PARIS — Three years ago, Coco Gauff was kept out of the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 days before her scheduled departure.

This time, she’ll be carrying the U.S. flag at the opening ceremony.

Gauff will join NBA superstar LeBron James as the opening ceremony flag bearers for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Wednesday. She is the first tennis player to serve in the role.

The pair were selected to lead the U.S. delegation into the Games in a vote of fellow athletes, conducted by Team USA’s athletes’ commission. At recent Olympics, the U.S. has selected one male athlete and one female athlete to serve as flag bearers.

‘I never thought in a million years I would have the honor of carrying the American flag for Team USA in the Opening Ceremony,’ Gauff said in a statement. ‘I could not be more proud to lead my teammates with LeBron as we showcase our dedication and passion on the biggest stage there is − at a moment where we can bring athletes and fans together from around the world.’

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Gauff, 20, is making her Olympic debut in Paris after blossoming into one of tennis’ brightest stars. She has won two Grand Slam titles − including the U.S. Open championship last summer − and is currently No. 2 in the world in the Women’s Tennis Association’s world rankings.

The opening ceremony for the Paris Games begins Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET, or 7:30 p.m. in Paris. It is slated to be the first in Olympic history to take place outside of a stadium, with athletes floating down the Seine River on barges rather than parading into a stadium.

The U.S. is expected to fill at least one full boat of the nearly 100 in the parade; Countries with smaller delegations will share boats.

While James and Gauff will lead the athlete delegation at the Games, the U.S. political delegation will be led by First Lady Jill Biden. According to a statement released by the White House on Monday, she will be joined by a handful of politicians − including U.S. Senators Chris Coons, D-Delaware, and Alex Padilla, D-California −as well as South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley and figure skating gold medalist Brian Boitano.

The U.S. delegation will also include Casey Wasserman, the chairperson of the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Team USA will be second-to-last in the traditional parade of nations Friday as the host of the next Summer Olympics.

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As the world’s attention turns to France for the 2024 Paris Olympics, performers for the opening ceremony called off their strike notice Wednesday, just two days before the Games’ flagship event. 

After negotiations between the SFA-CGT union representing performers, Paris 2024 organizers and Panam 24 (the producers of the opening ceremony) ended in a stalemate and a continued strike notice Tuesday, the union said Wednesday it accepted an offer involving increased pay for performers’ broadcasting rights. 

‘This period has closed with a victory, which if not total, at least responds to the emergencies raised,’ the union said in a statement in French.

Although the union said it was suspending its strike notice, its statement noted a failure to resolve its concern involving the lack of accommodations for performers who reside outside of the Paris metropolitan area. 

“This remains a strong point of tension,” the statement read. 

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The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee told USA TODAY Sports the agreement was reached after ‘constructive dialogue.’

‘The Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be a unique moment of celebration and togetherness, and we are pleased that it will be held under satisfactory conditions for all those involved,’ the organizing committee said.

The SFA-CGT union did not immediately respond to requests from USA TODAY for comment.

The union had announced its strike notice for the Olympic and Paralympic Opening Ceremonies in a statement last week citing pay, benefit and treatment disparities between performers and disputes over intellectual property and image rights as the main causes of its grievances.

‘While the slogan ‘Doing better together’ is displayed everywhere in the streets of Paris today, we note that our employment conditions have not been discussed together, nor for the better!” SFA-CGT said in French in last week’s statement. 

One video posted to X showed approximately 200 performers standing on the bank of the Seine with their fists raised in protest Monday during rehearsals. The Olympic opening ceremony will be held Friday on the Seine, marking the first time the ceremony will be held outside a stadium in modern Olympic history.

The union initially raised its concerns in a June 7 statement, saying dancers had alerted it to contract conditions that they alleged broke the social charter signed by Paris 2024 organizers. A second statement released last week by the union said it was referred to the Olympic Social Charter Committee and it had held prior negotiations with Paris 2024 and Paname 24 on July 3 and 9. 

