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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Update: On Sunday (Aug. 4), France beat the U.S. to earn the bronze medal in the men’s team foil. Stanford alum Alexander Massialas of San Francisco competed in that event. Massialas was also previously defeated in the round of 16 in the individual men’s foil.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C8sWmlLJkDj/?img_index=1\">Alexander Massialas\u003c/a>, a three-time Olympic fencer from San Francisco competing in Paris this summer, is used to intense training. He has experienced nearly every possible scenario on the fencing strip. But in 2021, on his way to the Summer Games in Tokyo, he hit a snag — the dread of any top athlete who has worked for years to reach this competitive summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the flight over to Tokyo, we were required to take a COVID test before getting on the plane, as well as taking one after we arrived,” he recalled. “I tested negative both times, but unfortunately, someone sitting near me on the airplane, another athlete, tested negative on the first test but positive once we arrived in Tokyo. And because of that, the Japanese government kind of sealed me away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massialas, quarantined for two weeks, was unable to train with anyone. He said later on, he was eventually allowed to access the gym facilities at night when everyone else had left the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His coach and dad, Greg Massialas, said the situation affected his son’s performance. Alexander went on to earn a bronze medal in the team competition (in addition to silver and bronze medals in the individual and team competitions during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11040427/how-the-bay-area-turned-into-an-olympic-fencing-powerhouse\">READ MORE:\u003c/a> How the Bay Area Turned Into An Olympic Fencing Powerhouse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with a very stressful situation, you end up not really being at your best,” Greg said. “He ended up, for example, in the individual event, losing to a fencer who was somebody that was on the tail end of his career and somebody that Alexander usually beat quite regularly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander and Greg have both been on the Olympic circuit for a while. His dad competed in two Olympics, and his daughter and Alexander’s younger sister, Sabrina, is also a competitive fencer. Alexander, who’s recently been named head coach of the Stanford fencing program, his alma mater, first competed in the 2012 London Olympics at 18 years old — the youngest male athlete for Team USA at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996947\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing fencing helmets, gloves and gear while holding foils spar inside a building with banners, flags, foils and helmets hanging on the walls. \" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/007_SanFrancisco_MassialasFencing_07142021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Massialas (right), the reigning individual silver medalist from the 2016 Olympic Games, practices with his father, Greg Massialas, at the Massialas Foundation fencing studio in San Francisco on July 14, 2021. Alexander Massialas, a right-handed foil fencer, will be heading to his third Olympic games in Tokyo this year along with Greg Massialas, who will serve as the men’s foil team coach. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander, 30, wants to go for the gold in Paris — the opening ceremony kicks off Friday and the fencing matches begin Saturday. He talked about competition and his motivation with KQED’s Brian Watt. Here’s an excerpt of their conversation, which has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRIAN WATT: After all these years, the honors you’ve won on the fencing strip — the Olympics, the World Championship, World Cup, Grand Prix — do you think that you are still getting better at fencing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALEXANDER MASSIALAS: I do think that I’m getting better at fencing. The athleticism changes as you get older, but I’m still at pretty peak athletic ability. But what really has changed over the last several years is my mentality and my experience, and how I approach bouts mentally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, I was ranked No. 1 in the world after hitting a little bit of a slump. But the fact that I’ve been able to be No. 1 in the world as a 22-year-old, 23-year-old, as well as a 29-year-old shows that I’m still at the height of an extremely high caliber when we’re talking about my abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season, I won the first two World Cups of the international fencing season. So I know I can compete on any given day. That experience of just being on the circuit for so long and understanding the ins and outs of the game, whether it’s new or old opponents, I operate from a standpoint of being one of the most experienced fencers on the circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I like to point out, as someone who has done a little fencing myself, that fencing is kind of a tedious sport to practice, even if it’s a noble sport to compete in. How do you stay motivated at this point? Is it all about the elusive gold medal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is more about just me loving the sport, and the love doesn’t just apply to competition. It means loving all the tedious aspects, too. You [have to] love the preparation. And, I think the day I lose love for it is going to be the day you see me either hang them up or start to see some worse results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there anything outside of the competition that you’re looking forward to in Paris?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. Just being in Paris in the summer is just going to be fantastic. But I think the biggest things I’m excited to do are everything I wasn’t able to do in Tokyo because of my quarantine: experiencing a real Olympic Games and meeting new athletes. Some of my really good friends have come from meeting at the Olympic Games under different circumstances, whether it was in London or Rio. And getting to meet new Olympians, like, hopefully, Steph Curry. I’m a big basketball fan. I played basketball growing up in San Francisco. So, being able to meet a childhood hero would be incredible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So is that your moment?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. basketball team has always been very good about coming into the [Olympic] Village and interacting with the athletes, especially the American athletes. They signed on to do this because they’re interested in the Olympic experience, as well. So, you know, in the past, I’ve had great experiences with some of the previous Olympians, whether it’s Draymond [Green], Carmelo [Anthony], or whoever it might be. So maybe I’ll see [Curry] in the Village. Time will tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Welcome to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-12714/2024-paris-olympics\">Paris Summer Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept spectators away for the last two Olympic Games (in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1075754094/2022-winter-olympics\">Beijing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-the-tokyo-olympics\">Tokyo\u003c/a>), the French capital has prepared to welcome back crowds with a splash: the public will be treated to a \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympic-games-opening-ceremony-all-you-need-to-know\">unique opening ceremony\u003c/a> on the iconic River Seine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor ceremony — set to be the largest one yet, measured by audience and geographical sprawl — kicks off 16 days of sporting events held across the city and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of Paris, the historic \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/chateau-de-versailles\">Palace of Versailles\u003c/a> will host equestrian events, while surfing will take place some 10,000 miles away in \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/teahupo-o-tahiti\">Teahupo’o, Tahiti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/08/1025895793/united-states-barely-edges-out-china-for-most-gold-medals-at-tokyo-olympics\">streak of domination\u003c/a> at the Summer Games, \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/\">the United States\u003c/a> is expected to collect the most medals in Paris, followed by China, Great Britain, France and then Australia. Russia, meanwhile — typically a top contender — is sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/nx-s1-5048559/russia-summer-olympic-paris-team-small-scandal\">very small number of athletes\u003c/a> to Paris following consequences related to their country’s doping and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1082539802/russia-ukraine-invasion-explained\">invasion of Ukraine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what else to know ahead of the Games before the opening ceremony on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. An opening ceremony like no other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Close to 100 boats carrying more than 10,000 athletes and performers will glide down a 3.7-mile stretch of the River Seine during the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/whats-new-paris-2024-opening-ceremony\">opening ceremony on July 26\u003c/a>. It’s the first time in the history of the modern Olympics that’s being held outside of a stadium, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open-air event is expected to draw some 300,000 spectators — most of whom will pay no admission fee to watch the parade from the river’s upper embankments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade will travel east to west, starting at Austerlitz Bridge, and then pass by major landmarks and event venues like the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-games-grand-palais-a-long-olympic-history\">Grand Palais\u003c/a>. The parade is set to end at the Pont d’Iéna bridge before a finale show at the Trocadéro opposite \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/eiffel-tower-stadium\">the Eiffel Tower\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Games organizing committee, described the vision for the ceremony when the plan was announced in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire city has been turned into a vast Olympic stadium. The Seine represents the track, and the quays the spectators’ stands,” \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympic-opening-ceremony-seine\">Estanguet said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade’s route also offers a sightseeing tour of some of the temporary sports venues, including an outdoor arena abutting the Eiffel Tower where beach volleyball games will take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. A swimmable Seine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s also the matter of the Seine as a competition venue. In the run-up to the games, a question has plagued officials: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041447/seine-water-quality-paris-olympics-swimming-triathlon-marathon\">Will the Seine be swimmable\u003c/a> in time for the Olympics? The sewage-polluted waters have been a hurdle to the city’s ambitious goal to hold the swim leg of the triathlon in the famous river where swimming has been historically banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent testing of the water has turned up \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/15/g-s1-4613/unsafe-ecoli-paris-seine-river-olympics\">unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria\u003c/a> caused by fecal matter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la-qualite-de-l-eau-du-fleuve-27467\">tests earlier this month\u003c/a> showed acceptable bacteria levels. In an effort to silence skeptics, last week, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo followed through on her promise to take a dip in the Seine and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/g-s1-11397/paris-mayor-seine-swim-olympics-anne-hidalgo\">declared the waters\u003c/a> perfectly safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Breaking will make its Olympics debut\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the previous Summer Games’ addition of skateboarding and surfing, another sport with counterculture roots will take the Olympics stage \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697009844/breakdancing-in-the-olympics-paris-2024-organizers-say-oui-garcon\">for the first time\u003c/a> in Paris. Breaking — best known to the uninitiated as “break-dancing” — is a dance style said to have originated in the 1970s from the streets of New York City’s South Bronx and inspired by the break beats and hip-hop tracks played by DJs and MCs. But the athleticism involved in the art form — head-spins, backflips and other acrobatics — is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking became more mainstream in the 1990s as it entered pop culture and expanded in popularity through international competition. And in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added breaking to the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s an American export, other countries, including Japan, Canada and The Netherlands, boast talent that’s been known to surpass the U.S. competitively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paris, 16 b-boys (male breakers) and 16 b-girls will go head to head in separate battles at Place de la Concorde, an outdoor public square. The women’s competition is set for Aug. 9, and the men’s is on Aug. 10. On Team USA, look out for medal contenders Victor Montalvo and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/1110667136/break-dancer-sunny-choi-competes-at-the-world-games-and-hopes-for-the-2024-olymp\">Grace “Sunny” Choi\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Simone Biles leads American gymnasts’ shot at redemption\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The same U.S. women’s gymnastics team that took home \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/27/1021090180/u-s-womens-gymnastics-team-gold-final-simone-biles-sunisa-lee\">a silver medal\u003c/a> at the Tokyo Games all-around final in 2021 is hoping to rewrite their Olympic ending in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Biles, who at 27 is the most decorated gymnast of all time, came down with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/29/1022151827/simone-biles-got-the-twisties-at-the-tokyo-olympics-heres-what-that-means\">a case of the “twisties,”\u003c/a> a debilitating psychological affliction that forced her to pull out of several events to focus on her mental health. In her place, Suni Lee had emerged as the unlikely champion, and went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/27/1021090180/u-s-womens-gymnastics-team-gold-final-simone-biles-sunisa-lee\">earn a gold medal\u003c/a> in the individual all-around competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Biles and Lee are Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and 16-year-old newcomer Hezly Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Biles in top form and the team united in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/g-s1-7388/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa-olympic-team\">goal of “redemption,”\u003c/a> the women’s squad is the favorite to win gold. And especially so, given that Russia, the defending gold medalist, won’t be there. The IOC plans to allow only some Russian athletes to compete as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/nx-s1-5048559/russia-summer-olympic-paris-team-small-scandal\">individual neutral athletes\u003c/a>” under strict conditions it set in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1082539802/russia-ukraine-invasion-explained\">Russia’s war in Ukraine\u003c/a>. The country’s absence also improves the men’s chances of medaling in a sport normally dominated by Russia, China and Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Ledecky and Dressel headline U.S. swim team\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Entering her fourth Olympics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1248888456/katie-ledecky-presidential-medal-of-freedom-paris-olympics-swimming\">Katie Ledecky\u003c/a> continues to dominate the 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle events, in both of which she still holds the world records. Seven of her Olympic medals are gold, putting her just two wins away from earning the most Olympic gold medals of any female athlete in history. Younger swimmers have Ledecky beat in the 400-meter freestyle: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus (who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/25/1020554438/swimmer-katie-ledecky-silver-tokyo-olympics-ariarne-titmus\">took gold in Tokyo\u003c/a> and also reigns in the 200-meter event) and Canada’s Summer McIntosh have each knocked down Ledecky’s world record, which Titmus currently holds. The Titmus-McIntosh-Ledecky 400-meter race should make for a thrilling watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In men’s swimming, the U.S. is looking for a superstar and hoping that Caeleb Dressel is it. The 27-year-old won \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/31/1023305493/caeleb-dressel-swimming-50-meter-relay-olympic-gold-medals\">five gold medals in Tokyo\u003c/a> — joining an elite few of swimmers that have won that many in a single Games, including Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz. After taking an eight-month break from the sport, Dressel showed at the Olympic trials last month that he’s \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/u-s-olympic-swimming-trials-2024-results-ledecky-dressel\">still fast in sprints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into Paris, however, the two fastest swimmers in the world are not from the usual rival powerhouses (Australia and the U.S.) but from Canada — McIntosh on the women’s — and France — Léon Marchand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. A Chinese doping scandal casts a shadow over swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A doping scandal sparked international outrage after it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246205969/china-swimming-doping-scandal-olympics\">revealed in April\u003c/a> that 32 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug ahead of the Tokyo Games in 2021 but were cleared to compete. The drug in question — called \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1081008770/what-is-trimetazidine-the-drug-found-in-russian-skater-kamila-valievas-system\">trimetazidine or TMZ\u003c/a> — is the same one found in a sample from Kamila Valieva, the Russian figure skater who was subsequently slapped with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227529886/kamila-valieva-russian-figure-skater-2022-beijing-olympics-doping\">a four-year ban\u003c/a> from international competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese officials say an unintentional contamination led to the positive tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246205969/china-swimming-doping-scandal-olympics\">accepted that explanation\u003c/a> after its investigation and said that international doping rules don’t require them to ban the athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Justice Department has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/05/nx-s1-5030170/doping-china-swimmers-olympic-justice-department-investigation\">opened a criminal probe\u003c/a> into the case involving the swimmers. Meanwhile, China is expected to send 11 of the 32 swimmers with the performance drug in their system in 2021 to compete in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s handling of the positive tests has sowed doubt deeper among critics who question whether the regulatory body responsible for curbing cheating holds some countries to a lower standard than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. The rivalry between American and Jamaican sprinters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 100-meter sprint, the most popular track event, has shaped up to be a familiar two-nation race. Representing Jamaica in the women’s race is Shericka Jackson, whose biggest challenge is American Sha’Carri Richardson. But don’t overlook Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who will race in her fifth and final Olympics 16 years after becoming the first Caribbean woman to win the 100-meter gold. They are chasing Florence Griffith Joyner’s record set in 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 200-meter, there’s a real chance we could see the fall of Flo-Jo’s world record, set that same year when she ran 21.34 seconds. Jackson will go head-to-head with teammate Elaine Thompson-Herah and Gabby Thomas of Team USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the men’s 100-meter race, Noah Lyles on Team USA will face Jamaica’s Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson, each aiming to break the world record time set by eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. Still, the field is brimming with talent that clouds podium predictions. Other top contenders include reigning Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and a former world champion American Fred Kerley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyles also racing in the 200-meter — his better event — a race that won’t be as wide open as the 100. He’s the favorite, ahead of Tebogo, a notable exception to the rivalry, who won the men’s race last week at an international meet in Monaco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. In soccer, U.S. women hope to get back to winning gold. The U.S. men play their first Olympics in ages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soccer starts before the Games officially kick off with the opening ceremony. The U.S. women’s national team is aiming to upgrade their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/05/1025033756/the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-beats-australia-to-win-bronze-medal-at-tokyo-olympics\">bronze medal\u003c/a> from Tokyo. The four-time gold medalists haven’t taken first on the podium since the 2012 Games in London. Since the retirement of major stars — Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, Julie Ertz, Sam Mewis — has made way for a younger team, which will be led by new head coach Emma Hayes, former manager of the women’s Chelsea Football Club. