Captain Achraf Hakimi scores as the Atlas Lions put on a dominant performance in front of a partisan crowd in Paris and get close to an Olympic medal. Captain Achraf Hakimi was among the scorers as a dominant Morocco outclassed USA to reach the semifinals of the Olympic men’s football…
An Australian team spearheaded by Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus won the women’s Olympic gold for the second-fastest time ever. Led off by O’Callaghan and brought home by Titmus, with Lani Pallister and Brianna Throssell in the middle legs, they touched in an Olympic-record seven minutes 38.08 seconds at the…
Simone Biles could claim her ninth Olympic medal in Thursday’s all-around final two days after leading the USA women’s team to a gymnastics team gold in Paris. Biles is the big favourite coming into the event after qualifying for the final by a healthy margin, and the drama may centre…
First-time Olympians from Argentina and China took gold in the BMX Freestyle finals as a string of dramatic crashes knocked out the reigning medallists under a baking-hot Paris sun. In his first Olympic games, Argentina’s Jose Torres Gil, 29, shot off the ramp in his first run, flying higher and…
The Jamaican sprinter believes she will run a better 200m race, where she is the world champion, at the Paris Olympics. Shericka Jackson of Jamaica will not run in the 100 metres when Olympic track events start, saying that the injury she suffered at a tune-up race earlier this month…
Bhaker became India’s first-ever multi-medallist at an Olympics by winning her second bronze on a hot day in Paris. Great Britain’s Nathan Hales clinched the men’s trap gold at the Paris Games with a new Olympic record, while the Serbian pair of Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec rallied to win…
Daniel Wiffen becomes first Irishman to win swimming gold; Australia’s Kaylee McKeown bags women’s 100-metre backstroke gold. Kaylee McKeown won back-to-back gold in the women’s 100-metre backstroke while Daniel Wiffen made history as he became the first Irishman to win a swimming gold as he swept to victory in the…
Some people have reacted angrily to part of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. “Demeaning, disgusting and disrespectful” – some of the words used to describe a controversial scene during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. Organisers have apologised for the performance against the backdrop of…
David Popovici stormed to the Olympic gold in the men’s 200m freestyle, while Mollie O’Callaghan won the women’s swimming event. Teenager David Popovici powered to the Olympic gold in the men’s 200m freestyle, becoming the first swimmer to win gold for Romania. The 19-year-old Popovici, who burst onto the scene…
Olympics day three: Gold for Japan in men’s skateboarding and gymnastics, Canada achieves a judo first, and Great Britain wins a mountain bike thriller. Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in…
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