SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bay Area's Own Eileen Gu Takes Olympic Gold The 63-year-old woman killed by a San Jose garbage truck has been identified, California's COVID test-positivity rate just dipped below pre-Xmas levels, and SF teen Eileen Gu took home Olympic gold in the women's big air ski-jump.
Bay Area Sports 20-Year-Old From SF Will Be First Tongan Woman To Compete In Weightlifting at the Olympics Kuinini "Nini" Manumua, who started lifting weights at age 13 at San Francisco's Lincoln High School, will be representing her family's home country of Tonga in the sport of weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics — the first woman ever to represent Tonga in the sport.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: There Will Be Zero Spectators at the Olympics A 3.6M earthquake struck northern Napa County last night, a Mendocino County wildfire is now threatening homes, and the Prime Minister of Japan announced that there will be no spectators at the Olympics at all.
SF News Michael Phelps Now Dreams Of Silicon Valley Gold What's left to conquer when you already have 28 Olympic medals? How about Silicon Valley? That seems to be the thinking of Michael Phelps, who the Associated Press reports is planning on leveraging
SF News U.S. Olympic Fencing Team Member Returns Home To Find New House Destroyed In Clayton Fire Matthew Porter, the armorer of the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team in Rio, returned home to California this week to find that the new home he and his wife had just purchased in
SF News Two Stanford Swimmers Win Gold Medals At Rio Olympics In Rio on Friday two Bay Area swimmers took home gold medals, including Stanford's own Katie Ledecky, who took home her fourth gold in these Olympic games. 23-year-old Maya Dirado of San Francisco,
SF News Mercury News Apologizes For Offensive Headline About Simone Manuel's Historic Gold Medal "Simone Manuel Wins First Individual Olympic Gold In Swimming For African-American Woman." That's one way to cover history, which the 20-year-old Manuel made in Rio when she took joint first place in the
Arts & Entertainment At Rio Olympics, SF Native Ends 32-Year Fencing Medal Drought With Silver Alexander Massialas, a native son of the Bay Area and also a son of a three-time Olympian, made it all the way to the Olympic finals in the men's individual foil fencing competition.
Arts & Entertainment The 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Here (Spoilers And Review) The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are now officially underway with the highly anticipated opening ceremony from Maracanã Stadium. But NBC is bogarting the broadcast here in the U.S. and tape-delaying these proceedings
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, America: Steph Curry Bows Out Of 2016 Summer Olympics Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry will not be donning the red, white, and blue of the USA summer Olympic basketball team — at least not this year. In a statement released earlier today, the
SF News SF Spared Olympic Burden; 2024 Bid Goes To Boston Looks like the Olympic committee is taking a red eye. They said they'd fly from the site of the decision, which was in Denver, to the city with the winning bid. That's Boston,
SF News Now There's Officially An Anti-Olympics Campaign; US Olympic Committee To Make Its Decision Thursday Like there already is in Boston, San Francisco now has a coalition of citizens and politicians getting vocal in the press about their opposition to the city's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Sausage Plant In The Bayview Goes Up In Smoke Headline of the Day: Multilingual Silicon Valley futurist and robotics CEO marries trophy husband actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). [NY Mag] You know how that Christmas Day wine heist at the French Laundry sounded pretty
SF News Here's Where The 2024 Summer Olympics Would Happen In SF, If They Happen San Francisco has submitted its bid for the "Games of the XXXIII Olympiad," and the estimated price tag, according to the Chronicle, is $4.5 billion. It's a privately financed plan relying in
SF News Will The Olympics In SF Just Mean More Gentrification And Crackdowns On The Poor? The Nation has added its "hell no" to the idea of San Francisco hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, summing up the wake of an Olympic Games in any city thusly: "Debt. Displacement.
SF News Study Eyes Extended Central Subway To Fisherman's Wharf Construction is well underway on SF's Central Subway from the Caltrain Station all 1.7 miles to Chinatown (expected 2019). But a new city-commissioned study says maybe we should shoot for an extended
SF News SF Officially Puts In Bid For 2024 Olympics Whether it's realistic or financially feasible or not, San Francisco is officially in the running to be the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee will be
SF News Willie's Weekly Ramblings: Da Mayor Wants Da Olympics Willie Brown, the Assembly speaker-turned-mayor-turned-lobbyist-turned-columnist, who the Chron inexplicably continues to hand a megaphone to, has bestowed upon the city another window into "Willie's World," where San Francisco continues to vie for the
SF News San Francisco On US Shortlist For 2024 Olympics Bid San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Boston have been named as the US Olympic Committee's short list of cities under consideration as the host to be named in a US bid
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kristi Yamaguchi Skating To En Vogue Is Everything Great About The '90s I have watched this video of figure skater, Olympic Champion, and Bay Area native Kristi Yamaguchi's 1992 routine to En Vogue's Never Gonna Get It many, many times since Yamaguchi mentioned it to
SF News Brian Boitano Nonchalantly Sashays Out Of The Closet Olympic figure skating gold medalist, South Park muse, noted cook, and cherished San Francisco resident Brian Boitano officially came out of the closet today. In part of a press release, the American hero
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women's Shot Put, a Montage Behold the glory of a group of hearty, brawny gals hurling a nine-pound ball across a football field and simultaneously letting loose with loud, shrill (or sometimes rather butch) screams of release. Alas,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Single Ladies' as Sung by Olympic Diver Matthew Mitcham Openly gay Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham, who hails from Australia, just uploaded this charming cover of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in which he proves that he's not only a great
SF News Bay Area 19-Year-Old Kristian Ipsen Scores Bronze in Synchronized Diving If you've been keeping up with the Americans' medal count thus far at the Olympics, you may have seen a pair of handsome American men who took home bronze medals the other night
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The Lean Legs Of Olympic Fans.... Nick Miller, left, and his sister Kendall Miller, center, from San Francisco, wear leotards in the patriotic colors of the U.S. flag as they walked through Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer