2024 Olympic Games: It’s au revoir Paris as Tom Cruise turns spotlight on 2028 Los Angeles games
The national stadium, France’s largest, was one of the targets of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in and around Paris on November 13, 2015. The joy and celebrations that swept Paris during the Games as Marchand and other French athletes racked up 64 medals – 16 of them gold – marked a major watershed in the city’s recovery from that night of terror.
Olympic basketball champions USA escape South Sudan scalp with slim 101-100 win after LeBron James’s last minute dunk
South Sudan led by 16 late in the first half – 58-42 – before the Americans got the last basket to cut the deficit to 14 at the break. But the 18-0 run was key. James had four assists during the spurt and Curry, from about 35 feet, connected on a 3-pointer late in the third that gave the US its first lead since the first quarter at 79-76.
