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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
Olympics-Equestrian-Culture change needed, Werth says after Dujardin 'catastrophe'
VERSAILLES, France - Equestrian sports need a culture change to secure their future, German seven-times Olympic champion Isabell Werth...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Pouring rain disrupts Games after drenched opening ceremony
PARIS - Pouring rain in Paris on Saturday forced the men's Olympics street skateboarding competition to be postponed and tennis matches...
Jul 30, 20243 min read
FIFA rejects Argentina complaint over Olympics VAR ruling, soccer association says
BUENOS AIRES - FIFA, the world's soccer governing body, has rejected Argentina's complaints over a last-minute equalizer being ruled out...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
IOC apologises to South Korea over Olympics ceremony gaffe
PARIS - The International Olympic Committee apologised to South Korea on Saturday after its delegation of athletes were introduced as...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Olympics-Gymnastics-Olympic champion Nagornyy hits out at Russia's exclusion from Paris Games
PARIS - Olympic champion Nikita Nagornyy found it unacceptable that Russian gymnasts were barred from competing at the Paris Games due to...
Jul 30, 20241 min read
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