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Today β€” 26 June 2024NBC News Top Stories

One month and counting: The first post-pandemic Olympics are finally within sight

PARIS β€” In exactly one month, the planet’s most gifted athletes will float down the Seine in Paris to celebrate the first Olympics since a world pandemic truncated consecutive Games.

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Summer McIntosh during a women's 400-meter medley heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2023.
Yesterday β€” 25 June 2024NBC News Top Stories
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French swimmer's cold call email to Michael Phelp's coach could end in homegrown Olympic glory

24 June 2024 at 10:00
Former Arizona State University swimming coach Bob Bowman might have spiked a random email that showed up in his inbox four years ago if the sender's name hadn't rung a bell.

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LΓ©on Marchand, left, and Bob Bowman during the French Elite Championships in Rennes, France, in 2023.

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LΓ©on Marchand competes in the men's 200-meter breaststroke final on Day 4 of the TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio on April 13.

Police identify gunman in Arkansas grocery store shooting that left 3 dead, 10 wounded

A gunman opened fire at an Arkansas grocery store Friday, killing at least three and wounding several others, authorities said.

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Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., Friday.

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A law enforcement officer at the scene of a shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., Friday.

Willie Mays' death reopens debate: Who is the game's 'greatest living ballplayer'?

20 June 2024 at 17:10
Baseball fans mourned the death of all-time great Willie Mays while gearing up for the great debate brought on by his passing.

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Joe DiMaggio swings a bat during spring training in St. Petersburg, Fla, on March 9, 1961.

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Seattle Mariner Alex Rodriguez, right, is congratulated by Ken Griffey Jr. , center, during a game against the Kansas City Royals on July 19, 1998 in Seattle.

Willie Mays, supreme baseball talent among the best to ever play, dies at 93

New York and San Francisco Giants icon Willie Mays, considered by many the greatest all-around baseball player of the 20th century, died Tuesday at 93.

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American baseball player Willie Mays of the New York Giants in 1954.

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Willie Mays slides safely into the plate on Wes Westrum's base in the sixth inning of the game against the Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, New York, on April 1, 1951.

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Then-President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Willie Mays, in Washington, on Nov. 24, 2015.

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Willie Mays with teammates Monte Irvin and Henry Thompson.

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Willie Mays smiles while a student from P.S. 46 with the Major League Baseball World Series trophy in Harlem, New York on January 21, 2011.

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Hall of Famer Willie Mays waves to the crowd during the pre-game celebration in honor of his 90th birthday, in San Francisco, on May 7, 2021.

Justin Timberlake arrested on DWI charge in Hamptons, told police 'I had one martini'

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. β€” Justin Timberlake claimed he had just "one martini" before he was pulled over, failed field sobriety tests and was arrested on suspicion of intoxicated driving early Tuesday in the affluent Hamptons area of Long Island, police said.

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Justin Timberlake.
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