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The viral story of Raygun, the Australian breaker whose Olympic performance has sparked global headlines, has taken a dark turn.

China and the U.S. tied for the most gold medals at the Paris Olympics with the contest coming right down to one of the final events, the women’s basketball gold medal match, which was won in a nail-biter by the U.S.

American medalists will earn a collective $8.3 million from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, but two countries are paying even more for their athletes’ trips to the podium at the Paris Games.

Aussie breaker Rachael Gunn, known as B-girl Raygun, took the internet by storm after her brief but memorable time on stage at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

For most American squads at the Games, lodging, transportation and security might run $400,000. But the Dream Team established a luxurious precedent 32 years ago.

It is possibly the highest value of any gold medal in the history of the modern games, primarily because of the record high prices for gold

A survey of almost 500 elite athletes—many of whom were bound for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021—showed more than half of them struggled financially.

In Sunday’s gold medal match Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest player to be in the men’s singles finals since 1988, while Serbia’s Novak Djokovic was the oldest player ever in a tennis singles final.

The ad, which sparked controversy from its first airing, features a father using Google’s Gemini AI tool to write a fan letter from his daughter to American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

The Hungarian Boxing Association said it would send letters of protest on behalf of Anna Luca Hamori—Imane Khelif’s next opponent.