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A recent Google advertisement debuted during the Olympics and featuring AI writing a personal letter has ignited a heated debate about the appropriate use of technology in human communication and creativity.

Four restaurants in Ohio have announced they will not televise the Olympics to their patrons after the “insulting” displays during the opening ceremonies in Paris on Friday.

Olympic organizers were forced to order 4,000 pounds of meat and eggs quickly after athletes decried the fake meat and non-dairy options.

International Olympics Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams declared that the Commission “fully supports” two fighters with male chromosomes who are set to compete this week against females.

U.S. Tennis Olympian Coco Gauff was in tears Monday while arguing a call with the chair umpire before her loss to Croatia’s Donna Vekić.

A Chinese state outlet mocked French culture for its “sense of relaxation” on Monday, blaming it for errors at the Paris Olympics.

U.S. men’s gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik triumphantly won a bronze medal in pommel horse Monday, bringing the USA its first team medal in the sport since 2008.

The leftist-populist Slovak government announced it will not attend the closing ceremonies of the Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity.

Daily water tests measure levels of fecal bacteria known as E. coli. Efforts to make the river suitable for swimming cost €1.4 billion.

During an interview that aired on Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” former President Donald Trump reacted to the Last Supper display during Friday night’s opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games.

Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal won a bronze medal in the street skateboarding event n Sunday, and iquoted the Bible after her big win.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who ambushed a stunned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during an early encounter in 2021 with allegations that America has a worse human rights record than China, gave Blinken one more political lecture on Saturday.

Herda Raouf, head of the Iraqi delegation to the Paris Olympics, said on Saturday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refused Iraq’s request not to display the Israeli flag next to theirs during soccer matches.

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that people should turn off the television if they did not like the drag queen performance at the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris.

Communist Cuba, a regime that has for decades used sports competitions to elevate its geopolitical profile, has faced a series of embarrassments in the first days of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics – including a high-profile defection before the Games even began and a loss in boxing to a Cuban exile.

ESPN’s Pat McAfee has added his voice to those condemning the organizers of the Olympics for the satanic and blasphemous opening ceremony program produced by an activist French artist.

Athletes are ditching Paris’s Olympic village after being forced to deal with “vegan-friendly” food, cardboard beds, and no air conditioning.

A drag queen who carried the torch of the Olympic flame in Paris’s opening ceremony told critics, “We ain’t going nowhere.”

Two boxers — Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan — have reportedly been cleared by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to fight in the 2024 Paris Olympics despite their previous disqualification from the International Boxing Association’s Women’s World Boxing Championships in March of 2023 after DNA tests were ordered amid concerns over their sex.

Eurosport’s Bob Ballard is apologizing for a “sexist” comment that ultimately led to his removal from network coverage of the Olympic Games.

The official video of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony has been taken down from the Olympics YouTube channel following mixed reactions and criticism of the event.

The International Olympic Committee apologized to the nation of South Korea for incorrectly identifying its delegation as North Korea’s.

Former MLB All-Star pitcher Roy Oswalt called the Paris Olympic opening ceremonies “insulting” and predicted that would cause people not to watch the Games.

After months of criticism for not picking WNBA star Caitlin Clark for the Olympics, U.S. Women’s basketball team coach Dawn Staley suddenly admits that Clark was a good prospect for Team USA after all.

Concerns about the water quality in the Seine River led officials to call off the swimming portion of an Olympic triathlon training session.

Actress Candace Cameron Bure reacted to the Paris Olympics opening ceremony — which involved a parody of the Last Supper featuring drag queens — calling it “disgusting.” “It made me so sad,” the Full House star said.

A despairing French government said multiple telecommunications links were hit by “cowardly” acts of vandalism early Monday morning, with fiber lines being taken out along with fixed and mobile phone infrastructure as cities around the country host events for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The artistic director of the LBGT-themed Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony has claimed he did not intend to portray the Last Supper.

A broadcaster for Eurosport was removed from covering the Paris 2024 Olympics after he made a seemingly sexist comment about the Australian women’s swimming team. Bob Ballard was heard making a comment about knowing “what women are like,” adding that

Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron described a statement from the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics, apologizing for an LGBTQ parody of the “Last Supper” during the opening ceremony, as “anything but an apology.”

Organizers for the Paris Olympics issued an apology to people who were left offended by an LGBTQ parody of the Last Supper during the opening ceremony.

PARIS (AP) — Messaoud Dris of Algeria was dropped from the Paris Olympics judo competition Sunday night, officially for missing weight on the day before he was scheduled to take on Tohar Butbul of Israel.

Fitness expert Jillian Michaels on Saturday criticized the LGBTQ community after a parody of the Last Supper during the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France, shocked people around the world.

A judoka from Tajikistan refused to shake his Israeli opponent’s hand after defeating him on Sunday at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Donald Trump Jr. on Saturday blasted the “leftist insanity” of the Olympics opening ceremonies in Paris, France.

First lady Jill Biden praised the Paris Olympics’ controversial opening ceremony as “spectacular” after it received backlash for offending Christians with a drag queen depiction of Jesus’s Last Supper.