Ethiopa’s Lamecha Girma taken to hospital after horror fall in 3,000m steeplechase | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Ethiopian track and field athlete Lamecha Girma has regained consciousness and is able to speak after a horrific fall during the 3,000m steeplechase final at the Olympic Games in Paris on Wednesday night. The world record holder hit his knee on a barrier on the final lap of the race and slammed his head on […]
‘Raging’ sports fans watch this many games a year
A recent survey found that average sports fan watches 120 games per year. The survey of 2,000 American sports fans revealed how emotionally invested fans are, how much they’re willing to pay to support and represent their teams, and how much sports are rewarding fans for their emotional and financial investment. The study, conducted by […]
Olympic Village vendor slams claim athletes found worms in their food at 2024 Paris Games
A catering company hired to feed thousands of world-class athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics has slammed reports that parasites have been found in their meals. Earlier this week, Britain’s silver medal-winning swimmer Adam Peaty claimed several athletes had found parasites in their fish dishes, adding that the standard of food in the Olympic Village […]
Paris 2024 Olympics day 12: women’s golf begins, diving, canoe sprint and more – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature In other good news for Australia, 14-year-old Alyssa True lived up to the gold medal expectations. The Australian came into the Olympics in good form, having won qualifying matches in Shanghai and Budapest, but looked a little shaky in the early qualifying […]
‘Don’t Play Games’: Harris Faulkner Tells Liberal Guest Point-Blank That Dems ‘Have Antisemitism Problem’
Fox News host Harris Faulkner bluntly told Brad Howard, founder of lobbying firm Corcoran Street Group, on her “Faulkner Focus” show on Tuesday that the Democratic Party “has a problem with anti-Semitism.” Faulkner was referring to allegations that Vice President Kamala Harris dropped Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate because Democrats were […]
Paris 2024 Olympics day 11: athletics, cycling, boxing and more – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature We will not be open until 9am local time today. volleyball The first item on the agenda is the women’s quarter-final match between China and Turkey. 9:30 AM Canoe Sprint and handball It appeared on our radar at 10:00, signalling an avalanche […]
Paris 2024 Olympics day 10: athletics, cycling, gymnastics and more – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature As always, the ninth day of the Olympics brought with it some amazing images, especially those of Egypt’s Mohamed Essam and America’s Alexander Massialas. Massialas might need to relearn Wu-Tang Clan’s “Protect Ya Neck!” Mohamed Essam of Egypt competes against Alexander Massialas […]
Yaroslava Mahuchikh rises to occasion to secure high jump gold for Ukraine | Paris Olympic Games 2024
As Jaroslava Mavchik laced up her orange trainers, prepared for her run-up, and couldn’t contain her smile, she would be Olympic champion – a certainty after her favourite Australian rival, Nicola Ollis-Lagerth, missed 2.02 metres on her third attempt. This attempt at 2.04m was meant to be ritualistic, procedural, a glorious run with victory already […]
US women’s 4x100M medley relay team wins gold, sets world record in last Olympic swimming event of Paris Games
Regan Smith, Lily King, Gretchen Walsh and Tori Huske won the women’s 4×100 medley in the final Olympic swimming event on Sunday, also setting a world record in the event. The group swam the race in 3 minutes 49.63 seconds, beating the previous record, also held by the United States, by 0.77 seconds. The Americans […]
Extortionate launderettes and sub-par coffee: seven days at the Olympics | Olympic Games
Sunday First mistake in my Olympic debut. Don’t be under the illusion that the quickest way to get to the event in Versailles is to take a 20-minute taxi ride to Versailles. After being dropped off at the palace (which I thought was a central enough point), I discovered I needed to throw two sixes […]