• Quarterback led NFL in passing yards last season
• Deal is a record for a Dolphins player

The Miami Dolphins and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4m extension, multiple outlets reported on Friday.

ESPN reported that Tagovailoa’s new contract includes $167m guaranteed and is the largest in Dolphins history. The $53.1m average annual salary is the highest in league history on a four-year extension, according to NFL Network.

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• WBD says league breached contract by declining offer
• NBA signed $76bn deal for broadcast rights

Warner Bros Discovery filed a lawsuit against the NBA on Friday after losing media rights to Amazon.

WBD, TNT’s parent company, alleges that the league breached its contract by declining WBD’s offer for a new media rights deal and instead signing with Amazon, according to documents obtained by ESPN.

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• Updates as open-air parade of 160 boats sail along Seine
• Day-by-day guide | Bookmark: medal table , results
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The Team GB flag-bearers tonight are diver Tom Daley and rower Helen Glover . They spoke to the BBC.

Daley said he felt “honoured”, telling viewers in the UK:

I remember walking out in 2008, behind Mark Foster, and thinking about how cool that was just to be part of a ceremony like that. Now to be going into a fifth Games and being able to start off in this fashion, it’s pretty, pretty special.

I mean, in our team meeting just before we came here, performance director said, you know, being an Olympic champion is a very elite group, but then to become flagbearers as well is an even smaller group. So I feel very honoured, and it’s going to be a special evening.

It is a real honor, because we have an incredible Team GB, and they are going to do some of the most amazing performances in the next two weeks. So to be leading them out to start the Games together. It is a real honour.

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Swimming is splashing into the confines of a rugby stadium with all eyes on whether world records will be smashed

Olympic swimming rarely disappoints, and it starts on Saturday with the women’s 100m butterfly heats. As excitement builds, many are wondering if the pool will produce record-breaking performances to light up the Games.

First things first; in Paris there is a separate venue for the swimmers in Nanterre while the divers and artistic swimmers get to star in the £151m purpose-built aquatics centre in Saint-Denis. So much for the hype around a flexible pool. Instead, the swimming events will be held in the Paris La Défense Arena where two 50m temporary pools have been built in what is normally a 30,000-seat rugby stadium.

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The Americans are reigning Olympic champions but still needed funds in the run-up to Paris. Then a hip-hop veteran came in to save the day

The United States women’s water polo team will launch their bid for an unprecedented fourth straight Olympic gold medal on Saturday with an unlikely benefactor in their corner. Flavor Flav, the 65-year-old founding member of Public Enemy, has stolen the show around town in his role as the team’s official hype man.

“This is quite an experience for me right now, you know, because the only time I’ve ever seen the Olympics was on TV,” said Flav, who spent Thursday hugging and high-fiving everyone in sight at the Team USA house in the historic Palais Brongniart. “You know what I’m saying? But I always wanted to see what it felt like being there.”

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Marchand, Peaty, Ledecky and co mean the pool is stacked with big names despite shadow of Chinese doping scandal

You can’t miss Léon Marchand in Paris, his picture runs right up along all 200m of the only skyscraper in the city limits, the Tour Montparnasse. Marchand is 22 and has never won an Olympic medal, but he is one of the three French faces of the Games, along with Antoine Dupont and Victor Wembanyana. It means that for the first time since Michael Phelps set himself the impossible job of winning eight gold medals at Beijing in 2008, a swimmer is the star turn at the Olympics. It’s no coincidence that last year Marchand finally beat Phelps’ last surviving solo world record, in the 400m individual medley.

Marchand goes in four separate solo events in seven days, the 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke, with the finals just an hour and a half apart on Wednesday evening, the 200m later in the week and the 400m medley, which is the first event up, on Sunday evening. That night he will share the top of the bill with Adam Peaty, who is trying to become the second man, after Phelps, to win the same event at three consecutive Games. There was a time Peaty was the nearest thing to a sure thing in sport, but he has had a rough three years since Tokyo, and, while he has set the fastest time in the world this year, he is still searching for his very best form.

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The best players in the NBA are no longer exclusively American, while other countries play better as team units. We could see an upset at Paris 2024

The 2024 Olympic Games are shaping up to be the most competitive international men’s basketball tournament of all time, with powerhouse nations like Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Germany and Serbia loading up on talent as they aim to take down the juggernaut Team USA.

The American men have won gold at each of the last four Olympics and have assembled “The Avengers” in hopes of doing so again. Led by LeBron James and Stephen Curry, Team USA is packed with NBA All-Stars being coached by NBA champions. But unlike many other teams they will face at the Olympics, this American roster had not played together until a series of warmup games in the last few weeks. And despite their significant talent advantage, they will have less time than any other team to come together, put their NBA habits aside, and play Fiba basketball, which has different rules such as smaller courts and shorter games, as a unit.

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Vandals targeted France’s high-speed TGV network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption to some of the country’s busiest rail lines before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

The state-owned railway operator said arsonists had targeted installations along the lines connecting Paris with the country’s west, north and east and that traffic would be severely disrupted during the weekend.

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• Ruling on Russian doping upgrades US to gold
• Team to be presented medals in special ceremony

The US figure skating team was formally confirmed as gold medalists from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by a sports court ruling on Thursday, opening the way for the team to receive medals at the Paris Summer Games.

“We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible athletes,” Sarah Hirshland, chief executive of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said in a statement. “We are especially excited that the beautiful city of Paris will join us in this celebration.”

It is now more than two years since the American skaters left the Beijing Winter Games without a medal of any color.

They had placed second in the team event to the Russians including teenage star Kamila Valieva, who within hours was implicated in a doping case that took almost two years to judge.

Now, Evan Bates, Karen Chen, Nathan Chen, Madison Chock, Zachary Donohue, Brandon Frazier, Madison Hubbell, Alexa Knierim and Vincent Zhou should be coming to Paris as official Olympic champions.

On Thursday, CAS said three judges dismissed Russian appeals to be reinstated as gold medalists. The Olympic title was lost in January when Valieva was disqualified and banned for four years.

It took the latest CAS ruling in the Valieva saga to guarantee the US athletes their overdue gold medals, and for Japan to be in line for upgraded silvers.

Special medal ceremonies are planned by the IOC in the second week of the Paris Olympics to honor athletes whose results have been upgraded because of doping cases that were prosecuted and resolved in recent years.

Those celebrations will be in the Champions Park plaza looking across to the Eiffel Tower on the opposite bank of the Seine River.

“This (CAS) decision comes just in time to still be able to make the medal allocation for gold and silver possible,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement.

“We are glad that this opportunity can be offered to the athletes and teams who, unfortunately, had to wait for a very long time for their medals due to the ongoing legal case,” the Olympic body said.

Valieva, who was 15 years old in Beijing, starred as Russia easily won the team event . No medals were presented because a positive doping test for a banned heart medication, from a sample Valieva gave in Russia six weeks earlier, was revealed on the day the team event ended .

She was cleared by a Russian anti-doping tribunal that ruled she was not at fault for being contaminated by her grandfather’s prescription for Trimetazidine. The proof was lacking, and the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed to CAS.

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