Before Wednesday’s agreement, tensions peaked Tuesday when the entertainment union federation to which SFA-CGT is affiliated announced it planned to maintain its strike notice after negotiations on Tuesday failed to reach a strike-ending agreement. 

The entertainment union federation created an online fund Tuesday to financially support any performers who chose to strike. 

‘While the Olympic Games are heralded a great celebration, it has a bitter taste for all those artists who feel scorned and little considered,” the statement attached to the fundraiser read in French.  

Although this dispute reached an agreement, ongoing strike notices from other sectors, including Paris airport workers and taxi drivers, continue to raise concerns for a country known for its labor strikes as the opening ceremony draws closer.

PARIS — The Winter Olympics are officially returning to the United States.

More specifically, the Games are coming back to Utah.

International Olympic Committee members voted Wednesday to formally award the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City, making Utah’s capital a repeat Olympic host more than three decades after it served as the site of the 2002 Olympics. It will be the fifth time the U.S. has hosted the Winter Games.

‘We are ready. Everything is in place,’ Fraser Bullock, the leader of Salt Lake City’s bid committee, said in a presentation at the IOC session Wednesday. ‘But beyond our physical assets, you can count on our people. As great as our venues are, our people are even better.’

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Wednesday’s vote was essentially a rubber stamp, with Salt Lake City having already been handpicked by the IOC as the best option for 2034. Though it did come with a bit of unexpected controversy − a strange scene in which IOC members used the moment to rip the United States for its recent political actions around the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the controversial doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.

‘I’m sorry for you, and for us, that this issue arose now,’ IOC president Thomas Bach told Salt Lake’s bid committee.

Ultimately, though, the last-minute concerns were never going to be enough to derail Wednesday’s vote, which passed by a margin of 83-6. The news prompted celebration in the early morning hours back in Utah, where the IOC’s vote coincided with a state holiday, Pioneer Day.

IOC members also signed off on the French Alps as host of the 2030 Winter Games earlier in the day.

IOC airs concerns over U.S. stance on anti-doping

In the hour before IOC members voted to award the Winter Games to Salt Lake City, they took an uncommon detour to express concerns about how a doping scandal involving Chinese swimmers has been handled in the U.S.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and its chief executive officer, Travis Tygart, have been extremely critical of WADA’s handling of the Chinese swimmers case, in which 23 athletes tested positive for a banned heart medication ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Games. WADA accepted the results of a Chinese government investigation that attributed the positive tests to contamination at a hotel and neither publicly disclosed the tests at the time.

USADA’s criticism has been followed by a Congressional hearing on the issue and a reported investigation by U.S. law enforcement, apparently under the auspices of the Rodchenkov Act − which allows U.S. authorities to pursue criminal charges in doping cases that impact U.S. athletes.

It is the Rodchenkov Act, in particular, that seemed to prompt the ire of IOC members ahead of Wednesday’s vote. And John Coates, one of Bach’s top lieutenants, said the IOC went so far as to amend Salt Lake’s host city contract to address the matter. According to Coates, the IOC can terminate the host contract if ‘the supreme authority of (WADA) in the fight against doping is not fully respected.’

Gene Sykes, who chairs the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, responded to the members’ concerns by praising WADA and renewing the United States’ commitment to clean sport.

‘We certainly accept the obligations and responsibility inherent in the amendment to the Olympic host contract,’ Sykes said. ‘So from our perspective, we take very seriously to heart all of your comments, and we pledge to you that we will be good partners and we will support, with you, this very, very important institution.’

Salt Lake’s road to becoming 2034 Olympic host

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has supported Salt Lake City as a host candidate since 2018, and it’s been clear for several years now that the IOC would award Utah another version of the Games at some point.

For a time, the only realistic question was whether Salt Lake would host the Winter Games in 2030 or 2034.

