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The 2024 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: Cleveland, was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the 37th annual SummerSlam and took place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The event aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and featured wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine, produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).
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Simone Arianne Biles Owens (nรฉe Biles; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her ten Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history, and she is widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time. With ten Olympic medals, she is the third-most decorated female Olympic gymnast, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.
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Noah Lyles (born July 18, 1997) is an American professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters. His personal best of 19. 31 seconds in the 200 m is the American record, and makes him the third fastest of all-time in the event. In the 200 m, Lyles is the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist.
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Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky ( lษ-DEK-ee; born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. She has won nine Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. With 14 medals, she is also the most decorated American woman, most decorated female swimmer, and fifth most decorated athlete in Olympic history.
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Novak Djokovic (Serbian: ะะพะฒะฐะบ ะะพะบะพะฒะธั, Novak ฤokoviฤ, pronounced [nรดvaหk dสรดหkovitษ] ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Djokovic has been ranked No. 1 for a record total of 428 weeks in a record 13 different years by the ATP, and finished as the year-end No.
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Kamala Devi Harris ( KAH-mษ-lษ DAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
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Sha'Carri Richardson ( shษ-KERREE; born March 25, 2000) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters races. Richardson rose to fame in 2019 as a freshman at Louisiana State University, running 10. 75 seconds to break the 100 m collegiate record at the NCAA Division I Championships.
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The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-meter (109. 36 yd) dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1928 for women.
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Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16).
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Steven van de Velde (Dutch pronunciation: [หsteหvษn vษn dษ หvษldษ] ; born 8 August 1994) is a Dutch beach volleyball player. He was convicted of child rape in 2016; in 2014, when Van de Velde was 19, he raped a 12 year-old girl after he gave her alcohol. He participated in the 2024 Summer Olympics, with the Dutch Olympic Committee standing by their nomination.
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Trap is a 2024 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill. Produced by Blinding Edge Pictures, its plot follows a serial killer evading a police blockade while attending a concert with his daughter.
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Sunisa "Suni" Lee (nรฉe Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalists. She was the 2019 World Championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars.
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List of Olympic medalists in tennis
Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games until 1924 (excluding 1916 due to World War I), before going on hiatus due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over how to define amateur players.
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India at the 2024 Summer Olympics
India is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, being held between 26 July and 11 August 2024. The country made its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Indian athletes have appeared at every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 26th appearance at the Summer Olympics.
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All-time Olympic Games medal table
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
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Yusuf Dikeรง (born 1 January 1973) is a Turkish sport shooter competing in the pistol events. He is a retired non-commissioned officer of the Turkish gendarmerie and a member of Jandarma Gรผcรผ Sports Club. He won a silver medal in the 10 meter air pistol mixed team event at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside teammate ลevval ฤฐlayda Tarhan.
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Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs (respectively), two Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique.
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2024 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, are an ongoing international multi-sport event being held in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are participating in the games.
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Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player who is currently the world number two in men's singles. He is a two-time World Champion, defeating Lin Dan in 2017 final and Kunlavut Vitidsarn in 2022 final. He is also the reigning Olympic Champion, defeating Chen Long at the final of the 2020 event.
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List of Olympic Games host cities
This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad; summer and winter games are normally held in staggered even years. There have been 30 Summer Olympic Games held in 21 cities, and 24 Winter Olympic Games held in 21 cities.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinฤ Greek: ฮฮปฮตฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฮฑ ฮฮตฮฌ ฮฆฮนฮปฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฯ lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC โ 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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Ethan Katzberg (born April 5, 2002) is a Canadian hammer thrower. He is the reigning Olympic and world champion in that event, winning gold in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics and in Budapest at the 2023 World Championships. He is also the 2023 Pan American champion and the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist.
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Femke Bol (pronounced [หfษmkษ bษl] ; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman. A standalone sequel to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), it is the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series and the tenth film overall. It stars Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy.
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run on 1 to 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking. Four venues are to be used: Pont d'Iรฉna for race walking, Hรดtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events.
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Lamont Marcell Jacobs Jr. (born 26 September 1994) is an Italian track and field sprinter and former long jumper. He is the 2020 Olympic 100 metres champion, the 2022 60 metres world champion, the 2022 and 2024 European 100 metres champion, and a member of the gold medal-winning 4 ร 100 m relay team at the 2020 Olympics.
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Twisters is a 2024 American disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on a story by Joseph Kosinski. Serving as a standalone sequel to Twister (1996), the film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane. Its story follows clashing groups of storm chasers who investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.
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Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2023 as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 50th attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023 and served on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2017.
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Jonathan James Owens (born July 22, 1995) is an American football safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Missouri Western, and signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He has also played for the Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers.
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Timothy James Walz ( WAWLZ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former U.S. Army non-commissioned officer, and retired educator who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. A member of the DemocraticโFarmerโLabor Party (DFL), he was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2019.
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Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American retired sprinter who won four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals in the span of his career. He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time in the 300 m.
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House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011โ2019), it is the second television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season.
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Kelly Marie Cheng (nรฉe Claes, born September 18, 1995) is an American beach volleyball player. She and her partner Sara Hughes won the bronze medal at the 2013 U19 World Championships, the silver medal at the 2014 U21 World Championships, the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2016 and 2017.
