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FILE - Simone Biles competes on the uneven bars at the United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials on Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

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)

Hailey Burlock, groom for U.S. Olympic Eventing Team member Will Coleman, guides Off The Record to a cargo stall at The Ark at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

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)

Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, sits for a portrait Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. On the eve of the war, which started Feb. 24, 2022, Ukraine cancelled its athletics championship and Tabashnyk was in Kharkiv. The threat posed by thousands of Russian troops at the border, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from her hometown, was real. But Tabashnyk said, “I was 100% sure that this could not happen.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

This photo taken in Sept. 2007 shows a 20-year-old Lionel Messi, who had embarked on his legendary Barcelona career just over four years prior, cradling Lamine Yamal, who was merely six months old at the time during a photo session in the dressing room of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Lamine Yamal is now a soccer sensation for both Spain and Barcelona and he is still only 16-years-old. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

FILE - People sit along the Seine River with stands installed on its banks, July 4, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Milwaukee Brewers' Tobias Myers, right, gets doused with liquid by Willy Adames (27) after a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

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)

A view of the olympic swimming pool, Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at the Paris La Defense Arena, in Nanterre, outside Paris. The Paris La Defense Arena will host the swimming and some water polo events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

FILE - Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Tayler Saucedo uses a weighted ball to warm up in the bullpen before a spring training baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, March 6, 2024, in Surprise, Ariz. Velocity training is the rage in baseball from the youth levels up through the majors. Players go through specialized programs – often using series of progressively weighted baseballs – in the hopes of speeding up their bodies and arms, pushing them to the limits of what might be possible for their age and ability. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)