The USA has showcased remarkable performances at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with Brittney Griner winning gold in women's basketball and the men's basketball team set to face France in the final. Additionally, Kaylee McKeown defended her title in the 100m backstroke, while other athletes like Bobby Finke and Leon Marchand have also made headlines with record-breaking swims.
The Paris 2024 Olympics have seen the USA's athletes excel across various sports, building on their historical dominance in the Games. Key figures like Brittney Griner and Kaylee McKeown have returned to the Olympic stage after significant personal challenges, contributing to the USA's strong medal tally.
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The modern Olympic Games or Olympics are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Duncan William MacNaughton Scott is a Scottish swimmer representing Great Britain at the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the Olympic Games, and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
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Léon Marchand is a French swimmer. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Ariarne Titmus is an Australian swimmer. She currently represents the Cali Condors which is part of the International Swimming League. In 2015, Titmus and her family moved from Tasmania to Queensland for better training opportunities. She competed in the
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Australia, officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Paris 2024, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris, France.
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country consisting of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres.
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Adam George Peaty, MBE is a British competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
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China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.4 billion in 2019.
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The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad, first held in 1896, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The most recent Summer Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The International Olympic Commi
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James George Guy is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games, the FINA World Championships and the LEN European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
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Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals.
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David Popovici is a Romanian competitive swimmer who specialises in the freestyle. At age 16, he broke the world junior record in the 100 m freestyle and the European junior record in the 200 m freestyle.He qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is the
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The United States of America, commonly known as the United States or America, is a country mostly located in central North America, between Canada and Mexico.
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A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of ae
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Kaylee Rochelle McKeown is an Australian swimmer. She is the current world record holder of the women's 100-meter backstroke. She competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.
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Daniel Wiffen (born 14 July 2001) is an Irish swimmer who represents Ireland at Olympic, World and European level, and Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. In the 2022 Commonwealth Games he won the silver medal in the 1500 metre freestyle.He compet
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Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky is an American competitive swimmer. She has won five Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer.
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Teddy Pierre-Marie Riner is a French judoka. He has won ten World Championships gold medals, the first and only judoka to do so, and two Olympic gold medals. He has also won five gold medals at the European Championships. He was a member of the Levallois