Latest by John Leicester
Published on August 12, 2024 - Page 9
SAINT-DENIS, France -- Paris closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a boisterous, star-studded show in...
Published on July 26, 2024 - Page 11
PARIS -- Paris has long been a city of dreamers: Just look at the Eiffel Tower, for decades the world's loftiest structure. Audacity also underpins...
Published on August 15, 2023 - Page 15
PARIS -- Clarisse Agbegnenou won her sixth world judo title, confirming the reigning Olympic champion as one of the athletes to watch at next year's...
Published on March 3, 2023 - Page 11
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian diver Stanislav Oliferchyk proudly bears the name of his late grandfather, who died in brutalized Mariupol. Russia's...
Published on February 8, 2022 - Page 11
BEIJING — Nothing to see here, move on. That was the message that Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai delivered Monday in a controlled interview in...
Published on August 10, 2021 - Page 11
TOKYO — They’ll always have Paris. That thought, full of promise, has been a lifebuoy for athletes to cling to as they coped, as best they could,...
Published on July 2, 2021 - Page 11
CHELLES, France — For skateboarding, a sport where the No. 1 rule is that there are no rules, the straight jacket of the Olympic Games, with its...
Published on March 16, 2021 - Page 4
PARIS — By the time his parents rushed him to the hospital, Pablo, 11, was barely eating and had stopped drinking entirely. Weakened by months of...
Published on January 4, 2020 - Page 17
PARIS — Global powers warned Friday that the American airstrike responsible for killing Iran’s top general made the world more dangerous and that...
Published on July 6, 2019 - Page 14
PARIS — With each crank of their pedals, riders on the Tour de France will climb ever-higher into the unknown. For the first time in its 116-year...