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194906459/womens-world-cup-final-spain-england\">World Cup champion Spain\u003c/a> is the favorite to take gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the U.S. sent a men’s soccer team to the Olympics was in 2008, and they haven’t medaled since 1904. Since the rule to restrict the competition to players under 23 went into effect in 1992, the men’s team has advanced to the knockout stage only once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men kick off their tournament on Wednesday in a game against host country France, a favorite to win it all. The women’s squad plays Zambia on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Welcome to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-12714/2024-paris-olympics\">Paris Summer Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept spectators away for the last two Olympic Games (in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1075754094/2022-winter-olympics\">Beijing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-the-tokyo-olympics\">Tokyo\u003c/a>), the French capital has prepared to welcome back crowds with a splash: the public will be treated to a \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympic-games-opening-ceremony-all-you-need-to-know\">unique opening ceremony\u003c/a> on the iconic River Seine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor ceremony — set to be the largest one yet, measured by audience and geographical sprawl — kicks off 16 days of sporting events held across the city and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of Paris, the historic \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/chateau-de-versailles\">Palace of Versailles\u003c/a> will host equestrian events, while surfing will take place some 10,000 miles away in \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/teahupo-o-tahiti\">Teahupo’o, Tahiti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/08/1025895793/united-states-barely-edges-out-china-for-most-gold-medals-at-tokyo-olympics\">streak of domination\u003c/a> at the Summer Games, \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.com/\">the United States\u003c/a> is expected to collect the most medals in Paris, followed by China, Great Britain, France and then Australia. Russia, meanwhile — typically a top contender — is sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/nx-s1-5048559/russia-summer-olympic-paris-team-small-scandal\">very small number of athletes\u003c/a> to Paris following consequences related to their country’s doping and its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1082539802/russia-ukraine-invasion-explained\">invasion of Ukraine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what else to know ahead of the Games before the opening ceremony on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. An opening ceremony like no other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Close to 100 boats carrying more than 10,000 athletes and performers will glide down a 3.7-mile stretch of the River Seine during the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/whats-new-paris-2024-opening-ceremony\">opening ceremony on July 26\u003c/a>. It’s the first time in the history of the modern Olympics that’s being held outside of a stadium, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open-air event is expected to draw some 300,000 spectators — most of whom will pay no admission fee to watch the parade from the river’s upper embankments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade will travel east to west, starting at Austerlitz Bridge, and then pass by major landmarks and event venues like the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-games-grand-palais-a-long-olympic-history\">Grand Palais\u003c/a>. The parade is set to end at the Pont d’Iéna bridge before a finale show at the Trocadéro opposite \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/venues/eiffel-tower-stadium\">the Eiffel Tower\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Games organizing committee, described the vision for the ceremony when the plan was announced in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire city has been turned into a vast Olympic stadium. The Seine represents the track, and the quays the spectators’ stands,” \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympic-opening-ceremony-seine\">Estanguet said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parade’s route also offers a sightseeing tour of some of the temporary sports venues, including an outdoor arena abutting the Eiffel Tower where beach volleyball games will take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. A swimmable Seine?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s also the matter of the Seine as a competition venue. In the run-up to the games, a question has plagued officials: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5041447/seine-water-quality-paris-olympics-swimming-triathlon-marathon\">Will the Seine be swimmable\u003c/a> in time for the Olympics? The sewage-polluted waters have been a hurdle to the city’s ambitious goal to hold the swim leg of the triathlon in the famous river where swimming has been historically banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent testing of the water has turned up \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/15/g-s1-4613/unsafe-ecoli-paris-seine-river-olympics\">unsafe levels of E. coli bacteria\u003c/a> caused by fecal matter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.paris.fr/pages/meteo-de-la-seine-quelle-est-la-qualite-de-l-eau-du-fleuve-27467\">tests earlier this month\u003c/a> showed acceptable bacteria levels. In an effort to silence skeptics, last week, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo followed through on her promise to take a dip in the Seine and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/g-s1-11397/paris-mayor-seine-swim-olympics-anne-hidalgo\">declared the waters\u003c/a> perfectly safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Breaking will make its Olympics debut\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the previous Summer Games’ addition of skateboarding and surfing, another sport with counterculture roots will take the Olympics stage \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697009844/breakdancing-in-the-olympics-paris-2024-organizers-say-oui-garcon\">for the first time\u003c/a> in Paris. Breaking — best known to the uninitiated as “break-dancing” — is a dance style said to have originated in the 1970s from the streets of New York City’s South Bronx and inspired by the break beats and hip-hop tracks played by DJs and MCs. But the athleticism involved in the art form — head-spins, backflips and other acrobatics — is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking became more mainstream in the 1990s as it entered pop culture and expanded in popularity through international competition. And in 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added breaking to the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s an American export, other countries, including Japan, Canada and The Netherlands, boast talent that’s been known to surpass the U.S. competitively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paris, 16 b-boys (male breakers) and 16 b-girls will go head to head in separate battles at Place de la Concorde, an outdoor public square. The women’s competition is set for Aug. 9, and the men’s is on Aug. 10. On Team USA, look out for medal contenders Victor Montalvo and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/1110667136/break-dancer-sunny-choi-competes-at-the-world-games-and-hopes-for-the-2024-olymp\">Grace “Sunny” Choi\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Simone Biles leads American gymnasts’ shot at redemption\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The same U.S. women’s gymnastics team that took home \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/27/1021090180/u-s-womens-gymnastics-team-gold-final-simone-biles-sunisa-lee\">a silver medal\u003c/a> at the Tokyo Games all-around final in 2021 is hoping to rewrite their Olympic ending in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, Biles, who at 27 is the most decorated gymnast of all time, came down with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/29/1022151827/simone-biles-got-the-twisties-at-the-tokyo-olympics-heres-what-that-means\">a case of the “twisties,”\u003c/a> a debilitating psychological affliction that forced her to pull out of several events to focus on her mental health. In her place, Suni Lee had emerged as the unlikely champion, and went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/27/1021090180/u-s-womens-gymnastics-team-gold-final-simone-biles-sunisa-lee\">earn a gold medal\u003c/a> in the individual all-around competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining Biles and Lee are Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and 16-year-old newcomer Hezly Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with Biles in top form and the team united in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/g-s1-7388/simone-biles-gymnastics-usa-olympic-team\">goal of “redemption,”\u003c/a> the women’s squad is the favorite to win gold. And especially so, given that Russia, the defending gold medalist, won’t be there. The IOC plans to allow only some Russian athletes to compete as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/nx-s1-5048559/russia-summer-olympic-paris-team-small-scandal\">individual neutral athletes\u003c/a>” under strict conditions it set in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1082539802/russia-ukraine-invasion-explained\">Russia’s war in Ukraine\u003c/a>. The country’s absence also improves the men’s chances of medaling in a sport normally dominated by Russia, China and Japan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Ledecky and Dressel headline U.S. swim team\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Entering her fourth Olympics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1248888456/katie-ledecky-presidential-medal-of-freedom-paris-olympics-swimming\">Katie Ledecky\u003c/a> continues to dominate the 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle events, in both of which she still holds the world records. Seven of her Olympic medals are gold, putting her just two wins away from earning the most Olympic gold medals of any female athlete in history. Younger swimmers have Ledecky beat in the 400-meter freestyle: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus (who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/25/1020554438/swimmer-katie-ledecky-silver-tokyo-olympics-ariarne-titmus\">took gold in Tokyo\u003c/a> and also reigns in the 200-meter event) and Canada’s Summer McIntosh have each knocked down Ledecky’s world record, which Titmus currently holds. The Titmus-McIntosh-Ledecky 400-meter race should make for a thrilling watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In men’s swimming, the U.S. is looking for a superstar and hoping that Caeleb Dressel is it. The 27-year-old won \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/07/31/1023305493/caeleb-dressel-swimming-50-meter-relay-olympic-gold-medals\">five gold medals in Tokyo\u003c/a> — joining an elite few of swimmers that have won that many in a single Games, including Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz. After taking an eight-month break from the sport, Dressel showed at the Olympic trials last month that he’s \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/u-s-olympic-swimming-trials-2024-results-ledecky-dressel\">still fast in sprints\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading into Paris, however, the two fastest swimmers in the world are not from the usual rival powerhouses (Australia and the U.S.) but from Canada — McIntosh on the women’s — and France — Léon Marchand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. A Chinese doping scandal casts a shadow over swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A doping scandal sparked international outrage after it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246205969/china-swimming-doping-scandal-olympics\">revealed in April\u003c/a> that 32 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug ahead of the Tokyo Games in 2021 but were cleared to compete. The drug in question — called \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1081008770/what-is-trimetazidine-the-drug-found-in-russian-skater-kamila-valievas-system\">trimetazidine or TMZ\u003c/a> — is the same one found in a sample from Kamila Valieva, the Russian figure skater who was subsequently slapped with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227529886/kamila-valieva-russian-figure-skater-2022-beijing-olympics-doping\">a four-year ban\u003c/a> from international competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinese officials say an unintentional contamination led to the positive tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246205969/china-swimming-doping-scandal-olympics\">accepted that explanation\u003c/a> after its investigation and said that international doping rules don’t require them to ban the athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Justice Department has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/05/nx-s1-5030170/doping-china-swimmers-olympic-justice-department-investigation\">opened a criminal probe\u003c/a> into the case involving the swimmers. Meanwhile, China is expected to send 11 of the 32 swimmers with the performance drug in their system in 2021 to compete in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s handling of the positive tests has sowed doubt deeper among critics who question whether the regulatory body responsible for curbing cheating holds some countries to a lower standard than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. The rivalry between American and Jamaican sprinters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 100-meter sprint, the most popular track event, has shaped up to be a familiar two-nation race. Representing Jamaica in the women’s race is Shericka Jackson, whose biggest challenge is American Sha’Carri Richardson. But don’t overlook Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who will race in her fifth and final Olympics 16 years after becoming the first Caribbean woman to win the 100-meter gold. They are chasing Florence Griffith Joyner’s record set in 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 200-meter, there’s a real chance we could see the fall of Flo-Jo’s world record, set that same year when she ran 21.34 seconds. Jackson will go head-to-head with teammate Elaine Thompson-Herah and Gabby Thomas of Team USA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the men’s 100-meter race, Noah Lyles on Team USA will face Jamaica’s Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson, each aiming to break the world record time set by eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. Still, the field is brimming with talent that clouds podium predictions. Other top contenders include reigning Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and a former world champion American Fred Kerley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyles also racing in the 200-meter — his better event — a race that won’t be as wide open as the 100. He’s the favorite, ahead of Tebogo, a notable exception to the rivalry, who won the men’s race last week at an international meet in Monaco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. In soccer, U.S. women hope to get back to winning gold. The U.S. men play their first Olympics in ages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soccer starts before the Games officially kick off with the opening ceremony. The U.S. women’s national team is aiming to upgrade their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/tokyo-olympics-live-updates/2021/08/05/1025033756/the-u-s-womens-soccer-team-beats-australia-to-win-bronze-medal-at-tokyo-olympics\">bronze medal\u003c/a> from Tokyo. The four-time gold medalists haven’t taken first on the podium since the 2012 Games in London. Since the retirement of major stars — Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, Julie Ertz, Sam Mewis — has made way for a younger team, which will be led by new head coach Emma Hayes, former manager of the women’s Chelsea Football Club. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194906459/womens-world-cup-final-spain-england\">World Cup champion Spain\u003c/a> is the favorite to take gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the U.S. sent a men’s soccer team to the Olympics was in 2008, and they haven’t medaled since 1904. Since the rule to restrict the competition to players under 23 went into effect in 1992, the men’s team has advanced to the knockout stage only once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Badminton, among the handful of sports the U.S. has never medaled in the Olympics, now has a majority California roster of athletes on Team U.S.A. competing in this year’s Summer Games, which begin Friday in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the seven athletes hail just from the Bay Area: Vinson Chiu of Milpitas, Jennie Gai of Fremont, Annie and Kerry Xu, twin sisters from San José, and Joshua Yuan of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the team includes a fellow Californian, Howard Shu from Orange County, and Beiwen Zhang from Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the exception of Shu and Zhang, who competed in Rio and Tokyo, respectively, their peers are first-time Olympians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Xu sisters, who will compete in the women’s doubles, won a silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games. Chiu and Yuan, who will compete in the men’s doubles, won a bronze medal at the XXVII YONEX Pan Am Individual Championships in 2024. Chiu and Gai, who will compete in the mixed doubles, also won a silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996567\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-1536x1100.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-2048x1466.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-514522952-1920x1374.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badminton player Howard Shu poses for a portrait at the 2016 Team USA Media Summit at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 8, 2016 in Beverly Hills. \u003ccite>(Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our players definitely have the potential to put up a fight and really give the top players a run for their money,” said Timothy Lam of Mountain View, who grew up and trained with some of these athletes during his Olympic run, which culminated in Tokyo in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badminton, which has been an official Olympic sport since 1992, is popular outside the U.S. in many European and Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea. Lam said badminton doesn’t get the same recognition as other Olympic sports in the U.S. but it has still cultivated a network in some states, like California, producing top-notch players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talked more about this with KQED’s Brian Watt. Here’s an excerpt of their conversation, which has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Watt: Many of us have probably seen badminton. It looks a bit like tennis. There are rackets and a net. But then there’s the birdie, which is different from a bouncing ball. So how would you describe badminton for people who aren’t so familiar with it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timothy Lam:\u003c/strong> Believe it or not, it’s actually the fastest racket sport in the world with shots going \u003ca href=\"https://olympic.ca/2014/09/11/shuttlecock-and-balls-the-fastest-moving-objects-in-sport/\">over 400 mph\u003c/a>. So it’s important to have good reflexes and train your body to be able to react in like a split second. And I think the misconception about badminton in the U.S. is that it’s played outdoors in someone’s backyard, like with a racket in your right hand and holding a beer in your left hand while the whole family is doing an outdoor barbecue kind of thing. But the reality is that professional, competitive badminton is really meant to be played indoors at a really high intensive pace and level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get into badminton? What drew you to this sport so much that you eventually went on to compete in the Tokyo Olympics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 6 years old, my parents wanted me to do something to stay active, as an extracurricular activity. Eventually, as I got older and started to win more competitions, it turned into an after-school, five-days-a-week thing. And then I think at that point I started winning more local, national and then international competitions. From there it just sort of progressed into something that I was really passionate about, and I wanted to see myself take it to the next level. Which is why, after college, I decided to go pro and give it a shot for competing at the Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did it come to be that California is such a big producer of badminton players?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badminton is really popular in Europe and Asia, especially. So considering that a lot of people from Asia immigrate to either California or New York, I’d say that those two states are pretty popular in terms of badminton. And considering the high amount of resources that California has to build these badminton clubs for the players to get started in the sport, I think is a huge reason as to why California is able to produce these players at such a high level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badminton students line up for a match during badminton practice at Orange County Badminton Club in Orange. \u003ccite>(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We hear about support for certain Olympic sports, very high profile ones like gymnastics and swimming. But what does support for badminton look like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a huge lack of endorsements and sponsors. And I think that really is also due to the fact that we don’t have an official government-supported national team. I really feel like there’s a huge difference between the U.S. and countries like Japan or Korea or China, where they have a state or government-sponsored national team, whereas our players in the U.S. are all independent, self-funded, which really makes it more difficult to get the players to sacrifice all other aspects of their lives. Many of our upcoming juniors have aspirations outside of badminton to go to a top tier university. And so I think that’s probably one of the biggest things that is preventing badminton from increasing in terms of popularity in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who are the countries to beat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denmark, China, Japan and Korea. But I definitely say more so China. Because in the past 20 years at the Olympics, they’ve earned medals in all five disciplines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find the schedule of badminton matches \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/badminton\">\u003cem>here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> You can learn more about the Bay Area athletes competing in the Paris Olympics \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993783/paris-2024-olympic-games-san-francisco-bay-area-athletes-competing\">\u003cem>here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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There are rackets and a net. But then there’s the birdie, which is different from a bouncing ball. So how would you describe badminton for people who aren’t so familiar with it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timothy Lam:\u003c/strong> Believe it or not, it’s actually the fastest racket sport in the world with shots going \u003ca href=\"https://olympic.ca/2014/09/11/shuttlecock-and-balls-the-fastest-moving-objects-in-sport/\">over 400 mph\u003c/a>. So it’s important to have good reflexes and train your body to be able to react in like a split second. And I think the misconception about badminton in the U.S. is that it’s played outdoors in someone’s backyard, like with a racket in your right hand and holding a beer in your left hand while the whole family is doing an outdoor barbecue kind of thing. But the reality is that professional, competitive badminton is really meant to be played indoors at a really high intensive pace and level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get into badminton? What drew you to this sport so much that you eventually went on to compete in the Tokyo Olympics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 6 years old, my parents wanted me to do something to stay active, as an extracurricular activity. Eventually, as I got older and started to win more competitions, it turned into an after-school, five-days-a-week thing. And then I think at that point I started winning more local, national and then international competitions. From there it just sort of progressed into something that I was really passionate about, and I wanted to see myself take it to the next level. Which is why, after college, I decided to go pro and give it a shot for competing at the Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did it come to be that California is such a big producer of badminton players?