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Anthony Nesty is first Black US head swim coach at Olympics

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Simone Biles clinches spot on US world gymnastics championships team

Biles earned the first of six Team USA roster spots for the world championships.
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Simone Biles shares her plans for 2024 Paris Olympics

After a two-year break from competition, Biles has roared back to the top of the field but had previously been reluctant to talk about next summer's Olympics.
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Simone Biles makes history with 8th US Gymnastics title

Biles served notice that even after a two-year break following the Tokyo Olympics, in gymnastics there is the GOAT and there is everyone else.
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Katie Ledecky passes Michael Phelps for most individual golds at world championships

Here's why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport: She is never quite satisfied.
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Here's what you need to know about the 2024 Olympic Games, which start in exactly 1 year

Here's what to expect from the Games, including a complicated and novel opening ceremony.
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Olympics 2024: Biles, Ledecky, McLaughlin-Levrone look for encores in Paris

The Olympic festivities begin one year from Wednesday.
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For the first time in the Olympics, men will compete in artistic swimming

This is not the synchronized swimming that your parents or grandparents watched.
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Simone Biles sets return to gymnastics competition

Biles has taken most of the last two years off after making headlines at the Tokyo Olympics when she removed herself from several events to focus on mental health.
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Olympic skaters still missing medals 500 days later

Now on display at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum are nine empty boxes that should be holding medals won 500 days ago by the U.S. figure skating team.
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Olympic flame to travel from Greece to Paris over 68 days

The flame will leave Athens on April 27 aboard a three-mast ship named Belem for the French port of Marseille — a former Greek colony founded 2,600 years ago.
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Autopsy findings released for Tori Bowie, US Olympic medalist who died at 32

Bowie turned in an electric performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, winning a gold, silver and bronze medal. She died at the age of 32.