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With a perfect 3-0 in Olympic play, the USWNT appeared to be on the right track under head coach Emma Hayes
The United States women’s national team is the most decorated in international women’s Soccer. With four FIFA Women’s World Cup trophies, one second place and three third place finishes in the World Cup, four Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver and one Olympic bronze, they are not ‘arguably’ the most dominant team in international women’s soccer, they quite simply are.

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5 former first-rounders that could wash out in Year 3
Training camp and the preseason are a time for hope around the NFL.
In addition to the new faces on their squad, teams and fans alike are also looking to see how the members of previous draft classes are maturing and developing.
The 2024 season marks Year 3 for the 2022 draft class – a year that’s critical in a lot of different ways.

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There’s no excuse for the U.S. to be so bad at 3×3 basketball in the Olympics.
The United States is the best basketball country in the world, and it still isn’t particularly close. The U.S. men have won seven of the last eight gold medals in the Olympics, and the American women haven’t even lost a game since 1992.

Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the Olympic boxer who was caught last year “pretending to be” a woman after a series of DNA tests, entered the ring for the first time today in Paris. 
And the fight lasted all of 46 seconds. Forty-six!
Khelif disposed of opening-round opponent, the Italian Angela Carini, so quickly, that if you blinked, the fight was over. Just like that. Pooooof. Done. Like it never happened. Carini forfeit the fight after taking two shots to the head in the opening seconds.

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Conference realignment is out of control.
Katie Ledecky dominated the 1,500-meter freestyle final Wednesday at the Paris Summer Olympics, which is certainly nothing out of the ordinary. Since appearing on the global stage Ledecky has owned the event, and she set another Olympic record on her way to capturing gold.
Wednesday she simply left the field behind, often appearing as the only swimmer in the frame:

Simply the greatest.
Katie Ledecky adds another gold medal to her legendary career achievements.#ParisOlympics | NBC and Peacock pic.

The F1 summer shutdown may be upon us, but there is always time to tweak the rules
At the Chinese Grand Prix last April two incidents involving Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz Jr. had race stewards reaching for the Sporting Regulations.
Now, to clarify said regulations Formula 1 has revised its rules during the summer shutdown.
The first incident involved a clash on the track between the two drivers during the F1 Sprint Race at the Chinese Grand Prix. In the closing stages of that Sprint Race, the two drivers came together, with Alonso’s AMR24 suffering a puncture.

Brian Windhorst breaks down the biggest takeaways from USA Basketball’s second Olympic win over South Sudan.

U.S. players Lindsey Horan, Mallory Swanson and Rose Lavelle celebrate victory following the Women’s group B match against Germany. But will they be doing the same in a week’s time is the question. | Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images
All eight remaining including the U.S. are ranked among the Top 10 teams in women’s world soccer
This time last year, the U.S. women’s national soccer team was in disarray.
In fact, it was July of last year when Megan Rapinoe, undoubtedly the glue of the roster for close to a decade, announced her intent to retire from professional soccer.

Jordan Westburg took a 95-mph fastball to his right hand on Wednesday afternoon in their win over the Blue Jays

American tennis star Danielle Collins, 30, is ending her final year as a pro on a fiery note. 
Collins faced off against Polish tennis champ Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinal match at the Paris Olympics and stirred quite the on-court beef with her nemesis. 
Despite losing because of dehydration, Collins had a mouthful for her competition this week and chewed out Swiatek during the match — sharing heated words during their post-game handshake.