French star Teddy Riner Saturday helped his country defend its Olympic title in mixed team judo, after he beat Japan’s Tatsuru Saito in the final for the second […]
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Olympics: Men’s road cycling shows Paris is a moveable feast
Staging the opening ceremonies on the Seine wasn’t the only bold move by the Paris 2024 organisers.Famous Paris landmarks have hosted or acted as backdrop […]
US superstar Simone Biles claims seventh Olympic gold in vault final
US gymnastics star Simone Biles claimed her seventh Olympic gold medal on Saturday by winning the women’s vault final at the Paris Summer Games. Biles will go […]
American rapper Snoop Dogg steals the show at the Paris Olympics
Since the start of the Paris Olympics, rapper Snoop Dogg has been everywhere. A special correspondent for NBC, he has delighted Olympic audiences and internet […]
Will boxer Cindy Ngamba win the Refugee Team’s first Olympic medal in Paris?
By winning her first fight at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, Cindy Ngamba is one victory away from clinching the Refugee Team’ s first Olympic […]
2024 Olympics: how to prevent use of performance-enhancing drugs?
On Friday, the Afghan judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad was provisionally suspended after failing a doping test for a banned steroid. On the Chinese team, 23 […]
France hoping for more gold medals as cycling takes place in Montmartre district of Paris
The road races in cycling at the Olympics are an opportunity for the host city to shine. The routes that the men and women traverse […]
Olympics chief slams ‘unacceptable’ hate speech against boxers in gender row
International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach condemned the “hate speech” targeting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, saying that a wider, Russia-led “defamation […]
Afghan sister cyclists fly the flag of a fallen country at the Paris Olympics
Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi fled Kabul after the city once again fell to the Taliban in 2021. Three years later, the sister cyclists are riding […]
Nigerian national champion not entered for Olympic 100, blames country’s track federation for mix-up
Nigeria’s national champion in the women’s 100-meter sprint won’t run the race at the Paris Olympics because she says her country’s track federation didn’t enter […]