Bid leaders said they would be open to either but prefer 2034, to allow for more of a cushion following the United States’ hosting of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

The city is uniquely positioned as a host in part because it has meticulously maintained the venues that were used in 2002 through the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, a non-profit created following the conclusion of those Games. Olympic officials also value Salt Lake City’s reliable winter climate. Due to the ongoing effects of climate change, there are fewer cities that can be counted upon to have the ideal weather for hosting the Winter Games during their usual scheduling slot in early to mid February.

What are the proposed venues for Salt Lake 2034?

The Salt Lake Games will utilize 12 existing venues, only four of which will require additional and permanent upgrades before 2034, according a report released in June by the IOC’s future host commission. The only temporary venue that will need to be built is for snowboard big air.

As for the big-ticket items, the University of Utah’s campus is expected to double as the Olympic village during the Games, while the Delta Center − home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz − will host one of the Winter Olympics’ marquee sports, figure skating. Skiing events will be held at Snowbasin Resort, about 35 minutes northeast of downtown Salt Lake City, while snowboarding events will be in Park City, Utah.

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How much will Salt Lake City Olympics cost?

Karl Stoss, the chair of the future host commission for the Winter Games, has praised Salt Lake’s plan for the Games as ‘very compact’ and said it would require no capital investment.

The Salt Lake Games have an official budget of about $4 billion, and organizers claim they will be 100% privately funded − pulling money from ticket revenues, domestic sponsorships and an IOC contribution. The Olympics, however, have a habit of stretching beyond initial estimates. And they tend to put additional strain on public works and utilities in the host city, which is sometimes underestimated in budgets.

Which other bids did the U.S. beat out?

For decades, the IOC welcomed bids from multiple countries for one edition of the Games and essentially let them duke it out for votes. But that’s not how it works anymore. The IOC’s host selection process is far more amorphous, with potential hosts progressing through several loose stages of ‘dialogue’ so that by the time they are put up for a vote, like Salt Lake City was Wednesday, the decision has essentially already been made.

That’s all to say that it’s not super clear which bids, if any, Salt Lake City beat out. It was in the mix with the French Alps, Sweden and Switzerland for potential hosting duties, while Canada and Japan also expressed some level of interest. Ultimately, the IOC appears to have picked the French Alps and Salt Lake City from the bunch and then just figured out the timing of who would host when.

Where are the next Olympic Games?

Here’s a quick rundown of future Olympic hosts.

2026: Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
2028: Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
2030: Winter Olympics in the French Alps
2032: Summer Olympics in Brisbane, Australia
2034: Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

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Five Australian water polo players have tested positive for COVID-19 and are in isolation at the Paris Olympics. But the 2024 Games are not as restrictive as the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and there are no stringent protocols in place for athletes who test positive.

When the first player on the team tested positive Tuesday, Australia’s Olympic team chief Anna Mears told Reuters, ‘I need to emphasize that we are treating COVID no differently to other bugs like the flu. This is not Tokyo. The athlete is not particularly unwell and they are still training but sleeping in a single room.’

The players are cleared to train if they feel well enough, and the virus is contained to the water polo team at this time, Mears said, according to Le Monde. They are wearing masks and isolating from other team members when not training, and the whole team has been tested.

‘We have our respiratory illnesses protocol in place and we have reinforced with all of the teams as they arrive into our village,’ Mears said. ‘Two basic rules around that really simple hygiene practices are effective. And if you are feeling unwell or have any symptoms, get tested.’

The Paris Games may be a welcomed return to normalcy after the compulsory testing, quarantine and empty venues that marked Tokyo, but there are still precautions in place for those who test positive.

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‘Of course COVID is here. We’ve seen a small peak’ in cases, French Health Minister Frederic Valletoux told a franceinfo broadcaster. ‘But we are far from what we saw in 2020, 2021, 2022.

‘Some precautions are being taken but, because the level at which COVID is spreading is very low, they depend on the organisers.’

Valletoux said there is no risk of a major COVID cluster in France. However, with a dense population of athletes in the Olympic Village, there is an inherent risk of any infectious disease spreading.

