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Senegal Female Wrestlers
Coach Isabelle Sambou, 43 years old, rear, two-time Olympian and nine-time African wrestling champion, explains a move to a young woman during a wrestling training in Mlomp, southern Senegal, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Gender equality

In one region of Senegal, girls can become wrestlers — and win. But only until marriage

AUG. 13, 2024

Paris Olympics Basketball
United States' Breanna Stewart (10) celebrates with Kelsey Plum (5) after a basket against Nigeria during a women's quarterfinal game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Olympic Games

Breanna Stewart, other moms on US women’s basketball team enjoy rare moments chasing Olympic history

AUG. 8, 2024

Paris Olympics Afghan Paralympian
Afghan Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi, part of the Refugee Olympic Team, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Afghanistan

First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Olympic gold in Paris

AUG. 6, 2024

Paris Olympics Boxing
Algeria's Imane Khelif, celebrates after defeating Hungary's Anna Hamori in their women's 66kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Race and ethnicity

For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend

AUG. 5, 2024

Paris Olympics Swimming
Gold medalist Leon Marchand, center, of France, waves as he stands on the winner's podium with silver medalist Zac Stubblety-Cook, left, of Australia, and bronze medalist Caspar Corbeau, of the Netherlands, following the men's 200-meter breaststroke final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Athletes

Léon The Great: Marchand accomplishes a feat that was downright Phelps-like

AUG. 1, 2024

Paris Olympics Refugee Team
Refugee Team athlete Perina Lokure Nakang poses for a portrait, Sunday, July 28, 2024, during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Human rights

Refugee athletes want more of them to compete at the Olympics as migration takes global focus

JULY 29, 2024

EA Sports Athletes
Florida linebacker Myles Graham (5) and Anthony Rubio (25) compete in the EA Sports video game College Football 25 at the University of Florida, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Education

It’s a college football player’s paradise, where dreams and reality meet in new EA Sports video game

JULY 25, 2024

Stickball-America’s Oldest Game
Boys and girls, ages 10-13, vie for the ball or "towa," in the Pushmataha Division Finals of the World Series of Stickball, hosted by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Friday, July 12, 2024, in Choctaw, Miss. The games are physically competitive contests between communities that historically were used to keep the tribe's warriors in shape for warfare and hunting. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

culture

This is one of the oldest games in North America. You’ve likely never heard of it

JULY 24, 2024

The Tourist Olympics
FILE - Passengers in the back of a taxi film themselves as they leave the Eiffel Tower decorated with the Olympic rings ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Paris. The city itself will be one of the protagonists of the 2024 Olympics. That's why the Eiffel Tower and Seine River are featured just as prominently as Simone Biles or Katie Ledecky in NBC’s ads. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

culture

Athletes are as excited as regular visitors to be tourists in Paris during the Olympic Games

JULY 22, 2024

Blue Jays Giants Baseball
Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette walks to the dugout after striking out against the San Francisco Giants during the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Baseball

MLB batting average near half-century low and velocity at all-time high

JULY 15, 2024

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Coco Gauff of the U.S. celebrates after her their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Florida

Tennis star Coco Gauff tells AP it’s a “crazy time” to be a Black Floridian

MAY 31, 2024

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FILE - Argentina's soccer star Diego Maradona, left, and West German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher are holding their World Cup Soccer Ball awards while posing with two young soccer players during the Soccer Golden Shoe Award ceremony held in Paris, France, on Nov. 13, 1986. Diego Maradona's heirs filed a lawsuit to try to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina. (AP Photo/Michael Lipchitz, File)

Soccer

Petrequin and Turnbull team up for scoop on Maradona’s trophy

MAY 24, 2024

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