Author: Matt Traub

Liberty Fever Basketball
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark drives past New York Liberty forward Betnijah Laney-Hamilton in the first half of a WNBA game in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Indiana Fever to Host WNBA All-Star 2025

Indianapolis will host the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and assorted festivities around Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the first time the city will have hosted the midseason showcase. The WNBA season resumes tonight after its Olympic break with the Indiana Fever playing Friday against the Phoenix Mercury. The Fever, with young stars Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, are […]

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2024 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
The end of the dramatic presentation of the Olympic rings during the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Paris Tourism Office Releases Preliminary Olympic Report

Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism bureau, released its preliminary report on Olympic Summer Games impact saying the United States was the leading international market during the competition. The report says the United States had 230,000 tourists visit Paris during the Games, nearly double the second-leading country in Germany (130,000). The United Kingdom was third […]

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OLY Paris Olympic Rings
The Olympic rings are seen on the Eiffel Tower, Sunday, July 14, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

2024 Summer Olympics in Review

SportsTravel was on location from the Olympic Summer Games focusing not only on the competition but giving readers a chance to learn more about what’s going on behind the scenes. Here is a comprehensive guide with facts about the world’s most prestigious sporting event with information, schedules and links to our content. You can always […]

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Los Angeles 2024
Competitiors in the men's 5,000 meter event at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles circle past the Olympic torch during the race on August 11, 1984. Los Angeles in 2028 will join London and Paris as the only three-time hosts of the Olympic Summer Games. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. Olympic Movement Focuses Its Eyes Toward LA28

Yes, the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games are in Paris and yes, competition begins in less than a week and yes, there will be plenty of focus on the present. Yet within the U.S. Olympic movement, there is also a sense that this is just the preamble. Paris is a chance to re-light the […]

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Fencing Palais
Fencing at the Grand Palais was one of the most popular fan experiences in the first week of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

2024 Olympics: Grades for the Games

With the Olympic movement at an inflection point in the minds of many experts, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris were vital for the International Olympic Committee to prove to the world that it is still relevant and attractive for major worldwide cities to have an interest in hosting. Based on SportsTravel’s experience in Paris […]

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Metro Entrance
Fans enter the Paris metro stop near Roland Garros after a soccer match at the Parc des Princes to get to the next Olympic event on their schedules. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

Getting Around The Olympics: Paris Metro System Takes Fans to Venues

The venues that host events throughout the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris have gotten so much attention — one perhaps that may not be getting as much attention is how the millions of people who bought tickets have been getting there. The Paris Metro has over 300 lines and is second busiest metro system […]

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Members of the U.S. figure skating team from the 2022 Winter Olympic Games receive their medals at the Champions Park in Paris. Photo by Jason Gewirtz/SportsTravel

 At the Olympic Summer Games, a Winter Gold at Last

PARIS — What was the U.S. Figure Skating mixed team from the Beijing Olympic Winter Games doing in Paris — in the heat of the summer? Collecting some long-overdue hardware is what. Nine members of that U.S. team from the 2022 Games finally received gold at the Paris Parc des Champions at the foot of […]

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IOC Observer Program
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Future Olympic Hosts Learn from Paris 2024

Future Olympic hosts for both Summer and Winter Games are being taken along the inner workings of the Paris 2024 committee as part of the IOC’s Information, Knowledge and Games Learning program. More than 400 officials from the Organizing Committees for Milano Cortina 2026, Dakar 2026 Youth Games, LA28 and Brisbane 2032, plus representatives of […]

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Paris Olympics Athletics
Noah Lyles, in lane seven, wins the men's 100-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Noah Lyles’ Dramatic Olympic Win Boosts USA Track & Field’s Brand

PARIS — Max Siegel cut a relaxed figure on the concourse at the Stade de France in the early evening on Sunday, less than 90 minutes before that night’s session of athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. This is the time every four years that USA Track & Field gets more exposure than ever. […]

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