No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues only accessible by public transit
World

No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues only accessible by public transit

PARIS (AP) — Traffic. What will you do about notorious gridlocked Los Angeles traffic? That’s the one burning question repeatedly posed to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she prepares to receive the Olympic flag ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. “A no-car Games,” Bass said Saturday. Huh? Bass and Casey Wasserman, chairman of the […]

Olympic breaking faces questions over hip-hop authenticity
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Olympic breaking faces questions over hip-hop authenticity

PARIS (AP) — 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. Rachael Gunn, or “b-girl Raygun,” a 36-year-old […]

Intel stock drops 6% as company updates chip manufacturing plans
Economy

Intel stock drops 6% as company updates chip manufacturing plans

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks during the Mobileye Global Inc. initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, Oct. 26, 2022.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIntel stock dropped 6% Wednesday after the company gave investors an update on the company’s turnaround plan to become a chip manufacturing company competing with Taiwan Semiconductor… […]

Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit
Economy

Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, April 9, 2019.Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle, which has spent years defending itself against claims of monopolistic behavior across the U.S. and Europe, is going public with its own complaint of anti-competitive practices by longtime rival Microsoft.In a… […]

How the women’s basketball Olympic final was set and could play out
Sports

How the women’s basketball Olympic final was set and could play out

Alexa Philippou Close Alexa Philippou ESPN Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Michael Voepel Close Michael Voepel ESPN.com Michael Voepel is a senior writer […]

Three German swimmers fall ill after races in Seine
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Three German swimmers fall ill after races in Seine

Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 12:03 AM ET PARIS — Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races at the Paris Games, though it was not immediately clear if the long-polluted Seine River was responsible for their sickness. The swimmers were not identified in a statement released Saturday by the German […]