Top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat the 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal in a blockbuster second round matchup at Roland-Garros. Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal at the Olympic Games, claiming a 6-1, 6-4 victory in the pair’s 60th and potentially last meeting. It was 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic’s 31st win…
World record holder Leon Marchand stormed to 400m individual medley gold while Adam Peaty was upset in the 100m breaststroke final. Leon Marchand surged to France’s first Olympic swimming gold since 2012, obliterating the field to clock the second-fastest 400m individual medley time ever. The 22-year-old led off strongly on…
Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal at the historic Place de la Concorde in Paris. Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has won women’s street skateboard gold at the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage final. Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took silver with Brazilian Rayssa Leal collecting bronze at…
Ariarne Titmus knocked off the USA’s Katie Ledecky again at the Olympics, defending her 400-metre freestyle title in one of the most highly anticipated races of the Paris Games. Titmus, the Australian star known as “The Terminator,” prevailed in an event the American won at Rio de Janeiro in 2016,…
France won its first gold medal of its home Games in the men’s rugby sevens, while Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel continued his meteoric rise with a gold in the men’s individual time trial. France, the host nation of the Paris Olympics 2024, was among the countries that won a gold medal…
The Canadian women’s football team, who gold won at Tokyo 2020, have been stripped of six points by FIFA, while coach Bev Priestman is banned from all football for one year. FIFA deducted six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s football tournament and banned three coaches for one…
Probe ongoing into attack on high-speed train network which disrupted busiest lines on Paris Olympics opening day. France’s high-speed TGV rail service is expected to return to normal by Monday, the government and railway operator said, a day after sabotaged signal stations and cables caused widespread chaos hours before the…
IOC chief Bach to speak with President Yoon Suk-yeol after South Korea seeks assurances that mistake is not repeated. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has apologised after mistakenly introducing the South Korean team as North Korean during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Sailing down the River Seine in…
Waves are formed when ocean swells, stirred by far off storms, make contact with the seafloor. Typically, this is a gradual process, but at Teahupo’o, Tahiti, site of the 2024 Paris Olympics surfing event, every parameter is taken to its extreme. The monster waves’ swells originate from powerful Antarctic storms…
The 2024 Olympic Games are upon us and like many people around the world, I am excited to tune in and follow the action. Like most, I will cheer for athletes from my home country. Not wanting to miss the moments when new world records are set and stars are…
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