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The head of Guinea’s Olympic delegation says two athletes did not return to the West African nation after competing at the Rio Olympics.  Atef Chaloub said Saturday that swimmer Amadou Camara disappeared 48 hours before the team’s scheduled departure. He said Mamadama Bangoura, who competed in judo, also did not return to Guinea, having disappeared after leaving a message saying she wanted to “try her luck” abroad.  A friend of…

Simone Biles won four gold medals in the Olympics — but lost all of her memories. The celebrated gymnast took to Twitter on Saturday to share the sad news that all of the photos she had taken during the games were erased from her phone. “Lost all of my Olympic pictures,” she wrote, with an emoji of an upside down smiling face. Surely there are thousands…

Everton manager Ronald Koeman said: “If you don’t score the second and kill the game then it is always difficult in the last few minutes. But we had much more ball possession, 18 shots on target, them 0 and it is normal you win three points. “Today we were not really clinical in the box. We had some good opportunities and need to be more aggressive, but the performance was good, it is…

RELATED: Qualifying results | See every car, team rosters BROOKLYN, Mich. – If Joey Logano was looking for a good omen for Sunday, he found it on Friday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway. Touring the two-mile track in 35.697 seconds (201.698 mph) during the final round of knockout qualifying for Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 (2 p.m. ET on NBCSN), Logano edged Jimmie Johnson (201.523 mph) for the top starting spot by…

Medaling at the Olympics is nice. You can get your national anthem played, everyone claps. The McDonald’s in the Olympic Village slides you a free 20-piece McNugget (unconfirmed). But the most underrated part is the cash. Many Olympic athletes are amateurs incapable of accepting financial benefits through sponsorships, so the cash their sport’s national Olympic committee tenders for medals is the only direct financial gain they can see for their work….

Medaling at the Olympics is nice. You can get your national anthem played, everyone claps. The McDonald’s in the Olympic Village slides you a free 20-piece McNugget (unconfirmed). But the most underrated part is the cash. Many Olympic athletes are amateurs incapable of accepting financial benefits through sponsorships, so the cash their sport’s national Olympic committee tenders for medals is the only direct financial gain they can see for their work….

Enlarge this image Mosquitoes hover around South Korea’s bronze medalist Ki Bo Bae during the medal ceremony for archery, held on Aug. 11 at the Rio Games. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Mosquitoes hover around South Korea’s bronze medalist Ki Bo Bae during the medal ceremony for archery, held on Aug. 11 at the Rio Games. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even…

BETHESDA, Md.—Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky has broken records in pools around the globe. But in this affluent Washington, D.C., suburb, not even gold medals are enough to win quick entry into the Little Falls Swimming Club. Using an arcane set of rules, the club each spring welcomes a few newcomers into its membership, which is capped at 377 families. Competition is so intense that residents have been known to…

Some fools came to the Rio Olympics and opted to stay in their own hotel rooms, alone. Bold move, but I stayed in the Olympic media village, a newly built complex about 45 minutes away from the main Olympic park that will hypothetically be turned into condos in the near future. It had its quirks — it wasn’t really a hotel, so the inexperienced staff took about three hours to…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour shares her Top 5 from Rio. USA TODAY Sports Hope Solo(Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports) U.S. Soccer suspended goalie Hope Solo from the U.S. women’s soccer team for six months for her divisive comments aimed at Sweden during the Rio Games, the organization announced Wednesday night. Beyond the suspension announced publicly, Solo’s national team contract was terminated after a 15-minute-long meeting with…

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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour shares her Top 5 from Rio. USA TODAY Sports Hope Solo(Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports) U.S. Soccer suspended goalie Hope Solo from the U.S. women’s soccer team for six months for her divisive comments aimed at Sweden during the Rio Games, the organization announced Wednesday night. Beyond the suspension announced publicly, Solo’s national team contract was terminated after a 15-minute-long meeting with…

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unfurls the Olympic flag during a flag arrival ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 24 2016. The arrival of the Olympic flag marks the official start of the preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.(Photo: Kiyoshi Ota, EPA) TOKYO — The Olympic flag arrived here Wednesday after a 28-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro, as Japan prepares to show the world that its planning for the 2020 Games will be as…

Rio has handed over the Olympic flag to Tokyo, but Japan has a tough job on its hands to make an economic success of the 2020 Games. Tokyo’s preparations have already been plagued by scandal and cost overruns. And some experts doubt the Olympics will help Japan’s stagnating and debt-laden economy. ‘; */ var smartAssetDiv = ”; for (i = $allParagraphs.length-1; i > 0; i–) { if (i > 4)…

Attention, football! My love for you is not conditional on you “learning” from the Olympics. In fact, it’s not conditional. Honestly, darling, you’re like a child to me in that way. I will love you whatever – even when you’re naughty, even when I’m cross, even when it sounds like I’m really disappointed in you. (It might feel confusing at the time, but in some ways those are the moments…

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PREDICTING how many medals a country will win in the Olympics has become a cottage industry. Size and wealth are obvious factors: bigger countries naturally have larger pools of talent to draw from, and rich ones tend to have healthier populations and more resources to devote to sport. As expected, economic heavyweights like China, Germany and Russia were among the five countries that collected the most medals in Rio. And…

HONOLULU –  Federal regulators are proposing to ban swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, a move that could imperil one of the Aloha State’s most popular tourist activities and the industry that has sprung up around it. The National Marine Fisheries Service says spinner dolphins — the playful nocturnal species that humans in Hawaii routinely frolic with — are being deprived of rest during the day and becoming stressed out….

Hillary Clinton allies are preparing for what they expect will be an onslaught of negative Donald Trump ads during Monday Night Football. | Getty The Democrat’s team is poised to spend millions as it braces for a wave of negative ads from her opponent. By Annie Karni 08/23/16 11:48 AM EDT Updated 08/23/16 04:20 PM EDT During the Rio Olympics, Hillary Clinton tweeted about the athletes 21 times, posted Instagram…