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American Lyles not expecting to compete in the Olympic relays
Paris, Aug. 9, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – American sprinter Noah Lyles has confirmed he is all but certain to skip the Olympic relays after contracting Covid-19 in Paris. The…
China take seventh diving gold with women’s 3m springboard win
Paris, Aug. 9, (dpa/GNA) – Chen Yiwen secured China a seventh diving gold at the Paris Games with a win in the women’s 3-metre springboard event on…
Toby ‘Terminator’ Roberts seals gold after judgement day in climbing
Paris, Aug. 9, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – Britain’s Toby Roberts won speed climbing gold in the men’s boulder and lead competition at the Paris Olympics on Friday. Roberts…
US into basketball final after big Serbia scare
Paris, Aug. 9, (dpa/GNA) – The United States have survived an almighty scare as they reached the Olympic men’s basketball final with a narrow 95-91 victory over…
World champion Johnson-Thompson leads heptathlon after two events
Saint-Denis, Aug. 8, (dpa/GNA) – Two-time and reigning world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Britain leads the women’s heptathlon after the 100-metres hurdle and the high jump on…
GB’s Aldridge becomes first Olympic gold medallist in kitesurfing
Marseille, Aug. 8, (PA media/dpa/GNA) – Britain’s Ellie Aldridge became the first ever Olympic gold medallist in kitesurfing with a brilliant performance in Marseille on Thursday. The…
India’s Vinesh disqualified from wrestling gold medal bout in Paris
Paris, Aug. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Indian wrestler Vinesh Vinesh has been disqualified from the Paris Olympics wrestling competition for being overweight in the women’s 50kg category on…
Australian player arrested in Paris after allegedly buying cocaine
Paris, Aug. 7, (dpa/GNA) – An Australian hockey player has been arrested in Paris on the sidelines of the Olympics under the accusation of buying cocaine, the…
US delight in shock 1,500m gold from Hocker, 200m triumph from Thomas
Paris, Aug. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Cole Hocker was a shock gold medallist for the United States in the men’s Olympic 1,500 metres where top favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen…
Mighty US and world champions Germany march on into basketball semis
Paris, Aug. 7, (dpa/GNA) – Top favourites United States and world champions Germany remained on course towards meeting in the Olympic men’s basketball final by reaching the…
Germany’s Kucuk wins jump-off to seal Olympic jumping gold
Versailles, Aug. 6, (dpa/GNA) – German show jumper Christian Kukuk grabbed Olympic equestrian gold on Tuesday after emerging first in a tense jump-off in the individual jumping…
France’s Kauli Vaast and Marks of US win Olympic surfing golds
Wellington, Aug. 6, (dpa/GNA) – French surfer and Tahitian local Kauli Vaast clinched Olympic surfing gold on Tuesday (Monday local time) while US surfer Caroline Marks defeated…
‘Out of body experience’ – Another Duplantis world record and gold
Paris, Aug. 6, (dpa/GNA) – Sweden’s Armand Duplantis delighted with another world record for back-to-back Olympic pole vault gold medals while Briton Keely Hodgkinson got a first…
Lyles into semis and Alfred into final in Olympic 200m
Paris, Aug. 6, (dpa/GNA) – American Noah Lyles returned to the Stade de France the day after his Olympic 100 metres gold to win the 200m heat…
Olympic open water swim training cancelled in River Seine
Paris, Aug. 6, (dpa/GNA) – The first training session for the Olympic open water competitions in the River Seine has been cancelled, World Aquatics said on Tuesday…
Cindy Ngamba wins first ever medal for Refugee Olympic Team
Aug 4 (CNN/GNA) – The Olympic Games is bound up with questions of nationality, with crowds waving a kaleidoscopic collage of different flags and national anthems…