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badminton is really popular in Europe and Asia, especially. So considering that a lot of people from Asia immigrate to either California or New York, I’d say that those two states are pretty popular in terms of badminton. And considering the high amount of resources that California has to build these badminton clubs for the players to get started in the sport, I think is a huge reason as to why California is able to produce these players at such a high level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-563978287-1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badminton students line up for a match during badminton practice at Orange County Badminton Club in Orange. \u003ccite>(Allen J. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Paris Olympics is almost upon us and with over 10,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, it can be tough to know what to watch and who to root for. In the interest of narrowing down your viewing options, here then are the incredible Bay Area athletes who’ll be competing in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacklyn Luu\u003c/strong> hails from Milpitas, is a graduate student at Stanford University and a proud, second-generation Vietnamese American. She can also — like the rest of her artistic swimming team — hold her breath underwater for a frighteningly long time. This is one of the most captivating sports of the Summer Olympics, and this is the first year the U.S. women’s team has made it to the team event since 2008. Go, Jacklyn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/twins-badminton-scaled-e1720808610530.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Asian descent stand smiling together, holding up medals and commemorative toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins and badminton partners Annie Xu (left) and Kerry Xu pose with their silver medals after the women’s doubles final event of the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. \u003ccite>(PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Badminton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine being the parent of an Olympian. The pride! The awe! The near-constant desire to smugly point at your perfectly formed offspring and say, “Look what I made!” Now imagine being the parents of 24-year-old twin sisters \u003cstrong>Kerry and Annie Xu\u003c/strong>. These San José-born, UC Berkeley graduates will be playing as a doubles team, having taken up badminton at the age of 8. Their friends at Milpitas’ Bay Badminton Club, where they’ve been training for the last 14 years, will be cheering them on every step of the way — just probably not as loudly as their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins aren’t the Bay’s only badminton talent heading to Paris. Fremont’s \u003cstrong>Jennie Gai\u003c/strong> and Foster City’s \u003cstrong>Joshua Yuan\u003c/strong> will also be hitting the courts. Yuan has openly admitted that when he first started playing at South San Francisco’s Bay Badminton Center, he “didn’t like it, [but] my parents forced me to continue.” Gai also once said that her folks gave her the choice of tennis or badminton, and she landed on the latter because “tennis is too much sun.” Proof positive that wonderful things \u003cem>can\u003c/em> come from forcing your reluctant children to exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball player pumps fist and shouts in victory with crowd behind him.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors celebrates during the third quarter in Game 7 of the Western Conference first-round playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on April 30, 2023, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Warriors head coach \u003cstrong>Steve Kerr\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Steph Curry\u003c/strong> are off to Paris. It’ll be Kerr’s second Olympics, having coached at the 2021 Tokyo Games, but Curry’s first time. Grant Hill, managing director of USA Basketball, said Curry was “almost giddy” when he found out he’d make the cut. Show ’em how it’s done, Chef Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s \u003cstrong>Chelsea Gray\u003c/strong> and Walnut Creek’s \u003cstrong>Sabrina Ionescu\u003c/strong> will be holding things down on the women’s team. Gray already has a gold medal from Tokyo and is probably about to get another — the USA women’s basketball team has won for the last seven consecutive Olympics. Ionescu is a perfect addition to keep that roll going. Last year, she set an NBA record at the annual 3-point competition, scoring 37 out of a potential 40 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decathlon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It takes a special kind of (masochistic?) competitor to choose the decathlon as their sport of choice. After an entire day of sprinting, running, long jump, shot put and high jump competitions, athletes have to roll right on back the next day to run hurdles, throw discus, do pole vault, throw javelins and, oh yes, partake in more running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye on \u003cstrong>Harrison Williams\u003c/strong>, a 6-foot-5-inch Stanford graduate who’s competing in his first Olympics. He spent his entire time at Stanford breaking the university’s decathlon records, so fingers crossed he can perform similar feats in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technically, he’s on Team Lithuania, but \u003cstrong>Mykolas Alekna\u003c/strong> will be repping UC Berkeley at the 2024 Games, too. The psychology student is already a well-known athlete in his home country, but his profile is rising across the U.S. because of the low-key manner in which he keeps performing extraordinary feats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Alekna broke the oldest world record in track and field when he threw the discus nearly 244 feet. Needless to say, Alekna’s gold prospects are pretty solid — especially when you consider that his dad, Virgilijus Alekna, won gold medals for discus throwing at both the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/fencing-scaled-e1720808587710.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fencing gear sits on a log in a wooded area. He is smiling and casually holding a foil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Massialas in San Francisco, May 2020. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fencing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Mykolas Alekna, \u003cstrong>Alexander Massialas\u003c/strong> had some sizable shoes to fill — his father, Greg, was on the American fencing teams that competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. Also like Alekna, Massialas — born and raised in San Francisco — is not struggling to keep up with his talented pop. The Stanford University graduate is already in possession of three Olympic medals — a silver he won in 2016 and two bronzes he earned as part of the men’s fencing team in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Massialas’ most notable teammates from those last two games is \u003cstrong>Gerek Meinhardt\u003c/strong>, who, in 2008, became the youngest athlete to ever compete on a U.S. Olympic fencing team. Raised in San Francisco, Meinhardt found his love of fencing early in life and via a family friend who coached the sport. That coach? None other than Greg Massialas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maia Chamberlain\u003c/b>, born in Menlo Park, is headed to her first Olympics as the women’s saber replacement athlete. Though she studied architecture at Princeton and now lives in New York, Chamberlain still considers the Bay Area “home turf”; she started out her Olympic year with a national gold medal at the January North American Cup in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gymnastics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford University sophomore \u003cstrong>Asher Hong \u003c/strong>is heading to Paris in search of gold this month, having placed first on rings in the Olympic trials. And it’s no wonder — head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9L6DYZumnV/?hl=en\">Hong’s Instagram page\u003c/a> to see some of his truly astonishing physical feats. The 20-year-old will be accompanied by fellow Stanford gymnast \u003cstrong>Khoi Young\u003c/strong> who’ll be acting as an alternate for the U.S. team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hammer Throwing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduate \u003cstrong>Camryn Rogers\u003c/strong> will be spinning at high speeds and hurling hammers with her trademark strength and precision for Team Canada. You’ll want to root for her anyway — Rogers is the reigning world champion, has a day job working as a special education advocate, and considers her fellow Cal athletes as a second family. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> once called her “the Stephen Curry of her sport — dominant and engaging and likable.” Rogers is someone you can’t help but cheer for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Daniela-M-scaled-e1720808561524.jpg\" alt=\"A tanned woman kite boarding in open water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1187\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Moroz during day 4 of the Paris 2024 sailing test event in Marseille. \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kiteboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those wondering if there’s a more peculiar Olympic activity than hammer throwing, the answer to that might be kiteboarding. After all, this sport involves humans strapping small boards to their feet, large sails to their bodies, and then throwing themselves at bodies of water. One of those humans is \u003cstrong>Daniela Moroz\u003c/strong> from Lafayette, a six-time Formula Kite World Champion who won her first at the age of 15. This is the first year that kiteboarding has been included in the Olympics, and Moroz is thrilled to face the new level of competition. “I am ready for the challenge,” she recently stated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielamoroz.com/about\">her website\u003c/a>, “and I can’t wait to experience everything that will happen along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Jump\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in the East Bay, \u003cstrong>Malcolm Clemons\u003c/strong> — a current student at the University of Florida in Gainesville — can’t believe how far he’s come. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9P7piJujMT/?img_index=1\">Instagram post\u003c/a>, the long jumper wrote: “From a kid with big dreams in East Oakland, California to an Olympian — what a journey. I thank God for everything. Thank you to my family for all the love and support and to everyone in my village who believed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Okeefe-scaled-e1720808653971.jpg\" alt=\"A female marathon runner smiles broadly with her arms outstretched, partially wrapped in an American flag. She has a patch of blood on the front of her shirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona O’Keeffe smiles after placing first during the 2024 US Olympic Team Trials in Florida last February. \u003ccite>(Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long-distance runner \u003cstrong>Fiona O’Keeffe\u003c/strong> hails from Davis, graduated from Stanford, and qualified for this year’s Olympics in record time. The fact that the Olympic trial was her first ever professionally run marathon? No biggie, apparently. “There was some level of fear of the unknown,” O’Keeffe told NBC. “But I was really excited to just go run the marathon and see what I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Keefe crossed the finish line \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CitiusMag/status/1754617970481885495\">bleeding through her track top\u003c/a>, she took it with characteristic stoicism. “Yes, the red stuff on my bib was blood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiona_okeeffe/p/C2-7w6-LeGf/?img_index=2\">she later explained on Instagram\u003c/a>. “[I] made the rookie move of stashing a gel in my sports bra and proceeding to drench myself with water on the course, resulting in a little chafing situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rowing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Davison\u003c/strong> has been based in Oakland since 2019 and trains with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiarowingclub.com/about\">California Rowing Club\u003c/a>. This will be his second Olympic competition, having competed in the U.S. Men’s 8+ in Tokyo in 2021. He’ll be cheered on by the many rowers he trains as an assistant coach at the Oakland Strokes rowing club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland-based rower heading to Paris is \u003cstrong>Sorin Koszyk \u003c/strong>who last year won the men’s championship singles race in record time. \u003ca href=\"https://usrowing.org/rosters/2023-senior-national-team/sorin-koszyk\">Koszyk’s U.S. Rowing profile\u003c/a> says, “Sorin enjoys spending time with friends and Jenga.” Someone had better have a tower lined up for him at the end of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Skiff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a boaty person, you might not yet know what a skiff is. Technically, skiffs are any small, open, flat-bottomed sailboats. In the Olympics, the Men’s and Women’s Skiff category describes humans operating in pairs, hanging off the side of skiffs, going at ludicrously high speeds while operating a series of wires and pulleys. Skiff looks extremely challenging, but try telling that to San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Hans Henken\u003c/strong>, who’s competing in the Olympics for the very first time. He and teammate Ian Barrows are currently ranked second in the world and are clearly not to be trifled with — especially when you consider Henken has a master’s degree from Stanford in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. That should help move things along quite nicely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/minna-scaled-e1720808755545.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage girl skateboards the end of a ramp she's about to drop back into.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess skates on day 3 of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai on May 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Skateboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Petaluma, 18-year-old daredevil \u003cstrong>Minna Stess\u003c/strong> has been throwing herself down unfeasibly giant ramps her whole life. (Literally — she started skating as a toddler.) Egged on by a supportive family who built a mini skatepark in their backyard for her to practice on, Stess has been sponsored by the likes of Vans, Independent Trucks and Santa Cruz Skateboards since she was a pre-teen. “I’ve always been competitive,” she told \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em> earlier this year. “But I never thought the Olympics would be something that I could be doing. It’s kind of crazy that this is all happening now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also repping the Bay from his skateboard is \u003cstrong>Nyjah Huston\u003c/strong>, originally from Davis. Like Stess, Huston was a skateboarding child prodigy, on the X Games circuit by age 11, and now in possession of 13 gold medals from competing in them. He’s also earned six world championship trophies. Huston has long tried to use his platform for good. In 2010, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://letitflow.org/\">Let It Flow\u003c/a> with the hopes of getting clean water to communities in need all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s \u003cstrong>Tierna Davidson\u003c/strong> and San José’s \u003cstrong>Naomi Girma\u003c/strong> will both be showing off their fancy footwork on the Parisian pitch this summer. Davidson has played for Stanford, won a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021, and is the youngest on the women’s Olympic soccer team. (She should be used to that by now — she was also the youngest person on the 2019 World Cup women’s team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girma, another Stanford graduate, is known as a team player in every sense of the word. She credits her Ethiopian parents — who moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s — with instilling in her strong values and a generous spirit. “Their sacrifices are the only reason I am where I am today,” she recently told NBC Sports. Girma was declared player of the year by the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team last year because, yes, she’s just that good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay has a healthy number of swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year, but Stanford graduate \u003cstrong>Katie Ledecky\u003c/strong> is undoubtedly the most intimidating. Ledecky has already earned seven Olympic gold medals and another 21 world championship golds. Can anyone beat that? We’re about to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduates \u003cstrong>Abbey Weitzel\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ryan Murphy\u003c/strong> will also be swimming in Paris. Weitzel earned two medals (one gold, one silver) at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and another two in Tokyo in 2021 (one silver, one bronze). Murphy has four Olympic golds to his name and, back in 2009, broke a backstroke world record. None of it has gone to his head, though. After marrying his college sweetheart in 2023, Murphy credited his new wife with much of his success. “I think she’s someone who definitely gets me just motivated about life,” Murphy told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “She’s super optimistic, and I think that’s just been really helpful for me in terms of my approach to the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evgenii Somov\u003c/strong>, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and moved to Oakland in 2022 after swimming for the University of Louisville, will compete in Paris as an “Individual Neutral Athlete” in the 100-meter breaststroke. Since Russian (and Belarussian) athletes were banned from this year’s Olympics due to the war in Ukraine, Somov has improbably qualified and will race without any state support. Parents of swimmers he’s coached in the Bay Area launched a GoFundMe to help pay for Somov’s expenses, which include his flights and high-tech swimwear. “It comes down to, I either want to go, or I don’t want to go,” he told the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> about his drive to compete. “And I want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Table Tennis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s \u003cstrong>Lily Zhang\u003c/strong> started her table tennis career as the youngest female on the U.S. women’s team. She was just 12 years old at the time. Zhang, a former UC Berkeley student, was the youngest member of the U.S. team to compete in 2012’s London Olympics and also took part in the 2021 Tokyo Games. She can undoubtedly provide some inspiration to San José’s \u003cstrong>Rachel Sung\u003c/strong>, who is heading to the Olympics for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kanak Jha\u003c/strong> from Milpitas — who was the U.S. national champion four years in a row (2016–2019) — is also heading to the Olympics, followed by a small cloud of controversy. Jha got hit with a one-year suspension in 2023 for failing three drug tests within 12 months. 2024 will not be Jha’s first Olympics, though. He also competed in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/CJ-tae-scaled-e1720808823434.jpg\" alt=\"Two men engaged in martial arts. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Nickolas (left) competes against Miguel Angel Trejos at the Pan American Games in 2022. \u003ccite>(JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Taekwondo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tale of\u003cstrong> Carl “CJ” Nickolas\u003c/strong>’ athletic career is a heartwarming one of family togetherness. Born in Oakland, Nickolas started taekwondo at the age of 3 at the same time his mom Denise took up the sport. Denise’s achievements were impressive — at 43 years old, the fourth-degree black belt won a national championship. That, and her work ethic in general, has provided Nickolas with nonstop inspiration since he was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where I learned about hard work,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2024/07/08/how-east-bay-taekwondo-fighter-cj-nickolas-became-a-gold-medal-contender-at-the-paris-olympics/\">he told the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> earlier this year. “I wanted to work harder than her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickolas’ prospects at the Olympics are pretty good. He’s currently ranked number two in his weight class and entering the games focused and confident — just like his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Water Polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a ridiculous amount of female talent in the water polo category this year. There’s \u003cstrong>Jewel Roemer\u003c/strong>, who hails from Martinez and competes for Stanford. There are former Stanford students \u003cstrong>Jordan Raney,\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Ryann Neushul \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>Ella Woodhead \u003c/strong>(who was born and raised in San Anselmo) — all impressive competitors. There’s also San José’s \u003cstrong>Jenna Flynn\u003c/strong>, who earned first place in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the 2023 Pan American Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, \u003cstrong>Maggie Steffens\u003c/strong> — yet another Stanford graduate — is heading back to the Olympics with the goal of winning her fourth gold medal. Originally from San Ramon and now living in Danville, Steffens has been a top goal scorer in each of the last three Olympics. What’s more, the team captain has long been a beacon for women’s water polo. One so bright, in fact, she inspired Flavor Flav to step up as the official hype man of U.S. women’s water polo. Back in May, Flav publicly pledged to sponsor Steffens and the whole team, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FlavorFlav/status/1786906613971865696\">stating on X\u003c/a>: “The US Women’s Waterpolo team has won the GOLD MEDAL THREE OLYMPICS IN A ROW,,, these women should not have to be working 2-3 side jobs to be able to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen to that, Flav.