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Jacoby, who’s been taking time to focus on other parts of her life aside from training and competing, has her sights set on returning to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles.
These Summer Games were exactly what the whole enterprise needed and in a style no other city could provide.
This week she passed 12,000 miles of the 18,000 miles completed to break the Guinness Records mark for fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe.
The U.S. easily won the total medal count with 126. Aside from the 40 gold, the Americans won 42 silver and 44 bronze.
Sifan Hassan traded elbows with Tigst Assefa with 150 meters left in the women’s marathon, then passed her along the railing to win the race for her third distance medal of the Paris Games.
No team had been able to push the Americans during this impressive streak of 61 consecutive wins. Only two of those victories had been by single digits before the game against France.
Highlights from the past two weeks.
U.S. Olympic officials are appealing a court ruling that resulted in American gymnast Jordan Chiles being asked to return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise.
The American men eked out a relay win in the 4x400 meters just 15 minutes before a star-studded U.S. women’s team dominated the field Saturday night.
The U.S. is atop the international men’s basketball world once again, after Curry scored 24 points and led the way to a 98-87 win over France in the final at the Paris Games on Saturday.
The Romanian Olympic Committee had asked for three bronze medals to be awarded.
“I hope I can get more girls on bikes in Alaska and inspire the next generation of female athletes,” said Faulkner, who grew up in Homer.
The U.S. women’s soccer team won its fifth Olympic gold medal by beating Brazil 1-0 on Mallory Swanson’s early second-half goal in the tournament final Saturday at the Paris Games.
Bill May helped convince the IOC to allow men to compete in Olympic artistic swimming, but he fell short of making the U.S. team.
From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at the Paris Games.
Well before the competition for medals is wrapped, these athletes find their focus through metal and rap.
The Bucs have now claimed 10 league titles.
Medics carted Lyles off the track in a wheelchair after the race.
With her two wins in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Homer’s Kristen Faulkner became the first Alaskan to win multiple gold medals.
Faulkner, who is from Homer, became the first Alaskan to win multiple Olympic gold medals.
The former undrafted defensive tackle is one of four Alaska-born players currently in the NFL entering their second or first year.
The Americans, undefeated in France under new coach Emma Hayes, will be vying for their fifth gold medal in their sixth appearance in the Olympic women’s soccer final.
The surfing competition was held in Tahiti.