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Dutch beach volleyball player who raped child breaks silence over Olympics
- Steven van de Velde spent 13 months in prison for rape
- Netherlands pair reached quarter-finals at Paris Games
The Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016, has said that he considered quitting the Paris Olympics amid the controversy surrounding his participation.
Van de Velde and his beach volleyball partner Matthew Immers reached the quarter-finals in Paris, where they lost to Brazil in straight sets. The pair played four matches in the tournament and Van de Velde was subjected to a stream of boos and whistles.
Continue reading...Mary Earps becomes first women’s football star to get Madame Tussauds waxwork
The England goalkeeper says decision is example of how she and the Lionesses ‘break barriers and push boundaries’
England goalkeeper Mary Earps has become the first professional female footballer to have a wax figure at Madame Tussauds London.
Members of the public voted for the 31-year-old to be added to the attraction after the Lionesses’ success in reaching the final of the 2023 World Cup and winning the 2022 European Championships.
Continue reading...Asian cities and countries jostle in Paris for right to host 2036 Olympic Games
- IOC says it has ‘double-digit’ nations interested in hosting future events
- Asia seen as strong option to follow Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032
If historic waterway settings are the new must-have accessory for Olympic host cities, then Istanbul’s mayor wants the IOC to know his city has one.
If the key to getting the 2036 Summer Games is having hosted world championships in top-tier Olympic sports, then Qatar can point to its track record over the past decade.
Continue reading...Bilesmania, gender row: Five viral moments that define Paris Olympics 2024
Al Jazeera picks the five biggest talking points and viral moments from a memorable Olympic Games in Paris.
From Curry to Medina: Five best photos from the Paris Olympics 2024
After 18 days of competition and countless memories, the Paris Olympics are now behind us. Here are five top photos.
Paris 2024 Olympics close, Los Angeles takes torch: Five key takeaways
As the Paris Olympics ends with a spectacular closing ceremony, we take a look at some of the key moments.
Curtain closes on Paris 2024 as Olympic flame passes to Los Angeles
The US and China ended the games with 40 gold medals each, but the US topped the table because it had more silvers.
Sifan Hassan puts on a fight to win marathon gold at Paris Olympics 2024
Once an Ethiopian asylum seeker, the Dutch distance running great won her third medal of the Paris Olympics.
USA beat France in thrilling women’s basketball gold medal game at Olympics
France pushed defending champions USA until the last second, but lost the final at a packed Bercy Arena in Paris.
USA edge past China with gold in final event of Paris 2024 to top medal table
- Australia have best-ever Games; GB finish seventh
- Full results: the final medal table from Paris 2024
Plus ça change: after more than two weeks of frenetic competition across 32 sports involving more than 10,000 athletes, the US finished the Paris Olympics top of the medal table once again, although they required victory in the final event of the Games to do so.
The US entered Sunday with 38 golds, one behind China’s tally of 39, although they were heavy favourites for victory in women’s basketball, an event the Americans have won at every Olympics since 1996. The US also had chances for gold in track cycling, wrestling and volleyball, while China could add to their tally in weightlifting.
Continue reading...Olympics: USA rack up relay golds; Barshim bows out with high jump bronze
USA win both 4x400m relay and men's 100m hurdles finals for their 14 athletics medal at Paris Olympics 2024.
Canada’s B-Boy Phil Wizard wins first Olympic breaking gold in Paris
The Canadian beat France's Dany Dann in front of a partisan crowd to take the first-ever men's gold medal in breaking.
Georgia Bell leads rush of medals as Team GB enjoy super Saturday
The runner, who has set a new British record, only took up sport again to stay fit during pandemic
Georgia Bell, an occasional runner during lockdown who made it to the Olympic final of the women’s 1500m, set a new British record to take bronze as a rush of success including silvers in artistic swimming and taekwondo took Britain’s rivalry with France in the medal table into the last day.
At the age of 30, this was Bell’s first Olympic appearance but in a lightning quick race in the Stade de France that saw Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon set a new Games record, the British runner stayed with the leading pack in the first 800m before finding the strength to kick on in the final leg.
Continue reading...Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins 1500-metre final for record third Olympic gold
Kipyegon becomes the first athlete ever to win three back-to-back 1500m gold medals and sets new Olympic record time.
Ethiopia’s Tola wins Olympic men’s marathon; Kenya’s Kipchoge drops out
Tamirat Tola completes the tough Paris course in an Olympic record time of two hours, six minutes and 26 seconds.
LA’s mayor says 2028 will be ‘no-car Games’ despite city’s notorious traffic
- City will host Games for third time in its history
- Businesses will be asked to allow home working
The Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, has said the 2028 Olympics will be a “no-car Games” as the city prepares to host the event in four years’ time.
Bass and Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the LA 2028 organizing committee, highlighted some of the planning that has already been completed. Bass was preemptive about the city’s notorious traffic, addressing the issue in her opening remarks at a press conference in Paris on Saturday.
Continue reading...Algeria’s Imane Khelif beats Yang Liu to win boxing gold at Paris Olympics
The boxer emerged victorious amid a gender row to bag Algeria's second gold medal in Paris and fulfill her dream.
Japan’s Ami Yuasa dances her way to gold in first Olympic breaking final
Japanese B-Girl Ami beats Lithuania's Nicka in the gold medal competition as breaking makes a cameo at the Olympics.
Competitor at CrossFit Games in Texas dies during swimming event
- CrossFit CEO Don Faul ‘deeply saddened’ by death
- Athlete who died named as Lazar Dukic from Serbia
A competitor in the CrossFit Games has died while competing in a swimming event on Thursday morning at a Texas lake.
CrossFit CEO Don Faul said during a news conference that the organization was “deeply saddened” by the death of one of their athletes, and they were working with authorities on the investigation into the death.
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