Here’s a closer look at how Team USA plans to mitigate this risk.

Are there specific COVID protocols at the Paris Olympic Games?  

In Paris, there will be no specific COVID restrictions and the virus will be handled in the same way as a common cold or the flu. That means there will be no asymptomatic testing of athletes, mask mandates or isolation periods. 

However, Jonathan Finnoff, the chief medical officer at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, said the USOPC will follow CDC guidelines to prevent the spread of all respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).  

These include five core prevention strategies: immunization, proper hygiene, clean air, treatment and staying home when sick. And three additional prevention strategies: masks, social distancing and regular testing. The CDC also recommends staying home and away from others until your symptoms are getting better and you are fever-free for 24 hours, and then use added precautions for the next five days.

“We won’t do anything beyond what the CDC is recommending, but we absolutely want to prevent the spread of infectious disease,” Finnoff said, adding that respiratory infection hinders athletes’ “ability to compete at the highest level.”  

What happens if a U.S. athlete tests positive for COVID at the Olympic Games?

If a Team USA athlete experiences symptoms of any kind, Finnoff reiterated the USOPC is “going to follow the CDC guidelines for all of infectious disease protocols.”

According to Finnoff, each of Team USA’s medical clinics will have a separate room dedicated to treating infectious diseases, where medical staff will first administer a PCR test capable of identifying several pathogens to pinpoint the exact problem. Once a specific pathogen is detected, medical staff will follow tailored treatment plans to minimize both symptoms and duration of an illness.

The USOPC will bring this comprehensive testing equipment to Paris, Finnoff said. 

Although there will be no official isolation or quarantine period imposed, athletes who have tested positive for a respiratory illness will be moved into their own rooms to prevent the spread of infectious diseases between roommates, according to Finnoff. 

“It doesn’t mean [infected athletes] can’t train or compete,” Finnoff said. “We’ll do that based on their symptoms and how they feel, but we do want to prevent [them] from infecting those around them, and we’ll also provide prophylaxis based on what is recommended by CDC guidelines.”

Are COVID vaccinations required at the Olympics?

The USOPC does not require athletes to vaccinate themselves against COVID, but it strongly recommends they stay up to date on vaccinations and boosters. 

Finnoff said the USOPC “absolutely promotes” vaccination and other standard public health practices like hand washing and mask-wearing to athletes. 

“It’s not mandated, but it’s explaining ‘this is how many people get sick if they don’t follow these protocols,’” Finnoff said. 

Can athletes still compete at the Paris Olympics if they test positive for COVID?

The short answer is yes. According to Finnoff, there are no set rules in place to stop Team USA members from choosing to compete if they have a positive COVID test result. However, athletes might be unable to — or choose not to — compete if their symptoms are severe enough. 

“It’s not a black and white,” Finnoff said.

For the Australian water polo who tested positive, Mears also did not offer a clear-cut answer, saying ‘in terms of competitions, we will wait until she gets the all clear and we get the information from our chief medical officer.’

Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods, missed the cut at the U.S. Junior Amateur by 18 strokes on Tuesday in Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

The younger Woods carded a 10-over-par 80 in the second round at Oakland Hills’ South Course after posting a 12-over 82 on Monday at Oakland Hills’ North Course.

His father was in attendance to watch the event that he won at age 15, 16 and 17, making him the tournament’s only three-time champion.

Charlie Woods made three pars and a birdie through his first four holes on Tuesday (on the back nine) before hitting a disastrous stretch.

He closed the back nine by going double bogey, bogey, par, double bogey, triple bogey, leaving him at 8 over par for the day.

Woods then settled down on the front nine, getting a birdie and five pars, but closed bogey-par-bogey. Only 17 players finished below Woods, including one who withdrew after the first round.

The son and his father will team up at the PNC Championship at Orlando in December.

Blades Brown was the stroke-play medalist at the U.S. Junior Amateur at 6-under 134 after shooting a 68 at the South Course on Tuesday. The top 64 in the 264-player field advance to match play, which begins Wednesday.

