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Breakdancing moves closer to 2024 Paris debut
IOC members have endorsed requests to provisionally add breakdancing to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, pending a final decision in December 2020, and organizers can now look for a street venue.
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Born out of competition, breakdancing is a natural for the Olympics
Paris wants to include hip-hop's original dance in the 2024 Games.
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Italy wins vote to host 2026 Winter Games
For the second time in 20 years, Italy will host the Olympics Winter Games, in 2026. IOC members voted for Milan-Cortina over Stockholm-Are from Sweden on Monday.
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Are women athletes forced to choose between sponsorship and motherhood?
The question has been posed by pro athletes from Alysia Montano to Allyson Felix. We talked to them, and a dozen other pro athlete moms, to find out their varying -- and sometimes surprising -- experiences with pregnancy, sponsors and maternity leave.
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Froome out of Tour de France after training crash
Chris Froome has crashed out of a practice ride before a training race with a suspected broken leg and is out of the Tour de France.
Froome won't retire despite horror crash - Brailsford
Team Ineos manager Dave Brailsford expects four times Tour de France champion Chris Froome to return to elite cycling after last week's horror crash at the Criterium du Dauphine.
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LeBron James' I Promise School launches swim camp with Olympian Simone Manuel's help
Gold medalist Simone Manuel partnered with the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Area YMCA to promote swimming and water safety for third and fourth-grade students at the I Promise school.
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Harden, Davis headline USA's World Cup roster
James Harden and Anthony Davis headline Team USA's roster for this summer's FIBA World Cup in China.
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'Running to the edge': How Bob Larsen became one of America's greatest running coaches
Here's how Bob Larsen discovered the unorthodox training secrets that would lead American runners to breakthroughs they'd never imagined.
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Natasha Hastings runs down the obstacles of being a pregnant Olympic hopeful
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