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St. Lucia gets its first gold medal, thanks to the world’s fastest woman.
Julien Alfred beat Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States by 15-hundredths of a second to win St. Lucia’s first Olympic medal.
Simone Biles’s gold-medal-winning Yurchenko double pike, frame by frame.
Biles won her second Olympic vault title — eight years after her first in Rio — with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng.
It’s really a matter of math …
There are 10,000 athletes at the Paris Games, spread across 32 sports. In the space of 19 days, that field has to be whittled down to just 329 gold medals. So, ultimately, someone has to go out first.
Israel revives the issue of military service for ultra-Orthodox men, and other news.
Israel’s Parliament revived legislation that would allow ultra-Orthodox men to be drafted into the military