Members of the Olympic Museum’s heritage acquisitions team fan out during the Games to get donations to put on display in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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For These Olympians, the Bling Is the Thing
Athletes at the Paris Olympics have been sporting some seriously high-wattage accessories. Here are nine of our favorites.
With ‘Sprint’ and ‘Simone Biles: Rising,’ Netflix Fills Olympic Content Gap
New seasons of documentaries about running, gymnastics and basketball are being filmed this summer as part of a partnership with the International Olympic Committee.
How Did Simone Biles Become the G.O.A.T.?
She sealed her legacy with four medals at the Paris Games. She created it by being herself and going at her own pace.
Biles’s Small Slip Stalls Medal Run in Paris Olympics
Four of the eight gymnasts fell off the beam, including Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee, the other American in the event. Alice D’Amato of Italy won the gold 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.
For Simone Biles, a Long Road Back Is Paved in Gold
After winning the all-around gymnastics title, she wore a sparkly necklace in the shape of a goat, for Greatest of All Time. But she is not done yet: She has three more chances to win medals in Paris.
How the U.S. reclaimed its golden crown in women’s gymnastics final.
The United States pulled away, winning ahead of Italy, which won its first team medal since 1928, and Brazil, which claimed its first team medal ever.
Olympic Gymnast Suni Lee Overcame Stalkers, Kidney Disease and Doubt
Sunisa Lee, the all-around women’s champion at the Tokyo Olympics, overcame personal strife, family expectations and serious illness to get to Paris.
Here’s how Simone Biles and her American teammates stormed into the finals.
Biles needed tape on her lower leg after an awkward landing, but went on to a solid qualifying performance.