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering where the men are, adorable San Anselmo brothers \u003cstrong>Quinn and Dylan Woodhead\u003c/strong> are both heading to Paris, too. “When you can compete with someone out of a place of love and trust,” Dylan recently told NBC Bay Area, “it’s really easy.” Awww.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wrestling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay is represented by a major contender in women’s wrestling this summer. Born in Walnut Creek, \u003cstrong>Amit Elor\u003c/strong> has been wrestling since the age of 9 and wins gold medals seemingly everywhere she goes. In 2023 alone, Elor took gold at the World Championships, the Pan American Championships, the U23 World Championships and the Junior World Championships. Oh, and she won gold in three out of four of those competitions the year before as well. No reason why she won’t do the same in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Paris Olympics will be broadcast by NBC and Peacock between July 26 and Aug. 11. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC’s schedule\u003c/a> for details.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Paris Olympics is almost upon us and with over 10,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, it can be tough to know what to watch and who to root for. In the interest of narrowing down your viewing options, here then are the incredible Bay Area athletes who’ll be competing in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacklyn Luu\u003c/strong> hails from Milpitas, is a graduate student at Stanford University and a proud, second-generation Vietnamese American. She can also — like the rest of her artistic swimming team — hold her breath underwater for a frighteningly long time. This is one of the most captivating sports of the Summer Olympics, and this is the first year the U.S. women’s team has made it to the team event since 2008. Go, Jacklyn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/twins-badminton-scaled-e1720808610530.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Asian descent stand smiling together, holding up medals and commemorative toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins and badminton partners Annie Xu (left) and Kerry Xu pose with their silver medals after the women’s doubles final event of the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. \u003ccite>(PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Badminton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine being the parent of an Olympian. The pride! The awe! The near-constant desire to smugly point at your perfectly formed offspring and say, “Look what I made!” Now imagine being the parents of 24-year-old twin sisters \u003cstrong>Kerry and Annie Xu\u003c/strong>. These San José-born, UC Berkeley graduates will be playing as a doubles team, having taken up badminton at the age of 8. Their friends at Milpitas’ Bay Badminton Club, where they’ve been training for the last 14 years, will be cheering them on every step of the way — just probably not as loudly as their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins aren’t the Bay’s only badminton talent heading to Paris. Fremont’s \u003cstrong>Jennie Gai\u003c/strong> and Foster City’s \u003cstrong>Joshua Yuan\u003c/strong> will also be hitting the courts. Yuan has openly admitted that when he first started playing at South San Francisco’s Bay Badminton Center, he “didn’t like it, [but] my parents forced me to continue.” Gai also once said that her folks gave her the choice of tennis or badminton, and she landed on the latter because “tennis is too much sun.” Proof positive that wonderful things \u003cem>can\u003c/em> come from forcing your reluctant children to exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball player pumps fist and shouts in victory with crowd behind him.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors celebrates during the third quarter in Game 7 of the Western Conference first-round playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on April 30, 2023, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Warriors head coach \u003cstrong>Steve Kerr\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Steph Curry\u003c/strong> are off to Paris. It’ll be Kerr’s second Olympics, having coached at the 2021 Tokyo Games, but Curry’s first time. Grant Hill, managing director of USA Basketball, said Curry was “almost giddy” when he found out he’d make the cut. Show ’em how it’s done, Chef Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s \u003cstrong>Chelsea Gray\u003c/strong> and Walnut Creek’s \u003cstrong>Sabrina Ionescu\u003c/strong> will be holding things down on the women’s team. Gray already has a gold medal from Tokyo and is probably about to get another — the USA women’s basketball team has won for the last seven consecutive Olympics. Ionescu is a perfect addition to keep that roll going. Last year, she set an NBA record at the annual 3-point competition, scoring 37 out of a potential 40 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decathlon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It takes a special kind of (masochistic?) competitor to choose the decathlon as their sport of choice. After an entire day of sprinting, running, long jump, shot put and high jump competitions, athletes have to roll right on back the next day to run hurdles, throw discus, do pole vault, throw javelins and, oh yes, partake in more running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye on \u003cstrong>Harrison Williams\u003c/strong>, a 6-foot-5-inch Stanford graduate who’s competing in his first Olympics. He spent his entire time at Stanford breaking the university’s decathlon records, so fingers crossed he can perform similar feats in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technically, he’s on Team Lithuania, but \u003cstrong>Mykolas Alekna\u003c/strong> will be repping UC Berkeley at the 2024 Games, too. The psychology student is already a well-known athlete in his home country, but his profile is rising across the U.S. because of the low-key manner in which he keeps performing extraordinary feats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Alekna broke the oldest world record in track and field when he threw the discus nearly 244 feet. Needless to say, Alekna’s gold prospects are pretty solid — especially when you consider that his dad, Virgilijus Alekna, won gold medals for discus throwing at both the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/fencing-scaled-e1720808587710.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fencing gear sits on a log in a wooded area. He is smiling and casually holding a foil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Massialas in San Francisco, May 2020. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fencing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Mykolas Alekna, \u003cstrong>Alexander Massialas\u003c/strong> had some sizable shoes to fill — his father, Greg, was on the American fencing teams that competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. Also like Alekna, Massialas — born and raised in San Francisco — is not struggling to keep up with his talented pop. The Stanford University graduate is already in possession of three Olympic medals — a silver he won in 2016 and two bronzes he earned as part of the men’s fencing team in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Massialas’ most notable teammates from those last two games is \u003cstrong>Gerek Meinhardt\u003c/strong>, who, in 2008, became the youngest athlete to ever compete on a U.S. Olympic fencing team. Raised in San Francisco, Meinhardt found his love of fencing early in life and via a family friend who coached the sport. That coach? None other than Greg Massialas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maia Chamberlain\u003c/b>, born in Menlo Park, is headed to her first Olympics as the women’s saber replacement athlete. Though she studied architecture at Princeton and now lives in New York, Chamberlain still considers the Bay Area “home turf”; she started out her Olympic year with a national gold medal at the January North American Cup in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gymnastics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford University sophomore \u003cstrong>Asher Hong \u003c/strong>is heading to Paris in search of gold this month, having placed first on rings in the Olympic trials. And it’s no wonder — head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9L6DYZumnV/?hl=en\">Hong’s Instagram page\u003c/a> to see some of his truly astonishing physical feats. The 20-year-old will be accompanied by fellow Stanford gymnast \u003cstrong>Khoi Young\u003c/strong> who’ll be acting as an alternate for the U.S. team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hammer Throwing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduate \u003cstrong>Camryn Rogers\u003c/strong> will be spinning at high speeds and hurling hammers with her trademark strength and precision for Team Canada. You’ll want to root for her anyway — Rogers is the reigning world champion, has a day job working as a special education advocate, and considers her fellow Cal athletes as a second family. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> once called her “the Stephen Curry of her sport — dominant and engaging and likable.” Rogers is someone you can’t help but cheer for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Daniela-M-scaled-e1720808561524.jpg\" alt=\"A tanned woman kite boarding in open water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1187\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Moroz during day 4 of the Paris 2024 sailing test event in Marseille. \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kiteboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those wondering if there’s a more peculiar Olympic activity than hammer throwing, the answer to that might be kiteboarding. After all, this sport involves humans strapping small boards to their feet, large sails to their bodies, and then throwing themselves at bodies of water. One of those humans is \u003cstrong>Daniela Moroz\u003c/strong> from Lafayette, a six-time Formula Kite World Champion who won her first at the age of 15. This is the first year that kiteboarding has been included in the Olympics, and Moroz is thrilled to face the new level of competition. “I am ready for the challenge,” she recently stated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielamoroz.com/about\">her website\u003c/a>, “and I can’t wait to experience everything that will happen along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Jump\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in the East Bay, \u003cstrong>Malcolm Clemons\u003c/strong> — a current student at the University of Florida in Gainesville — can’t believe how far he’s come. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9P7piJujMT/?img_index=1\">Instagram post\u003c/a>, the long jumper wrote: “From a kid with big dreams in East Oakland, California to an Olympian — what a journey. I thank God for everything. Thank you to my family for all the love and support and to everyone in my village who believed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Okeefe-scaled-e1720808653971.jpg\" alt=\"A female marathon runner smiles broadly with her arms outstretched, partially wrapped in an American flag. She has a patch of blood on the front of her shirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona O’Keeffe smiles after placing first during the 2024 US Olympic Team Trials in Florida last February. \u003ccite>(Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long-distance runner \u003cstrong>Fiona O’Keeffe\u003c/strong> hails from Davis, graduated from Stanford, and qualified for this year’s Olympics in record time. The fact that the Olympic trial was her first ever professionally run marathon? No biggie, apparently. “There was some level of fear of the unknown,” O’Keeffe told NBC. “But I was really excited to just go run the marathon and see what I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Keefe crossed the finish line \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CitiusMag/status/1754617970481885495\">bleeding through her track top\u003c/a>, she took it with characteristic stoicism. “Yes, the red stuff on my bib was blood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiona_okeeffe/p/C2-7w6-LeGf/?img_index=2\">she later explained on Instagram\u003c/a>. “[I] made the rookie move of stashing a gel in my sports bra and proceeding to drench myself with water on the course, resulting in a little chafing situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rowing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Davison\u003c/strong> has been based in Oakland since 2019 and trains with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiarowingclub.com/about\">California Rowing Club\u003c/a>. This will be his second Olympic competition, having competed in the U.S. Men’s 8+ in Tokyo in 2021. He’ll be cheered on by the many rowers he trains as an assistant coach at the Oakland Strokes rowing club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland-based rower heading to Paris is \u003cstrong>Sorin Koszyk \u003c/strong>who last year won the men’s championship singles race in record time. \u003ca href=\"https://usrowing.org/rosters/2023-senior-national-team/sorin-koszyk\">Koszyk’s U.S. Rowing profile\u003c/a> says, “Sorin enjoys spending time with friends and Jenga.” Someone had better have a tower lined up for him at the end of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Skiff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a boaty person, you might not yet know what a skiff is. Technically, skiffs are any small, open, flat-bottomed sailboats. In the Olympics, the Men’s and Women’s Skiff category describes humans operating in pairs, hanging off the side of skiffs, going at ludicrously high speeds while operating a series of wires and pulleys. Skiff looks extremely challenging, but try telling that to San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Hans Henken\u003c/strong>, who’s competing in the Olympics for the very first time. He and teammate Ian Barrows are currently ranked second in the world and are clearly not to be trifled with — especially when you consider Henken has a master’s degree from Stanford in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. That should help move things along quite nicely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/minna-scaled-e1720808755545.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage girl skateboards the end of a ramp she's about to drop back into.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess skates on day 3 of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai on May 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Skateboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Petaluma, 18-year-old daredevil \u003cstrong>Minna Stess\u003c/strong> has been throwing herself down unfeasibly giant ramps her whole life. (Literally — she started skating as a toddler.) Egged on by a supportive family who built a mini skatepark in their backyard for her to practice on, Stess has been sponsored by the likes of Vans, Independent Trucks and Santa Cruz Skateboards since she was a pre-teen. “I’ve always been competitive,” she told \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em> earlier this year. “But I never thought the Olympics would be something that I could be doing. It’s kind of crazy that this is all happening now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also repping the Bay from his skateboard is \u003cstrong>Nyjah Huston\u003c/strong>, originally from Davis. Like Stess, Huston was a skateboarding child prodigy, on the X Games circuit by age 11, and now in possession of 13 gold medals from competing in them. He’s also earned six world championship trophies. Huston has long tried to use his platform for good. In 2010, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://letitflow.org/\">Let It Flow\u003c/a> with the hopes of getting clean water to communities in need all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s \u003cstrong>Tierna Davidson\u003c/strong> and San José’s \u003cstrong>Naomi Girma\u003c/strong> will both be showing off their fancy footwork on the Parisian pitch this summer. Davidson has played for Stanford, won a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021, and is the youngest on the women’s Olympic soccer team. (She should be used to that by now — she was also the youngest person on the 2019 World Cup women’s team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girma, another Stanford graduate, is known as a team player in every sense of the word. She credits her Ethiopian parents — who moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s — with instilling in her strong values and a generous spirit. “Their sacrifices are the only reason I am where I am today,” she recently told NBC Sports. Girma was declared player of the year by the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team last year because, yes, she’s just that good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay has a healthy number of swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year, but Stanford graduate \u003cstrong>Katie Ledecky\u003c/strong> is undoubtedly the most intimidating. Ledecky has already earned seven Olympic gold medals and another 21 world championship golds. Can anyone beat that? We’re about to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduates \u003cstrong>Abbey Weitzel\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ryan Murphy\u003c/strong> will also be swimming in Paris. Weitzel earned two medals (one gold, one silver) at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and another two in Tokyo in 2021 (one silver, one bronze). Murphy has four Olympic golds to his name and, back in 2009, broke a backstroke world record. None of it has gone to his head, though. After marrying his college sweetheart in 2023, Murphy credited his new wife with much of his success. “I think she’s someone who definitely gets me just motivated about life,” Murphy told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “She’s super optimistic, and I think that’s just been really helpful for me in terms of my approach to the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evgenii Somov\u003c/strong>, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and moved to Oakland in 2022 after swimming for the University of Louisville, will compete in Paris as an “Individual Neutral Athlete” in the 100-meter breaststroke. Since Russian (and Belarussian) athletes were banned from this year’s Olympics due to the war in Ukraine, Somov has improbably qualified and will race without any state support. Parents of swimmers he’s coached in the Bay Area launched a GoFundMe to help pay for Somov’s expenses, which include his flights and high-tech swimwear. “It comes down to, I either want to go, or I don’t want to go,” he told the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> about his drive to compete. “And I want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Table Tennis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s \u003cstrong>Lily Zhang\u003c/strong> started her table tennis career as the youngest female on the U.S. women’s team. She was just 12 years old at the time. Zhang, a former UC Berkeley student, was the youngest member of the U.S. team to compete in 2012’s London Olympics and also took part in the 2021 Tokyo Games. She can undoubtedly provide some inspiration to San José’s \u003cstrong>Rachel Sung\u003c/strong>, who is heading to the Olympics for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kanak Jha\u003c/strong> from Milpitas — who was the U.S. national champion four years in a row (2016–2019) — is also heading to the Olympics, followed by a small cloud of controversy. Jha got hit with a one-year suspension in 2023 for failing three drug tests within 12 months. 2024 will not be Jha’s first Olympics, though. He also competed in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/CJ-tae-scaled-e1720808823434.jpg\" alt=\"Two men engaged in martial arts. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Nickolas (left) competes against Miguel Angel Trejos at the Pan American Games in 2022. \u003ccite>(JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Taekwondo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tale of\u003cstrong> Carl “CJ” Nickolas\u003c/strong>’ athletic career is a heartwarming one of family togetherness. Born in Oakland, Nickolas started taekwondo at the age of 3 at the same time his mom Denise took up the sport. Denise’s achievements were impressive — at 43 years old, the fourth-degree black belt won a national championship. That, and her work ethic in general, has provided Nickolas with nonstop inspiration since he was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where I learned about hard work,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2024/07/08/how-east-bay-taekwondo-fighter-cj-nickolas-became-a-gold-medal-contender-at-the-paris-olympics/\">he told the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> earlier this year. “I wanted to work harder than her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickolas’ prospects at the Olympics are pretty good. He’s currently ranked number two in his weight class and entering the games focused and confident — just like his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Water Polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a ridiculous amount of female talent in the water polo category this year. There’s \u003cstrong>Jewel Roemer\u003c/strong>, who hails from Martinez and competes for Stanford. There are former Stanford students \u003cstrong>Jordan Raney,\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Ryann Neushul \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>Ella Woodhead \u003c/strong>(who was born and raised in San Anselmo) — all impressive competitors. There’s also San José’s \u003cstrong>Jenna Flynn\u003c/strong>, who earned first place in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the 2023 Pan American Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, \u003cstrong>Maggie Steffens\u003c/strong> — yet another Stanford graduate — is heading back to the Olympics with the goal of winning her fourth gold medal. Originally from San Ramon and now living in Danville, Steffens has been a top goal scorer in each of the last three Olympics. What’s more, the team captain has long been a beacon for women’s water polo. One so bright, in fact, she inspired Flavor Flav to step up as the official hype man of U.S. women’s water polo. Back in May, Flav publicly pledged to sponsor Steffens and the whole team, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FlavorFlav/status/1786906613971865696\">stating on X\u003c/a>: “The US Women’s Waterpolo team has won the GOLD MEDAL THREE OLYMPICS IN A ROW,,, these women should not have to be working 2-3 side jobs to be able to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen to that, Flav.