22 details you might've missed during the Paris 2024 opening ceremony

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french olympians posing with the eiffel tower in the background at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony
Paris is hosting the 2024 Summer Games.

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Caeleb Dressel is making his comeback at the 2024 Olympics. Here's what to know about America's fastest swimmer.

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American swimmer Caeleb Dressel holds up both fists in celebration, with water splashing around him, in the pool at the 2024 US Olympic Team Swimming Trials.
Caeleb Dressel is mounting his comeback at the 2024 Olympics in Paris; the athlete already has seven Olympic gold medals and is considered one of the world's fastest swimmers.

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WBD is suing the NBA so it can stay in business with the NBA. Yikes.

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Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum dunks over Dallas Mavericks players during the 2024 NBA finals.
Warner Bros. Discovery's TNT is going to lose the rights to show NBA games after next season.

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Katie Ledecky is the world's most decorated female swimmer. Here's what to know about her life, career, and medals.

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Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, wearing black goggles and a black swim cap, takes a breath mid-stroke while water splashes around her at the 2024 US Olympic Team Swimming Trials.
Katie Ledecky is widely considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer, with seven Olympic gold medals under her belt heading into the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

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An injured hockey player chose to amputate part of his finger so he could compete at the Paris Olympics

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Matthew Dawson of Team Australia passes the ball during the Men's Gold Medal match between Australia and Belgium on day thirteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Oi Hockey
Matthew Dawson was a part of Team Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

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The Olympians with the most medals in history

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Split Image: Ireen Wüst smiled as she finished putting her gold medal around her neck in 2022. Michael Phelps smiled and kissed his gold medal in 2016. Larisa Latynina smiled and posed while wearing her bronze medal in 1964.
Ireen Wüst, Michael Phelps, and Larisa Latynina are some of the most decorated Olympians in history.

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Meet Jade Carey, the gymnast and Olympic gold medalist known for her iconic floor routines and vaults

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Gymnast Jade Carey, dressed in a red, white, and blue sparkly leotard, kneels on the blue spring floor and makes a devil horns hand gesture at the end of her floor routine at the Women's US Olympic Gymnastics Team Trials.
Jade Carey is returning to the Olympics for a second time, this time in Paris. The gymnast won gold for her floor routine in the last Olympic cycle.

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Elon Musk Needs a Win, Says He Wants to Fight Zuck Again

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Tech is already making this Olympics a mess

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Swedish referee Glenn Nyberg gives a yellow card to Argentina's midfielder Ezequiel Fernandez
Technology has already been tied to two soccer controversies at the 2024 Olympics.

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Why athletes at Olympic Village are finding some Grindr features disabled

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Grindr is disabling location-based features in the Olympic Village.

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