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Olympics-Canoeing-Gestin and Prigent provide home cheer with superb slalom runs
PARIS - French canoeists Nicolas Gestin and Camille Prigent gave the rain-soaked fans plenty to cheer about with some blistering slalom...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Olympics-Cycling-Evenepoel recovers from big night out to win TT gold
PARIS - Remco Evenepoel's proper preparations for the Olympics started last Sunday at 4:30am - when he went to bed after partying all...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Olympics-Cycling-Near-misses fuelled Brown's Paris 2024 ambitions
PARIS - Missing out on a podium finish or a title could deter a lot of athletes, but in the case of Grace Brown, the near-misses gave...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Olympics-Judo medals spark French fan fervour at Paris Games
PARIS - If the judo dojo at the foot of the Eiffel Tower was anything to go by, then France's Olympic delegation is set to have some wild...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
French minister says foreign involvement not ruled out in rail sabotage
PARIS - France's interior minister said on Saturday he could not rule out foreign involvement in an attack that sabotaged signal stations...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Olympics-Fencing-Defending champion Sun defeated in sudden-death epee shock
PARIS - Defending women's epee champion Sun Yiwen of China was knocked out in her opening bout by Japan's Miho Yoshimura on Saturday in a...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Olympics-Judo-Smetov wins men's -60kg gold for Kazakhstan
PARIS - Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan won the gold medal in the under 60kg judo at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Luka Mkheidze of France...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Factbox-How the world's press rated Paris's Olympics Opening Ceremony
PARIS - Paris broke with tradition on Friday by turning the Olympic Opening Ceremony into a parade down the River Seine rather than a...
Jul 30, 20243 min read
LVMH's luxury wares earn top billing at Olympics opening
PARIS - Bernard Arnault, France's wealthiest man and chief executive of luxury group LVMH, paid some 150 million euros ($163 million) to...
Jul 27, 20242 min read
Olympics-Fourteen gold medals up for grabs on Day One of Paris Games
PARIS - France's capital city is set to rock to a sporting beat on Saturday as the Olympic Games get under way in earnest on the back of...
Jul 27, 20243 min read
Rain pours down on Paris Olympics parade, doesn't dampen cheer
PARIS - Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy downpours as they lined the banks of the Seine in Paris on Friday to watch an...
Jul 27, 20242 min read
Olympics-Flotilla on Seine, rain and Celine Dion mark start of Paris Olympics
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Olympic Games open on Friday after a soaking wet ceremony in which athletes were...
Jul 27, 20244 min read
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