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering where the men are, adorable San Anselmo brothers \u003cstrong>Quinn and Dylan Woodhead\u003c/strong> are both heading to Paris, too. “When you can compete with someone out of a place of love and trust,” Dylan recently told NBC Bay Area, “it’s really easy.” Awww.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wrestling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay is represented by a major contender in women’s wrestling this summer. Born in Walnut Creek, \u003cstrong>Amit Elor\u003c/strong> has been wrestling since the age of 9 and wins gold medals seemingly everywhere she goes. In 2023 alone, Elor took gold at the World Championships, the Pan American Championships, the U23 World Championships and the Junior World Championships. Oh, and she won gold in three out of four of those competitions the year before as well. No reason why she won’t do the same in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Paris Olympics will be broadcast by NBC and Peacock between July 26 and Aug. 11. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC’s schedule\u003c/a> for details.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A public memorial to celebrate the life of San Francisco Giants legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays was held Monday at Oracle Park with over 4,500 people in attendance, including former President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993348\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several men dressed in suits stand on a stage next to a podium with a large bouquet of orange flowers on the left side.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou, Joe Amalfitano, Juan Marichal and Jon Miller stand on stage during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer, at Oracle Park in San Francisco on July 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and Dennis Eckersley, former San Francisco Giants players Buster Posey and Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr. as well as four San Francisco mayors, including Mayor London Breed, showed up to the celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mays, who played 21 seasons with the Giants and racked up 660 home runs and 338 stolen bases, died June 18 at the age of 93. He was a two-time MVP, a 24-time All-Star, won 12 Gold Glove Awards in Center Field, and was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993352\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a business suit shakes the hand of a man wearing a baseball uniform in a crowd of people at a baseball stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, 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prize,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A video board at a baseball stadium showing a Black man in a suit talking.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US president Barack Obama speaks during a prerecorded video. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama, who presented Mays with the Medal of Freedom at the White House in 2015, recorded a message that played on the video board celebrating Mays’ life and contributions to the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People walk through a corridor with two TV screens showing an image of three baseball players.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans enter the stadium during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a hat and sun glasses salutes while others in the crowd stand with hats on their chests.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veterans salute during military honors for Willie Mays’ time served in the US Army and a presentation of an American flag to his son Michael Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From noon to 4 p.m., members of the public were also invited to see an exhibit of rarely seen photographs, artifacts and video chronicling Mays’ life. Several fans sported Giants No. 24 jerseys at the gathering while veterans in the crowd saluted Mays when military officials honored his service in the Korean War, as “Taps” played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a black baseball cap and woman wearing a white hat clap in their seats.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clark Hancock, 73, claps during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays. Hancock traveled from Las Vegas for the celebration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays awed his fans with his showmanship and trailblazing talent. Among them was Clark Hancock, who traveled from Nevada to San Francisco for Monday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just an amazing guy,” said Hancock. “When he started out, there was segregation, he was from Alabama … but he went through a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a business suit speaks at a podium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Mays, son of Willie Mays, speaks to fans and guests at Oracle Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants baseball legend known as the “Say Hey Kid” is regarded by many as the greatest all-around baseball player ever. But he may be remembered most for his magic playing center field, iconized most famously in the play known as “The Catch.” Mays, playing in the 1954 World Series for the New York Giants, chased down a fly ball, and caught it over his shoulder with his back to the diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a hat and a baseball jersey sits among a crowd of people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans listen to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown speak. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11991060\" label=\"Related Story\"]Born Willie Howard Mays, Jr. in 1931 in Westfield, Alabama, he played for the Birmingham Black Barons in the old Negro Leagues before joining the New York Giants in 1951, four years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier. When the Giants and Dodgers moved from New York to California in 1958, Mays was a face of Major League Baseball’s westward expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man bows his head while seated in a crowd.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tariq Jackson bows his head during a recorded prayer by Rev. Bill Greason. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a white shirt with an illustration of a baseball player and the name \"Willie Mays\" on the back.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan wears a Mays shirt during a Celebration of Life for the San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays was known for playing hard and all the time. He rarely missed games. A few times, he collapsed from exhaustion. He is also remembered for making peace in the clubhouse, keeping the focus on the baseball and making everyone feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands hold a picture of a Black baseball player.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan holds a memorial card for Willie Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement after May’s passing, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said, “To a native San Franciscan, some things just go without question: it’s foggy in the summer, cable cars go halfway to the stars, and Willie Mays is the best there ever was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s María Fernanda Bernal contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A public memorial to celebrate the life of San Francisco Giants legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays was held Monday at Oracle Park with over 4,500 people in attendance, including former President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993348\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Several men dressed in suits stand on a stage next to a podium with a large bouquet of orange flowers on the left side.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-122-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou, Joe Amalfitano, Juan Marichal and Jon Miller stand on stage during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer, at Oracle Park in San Francisco on July 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and Dennis Eckersley, former San Francisco Giants players Buster Posey and Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr. as well as four San Francisco mayors, including Mayor London Breed, showed up to the celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mays, who played 21 seasons with the Giants and racked up 660 home runs and 338 stolen bases, died June 18 at the age of 93. He was a two-time MVP, a 24-time All-Star, won 12 Gold Glove Awards in Center Field, and was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993352\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a business suit shakes the hand of a man wearing a baseball uniform in a crowd of people at a baseball stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-166-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Bill Clinton shakes hands with fans after a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his speech to the crowd, Clinton said Mays made him realize “what real greatness is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a curious combination of intelligence, dedication, the will to win and a fundamental humility to believe that the effort is the prize,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A video board at a baseball stadium showing a Black man in a suit talking.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-129-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US president Barack Obama speaks during a prerecorded video. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama, who presented Mays with the Medal of Freedom at the White House in 2015, recorded a message that played on the video board celebrating Mays’ life and contributions to the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People walk through a corridor with two TV screens showing an image of three baseball players.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-017-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans enter the stadium during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a hat and sun glasses salutes while others in the crowd stand with hats on their chests.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-065-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veterans salute during military honors for Willie Mays’ time served in the US Army and a presentation of an American flag to his son Michael Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From noon to 4 p.m., members of the public were also invited to see an exhibit of rarely seen photographs, artifacts and video chronicling Mays’ life. Several fans sported Giants No. 24 jerseys at the gathering while veterans in the crowd saluted Mays when military officials honored his service in the Korean War, as “Taps” played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a black baseball cap and woman wearing a white hat clap in their seats.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WillieMaysCelebration-121-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clark Hancock, 73, claps during a Celebration of Life for Willie Mays. Hancock traveled from Las Vegas for the celebration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays awed his fans with his showmanship and trailblazing talent. Among them was Clark Hancock, who traveled from Nevada to San Francisco for Monday’s event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just an amazing guy,” said Hancock. “When he started out, there was segregation, he was from Alabama … but he went through a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a business suit speaks at a podium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-143-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Mays, son of Willie Mays, speaks to fans and guests at Oracle Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants baseball legend known as the “Say Hey Kid” is regarded by many as the greatest all-around baseball player ever. But he may be remembered most for his magic playing center field, iconized most famously in the play known as “The Catch.” Mays, playing in the 1954 World Series for the New York Giants, chased down a fly ball, and caught it over his shoulder with his back to the diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a hat and a baseball jersey sits among a crowd of people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-085-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans listen to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown speak. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Born Willie Howard Mays, Jr. in 1931 in Westfield, Alabama, he played for the Birmingham Black Barons in the old Negro Leagues before joining the New York Giants in 1951, four years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier. When the Giants and Dodgers moved from New York to California in 1958, Mays was a face of Major League Baseball’s westward expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man bows his head while seated in a crowd.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-057-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tariq Jackson bows his head during a recorded prayer by Rev. Bill Greason. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a white shirt with an illustration of a baseball player and the name \"Willie Mays\" on the back.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-100-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan wears a Mays shirt during a Celebration of Life for the San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays was known for playing hard and all the time. He rarely missed games. A few times, he collapsed from exhaustion. He is also remembered for making peace in the clubhouse, keeping the focus on the baseball and making everyone feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993345\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands hold a picture of a Black baseball player.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240708-WILLIEMAYSCELEBRATION-086-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan holds a memorial card for Willie Mays. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement after May’s passing, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said, “To a native San Franciscan, some things just go without question: it’s foggy in the summer, cable cars go halfway to the stars, and Willie Mays is the best there ever was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s María Fernanda Bernal contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 10 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials succeeded Saturday night in stopping large numbers of skaters from riding down Dolores Street by setting up scores of barricades and stationing dozens of law enforcement officers in the planned path of the “Dolores Hill Bomb.” But skaters weren’t too disappointed, they just shifted their antics to Church Street on the opposite side of Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skater Mark Urbieta said moving to Church was always part of the plan given that police interference on Dolores was expected, even though Church is, in his words, “gnarlier and narrower” than Dolores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never stop a skater’s pride, bro, this s*** is never going to stop,” Urbieta said while resting after a nasty fall. “Every single day. We’re going to do it regardless. We’re going to do it from Twin Peaks all the way to Downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using one police vehicle to stop traffic from crossing 18th Street at the bottom of Church Street, police made no effort to interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbieta added that if the police had moved to block off Church Street, attendees would have just found another hill to bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gigi Basilio successfully rode to the bottom of the hill on her second attempt after a fall on her first try. She embraced her friend as the crowd cheered her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were dapping me up, saying ‘You got this! You got this!’ and deep down inside, I felt like I had it, and I did it! And I’m so proud of myself because that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Basilio said, clearly emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basilio said she felt the large police presence was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters walk back up Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing nothing wrong. We’re just trying to skate, trying to bomb, have fun, make memories, be with friends, family, with each other. Why are they trying to ruin our day?” Basilio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person was taken away by paramedics after falling at the bottom of the hill. On-site volunteer medics attended to others who suffered minor scrapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park was filled Saturday afternoon with crowds reveling in the summer heat wave. But among the revelers were police setting up metal barricades, blocking Dolores Street. The big question in the neighborhood: Will the “Dolores Hill Bomb” happen this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters ride down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “hill bomb” is an annual, informal event organized by the Bay Area skateboard community where hundreds of skaters ride down a steep section of Dolores Street adjacent to the city’s Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C82r59Hy9R3/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> by user vellskiiii set the time for 7 p.m. Saturday, but following messaging by the San Francisco Police Department strongly discouraging people from taking part, vellskiii posted that the event was canceled. “Event CANCELED!!! Police will be waiting at Dolores!!!” But it is unclear how many will receive that message — or heed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street seated on a skateboard during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb comes almost exactly one year since last year’s, which ended in San Francisco police mass-arresting 113 people, most of them minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of those arrested have since criticized the police response, detailing how their children were detained in the cold for hours without access to food, water or restrooms. Some of the parents have since sued the city and police on behalf of their children for alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the condemnations from parents and other community members, along with the looming specter of a costly class action lawsuit against the city, the San Francisco Police Department appears poised to use a similar approach this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD stationed nearby during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The plan is almost the same ask as last year’s event,” wrote Mission Station Sgt. Jeff Aloise in a late June email to a Department of Public Works employee. “Dolores St will need to have enough barricades starting at 21st St stretching from building to building in an East/West direction, all the way down to 18th St/Dolores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th and Dolores streets in San Francisco were closed on July 6, 2024, in an attempt to prevent the annual Dolores Hill Bomb. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those emails were uncovered in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dizz_h/status/1808705494623596549\">public records request\u003c/a> and shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event draws large crowds of people who come to watch the skaters ride down the hill at high speeds. Not everyone makes it. Many skaters sustained injuries and one died in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the event for being unsafe for both skaters and neighbors alike. Residents of the area say participants vandalize both public and private property during and after the event. Police said last year’s arrests began in response to attendees assaulting officers and vandalizing a MUNI light rail train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hill bomb is an organic gathering and, with no designated sponsors or organizers, canceling the event is not as simple as making an announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city officials from attempting to discourage attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo crashes while riding down Church Street as part of the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to say officially, we do not intend to allow a hill bomb tomorrow,” Police Chief Bill Scott said during a Friday news conference. “We’re going to do everything we can to keep our community safe, to prevent that from happening. And as far as we’re concerned, there is no hill bomb tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the area, has echoed similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in late June what he had to say to those planning to attend, he responded, “I would encourage them not to this year. I think this event has been unsafe for a number of years. I am eager and willing to partner with folks in the community who want to try to do a safe and fun hill bomb in 2025. But I think in 2024, the infrastructure is not there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo shows his injury after skating down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman and Scott also led a community meeting on Monday, inviting community members to share their thoughts and recommendations for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several attendees who identified themselves as members of the skateboarding community said the city leaders should have begun outreach months ago, not days before the anticipated event, and they should have been proactive instead of waiting for an organizer to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Breetwor, a downhill skater, said he applied for a city grant to host similar downhill skating events, only for the grant program to be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spectator shows support during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were prepared to put together the community engagement necessary to do things like this safely,” Breetwor said. “There is no lack of city interest in this event. There’s a lack of goodwill and good intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956110,news_11955479,news_11955465\"]Naomi Lopez, a Dolores Street resident and a parent of a then-15-year-old spectator who was arrested at last year’s Hill Bomb, is among those suing the city and police department for last year’s mass arrests. She called the situation a missed opportunity “to turn an event that has become ugly and has become us-against-them into a community event that could show teenagers, especially Black and brown ones, who are not represented in this room, that they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees pushed back, expressing skepticism that any organization would agree to take on the liability of holding such an injury-prone event with a reputation for lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the hill bomb has attracted bad actors who do not have a peaceful intent,” said Carolyn Kenady, chair of the Dolores Heights Improvement Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even detractors of the hill bomb criticized city leaders for not