Andrade inspires hundreds of girls in Brazil to join gymnastics classes

Andrade clinched the last gymnastics gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Monday, and captivated the minds and hearts of football-obsessed Brazil.
9 August 2024, 06:00 AM

Lyles says he believes his Olympics are over after Covid positive

Lyles finished in third place in the 200m on Thursday, dashing his hopes of a sprint double.
9 August 2024, 04:49 AM

Ngamba loses but Refugee Team celebrate first medal

There are 37 athletes competing for the team in Paris from more than a dozen countries.
9 August 2024, 03:31 AM

McLaughlin-Levrone smashes world record to retain 400m hurdles crown

It was the sixth time McLaughlin-Levrone had broken the world record, lowering her previous mark of 50.65 set at the U.S. trials in June.
8 August 2024, 20:56 PM

US Olympic sprint star Lyles tests positive for Covid

Lyles, who had been bidding to complete a 100m-200m double in Paris, was taken off the track in a wheelchair following the race, won by Botswana's Letsile Tebogo.
8 August 2024, 20:49 PM

Holloway finally adds elusive Games gold

The 26-year-old, who had claimed virtually every other title in an utterly dominant half decade including three world championship gold medals, clocked 12.99 seconds.
8 August 2024, 20:38 PM

Netherlands beat Germany to win men's hockey gold

A tense game ended all square at 1-1, with fourth-quarter goals in quick succession from Dutch captain Thierry Brinkman and Germany's Thies Prinz.
8 August 2024, 20:25 PM

Nadeem wins Olympic men's javelin gold in historic first for Pakistan

Nadeem threw an Olympic record of 92.97 metres for victory, India's defending champion Neeraj Chopra taking silver with 89.45. Grenada's Anderson Peters claimed bronze with 88.54m.
8 August 2024, 20:10 PM

North Korea Olympians not given Samsung phones: IOC

North Korean Olympians have not received Samsung smartphones, unlike athletes from other countries, the IOC told AFP on Thursday, hours after Seoul suggested that providing them the phones could violate UN sanctions against the nuclear-armed North.
8 August 2024, 15:01 PM

Van Rouwendaal dedicates Olympic gold to pet dog Rio

Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands made a late surge to win gold in the women's 10k marathon swimming at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
8 August 2024, 13:43 PM

Mexico's Vazquez blames crowd noise for failed dive

Mexico's Aranza Vazquez lodged a complaint about the crowd noise after one of her dives in the 3-metre springboard semi-final was ruled as "failed" by the judges, earning her zero points and leaving too big a gap to qualify for the final.
8 August 2024, 13:11 PM

Brazil's Lula exempts Paris medallists from tax on prizes

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has issued an executive measure exempting Olympic and Paralympic medallists from income tax on their prize money, according to a statement published in the official gazette on Thursday.
8 August 2024, 12:58 PM

Dutchwoman Sharon wins Olympic gold in 10k marathon swimming

Sharon van Rouwendaal from the Netherlands made a late surge to win gold in the women's 10k marathon swimming at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
8 August 2024, 08:05 AM

Indian wrestler Phogat retires after Olympic disqualification

India's heartbroken Vinesh Phogat on Thursday announced her retirement from wrestling, a day after being disqualified from the women's 50kg competition at the Paris Olympics for being overweight for the final.
8 August 2024, 05:38 AM

After months of grumbling, Parisians join the Olympics party

After all the doubts, the grumbling and the gloom, Paris has finally embraced the Olympics, with some of its famously cynical residents even returning early from holidays to take part in the fun.
8 August 2024, 05:30 AM

China urges ITA to intensify testing of US athletes

China's anti-doping agency (CHINADA) on Thursday urged the International Testing Agency (ITA) to intensify testing of U.S. track and field athletes, after American sprinter Erriyon Knighton tested positive for the banned substance trenbolone.
8 August 2024, 05:16 AM

Paris Games: What's happening on Day 13

Marathon swimming is set to get underway amid concerns over water pollution in the river Seine.
8 August 2024, 02:51 AM

America's Hall wins men's 400m Olympic title

The 26-year-old pipped Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith.
7 August 2024, 19:40 PM

Lyles cruises into 200m final in pursuit of Olympic treble

Tebogo, also a finalist in the 100m, struck a psychological blow to Lyles, crossing the line in 19.96sec, while Lyles timed 20.08sec.
7 August 2024, 19:06 PM

China's Li retains gold as Olympic weightlifting starts

The 31-year-old Li beat Theerapong Silachai of Thailand by 7kg with Hampton Morris of the United States third, another 5kg back.
7 August 2024, 18:43 PM