Paris 2024 Olympics day two: swimming, gymnastics and basketball as Games continue – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Later in the pool, Ariarne Titmus (Australia) won the 400m freestyle, beating Summer McIntosh (Canada) and Katie Ledecky (USA) to win one of the Olympic races. The three have held the world record at various times since Tokyo, making this one of […]
Rafael Nadal dismisses suggestions Olympic match with Novak Djokovic will be tennis duo’s ‘last dance’
Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal celebrated his 38th birthday last month. The 22-time Grand Slam singles champion has suffered injury setbacks in recent years and there have been growing speculations he may soon retire from the sport he has dominated for so many years. But Nadal tried hard to dispel any notion that the 2024 […]
Olympic Flag Raised Upside Down During Opening Ceremony
If you thought the ineptitude and ignominy of the Olympic opening ceremony was limited to a grotesque parody of the Last Supper and some strongly bisexual threesome sex, you’d be wrong. On top of that, they flew the Olympic flag upside down. From BBC Sport It’s a shame the Olympic flag was flying upside down […]
Germany’s Lukas Maertens wins Olympic gold in men’s 400-meter freestyle
Germany’s Lukas Martens won the men’s 400m freestyle on Saturday, winning his first swimming medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Maertens was on world record pace at one point in the race, then slowed on the final turn, but finished strong to take the gold medal. Australia’s Elijah Winnington threatened Martens in the final stages […]
Germany’s Lukas Maertens wins Olympic gold in men’s 400-meter freestyle
Germany’s Lukas Martens won the men’s 400m freestyle on Saturday, winning his first swimming medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Maertens was on world record pace at one point in the race, then slowed on the final turn, but finished strong to take the gold medal. Australia’s Elijah Winnington threatened Martens in the final stages […]
France Committed ‘Suicide’ with Olympic Ceremonies: Ex-Cabinet Minister
A former French government minister has denounced the controversial transgender parody of “The Last Supper” featuring Muslim performers at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics as an act of national “suicide”. In France, which remains in limbo after President Emmanuel Macron’s election leaves it without a real government, the Olympics were meant to signal […]
US secures first Olympic gold medal in men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay
The United States’ first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics went to the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay team after a thrilling race. When anchor four-man Caleb Dressel touched the wall, the U.S. had a final time of 3 minutes 9.28 seconds, beating rival Australia by more than a second. Australia took the silver medal […]
Katie Ledecky warms up Olympic journey with first US swimming medal
U.S. women’s swimming star Katie Ledecky didn’t win the gold medal in her first Olympic final, but she still made it onto the podium. Ledecky placed third in the 400m freestyle in 4:00.86, winning her first Olympic medal of the year, bronze, well below her own Olympic record of 3:56.46, set in Rio de Janeiro […]
Olympic roundup: France win again, 10-man Ukraine triumph with late strike | Paris Olympic Games 2024
Kilian Sirdilia’s goal gave France a 1-0 win over Guinea to record their second consecutive victory, while Spain and Japan advanced to the quarterfinals on the second day of Olympic men’s football. France After a 3-0 win over the United States in their opening Group A match, they struggled to find their footing in Bordeaux […]
Titmus shrugs off pressure to win gold as Peaty sets up Qin Haiyang showdown | Paris Olympic Games 2024
The race was billed as the fight of the century, featuring three world record holders and future Hall of Famers, but on that raucous night in Paris, hype and reality were far from mutually exclusive, as the Australian known as the Terminator once again defended his Olympic 400m freestyle title, standing at the end immortal […]