being more decisive and proactive in efforts to stop the event from occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person said that they had to push through the crowd with their toddler to reach their home and that their calls to 911 after hearing gunshots went unanswered. Another expressed disbelief at seeing children directing traffic. Another questioned why the city has stood by while the event proceeds in similar fashion year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedics assist a skater after a fall during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When dealing with this or any event that poses challenges, the City must change its approach to one that truly protects our community and keeps it safe,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the firm representing the arrested teens in a lawsuit. “That will not happen through increasingly aggressive and militarized policing. Civilian agencies should be managing this event collaboratively with the skateboard community and engage in de-escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said legal observers will be there on Saturday and her organization is prepared to take legal action if any further civil rights violations occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never stop a skater’s pride, bro, this s*** is never going to stop,” Urbieta said while resting after a nasty fall. “Every single day. We’re going to do it regardless. We’re going to do it from Twin Peaks all the way to Downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from using one police vehicle to stop traffic from crossing 18th Street at the bottom of Church Street, police made no effort to interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urbieta added that if the police had moved to block off Church Street, attendees would have just found another hill to bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-21_qed-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gigi Basilio successfully rode to the bottom of the hill on her second attempt after a fall on her first try. She embraced her friend as the crowd cheered her on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were dapping me up, saying ‘You got this! You got this!’ and deep down inside, I felt like I had it, and I did it! And I’m so proud of myself because that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Basilio said, clearly emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basilio said she felt the large police presence was unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-19_qed-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters walk back up Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not doing nothing wrong. We’re just trying to skate, trying to bomb, have fun, make memories, be with friends, family, with each other. Why are they trying to ruin our day?” Basilio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one person was taken away by paramedics after falling at the bottom of the hill. On-site volunteer medics attended to others who suffered minor scrapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park was filled Saturday afternoon with crowds reveling in the summer heat wave. But among the revelers were police setting up metal barricades, blocking Dolores Street. The big question in the neighborhood: Will the “Dolores Hill Bomb” happen this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-27_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters ride down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The “hill bomb” is an annual, informal event organized by the Bay Area skateboard community where hundreds of skaters ride down a steep section of Dolores Street adjacent to the city’s Dolores Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C82r59Hy9R3/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> by user vellskiiii set the time for 7 p.m. Saturday, but following messaging by the San Francisco Police Department strongly discouraging people from taking part, vellskiii posted that the event was canceled. “Event CANCELED!!! Police will be waiting at Dolores!!!” But it is unclear how many will receive that message — or heed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-22-KQED-1920x1182.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street seated on a skateboard during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024 \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s hill bomb comes almost exactly one year since last year’s, which ended in San Francisco police mass-arresting 113 people, most of them minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents of those arrested have since criticized the police response, detailing how their children were detained in the cold for hours without access to food, water or restrooms. Some of the parents have since sued the city and police on behalf of their children for alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the condemnations from parents and other community members, along with the looming specter of a costly class action lawsuit against the city, the San Francisco Police Department appears poised to use a similar approach this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993136\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD stationed nearby during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The plan is almost the same ask as last year’s event,” wrote Mission Station Sgt. Jeff Aloise in a late June email to a Department of Public Works employee. “Dolores St will need to have enough barricades starting at 21st St stretching from building to building in an East/West direction, all the way down to 18th St/Dolores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">18th and Dolores streets in San Francisco were closed on July 6, 2024, in an attempt to prevent the annual Dolores Hill Bomb. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those emails were uncovered in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dizz_h/status/1808705494623596549\">public records request\u003c/a> and shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event draws large crowds of people who come to watch the skaters ride down the hill at high speeds. Not everyone makes it. Many skaters sustained injuries and one died in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993133\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-18-KQED-1920x1354.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skater rides down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized the event for being unsafe for both skaters and neighbors alike. Residents of the area say participants vandalize both public and private property during and after the event. Police said last year’s arrests began in response to attendees assaulting officers and vandalizing a MUNI light rail train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the hill bomb is an organic gathering and, with no designated sponsors or organizers, canceling the event is not as simple as making an announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped city officials from attempting to discourage attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo crashes while riding down Church Street as part of the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to say officially, we do not intend to allow a hill bomb tomorrow,” Police Chief Bill Scott said during a Friday news conference. “We’re going to do everything we can to keep our community safe, to prevent that from happening. And as far as we’re concerned, there is no hill bomb tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the area, has echoed similar feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in late June what he had to say to those planning to attend, he responded, “I would encourage them not to this year. I think this event has been unsafe for a number of years. I am eager and willing to partner with folks in the community who want to try to do a safe and fun hill bomb in 2025. But I think in 2024, the infrastructure is not there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Arroyo shows his injury after skating down Church Street during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman and Scott also led a community meeting on Monday, inviting community members to share their thoughts and recommendations for the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several attendees who identified themselves as members of the skateboarding community said the city leaders should have begun outreach months ago, not days before the anticipated event, and they should have been proactive instead of waiting for an organizer to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Breetwor, a downhill skater, said he applied for a city grant to host similar downhill skating events, only for the grant program to be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993143\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-31_qed-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spectator shows support during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were prepared to put together the community engagement necessary to do things like this safely,” Breetwor said. “There is no lack of city interest in this event. There’s a lack of goodwill and good intent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Naomi Lopez, a Dolores Street resident and a parent of a then-15-year-old spectator who was arrested at last year’s Hill Bomb, is among those suing the city and police department for last year’s mass arrests. She called the situation a missed opportunity “to turn an event that has become ugly and has become us-against-them into a community event that could show teenagers, especially Black and brown ones, who are not represented in this room, that they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees pushed back, expressing skepticism that any organization would agree to take on the liability of holding such an injury-prone event with a reputation for lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the hill bomb has attracted bad actors who do not have a peaceful intent,” said Carolyn Kenady, chair of the Dolores Heights Improvement Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DoloresHillBomb-28_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual skates down Church Street during the annual Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even detractors of the hill bomb criticized city leaders for not being more decisive and proactive in efforts to stop the event from occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person said that they had to push through the crowd with their toddler to reach their home and that their calls to 911 after hearing gunshots went unanswered. Another expressed disbelief at seeing children directing traffic. Another questioned why the city has stood by while the event proceeds in similar fashion year after year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240706_DOLORESHILLBOMB-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedics assist a skater after a fall during the Dolores Hill Bomb on July 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When dealing with this or any event that poses challenges, the City must change its approach to one that truly protects our community and keeps it safe,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the firm representing the arrested teens in a lawsuit. “That will not happen through increasingly aggressive and militarized policing. Civilian agencies should be managing this event collaboratively with the skateboard community and engage in de-escalation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederman said legal observers will be there on Saturday and her organization is prepared to take legal action if any further civil rights violations occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a nail-biter of a game, the Brazilian national men’s soccer team tied with Colombia 1-1 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Tuesday afternoon. The two South American giants faced off to decide the top spot in their group before both advanced to the quarterfinals of Copa América, a quadrennial soccer tournament hosted this year in the United States that features national teams from all over the Western Hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the field, the Brazilian and Colombian squads were evenly matched. Both teams scored in the first half and struggled to get ahead of their rival after halftime. On the stands, however, one team’s fan base brought overwhelming energy: Colombia. Minutes before the match began, the outside of Levi’s Stadium was a sea of yellow, red and blue under a blazing, hot sun. Flags, horns, \u003ca href=\"https://colombiaone.com/2023/12/17/sombrero-vueltiao-colombian-traditional-had/\">sombreros vueltiaos\u003c/a> — Santa Clara was immersed in the joy and excitement of tens of thousands of Colombians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/local/san-francisco-kdtv/crece-la-comunidad-colombiana-en-san-jose-vienen-de-villavicencio-video\">a community that, in the past few years, has quickly grown all over the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Deivy Avila, Paola Avila, Karen Martinez and Damaris Martinez, pose for a group photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. Brazil and Colombia fans came out for the Copa America Group D soccer match, ending with a 1-1 draw against Brazil. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-800x603.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-1536x1158.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colombia fan Cristian Campos blows a vuvuzela, a plastic horn, outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I honestly had no idea that there were so many Colombians in the Bay Area,” Laura Cabrera says. She lives in San Francisco but grew up in Los Angeles with a Colombian father and Mexican mother. Living in Southern California, Cabrera says, she was surrounded by Mexican soccer culture. But in her house, her dad made sure to share with her his love for Colombian soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited about meeting so many Colombian fans,” she says. Next to her is her friend, Libby Teffera, from the East Bay, who is rooting for Brazil. Teffera is not Brazilian, but she deeply appreciates Brazilian culture and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992975\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, best friends Laura Cabrera and Libby Teffera pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. Laura, a Colombia fan and Libby, a Brazil fan, came out for the Copa America Group D Brazil vs. Colombia soccer match. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Growing up, I’d watch soccer when I’d go to my uncle’s house, and I actually hated it,” she says. But over the years, she started to watch more international soccer and was really drawn in by the Brazilian soccer team. Watching soccer brings back memories of spending time with her family, she says. “I really want to take my uncle to watch a World Cup match together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all fans were able to get tickets. Multiple stadium sections had sold out days before the game and remaining tickets were going for hundreds of dollars. But that didn’t stop some fans from coming to Levi’s Stadium to take in all the energy and watch the game outside on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992977\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1536x986.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1920x1233.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Noah, Dulce, Melissa Charris and Jersón Pérez pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. The family was watching the Copa America Group D Brazil vs. Colombia soccer match from their phones. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Wherever in the world that the Colombian national team plays, we have shown up — we’re like locals,” says Jersón Pérez, who came from Richmond with his wife, Melissa, and their two kids. Outside Levi’s Stadium, the temperature still exceeded 90 degrees — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992779/extreme-california-heat-wave-poses-danger-even-in-normally-cool-san-francisco\">unusually warm temperatures brought to the Bay Area by an ongoing heat wave\u003c/a>. The family came prepared with plenty of water and found a shady spot outside the stadium to keep up with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t surprise me that so many Colombians showed up today,” he says in Spanish. “Any Colombian loves the colors of their country, loves their flag and loves their team, no matter the conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brazil vs. Colombia match is the last Copa América game that the Bay Area will host this year. The rest of the tournament will be played in the Southwest and East Coast, with the final scheduled for July 14 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, where the best national men’s soccer team in the Americas will be crowned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992978\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-800x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-800x958.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-1020x1222.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil fans Natalie and Logan Davis pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Levi’s Stadium staff told KQED that hosting Copa América matches helps the venue prepare for what’s coming up next: the 2026 Men’s World Cup. The U.S. will be one of the three host countries — along with Mexico and Canada — and several matches will be played at Levi’s Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could feel a little bit of that World Cup buzz in Santa Clara on Tuesday, with the sound of vuvuzela horns filling the air above and flags from all over Latin America flying through Tasman Drive as fans walked to the game. Along the way, they passed by dozens of informal vendors who were ready to supply fans with jerseys and cold drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One item offered this time around that you may not see at other games: Colombia’s iconic sombrero vueltiao. Carefully woven together with strips of tall grass and usually painted with elaborate patterns, the sombrero vueltiao has become a national symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family traveling from Los Angeles sells Colombia merch outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can get your sombrero vueltiao now for $25 — if Colombia wins, it goes up to $50!” shouts Ginna Olivera in Spanish to potential customers walking by. She and her family traveled all the way from Los Angeles to cheer for Colombia and promote their business as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really believe in promoting Colombian craftsmanship and culture,” she says and points to the elaborate weaving that makes up each sombrero. She holds one up that has been decorated with red, blue and yellow. Thousands of miles away from Colombia, it makes her happy seeing someone wearing a sombrero vueltiao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re kind, hardworking and joyful people,” she says. “And now here in California, we’re very happy because we’re surrounded by other kind people, and we have the opportunity to work and give our kids a possibility of a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992980\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colombia fans walk towards Levi’s Stadium for the Copa America Group D soccer match in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil fans walk towards Levi’s Stadium for the Copa America Group D soccer match in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a nail-biter of a game, the Brazilian national men’s soccer team tied with Colombia 1-1 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on Tuesday afternoon. The two South American giants faced off to decide the top spot in their group before both advanced to the quarterfinals of Copa América, a quadrennial soccer tournament hosted this year in the United States that features national teams from all over the Western Hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the field, the Brazilian and Colombian squads were evenly matched. Both teams scored in the first half and struggled to get ahead of their rival after halftime. On the stands, however, one team’s fan base brought overwhelming energy: Colombia. Minutes before the match began, the outside of Levi’s Stadium was a sea of yellow, red and blue under a blazing, hot sun. Flags, horns, \u003ca href=\"https://colombiaone.com/2023/12/17/sombrero-vueltiao-colombian-traditional-had/\">sombreros vueltiaos\u003c/a> — Santa Clara was immersed in the joy and excitement of tens of thousands of Colombians, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/local/san-francisco-kdtv/crece-la-comunidad-colombiana-en-san-jose-vienen-de-villavicencio-video\">a community that, in the past few years, has quickly grown all over the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-11_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Deivy Avila, Paola Avila, Karen Martinez and Damaris Martinez, pose for a group photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. Brazil and Colombia fans came out for the Copa America Group D soccer match, ending with a 1-1 draw against Brazil. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992972\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-800x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-800x603.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-1020x769.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed-1536x1158.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-10_qed.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colombia fan Cristian Campos blows a vuvuzela, a plastic horn, outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I honestly had no idea that there were so many Colombians in the Bay Area,” Laura Cabrera says. She lives in San Francisco but grew up in Los Angeles with a Colombian father and Mexican mother. Living in Southern California, Cabrera says, she was surrounded by Mexican soccer culture. But in her house, her dad made sure to share with her his love for Colombian soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited about meeting so many Colombian fans,” she says. Next to her is her friend, Libby Teffera, from the East Bay, who is rooting for Brazil. Teffera is not Brazilian, but she deeply appreciates Brazilian culture and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992975\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992975\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-20_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, best friends Laura Cabrera and Libby Teffera pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. Laura, a Colombia fan and Libby, a Brazil fan, came out for the Copa America Group D Brazil vs. Colombia soccer match. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Growing up, I’d watch soccer when I’d go to my uncle’s house, and I actually hated it,” she says. But over the years, she started to watch more international soccer and was really drawn in by the Brazilian soccer team. Watching soccer brings back memories of spending time with her family, she says. “I really want to take my uncle to watch a World Cup match together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all fans were able to get tickets. Multiple stadium sections had sold out days before the game and remaining tickets were going for hundreds of dollars. But that didn’t stop some fans from coming to Levi’s Stadium to take in all the energy and watch the game outside on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992977\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992977\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1536x986.