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Team USA gymnast Simone Biles aggravated a lower left leg injury Sunday while warming up for her floor exercise during Team USA’s second rotation. Biles could be heard saying it hurts to push off and left the arena floor at one point, but stayed in the competition with a heavily taped calf. But she…

UPDATED: Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, has denied a controversial scene featuring drag queens was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Super. Jolly told news channel BFMTV on Sunday that the tableau has nothing to do with the iconic Renaissance…

South Sudan’s Olympic debut in men’s basketball started badly, but ended with the nation’s first victory at the games, a 90-79 win over Puerto Rico on Sunday. The wrong national anthem was played for the African nation before the start of the game. The recorded track was stopped after 20…

In a video posted to Instagram, Full House and Fuller House actress Candace Cameron Bure has condemned the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. “I love the Olympic Games,” she started, noting that her husband, former Montreal Canadiens right winger Valeri Bure, and several members of his family…

Eurosport commentator Bob Ballard has been removed from the broadcaster’s coverage of the Olympic Games for a sexist remark about Australia’s female swimmers. The Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team won the gold, and were making their way out of the Paris Aquatic Centre when the incident…

Paris Olympics organizers apologized Sunday to anyone offended by an image of drag performers that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" during the opening ceremony. The scene during Friday's ceremony featured LGBTQ+ icon, DJ and producer Barbara Butch flanked by drag artists and…

Good news for NBCUniversal: The Paris Olympics are off to a great start with a big win out of Friday’s Opening Ceremony. Nearly 29 million tuned in for the extravaganza, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That’s a more than 60% leap up from the pandemic-delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics…

Lady Gaga was one of the biggest names to perform during Friday evening's uniquely memorable Olympics Opening Ceremony in Paris. Gaga took to a specially built stage on the bank of the River Seine to give a performance inspired by French Cabaret. She sang Mon Truc en Plume, a well known French circus…

The opening ceremony of the Paris Games is barely over, and already its starting to look a lot like the #Beylympics, at least to Team USA. Having given Vice President Kamala Harris permission to use her ‘Freedom’ tune for her newly launched POTUS campaign, Beyoncé is now flying the flag for Simon…

UPDATE: Details of the plan were filed Friday in federal court in the Northern District of California. "College athletes will finally be able to share in the billions of dollars their compelling stories and dynamic performances have generated for their schools, conferences, and the NCAA," the filing…

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Erdahl will return to Good Morning Football when the show relaunches from LA on Monday, July 29, on NFL Network. Amid rehearsals for the show, the sports show co-host talked to Deadline about the changes to the show and her life. Erdahl says she has had “a really intense and…

Harrison Butker is reacting to the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Paris and is having an issue with a group of drag queens that appeared during the show. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker shared his opinion on social media after a clip of a group of drag queens channeled the Last Supper during the opening…