.” What the 27-year-old K Ukraine uses Olympic spotlight to capture global attention and fight war fatigue 08/10/2024 12:10pm • PARIS (AP) — Ukraine’s Olympic house stands out for its somber atmosphere, with fewer celebrations and parties than the other fan clubhouses that countries set up to tout their athletes and culture. It has moments of silence for war victims and screens documentaries about the destruction. Organi Meet Nacer Zorgani, the vision-impaired Para-judo athlete who doubles as boxing’s Olympic voice 08/10/2024 10:08am • PARIS (AP) — The crowd at Roland Garros, the legendary home of French tennis that's now hosting Olympic boxing, erupted in applause as Nacer Zorgani's deep, resonant voice filled the venue. “Ladies and gentlemen, in the red corner, representing France — Billal Bennama!” he announced in Frenc Near mid-air collision and safety violations led to fatal crash of Marine Corps Osprey in Australia 08/09/2024 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An Osprey crash in Australia that killed three Marines last August was caused by multiple pilot errors during a near mid-air collision, a military investigation has found. It also found that squadron leadership had permitted “a culture that disregarded safety of flight.” Two Michael Brown's death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson 08/09/2024 06:30pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown once told his father the “world is going to know my name,” words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the Olivia Reeves wins the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years 08/09/2024 05:05pm • PARIS (AP) — Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn't work. It didn't matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years at the Paris Games on Friday. “Feeling the weight of this compe Amanda Knox wasn't coerced but 'freely' accused a bar owner in roommate's murder, Italian court says 08/09/2024 01:50pm • MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox’s hand-written memo at the center of her latest retrial for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British housemate contained enough elements for her to be reconvicted of slander in June, an Italian appeals court said Friday. The slander convic Wrestler Vinesh Phogat appeals to get Olympic silver medal after disqualification for missing weight 08/09/2024 07:34am • PARIS (AP) — Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has asked sports’ highest court to award her a shared silver medal after being disqualified from her Paris Olympics final for missing the weight limit. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said a judge in Paris is holding a hearing Friday on Phogat’s ap Like pit crews but in weightlifting. How loaders keep the Olympic sport going 08/09/2024 02:53am • PARIS (AP) — A hulking weightlifter raises a bar of more than 300 pounds (135 kilograms) and swiftly drops it the ground, followed by cheers cascading down from the crowd. Before another competitor can step up, a handful of people seated nearby scurry up the stairs and onto the stage to reset. The Water woes linger in New Orleans after wayward balloon causes power glitch, pressure drop 08/08/2024 10:45pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Utility companies have warned for years about the hazards of Mylar balloons and that message resounded Thursday across New Orleans as most of the city's nearly 370,000 residents were under a boil water advisory for a time after a wayward balloon hit power lines near a treatment Debby downgraded to tropical depression as DC region sees damaging winds, heavy rain, isolated flooding 08/08/2024 07:44pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Tropical Storm Debby was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon and it's expected to continue weakening as it moves north this week — but not before it rolls through the D.C. area bringing the risk of flooding and th