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed-1920x1233.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-12_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Noah, Dulce, Melissa Charris and Jersón Pérez pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. The family was watching the Copa America Group D Brazil vs. Colombia soccer match from their phones. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Wherever in the world that the Colombian national team plays, we have shown up — we’re like locals,” says Jersón Pérez, who came from Richmond with his wife, Melissa, and their two kids. Outside Levi’s Stadium, the temperature still exceeded 90 degrees — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992779/extreme-california-heat-wave-poses-danger-even-in-normally-cool-san-francisco\">unusually warm temperatures brought to the Bay Area by an ongoing heat wave\u003c/a>. The family came prepared with plenty of water and found a shady spot outside the stadium to keep up with the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t surprise me that so many Colombians showed up today,” he says in Spanish. “Any Colombian loves the colors of their country, loves their flag and loves their team, no matter the conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brazil vs. Colombia match is the last Copa América game that the Bay Area will host this year. The rest of the tournament will be played in the Southwest and East Coast, with the final scheduled for July 14 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, where the best national men’s soccer team in the Americas will be crowned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992978\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-800x958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-800x958.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-1020x1222.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed-160x192.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-9_qed.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil fans Natalie and Logan Davis pose for a photo outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Levi’s Stadium staff told KQED that hosting Copa América matches helps the venue prepare for what’s coming up next: the 2026 Men’s World Cup. The U.S. will be one of the three host countries — along with Mexico and Canada — and several matches will be played at Levi’s Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could feel a little bit of that World Cup buzz in Santa Clara on Tuesday, with the sound of vuvuzela horns filling the air above and flags from all over Latin America flying through Tasman Drive as fans walked to the game. Along the way, they passed by dozens of informal vendors who were ready to supply fans with jerseys and cold drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One item offered this time around that you may not see at other games: Colombia’s iconic sombrero vueltiao. Carefully woven together with strips of tall grass and usually painted with elaborate patterns, the sombrero vueltiao has become a national symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-2_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family traveling from Los Angeles sells Colombia merch outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can get your sombrero vueltiao now for $25 — if Colombia wins, it goes up to $50!” shouts Ginna Olivera in Spanish to potential customers walking by. She and her family traveled all the way from Los Angeles to cheer for Colombia and promote their business as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really believe in promoting Colombian craftsmanship and culture,” she says and points to the elaborate weaving that makes up each sombrero. She holds one up that has been decorated with red, blue and yellow. Thousands of miles away from Colombia, it makes her happy seeing someone wearing a sombrero vueltiao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re kind, hardworking and joyful people,” she says. “And now here in California, we’re very happy because we’re surrounded by other kind people, and we have the opportunity to work and give our kids a possibility of a better future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992980\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-1_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colombia fans walk towards Levi’s Stadium for the Copa America Group D soccer match in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240702_BrazilvColombia-8_qed.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil fans walk towards Levi’s Stadium for the Copa America Group D soccer match in Santa Clara on July 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Klay Thompson has taken off his Golden State jersey for the last time. And the Warriors say they’re going to retire it to commemorate his time with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson is moving on from the Warriors, with the four-time league champion agreeing to join the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks and change franchises for the first time in his 13-year NBA career, two people with knowledge of the decision said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ESPN and The Athletic first reported the multi-team deal, which, as currently constructed, will be executed as the sign-and-trade of a three-year, $50 million contract involving the Warriors, Mavericks and Charlotte Hornets, said the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the agreement has not been announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without mentioning Dallas — by league rule, they technically cannot acknowledge any part of the trade yet — the Warriors released a statement in tribute to Thompson on Monday night, saying they “can’t overstate Klay Thompson’s incredible and legendary contributions” to the team and that “the amount of joy and happiness that Klay provided Warriors fans … cannot be minimized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His penchant for delivering in pressurized situations on the biggest stage, including many Game 6 heroics, has helped define a career,” the Warriors said. “Klay’s legacy will live on forever, and we look forward to the day we can retire his #11 jersey at Chase Center, where he will join a host of Warriors immortals, including those who helped shape this recent dynasty — himself included.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson is sixth on the NBA’s all-time 3-pointers made list with 2,481, behind Reggie Miller (2,560), Damian Lillard (2,607), James Harden (2,940), Ray Allen (2,973) and Thompson’s now-former “Splash Brother” with the Warriors, Stephen Curry, and his 3,747 career makes from beyond the arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were indications last season that Thompson and the Warriors might be headed toward a breakup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson came off the bench 14 times — not much in the grand scheme of things considering he played 77 games, but those were his first appearances as a reserve since his rookie season of 2011–12. He shot 38.7% from 3-point range, the second-worst of his career. He averaged 17.9 points, the third-lowest of his career. He wasn’t always in the finishing lineup and the season — and his Warriors career — ended with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/klay-thompson-warriors-154109a89c65414860dd0c9800a96a86\">0-for-10 shooting performance\u003c/a> against Sacramento in a play-in tournament loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson — a five-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA selection who missed two entire seasons with injuries — took a long look around the court after that game, soaking in the scene just in case it would be his final time playing with the Warriors. Turns out, it was. And now he’ll join a Dallas team that just went to the NBA Finals as a shooter brought in to help Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thank Klay for his contributions and wish him the best as another chapter in his journey is written,” the Warriors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hornets were planning to acquire guard Josh Green as part of the deal, giving up two second-round draft picks. The 15th overall pick in the 2020 draft, Green has spent all four of his NBA seasons with the Mavericks and averaged 8.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists this past season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league’s moratorium on signings and most other offseason movement will be lifted on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Maxey, Harris, Hartenstein land deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They were all undervalued on some level when they entered the NBA. None was a lottery pick, some weren’t even first-round picks, and they didn’t have the label of can’t-miss prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was then. 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He was 86.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Giants and his family announced the death Friday night, and a moment of silence was held as his photo showed on the scoreboard at Oracle Park midway through a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our beloved Orlando passed away peacefully at home this evening, listening to his favorite music and surrounded by his loved ones,” his wife, Nydia, said in a statement released through the team. “We take comfort that he is at peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a heartbreaking month for the Giants given Cepeda’s death followed that of Hall of Famer \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/willie-mays-dies-at-93-baseball-33b31cc2d6382676ed54517d20ea36a3\">Willie Mays, who died 10 days earlier on June 18\u003c/a> at age 93.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, what another gut punch,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin, who grew up in the Bay Area cheering for the team. “Another just incredible personality and just beloved here. Statue out front. The numbers he put up, there are a lot of legends here and he’s certainly right in the middle of that. To have it so close in proximity to Willie, it’s kind of staggering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda was a regular at Giants home games through the 2017 season until he dealt with some health challenges. He was hospitalized in the Bay Area in February 2018 following a cardiac event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first Puerto Rican stars in the majors but limited by knee issues, he became Boston’s first designated hitter and credits his time as a DH for getting him enshrined into the Hall of Fame in 1999 as selected by the Veterans Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Orlando Cepeda’s unabashed love for the game of baseball sparkled during his extraordinary playing career, and later as one of the game’s enduring ambassadors,” Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark said. “We will miss his wonderful smile at Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, where his spirit will shine forever, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the Cepeda family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Red Sox called Cepeda in December 1972 to inquire whether he’d like to be their first designated hitter, the unemployed player accepted on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boston called and asked me if I was interested in being the DH, and I said yes,” Cepeda recalled in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press in the 40th year of the DH. “The DH got me to the Hall of Fame. The rule got me to the Hall of Fame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t know what it would mean for his career, acknowledging, “I didn’t know anything about the DH.” The experiment worked out beautifully for Cepeda, who played in 142 games that season — the second-to-last in a decorated 17-year major league career. 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The Red Sox had invited him for their first home series of the season but his former Giants franchise was honoring the reigning World Series champions at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means a lot,” Cepeda said then. “Amazing. When you think everything’s finished, it’s only the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said then-A’s owner Charlie Finley sent him a telegram to call him within a 24-hour period or he’d be released. Cepeda didn’t meet the deadline and was let go in December 1972. He played in only three games for Oakland after the A’s acquired him for pitcher Denny McLain. Cepeda was placed on the disabled list with a left knee injury. He had 10 knee operations in all, sidelining him four different years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda had been a first baseman and outfielder before joining the first class of baseball’s designated hitters under the new American League rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about only doing it for three years,” he said. “And people still don’t like the idea of the DH. They said it wouldn’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The addition of the DH opened new opportunities for players such as Cepeda and others from his era who could still produce at the plate late in their careers but no longer played the field with the spot-on defense of their primes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda was thrilled to have another chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit .289 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs in 1973, starting off strongly with a .333 average and five homers in April. He drove in 23 runs in August on the way to DH of the Year honors. On Aug. 8 at Kansas City, Cepeda hit four doubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the best years,” Cepeda recalled, “because I was playing on one leg and I hit .289. And I hit four doubles in one game. Both my knees were hurting, and I was designated hitter of the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda topped Baltimore’s Tommy Davis (.306, seven homers, 89 RBIs) and Minnesota’s Tony Oliva (.291, 16 HRs, 92 RBIs) for top DH honors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t easy for me to win the award,” Cepeda said. “They had some great years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda knew little English when he arrived in the minor leagues in the mid-1950s, putting him among the first wave of Spanish-speaking players thrown into a different culture to play professional baseball, build new lives and send money back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an opportunity to succeed in a sport he loved, as long as daunting challenges off the field could be overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, Cepeda was told by a manager to go home to Puerto Rico and learn English before coming back to his career in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming here my first year, everything was a novelty to me, a surprise,” Cepeda recalled in a 2014 interview with the AP. “When I came to Virginia, I was there for one month and my father died. My dad said, ‘I want to see my son play pro ball,’ and he died the day before I played my first game in Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11991319,news_11991060,arts_13959567\"]“From there I went to Puerto Rico and when I came back here, I had to come back because we didn’t have no money and my mother said, ‘You’ve got to go back and send me money, we don’t have money to eat,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda had continued to be encouraged watching so many young players from Latin America arriving in the United States with better English skills, thanks in large part to all 30 major league organizations putting more emphasis into such training through academies in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also are English classes offered to young players during spring training and into extended spring, plus through the various levels of the minor leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Orlando overcame challenges throughout his life to build a Hall of Fame career,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “This beloved figure from Puerto Rico was one of the many players of his era who helped turn baseball into a multicultural game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had his troubles, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda was arrested in May 2007 after being pulled him over for speeding when officers discovered drugs in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol officer arrested Cepeda after finding a “usable” amount of a white-powder substance that likely was methamphetamine or cocaine, while marijuana and a syringe were also discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992592\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Cepeda waves to the crowd during a ceremony for Willie Mays’ 80th birthday before a San Francisco Giants game against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park on May 6, 2011 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his playing career ended, Cepeda was convicted in 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of smuggling marijuana and sentenced to five years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conviction was probably one reason he was not elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Cepeda eventually was elected by the Veterans Committee in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda played first base during his 17 seasons in the majors, beginning with the Giants. He also spent time with St. Louis, Atlanta, Oakland, Boston and Kansas City. In the spring of 1969, Cepeda was traded by the Cardinals to the Braves for Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A seven-time All-Star who played in three World Series, Cepeda was the 1958 NL Rookie of the Year with San Francisco and NL MVP in 1967 with St. Louis, a city sad to see him go in that trade that brought Torre to town. In 1961, Cepeda led the NL with 46 homers and 142 RBIs. 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He was hospitalized in the Bay Area in February 2018 following a cardiac event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the first Puerto Rican stars in the majors but limited by knee issues, he became Boston’s first designated hitter and credits his time as a DH for getting him enshrined into the Hall of Fame in 1999 as selected by the Veterans Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Orlando Cepeda’s unabashed love for the game of baseball sparkled during his extraordinary playing career, and later as one of the game’s enduring ambassadors,” Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark said. “We will miss his wonderful smile at Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, where his spirit will shine forever, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the Cepeda family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Red Sox called Cepeda in December 1972 to inquire whether he’d like to be their first designated hitter, the unemployed player accepted on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boston called and asked me if I was interested in being the DH, and I said yes,” Cepeda recalled in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press in the 40th year of the DH. “The DH got me to the Hall of Fame. The rule got me to the Hall of Fame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t know what it would mean for his career, acknowledging, “I didn’t know anything about the DH.” The experiment worked out beautifully for Cepeda, who played in 142 games that season — the second-to-last in a decorated 17-year major league career. 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The Red Sox had invited him for their first home series of the season but his former Giants franchise was honoring the reigning World Series champions at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means a lot,” Cepeda said then. “Amazing. When you think everything’s finished, it’s only the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said then-A’s owner Charlie Finley sent him a telegram to call him within a 24-hour period or he’d be released. Cepeda didn’t meet the deadline and was let go in December 1972. He played in only three games for Oakland after the A’s acquired him for pitcher Denny McLain. Cepeda was placed on the disabled list with a left knee injury. He had 10 knee operations in all, sidelining him four different years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda had been a first baseman and outfielder before joining the first class of baseball’s designated hitters under the new American League rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were talking about only doing it for three years,” he said. “And people still don’t like the idea of the DH. They said it wouldn’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The addition of the DH opened new opportunities for players such as Cepeda and others from his era who could still produce at the plate late in their careers but no longer played the field with the spot-on defense of their primes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda was thrilled to have another chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hit .289 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs in 1973, starting off strongly with a .333 average and five homers in April. He drove in 23 runs in August on the way to DH of the Year honors. On Aug. 8 at Kansas City, Cepeda hit four doubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the best years,” Cepeda recalled, “because I was playing on one leg and I hit .289. And I hit four doubles in one game. Both my knees were hurting, and I was designated hitter of the year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda topped Baltimore’s Tommy Davis (.306, seven homers, 89 RBIs) and Minnesota’s Tony Oliva (.291, 16 HRs, 92 RBIs) for top DH honors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t easy for me to win the award,” Cepeda said. “They had some great years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda knew little English when he arrived in the minor leagues in the mid-1950s, putting him among the first wave of Spanish-speaking players thrown into a different culture to play professional baseball, build new lives and send money back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an opportunity to succeed in a sport he loved, as long as daunting challenges off the field could be overcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, Cepeda was told by a manager to go home to Puerto Rico and learn English before coming back to his career in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming here my first year, everything was a novelty to me, a surprise,” Cepeda recalled in a 2014 interview with the AP. “When I came to Virginia, I was there for one month and my father died. My dad said, ‘I want to see my son play pro ball,’ and he died the day before I played my first game in Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“From there I went to Puerto Rico and when I came back here, I had to come back because we didn’t have no money and my mother said, ‘You’ve got to go back and send me money, we don’t have money to eat,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda had continued to be encouraged watching so many young players from Latin America arriving in the United States with better English skills, thanks in large part to all 30 major league organizations putting more emphasis into such training through academies in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also are English classes offered to young players during spring training and into extended spring, plus through the various levels of the minor leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Orlando overcame challenges throughout his life to build a Hall of Fame career,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “This beloved figure from Puerto Rico was one of the many players of his era who helped turn baseball into a multicultural game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had his troubles, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda was arrested in May 2007 after being pulled him over for speeding when officers discovered drugs in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol officer arrested Cepeda after finding a “usable” amount of a white-powder substance that likely was methamphetamine or cocaine, while marijuana and a syringe were also discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992592\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11992592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-113920010.