The US and China ended the games with 40 gold medals each, but the US topped the table because it had more silver medals. Hollywood star Tom Cruise abseiled from the roof of the Stade de France drawing gasps from spectators as Paris bade farewell to an Olympics hailed as…
Sifan Hassan completed her mission impossible with a gruelling women’s marathon win on the sun-baked streets of Paris on the last day of the Olympics, giving the games a dramatic ending of her own. With the final track and field medal of the games up for grabs on Sunday and…
France pushed defending champions USA until the last second, but lost the final at a packed Bercy Arena in Paris. France pushed the USA until the dying seconds of a thrilling women’s basketball gold medal match, but lost by a single point in a 67-66 scoreline at a packed Bercy…
Before every weightlifting competition, Mohammed Hamada thinks of Gaza. He thinks of the destruction of his home and people, or of the mass grave he dug for residents of the building next to his. These circumstances have created a special kind of athlete. One who had to eat animal food…
The United States have won their eighth consecutive Olympic women’s 4×400-metre relay crown to clinch the country’s 14th track and field gold medal of the Paris Games. A star-studded USA quartet, which included two-time Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and 200-metres gold medallist Gabby Thomas, powered home in 3…
The Canadian beat France’s Dany Dann in front of a partisan crowd to take the first-ever men’s gold medal in breaking. Canada’s B-Boy Phil Wizard won the inaugural Olympic men’s breaking gold in Paris and said he hoped it “opens doors to people” involved in the high-energy dance sport. Phil…
Kipyegon becomes the first athlete ever to win three back-to-back 1500m gold medals and sets new Olympic record time. Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon made history after becoming the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic 1,500-metre gold medals with a superb display of middle-distance running. The 30-year-old 2016 and 2020 champion…
Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola has delivered a masterclass in solo front running to win the Olympic men’s marathon in Paris as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, has failed to finish. Belgium’s Bashir Abdi took silver, improving on his bronze from the…
Japanese B-Girl Ami beats Lithuania’s Nicka in the gold medal competition as breaking makes a cameo at the Olympics. The urban sport of breaking spun its way onto the Olympic stage for the first and possibly last time, with Japan’s B-Girl Ami winning the inaugural women’s gold. Breaking, better known…
The boxer emerged victorious in the welterweight fight amid a gender row to bag Algeria’s second gold medal in Paris. Imane Khelif smiled, danced and roared with delight after beating China’s Yang Liu to become the first Algerian, Arab and African woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal at…
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