On a stacked Team USA Olympic swimming roster, no one is quite like Katie Grimes. 

No one is qualified for both the 1,500-meter freestyle, the longest event in the pool, and the 400-meter individual medley, a grueling parade of all four strokes. And the 10k marathon swim. No one except Grimes – now a two-time Olympian who will be the first American woman to compete in the pool and open water at the same Olympic Games.

She’s also just 18 years old.

‘I’ve done open water just about as long as I’ve done pool swimming, so I’ve just always wanted to be able to swim the open water (event) in the Olympics,’ says Grimes, whose shortest race at the Paris Games is about four-and-a-half minutes while her longest is two hours.

‘I never wanted to pick one over the other.’

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Three years ago, Grimes was the youngest overall Team USA athlete at the Tokyo Olympics, swimming the 800-meter freestyle in her first international competition. She finished a disappointing fourth, barely missing the podium as Katie Ledecky completed a three-peat Olympic championship.

This time around, Grimes didn’t bother messing with what she called a ‘congested’ 800 international field. Though if you told her three years ago she’d drop what she once considered her best event, she never would have believed it.

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Instead, Sandpipers of Nevada head coach Ron Aitken helped Grimes plot a path to the Olympic podium, prioritizing her strongest events. Plus, skipping the 800 gives her more time to prepare for the 10k in the Seine River eight days after her last potential final in the pool.

Grimes was the first Team USA athlete to qualify for Paris back in July 2023 when she won bronze in the open water 10k at world championships in Japan. 

At U.S. Olympic swimming trials in June, she won the 400 IM to officially qualify in the pool before making it in the 1,500, when she finished second to Ledecky. 

‘She always downplays her success, and sometimes I wish she wouldn’t because I just want her to be really, really proud of herself and really realize the full scope of what she’s accomplishing,’ says now-two-time Olympian Regan Smith. 

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Katie Grimes’ insatiable hunger to win

It was about 5 a.m. when Katie Grimes strolled into one of her older brother’s swim practices. She was 11 or 12 years old, Aitken recalls, and aiming to break a record at an upcoming meet. So she wanted additional practice.

Aitken reminded her to have fun because extra hours in the pool would surely come as she aged. But he said, even then, he could see her insatiable hunger to race and win.

‘She puts a tremendous amount of pressure on herself to be a lot better than she is currently, and that kind of keeps her from being as good as she can be,’ Aitken says. ‘That just goes along with age. I think, right now, she’s still not at a place where she’s been able to master pressure yet.’

It’s one of the many ways he’s reminded she’s still a teenager. But hardly an average one. She’s ‘an old soul,’ her mom, Shari Grimes, said – and one who was even resistant to getting a phone ahead of the Tokyo Games until Team USA strongly emphasized it.

Inheriting a competitive streak as the youngest of seven in an athletic family, she lives at home with her parents in Las Vegas and just graduated from high school. She’s a straight-A student who has yet to announce her college choice – though she said she’s made a decision and will likely declare after Paris.

Soft-spoken and silly sometimes, she’s on social media but would rather spend her free time listening to Fleetwood Mac or leisurely driving around in her coveted orange 1969 Chevy Corvette Stingray. She indulges in retail therapy, like recently buying a Skims towel-esque sweatshirt, despite its impracticality in scorching Vegas temperatures.

When it’s time to train, she embraces her workhorse mentality, calling it ‘the most comforting thing.’

‘(Grimes) is incredibly impressive – her ability to train and compete for open water, 400 IM, 1,500 free, she’s able to do it all,’ Ledecky said. 

‘She just keeps going, and she has such a good attitude about training and about racing and just is fearless when it comes to signing up for those events and racing the very best.’

Training for events largely on opposite skill spectrums, Grimes heavily relies on Aitken for guidance. Even for the 10k, all of her swimming work is in the pool, racking up between 65,000 and 85,000 yards – or up to about 50 miles – a week.