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Cepeda waves to the crowd during a ceremony for Willie Mays’ 80th birthday before a San Francisco Giants game against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park on May 6, 2011 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After his playing career ended, Cepeda was convicted in 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of smuggling marijuana and sentenced to five years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conviction was probably one reason he was not elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Cepeda eventually was elected by the Veterans Committee in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cepeda played first base during his 17 seasons in the majors, beginning with the Giants. He also spent time with St. Louis, Atlanta, Oakland, Boston and Kansas City. In the spring of 1969, Cepeda was traded by the Cardinals to the Braves for Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A seven-time All-Star who played in three World Series, Cepeda was the 1958 NL Rookie of the Year with San Francisco and NL MVP in 1967 with St. Louis, a city sad to see him go in that trade that brought Torre to town. In 1961, Cepeda led the NL with 46 homers and 142 RBIs. Cepeda was a .297 career hitter with 379 home runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until after that 1973 season as DH that Cepeda could look back and appreciate all he had accomplished that year — along with the big part he played in history and change in the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just did it,” he said of learning the DH. “Every day, I say to myself, how lucky I am to be born with the skills to play ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants’ baseball legend known as the ‘Say Hey Kid,’ died on Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFGiants/status/1803229363770478912\">the team announced\u003c/a>. He was 93.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mays, regarded by many as the greatest all-around baseball player ever, may be remembered most for his magic playing center field, iconized most famously in the play known as ‘The Catch.’ Mays, playing in the 1954 World Series for the New York Giants, chased down a fly ball, and caught it over his shoulder with his back to the diamond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of the basket catch. The hat flying off his head,” biographer James Hirsch wrote of Mays, in the book \u003cem>Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend\u003c/em>. “He did it with a certain flair and charisma that he knew was irresistible to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLt2xKaNH0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the first ‘five-tool’ player,” Hirsch said. “That term did not exist until Willie Mays came around. He could hit for power. He could hit for average. He could run. He could throw and he could field. And in that sense, he became the template for all other players who wanted to be a complete ballplayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Howard Mays, Jr. was born in 1931 in Westfield, Alabama. He played for the Birmingham Black Barons in the old Negro Leagues before joining the New York Giants, in 1951, four years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s infamous color barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Giants and Dodgers moved from New York to California in 1958, Mays was a face of Major League Baseball’s westward expansion. The fact that his face was Black made it a tough transition for Mays, but Mays later expressed how uncomfortable he was confronting racism forthrightly, which other players were unhappy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely hurt [Mays] for Jackie Robinson and others to be critical of him,” biographer Hirsch said. “But importantly, Willie believed that in his own way, he did advance the Civil Rights Movement as a role model for the rest of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Willie Mays hangs in the Mays Suite at AT&T Park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember hearing about the struggles that he endured because he was Black, and what he overcame to become an icon on the field,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a statement Tuesday. “He was from a generation who faced segregation and racism, a generation that paved the way so that many of us could have the freedom to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To a native San Franciscan, some things just go without question: it’s foggy in the summer, cable cars go halfway to the stars, and Willie Mays is the best there ever was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mays was known for playing hard and all the time. He rarely missed games. A few times, he collapsed from exhaustion. He is also remembered for making peace in the clubhouse, keeping the focus on the baseball and making everyone feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were a member of the baseball team, he’s gonna take care of you,” said former teammate Nate Oliver, who was traded to the Giants in 1968 after playing against the team the season before, for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “He treated every single person in the clubhouse with dignity and respect… because if you’re here, you belong here. And if we’re going to win, it takes all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Mays hits his 511th home run at the Astrodome in Houston in April, 1966, tying Mel Ott’s record for most National League career home runs. Mays would break the tie nine days later against the Dodgers at Candlestick Park. He hit 660 home runs in his career. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On his 90th birthday in 2021, the Giants Community Fund launched a scholarship program for Black students in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always said that people took such good care of him, when he was young and coming up in baseball that, he wants to give it back,” said Renel Brooks-Moon, former San Francisco Giants’ public address announcer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said even in his later years, Mays delighted in coming to the Giants clubhouse to talk baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing gives him more pleasure than teaching the game,” she said. “And nothing gives him more pleasure than helping children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Mays, photographed in 2014 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays played 21 seasons with the Giants. In his career, Mays hit 660 home runs and stole 338 bases. And he will be long remembered for that one catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Ball went up, I knew exactly what to do before the ball ever came down,” Mays remembered of the play in a 2010 interview on NPR’s All Things Considered. “I gotta catch the ball. I gotta stop. I gotta make a 360. And I might have had the ball all the way but the key for me was the throw, getting it back into the infield so nobody could advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The fact that his face was Black made it a tough transition for Mays, but Mays later expressed how uncomfortable he was confronting racism forthrightly, which other players were unhappy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely hurt [Mays] for Jackie Robinson and others to be critical of him,” biographer Hirsch said. “But importantly, Willie believed that in his own way, he did advance the Civil Rights Movement as a role model for the rest of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991084\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588938_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Willie Mays hangs in the Mays Suite at AT&T Park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember hearing about the struggles that he endured because he was Black, and what he overcame to become an icon on the field,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a statement Tuesday. “He was from a generation who faced segregation and racism, a generation that paved the way so that many of us could have the freedom to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To a native San Franciscan, some things just go without question: it’s foggy in the summer, cable cars go halfway to the stars, and Willie Mays is the best there ever was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mays was known for playing hard and all the time. He rarely missed games. A few times, he collapsed from exhaustion. He is also remembered for making peace in the clubhouse, keeping the focus on the baseball and making everyone feel welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were a member of the baseball team, he’s gonna take care of you,” said former teammate Nate Oliver, who was traded to the Giants in 1968 after playing against the team the season before, for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “He treated every single person in the clubhouse with dignity and respect… because if you’re here, you belong here. And if we’re going to win, it takes all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-515535914_qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Mays hits his 511th home run at the Astrodome in Houston in April, 1966, tying Mel Ott’s record for most National League career home runs. Mays would break the tie nine days later against the Dodgers at Candlestick Park. He hit 660 home runs in his career. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On his 90th birthday in 2021, the Giants Community Fund launched a scholarship program for Black students in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always said that people took such good care of him, when he was young and coming up in baseball that, he wants to give it back,” said Renel Brooks-Moon, former San Francisco Giants’ public address announcer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said even in his later years, Mays delighted in coming to the Giants clubhouse to talk baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing gives him more pleasure than teaching the game,” she said. “And nothing gives him more pleasure than helping children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1156588964_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Mays, photographed in 2014 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mays played 21 seasons with the Giants. In his career, Mays hit 660 home runs and stole 338 bases. And he will be long remembered for that one catch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Ball went up, I knew exactly what to do before the ball ever came down,” Mays remembered of the play in a 2010 interview on NPR’s All Things Considered. “I gotta catch the ball. I gotta stop. I gotta make a 360. And I might have had the ball all the way but the key for me was the throw, getting it back into the infield so nobody could advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was 86.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West, nicknamed “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game exploits as a player, was an NBA champion who went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1980 and again as a member of the gold medal-winning 1960 U.S. Olympic Team in 2010. He will be enshrined for a third time later this year as a contributor, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called West “one of the greatest executives in sports history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13958719,arts_13958423\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“He helped build eight championship teams during his tenure in the NBA — a legacy of achievement that mirrors his on-court excellence,” Silver said. “And he will be enshrined this October into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor, becoming the first person ever inducted as both a player and a contributor. I valued my friendship with Jerry and the knowledge he shared with me over many years about basketball and life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West was “the personification of basketball excellence and a friend to all who knew him,” the Clippers said in announcing his death. West’s wife, Karen, was by his side when he died, the Clippers said. West worked for the Clippers as a consultant for the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was an All-Star in all 14 of his NBA seasons, a 12-time All-NBA selection, part of the 1972 Los Angeles Lakers team that won a championship, an NBA Finals MVP when the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics in 1969 — the first year that award was given out, and still the only time it went to a player on the losing team — and was selected as part of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West was general manager of championship teams with the Lakers, helping build the “Showtime” dynasty. He also worked in the front offices of the Memphis Grizzlies, the Golden State Warriors and the Clippers. Among his many highlights as an executive with the Lakers: he drafted Magic Johnson and James Worthy, then brought in Kobe Bryant and eventually Shaquille O’Neal to play alongside Bryant. Warriors Co-Executive Chairman and CEO Joe Jacob expressed his condolences to West’s family and his admiration for West as his idol, as well as for his contributions to the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry West was an incredible and unique individual, having accomplished immeasurable heights in the game of basketball,” said Jacob. “He reached the absolute pinnacle of the sport as both a player and executive, something few can claim in the profession…He was bigger than life. He was an icon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His basketball life bridged generations: West played with Elgin Baylor, whom he called “the most supportive and the greatest player of that era,” and Wilt Chamberlain. As a coach and executive, he worked with a who’s who of NBA stars from the last 40 years: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, Worthy, O’Neal, Bryant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I marvel at them, at the joy they brought basketball fans all over the world,” West said in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the final years of his life, West was considered basketball royalty. He routinely sat courtside at Summer League games in Las Vegas, often watching many games in a day while greeting long lines of players — LeBron James among them — who would approach to shake his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The game transcends many things,” West said while attending Summer League last year. “The players change, the style of play may change, but the respect that you learn in this game never changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1800898659330171024\">on social media\u003c/a>, offered his condolences: “Will truly miss our convos my dear friend! My thoughts and prayers goes out to your wonderful family! Forever love Jerry! Rest in Paradise my guy!” the NBA’s all-time scoring leader wrote Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A logo of a blue, white and red silhouette with a man dribbling a basketball.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24164510666254-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NBA logo is shown on a basketball court in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Jerry West’s silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo. \u003ccite>(Ashley Landis/The Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>West is 25th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, and while the league has never confirmed that West was, in fact, the model for its logo — a player dribbling a ball, set against a red-and-blue background — the league has never said otherwise, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it’s never been officially declared that the logo is Jerry West,” Silver said in 2021, “it sure looks a lot like him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West is still the NBA Finals’ all-time leader in total points, field goals made and attempted, as well as free throws made and attempted. He played in the title series nine times with the Lakers; his teams went 1-2 against the New York Knicks and 0-6 against the Celtics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those damn Celtics,” he often said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West also hit one of the most famed shots in finals history, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzWGnA4Ll-0\">a 60-footer at the buzzer\u003c/a> of Game 3 of the 1970 series between the Knicks and Lakers to force overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes from across the sports world quickly poured in on Wednesday morning. The Los Angeles Dodgers released a statement calling West “an indelible figure on the Los Angeles sports landscape for more than 60 years,” and the NBA was planning a pregame tribute to West before Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry West is one of my favorite people that I had the honor to get to know in the NBA,” Miami Heat managing general partner Micky Arison said Wednesday. “He welcomed me to the league, offered advice from the first day, and asked nothing in return. He will be missed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Jordan said he considered West “a friend and mentor — like an older brother to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I valued his friendship and knowledge,” Jordan said. “I always wished I could have played against him as a competitor, but the more I came to know him, I wish I had been his teammate. I admired his basketball insights and he and I shared many similarities to how we approached the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native of Chelyan, West Virginia, West was known as a tenacious player who was rarely satisfied with his performance. He grew up shooting at a basket nailed to the side of a shed and often shot until his fingers bled. He became the first high school player in state history to score more than 900 points in a season, averaging 32.2 points in leading East Bank High to a state title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basketball, he would later reveal, was his therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memoir, “West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life,” West chronicled a lifelong battle with depression. He wrote that his childhood was devoid of love and filled with anger as a result of an abusive father. He often felt worthless, and to combat that, he said he put his energy into playing the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West led West Virginia University — where he is still the all-time leader in scoring average — to the NCAA final in 1959 when the Mountaineers lost by one point to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after winning Olympic gold in Rome, West joined the Lakers, where he spent his entire pro playing career. In 1996, he was honored as one of the league’s 50 greatest players, and when the league expanded the polling to 75 players to commemorate its 75th anniversary in 2021, West was selected again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it never ceases to amaze me the places you can go in this world chasing a bouncing ball,” West said in 2019 when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by then-President Donald Trump. “My chase began in Chelyan, West Virginia, where I strung a wire basket with no net to the side of a bridge. If your shot didn’t go in, the ball rolled down a long bank, and you would be chasing it forever. So, you better make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a dreamer. My family didn’t have much, but we had a clear view of the Appalachian Mountains, and I’d sit alone on our front porch and wonder, ‘If I ever make it to the top of that mountain, what will I see on the other side?’ Well, I did make it to the other side, and my dreams have come true. I’ve been able to see the sides, thanks to that bouncing ball.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Warriors Co-Executive Chairman and CEO Joe Jacob expressed his condolences to West’s family and his admiration for West as his idol, as well as for his contributions to the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jerry West was an incredible and unique individual, having accomplished immeasurable heights in the game of basketball,” said Jacob. “He reached the absolute pinnacle of the sport as both a player and executive, something few can claim in the profession…He was bigger than life. He was an icon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His basketball life bridged generations: West played with Elgin Baylor, whom he called “the most supportive and the greatest player of that era,” and Wilt Chamberlain. As a coach and executive, he worked with a who’s who of NBA stars from the last 40 years: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, Worthy, O’Neal, Bryant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I marvel at them, at the joy they brought basketball fans all over the world,” West said in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the final years of his life, West was considered basketball royalty. He routinely sat courtside at Summer League games in Las Vegas, often watching many games in a day while greeting long lines of players — LeBron James among them — who would approach to shake his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The game transcends many things,” West said while attending Summer League last year. “The players change, the style of play may change, but the respect that you learn in this game never changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1800898659330171024\">on social media\u003c/a>, offered his condolences: “Will truly miss our convos my dear friend! My thoughts and prayers goes out to your wonderful family! Forever love Jerry! 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