‘I am a woman’: Imane Khelif hits back in gender row after claiming gold | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Two weeks after being embroiled in a gender controversy, Imane Kherif became the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, defeating world champion Yang Liu of China by unanimous decision in the women’s 66kg division. The 25-year-old Kherif’s biggest career victory was sealed amid jubilant scenes at Roland Garros, where a large Algerian community […]
Otherworldly spectacle of beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower rocks Paris – literally | Paris Olympic Games 2024
TWatching beach volleyball beneath the Eiffel Tower can be unsettling. It’s not the imported sand engineered to not stick to the players’ bodies. It’s not the pretentious hosts pumping up the crowd. It’s not the perfectly timed competition to take in the beautiful sunset. It’s not the picture-perfect light show centered on Paris’ greatest monument. […]
Johnson-Thompson savours Olympic redemption after Roberts climbs to gold | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Britain’s heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson ran the fastest 800 metres of her life to win Olympic silver, while her women’s 4 x 100 metres relay team missed out on gold by just 0.7 seconds after a final handover error. A shocking performance in the 800m, the final of the seven events, saw the 31-year-old become […]
Rapper Travis Scott Arrested In Paris Following Appearance At Olympic Games
American rap artist Travis Scott makes a gesture while watching the men’s basketball semi-finals (Photo: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images) By Blake Wolf, OAN StaffFriday, August 9, 2024 9:50 AM Rapper Travis Scott was arrested Friday morning at a luxury hotel in Paris after a drunken altercation with a security guard and his own bodyguard. […]
Johnson-Thompson faces tall order to dethrone Thiam in Olympic heptathlon | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Katarina Johnson-Thompson has a tall order to win gold in the heptathlon, having fallen behind rival Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium on the second day with just one event remaining. With seven events remaining in the 800 meters on Friday night, Johnson-Thompson was 121 points behind the Belgian, who had a season’s best in the javelin […]
Witnesses horrified as athlete drowns during event at CrossFit Games in Texas
An athlete drowned while competing in the CrossFit Games in Texas on Thursday. shocking To all in attendance. In the video, for a moment The swimmer sank below the surface and never resurfaced. His body was found about an hour later. “Within seconds he was underwater, never to resurface.” The Tarrant County Coroner’s Office identified […]
‘I do have Covid’: Noah Lyles reveals positive test after taking 200m bronze | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Noah Lyles revealed he had tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday morning after being removed from the track in a wheelchair after finishing third in the men’s 200-meter final in 19.70 seconds. Lyles, who appeared before reporters wearing a mask and surrounded by members of the U.S. team’s medical department, insisted he never considered withdrawing […]
CrossFit Games Athlete Tragically Drowns During Event in Texas
CrossFit athlete Lazar Dukich drowned during a swimming competition in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday, just 100 yards from the finish line, according to reports. Dukic was seen struggling in the water near the end of a swimming competition in Maligne Creek Lake and suddenly Sunk At around 8:00 a.m. Daily Express. The swimmers completed […]
CrossFit Games athlete drowns in Texas lake during swimming portion of competition
A CrossFit Games athlete drowned during a swimming competition in Marine Creek Lake in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday morning. According to Fox 4Fort Worth police will not release the player’s identity until the Tarrant County coroner’s report is completed and the victim’s family is notified. According to multiple reports, the athlete who went missing […]
What we will remember most about Paris Games
The Olympics are closer to ending than they are to beginning. The big events of gymnastics, swimming and track and field are mostly over. We’ve already seen most of the athletes we recognize by name: Biles, Ledecky, Lyles, Marchand. There’s still tension in the finals of basketball, soccer and the remaining track and field events, […]