She might do a distance freestyle workout in the morning, followed by IM and stroke work in the evenings. The weak link in her 400 IM is breaststroke, so she trains to build up a lead on the butterfly and backstroke legs, hoping she doesn’t get caught on in the second half. 

‘It’s really just in the competitions where you get that (open water) experience,’ Grimes says. ‘Building up that stamina, building up the endurance – it’s very easy to work that in the pool. …

‘In fact, it’s probably even easier to train that in the pool just because you can blog exactly how much you’re doing and how fast you’re doing it.’

That’s where Aitken and his Excel sheets come in, tracking workouts, stroke counts, heart rates and stress levels. 

She can handle the absurd yardage, stroke work and sprint drills. She’ll do whatever workout Aitken writes on the board, wanting to train for as many events for as long as she can. She loves strength training, welcoming speed work to improve her reaction times off the block. 

The real challenge, she says, is competition time when she has to delicately balance prep, racing and recovery in between monstrous events. It didn’t help that she recuperated from pneumonia about 10 days before Olympic trials, Shari said, and was extra nervous because she was expected to make a second Olympic team.

At trials, she had about a 25-hour arduous stretch where she raced 2,500 total meters, plus warming up and down. But she views it as another level of preparation with the trials schedule closely resembling the one in Paris. 

‘Even though she’s 18 and I’m 22, I look up to her in a sense as well because she is so versatile,’ Smith says. ‘She makes it look incredibly easy, and she’s kept a very, very humble demeanor through it all.’

Katie Grimes’ called her shot

Katie Grimes called her shot when she was 10 years old. After cheering for her brother at 2016 U.S. trials, she decorated a kickboard that still hangs on a wall in the Grimes’ house. On it is a powerful message: ‘2020, I’m going to be there. Keep strong, keep swimming.’

‘She was watching all these kids make the Olympic team, and she looked at us, and she goes, ‘I’m doing this next time,” Shari recalls. ‘She just was laser focused from that point on.’

The Paris Games will greatly differ for Grimes compared with Tokyo three years ago, her lineup aside. Though always learning from Ledecky and trying to embody her poise and class, Grimes doesn’t need to rely on the four-time Olympian to show her how the Games work.

With experience, Grimes said she’s much more comfortable competing on an international stage, and since Tokyo, she’s implemented a stronger emphasis on post-race recovery. In bed at a reasonable hour is not negotiable, and staying off her feet is a priority.

Trying to mitigate the pressure and nerves, she’s practiced tapping into a calm headspace before competing while blasting Dua Lipa until she goes to the ready room. Part of that mindset is remembering to have fun and the comfort of knowing her family is in the stands cheering, she says. And thinking about how happy she’ll be when she hits the wall. 

‘She’s learning how to try and absorb all that (pressure), but also take it all in and use it as energy,’ Aitken added. ‘So she’s trying to find her way through that.’

While a pool inside Paris La Défense Arena is new for everyone, Grimes got a preview of the Olympic marathon swimming course last summer. Kind of. 

The Open Water Swimming World Cup was one of multiple Olympic test events canceled in 2023 because of poor water quality – a lingering concern this summer with recent elevated bacteria levels, including E. Coli. Grimes is eager to swim in the iconic river but also understands it’s “dirty water.’ Despite concerns, she’s hoping for the best. 

Seeing the open water course last summer at least allows her to visualize her 10k Olympic race on Aug. 8. Organizers have alternative race dates and a backup venue in place, should water quality remain dangerous.

A podium spot in open water is ‘definitely’ a goal, she says, especially in a two-hour race where finishing place is more highly regarded compared with times, like in the pool.

‘The hard part about doing a few different events is that I want to be the best that I can in all of them,’ Grimes says. ‘But I feel like you give up a little bit of that when you try and spread yourself across multiple events. But I can see myself in the future, one day, just focusing on one event.’

One day, maybe. But that’s the only thing Grimes isn’t ready for yet.