NANTERRE, France — Léon Marchand won a fourth gold medal and set his fourth Olympic record of these games on Friday, taking the 200-meter individual medley to the delight of a delirious French crowd.

The popularity of French swimmer Léon Marchand has caused some problems at the Olympics. It's a distraction, at least for some. At the tennis venue on Wednesday night, Austin Krajicek was serving for ...

PARIS — The blond-haired, blue-eyed, boyish face of the 2024 Olympics prepped for Parisian spotlights in Tempe, Arizona, or hopping across the American Southwest, hiding in plain sight. Nowadays, Léon ...

Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. AUSTIN, Texas — Bob Bowman’s office is sparsely decorated, the coach still so new to his job at the University of Texas that his desk ...

Leon Marchand, the 22 year-old swimming champion who made Team France proud with four gold medals and one silver at the Paris Olympics, ranks as one of the games’ biggest breakout athletes. After ...

The biggest star of the Paris Games took down Michael Phelps’ Olympic record in the most difficult event, putting his uncanny physical gifts and work ethic on display in front of a roaring hometown ...

NANTERRE, France — The party for Léon Marchand spread beyond the pool, quickly sweeping all across Paris. At Stade de France, hosting the first night of track and field, an enormous ovation broke out ...

Léon Marchand broke Michael Phelps' record at the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships on Sunday. The 21-year-old French swimmer beat the long-standing record by 1.34 seconds. Léon Marchand's ...

PARIS — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The ...