Olympics

Almost 40 Texas athletes across 12 sports brought home medals. Here’s a look at each of them.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass promised a "no car" Olympics when the summer games come to her city in 2028. How is her plan going to work in a city famous for large freeways and a lot of traffic?

A team of NPR journalists spent more than two weeks covering the Paris Summer Olympics. Here are some of our highlight moments from seeing the Games up close.

For some sports, picking the winner is simple: It's the athlete who crosses the finish line first, or the side that scores the most goals. But for the new Olympic sport of breaking (if you want to be cool, don't call it breakdancing), the criteria aren't quite that straightforward. How do you judge an event whose core values are dopeness, freshness, and breaking the rules? That was the challenge for Storm and Renegade, two legendary b-boys who set out to create a fair and objective scoring system for a dance they say is more of an art than a sport. Over the years, their journey to define the soul of breaking led them to meetings with Olympics bigwigs, debates over the science of dopeness, and a battle with a question many sports — from figure skating to gymnastics — have tried to answer: Can art and sport coexist? This episode was hosted by Jeff Guo and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and edited by Jenny Lawton. It was fact checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez with help from James Willets and Cena Loffredo. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

This will be the final Summer Olympics with the current line-up of the five events that make up the modern pentathlon. Gone will be the horse-riding and in its place: a controversial obstacle course.

Spurs number one draft pick Victor Wembanyama will play for his home country of France, and former Spurs player Steve Kerr is coaching the U.S. team.

The soft-drink giant is one of the Olympics' biggest sponsors. But advocates argue pushing sugary beverages promotes obesity and diabetes worldwide, and is inconsistent with the values of the games.

Sports like skateboarding, surfing or break dancing have been added to the Olympics in recent years, but there are lots of events that have been taken out -- like hot air ballooning and arts.

The San Antonio Natatorium on West César E. Chávez Boulevard on the West Side is getting renovated locker rooms, a lobby, and a retractable roof.

The modern Olympic Games are notorious for saddling host cities with burdensome cost overruns into the billions. Organizers for the Paris 2024 Olympics were aware of this and planned to put on one of the most cost-effective Olympics in recent memory. They still went over budget. Today on the show, why the Olympics almost always costs host cities much more than they anticipate and what we can learn from the Olympic Games' original economic sin. Related episodes: Peacock, potassium and other Paris Olympics Indicators (Apple / Spotify) Why California's high speed rail was always going to blow out (Apple / Spotify) For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.