2024 Summer Olympics

These Summer Games were exactly what the whole enterprise needed and in a style no other city could provide.

The U.S. easily won the total medal count with 126. Aside from the 40 gold, the Americans won 42 silver and 44 bronze.

Sifan Hassan traded elbows with Tigst Assefa with 150 meters left in the women’s marathon, then passed her along the railing to win the race for her third distance medal of the Paris Games.

No team had been able to push the Americans during this impressive streak of 61 consecutive wins. Only two of those victories had been by single digits before the game against France.

Highlights from the past two weeks.

U.S. Olympic officials are appealing a court ruling that resulted in American gymnast Jordan Chiles being asked to return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise.

The American men eked out a relay win in the 4x400 meters just 15 minutes before a star-studded U.S. women’s team dominated the field Saturday night.

The U.S. is atop the international men’s basketball world once again, after Curry scored 24 points and led the way to a 98-87 win over France in the final at the Paris Games on Saturday.

The Romanian Olympic Committee had asked for three bronze medals to be awarded.

“I hope I can get more girls on bikes in Alaska and inspire the next generation of female athletes,” said Faulkner, who grew up in Homer.

Bach has led the International Olympic Committee since September 2013 and his 12-year limit was due to expire next year — but the members asked him last year to consider changing IOC rules to let him remain in office.

The U.S. women’s soccer team won its fifth Olympic gold medal by beating Brazil 1-0 on Mallory Swanson’s early second-half goal in the tournament final Saturday at the Paris Games.

Bill May helped convince the IOC to allow men to compete in Olympic artistic swimming, but he fell short of making the U.S. team.

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.

The United States is the winningest team at the Olympics with four gold medals, a silver and a bronze. But the U.S. hasn’t won a gold since 2012 in London.

The thrilling win at Parc des Princes completed a golden summer for Spanish soccer — following the senior team’s European Championship triumph last month.

Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final of the women’s welterweight division, wrapping up the best series of fights of her boxing career with a victory at Roland Garros.

Richardson brought the Americans from behind in the anchor lap.

Mask on, hair dyed, teeth blinged out: Saunders is ready to compete for gold in the women’s shot put at the Paris Games.

With three days left of competition, American athletes total 30 golds for 103 medals overall.

Well before the competition for medals is wrapped, these athletes find their focus through metal and rap.

The U.S. women outdueled their fellow world powerhouse to win a five-set thriller in a compelling rematch of their Tokyo final.

Against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic team was on its way to a comeback and to another Olympic gold medal game.

Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women’s sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout.

The U.S. will look to reach the gold-medal game for the 18th time in its 20 Olympic appearances when it faces Serbia in the semifinals of the Paris Games on Thursday night. France will play Germany in the other semifinal.