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I fell in love with her voice as soon as I heard it. Spektor is now back to performing live. Regina Spektor kicked off her summer tour on Wednesday night with a sold-out solo show at the Egg. For an hour and 40 minutes, the piano virtuoso and indie pop songstress enchanted the 1,000 in attendance with lighthearted stage banter and material spanning her 21-year career. Spektor remains a stunning pianist, one of the greatest in popular music history, and a singular, exceedingly likable personality.

The nerve center of most Summer Games is an “Olympic Park,” typically a collection of a half-dozen or so sports facilities clustered in one place. Sounds great, right? Here’s the dirty little secret: most Olympic parks are actually in a rather sterile part of a world-class city. Let’s all gather in a giant, overheated parking lot in the dead of summer! [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In Rio, for example, the Barra Olympic Park—which hosted basketball, gymnastics, swimming, gymnastics, basketball, wrestling, diving, and a few other events—was located an hour from Copacabana Beach, past a road dotted by condos and car dealerships.

It was one of the most anticipated races in the pool, billed as the “race of the century”—the women’s 400-m freestyle, featuring American Katie Ledecky, who already owns 10 Olympic medals, racing against Australian Ariarne Titmus and Canadian Summer McIntosh. It’s Ledecky’s least dominant event; she last won gold at the 2022 world championships and lost to Titmus in 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics.

The cellar-dwelling Colorado Rockies figure to be sellers at the trade deadline. They got down to the business of that Saturday with their first deal ahead of Tuesday’s deadline, sending right-handed reliever Nick Mears to Milwaukee in exchange for right-handed pitching prospects Bradley Blalock and Yujanyer Herrera. With Mears going away, Blalock will be added to the 40-man roster, the team announced.

By JANIE McCAULEY NANTERRE, France (AP) — Caeleb Dressel touched the wall and shouted in triumph. He threw his fists to the air and high-fived U. S. fans during a victory lap. Then, finally, he found his family and gave his wife and baby boy celebratory hugs and kisses. Dressel only knows the top of an Olympic podium in a decorated career. As the veteran on a youthful U.

By PAUL NEWBERRY NANTERRE, France (AP) — It was billed as one of the most anticipated races of the Paris Olympics. Ariarne Titmus turned it into a blowout. Titmus left Katie Ledecky in her wake on a raucous opening night at La Defense Arena, leading from start to finish to win the 400-meter freestyle Saturday. Titmus, the Australian star known as “Terminator,” handed Ledecky a second straight Olympic defeat in an event the American won at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. With her fingernails painted Aussie yellow, Titmus strolled on deck with the confidence of a reigning champion, flashing a big smile and waving to the fans. Titmus knew she was the swimmer to the beat, even with one of the greatest ever in the lane next to her. Then, she went out and proved it. Titmus actually faced her stiffest challenge from Canadian 17-year-old phenom Summer McIntosh but won comfortably in 3 minutes, 57.49 seconds. McIntosh claimed the silver in 3:58.37.