10 of the best sports photos of 2024: Iconic images from the Olympics, Super Bowl and more

It was an , which means 2024 saw a plethora of iconic images from around the world that captured the biggest moments from the Olympics, the Super Bowl and much more.

Check out 10 of the best below: Bayer Leverkusen in May for the first time in club history and earned its first trophy since 1993.

The German side finished with a 28-0-6 record to become the first team to win the league title without suffering a loss.

Their unbeaten run across all competitions would end at 51 games following defeat to Atalanta of Italy's Serie A in the Europa League final.

Paris played host to the for the first time and the event saw China finish atop the medal table once again with 221 total medals, including 94 golds.

Great Britain was next with 49 golds and 124 medals overall.

The United States was third with 105 combined medals, including 36 golds.

Brazil's Gabriel Medina delivered one of the photos of the Paris Olympics with of the men's surf competition in Teahupoo, Tahiti.

His Olympic record score of 9.90 was the highest in Olympic competition since the sport made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 2021.

Medina would advance to the semifinals and eventually earn a bronze medal.

Despite this nose-rearranging uppercut, Chris Billam-Smith Richard Riakporhe by unanimous decision to defend his WBO cruiserweight world title in June.

It was sweet revenge for Billam-Smith, who suffered the only loss of his career to Riakporhe via a split decision in 2019.

Imane Khelif became Algeria's after beating China's Liu Yang via unanimous decision to win the 66kg women's tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Khelif's participation in the tournament saw allegations levied regarding her gender.

Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after the International Boxing Association claimed a test showed she had XY chromosomes, but she was identified female at birth, and competed as a woman for six years before the Paris Games.

Poland's Kinga Drozdz beat Hungary's Eva Hajmasi 15-12 in the Women's Sabre Category A Semifinal at the Paralympics.

She would earn her first Paralympic silver medal after falling to Gu Haiyan in the gold medal bout later that day.

California's Cole Houshmand finished ninth in May's SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro competition.

The 23-year-old's run would end in the Round of 16 to eventual winner Italo Ferreira of Brazil.

The Boston Celtics lost only four times during the playoffs on their way to the .

They defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4-1 in the NBA Finals, with Jayson Tatum leading the way, averaging 25 points, 9.7 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.

American Keely Cashman finished 10th in the Women's super-G at Copper Mountain, Colorado, 1.22 seconds behind the competition's winner, Lauren Macuga.

Mecole Hardman's 3-yard touchdown catch helped the Kansas City Chiefs to their fourth title in February with a over the San Francisco 49ers.

It marked the second overtime in Super Bowl history and the postseason OT rules..

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