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Nikki Hiltz celebrates after winning the women's 1500-meter final during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Transgender, nonbinary 1,500 runner Nikki Hiltz shines on and off track, earns spot at Paris Games

By Pat Graham and Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates her win in the wins women's 100-meter run final during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials Saturday, June 22, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Superstars and stars-in-waiting are newcomers among 10,500 athletes at Paris Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Simone Biles and the U.S. women celebrate as the 2024 team is named at the United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials on Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Biles, now 27, is still clearly the gymnast to beat heading to Paris Olympics

By Will Graves - Associated Press

Grant Holloway wins the men's 110-meter hurdles final during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials Friday, June 28, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Olympics and unfinished business await for hurdler Holloway while Sha’Carri and Lyles keep blazing

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

The bronze bust of the French Baron Pierre de Coubertin stands at the entrance of the Hellenic Olympic Committee building in Athens, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Coubertin envisioned the Olympics as a pacifist exercise that could foster international cooperation and peace, especially in the wake of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. The worst charge against Coubertin, was a personal letter he sent to Adolf Hitler praising the Nazi dictator and the Third Reich. he Coubertin family association, run by Pierre de Coubertin's descendants, denied in a statement to the Associated Press that Hitler and Coubertin maintained regular correspondence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

The reason why the Olympics have a French connection (and it ain’t just Paris 2024)

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Colombia's Linda Caicedo celebrates after scoring a goal against Panama during the second half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup women's soccer tournament match, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in San Diego. The 19-year-old Colombian, one of soccer’s brightest young stars, is readying to play at the Olympics in France and maybe — although it's a stretch — the under-20 Women’s World Cup hosted by her home country starting in late August. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Will teen star Caicedo try for an Olympics-U20 World Cup double?

By Anne M. Peterson - Associated Press

France's Kylian Mbappe reacts during the international friendly soccer match between France and Canada at the Matmut Atlantique stadium in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday, June 9, 2024. In the end, not even French president Emmanuel Macron could pull enough strings to free up his country's finest soccer player to compete in the Paris Games. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet, File)

Welcome to the weird world of men’s soccer at the Paris Olympics

By James Robson - Associated Press

Simone Manuel reacts after winning the Women's 50 freestyle finals Sunday, June 23, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Manuel channels her winning side, touches first in 50 free to claim individual Olympic race

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sept. 14, 2017. The Paris Olympics involve about 10,500 athletes from 200 countries or regions. But the Olympics are more than just fun and games. They are a giant business that generates billions of dollars in income for the International Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

The Olympics are more than fun and games. They’re a billion-dollar business with political overtones

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Gretchen Walsh reacts after winning the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Walsh follows world record with first Olympic berth while Foster wins 400 IM

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

United States players celebrate their win over Canada during the SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

U.S. women’s soccer team to play Olympic send-off match at Audi Field in July

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Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant gestures during warmups before an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings Friday, April 12, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy)

USA Basketball fills the 12 available slots for the Paris Olympics roster

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

FILE - Venezuela's Leonel Martinez competes in the men's shooting trap final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 27, 2023. Martinez was only 20 years old when he took part in the Los Angeles Games in 1984, but says he’s in better shape now, at 60, as he prepares to compete in Paris after the second-longest gap between Olympic appearances in history. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

40 years after competing in Los Angeles, Venezuelan shooter returns to the Olympics at age 60

By Juan Pablo Arráez and Jorge Rueda - Associated Press

FILE - A general view of National Stadium during an athletics test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo, on May 9, 2021. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. The modern Olympics originated as an amateur sports event and the IOC does not award prize money, though many medalists receive payments from their countries' governments, national sports bodies or from sponsors. The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee awarded $37,500 for gold medalists at the last Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

$50K Olympic track prize the latest in a long, conflicted relationship between athletes and money

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - Lamont Marcell Jacobs, of Italy poses with his gold medal following the men's 100-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press