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Stephen John Nedoroscik (; born October 28, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast. A pommel horse specialist, he is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2021 world champion โ the first and only American to win the event โ a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time U.S. national champion, and a two-time NCAA national champion for the apparatus.
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Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [หrษdสษr หfeหdษrษr]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Federer was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No.
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Ryan Crouser (born December 18, 1992) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus. He specializes in the shot put, in which he is the only three-time Olympic gold medalist, having won in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, and also a two-time World Champion. He holds the world record in the shot put, both indoors and outdoors.
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Yaroslava Oleksiyivna Mahuchikh (Ukrainian: ะฏัะพัะปะฐะฒะฐ ะะปะตะบัััะฒะฝะฐ ะะฐะณัััั ; pronounced [jarosหษซawa maหษฆutสix]; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships and 2022 World Indoor Championships.
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Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British anti-Islam campaigner and activist. He was a political advisor to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten, and is one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years.
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Israil Madrimov (Cyrillic: ะััะฐะธะป ะะฐะดัะธะผะพะฒ) is an Uzbek professional boxer, who has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light-middleweight title in 2024. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the welterweight division at the 2014 Asian Games and gold in the middleweight division at the 2018 edition.
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Dรฉfense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013.
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Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian and American actor, producer, writer, and businessman. He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside (1991โ1993) and had minor roles before landing the lead role on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001.
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics โ Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 August and 4 August at the Stade de France in Paris. Noah Lyles won the gold medal, setting a new personal best in the 100m. The United States extended its podium streak in the event to seven Games with both Lyles with gold and Fred Kerley winning bronze.
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Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be contested in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The artistic (27 July to 5 August) and trampoline (2 August) events will occur at the Bercy Arena, with the rhythmic events staged at Porte de La Chapelle Arena from 8 to 10 August.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The badminton tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are running from 27 July to 5 August at Porte de La Chapelle Arena. A total of 171 badminton players competed across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games.
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Lee Zii Jia (Chinese: ๆๆขๅ; pinyin: Lว Zวjiฤ; Peฬh-ลe-jฤซ: Lรญ Chรบ-ka, born 29 March 1998) is a Malaysian badminton player. Known for his smash, especially his backhand smash, physical agility, speed, and reflexes, he is regarded as one of the best players in the men's singles category in the current generation.
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Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thai: เธเธธเธฅเธงเธธเธเธด เธงเธดเธเธดเธเธจเธฒเธเธเน; simply known as View (Thai: เธงเธดเธง); born 11 May 2001) is a Thai badminton player. He is the current men's singles World Champion as he won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships. He was also three-times World Junior champion, winning in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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Field hockey at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The field hockey tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are held from 27 July to 9 August at Stade Yves-du-Manoir, a legacy venue of the 1924 Summer Olympics. Twenty-four teams (twelve each for men and women) compete against each other in their respective tournaments.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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The Judgment Day is a professional wrestling stable performing in WWE on the Raw brand. The group is currently composed of Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley, with Carlito as an associate. Ripley is a former Women's World Champion, with her reign being tied with Bayley for the longest in the title's history.
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Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The basketball competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, are held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. Preliminary 5-on-5 basketball matches occur at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, with the final phase staged at the Accor Arena (renamed to Bercy Arena due to IOC rules disallowing Olympic host venues to be named after corporate sponsors) in Paris.
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The 100 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896. The 100 metres is considered one of the blue ribbon events of the Olympics and is among the highest profile competitions at the games.
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Nicola Lauren Olyslagers (nรฉe McDermott) (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the high jump. Olyslagers is the current high jump Oceanian record holder, and the world champion at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
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United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
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Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 โ September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular figure due to both her record-setting athleticism and eclectic personal style.
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Inside Out 2 is a 2024 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to Inside Out (2015), it was directed by Kelsey Mann (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Mark Nielsen, from a screenplay written by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein, and a story conceived by Mann and LeFauve.
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James David "JD" Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984), is an American politician, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Tim Miller, in his directorial debut, and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is a spin-off of the X-Men film series and its overall eighth installment.
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India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete Norman Pritchard winning two medals โ both silver โ in athletics and became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
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Josh Kerr (born 8 October 1997) is a Scottish middle-distance runner who competes primarily in the 1500 metres. He won a gold medal in the event at the 2023 World Championships, a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships. Indoors he is the 2024 World Indoor champion in the 3000 metres.
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Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (born February 19, 1998), known professionally as Chappell Roan ( CHAP-ษl ROHN), is an American singer and songwriter. Working with collaborator Dan Nigro, the majority of her music is inspired by 1980s synth-pop and early 2000s pop hits. Her aesthetic is heavily influenced by drag queens, and her music and performing style have been described as "campy".
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Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 4 August at the Stade Roland Garros, featuring a total of 172 players across five medal events: singles and doubles for both men and women and mixed doubles.
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. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Douglas Craig Emhoff (born October 13, 1964) is an American lawyer who is the second gentleman of the United States. He is married to the 49th vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. As the first husband of a vice president, Emhoff is the first second gentleman in American federal history.
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Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The volleyball tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams participate in the tournament. Indoor volleyball competitions occur at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles with the beach volleyball tournament staged at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Champ de Mars.
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2020 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports.
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The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek ฮดฮญฮบฮฑ (dรฉka, meaning "ten") and แผฮธฮปฮฟฯ (รกthlos, or แผฮธฮปฮฟฮฝ, รกthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all.
