Category: Paris Olympics and Paralympics
Paris (AFP) – Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet won Olympic women’s 10,000m gold in Paris on Friday, adding to her 5,000m crown to again scupper the hopes of defending champion Sifan Hassan. Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet celebrates after winning the women’s 10,000m © Martin BERNETTI…
Paris (AFP) – American Rai Benjamin outstripped Norwegian arch-rival Karsten Warholm to win Olympic 400m hurdles gold in Paris on Friday. Rai Benjamin crosses the finish line to win ahead of Norway’s Karsten Warholm © Jewel SAMAD / AFP Benjamin timed 46.46…
Paris (AFP) – Top-seeded Brazilian pair Ana Patricia Silva and Eduarda Santos won Olympic gold in the women’s beach volleyball on Friday, finally nailing down victory after three tense sets in a bad-tempered game. The Brazilians won the gold medal after…
Paris (AFP) – Spain’s Jordan Diaz won gold in the men’s triple jump at the Paris Olympics on Friday with a jump of 17.86m, leading an all-Cuban exile podium. Spain’s Jordan Diaz celebrates after winning the men’s triple jump © Ben STANSALL…
Paris (AFP) – France stunned Belgium 81-75 in overtime on Friday to reach the Olympic women’s basketball final, where they’ll try to stop the United States winning an eighth straight gold. Breanna Stewart defends against Australian Tess Madgen in the USA’s…
Breaking, also known as breakdancing, made its debut at the Paris Olympics on Friday with the women’s competition, featuring 17 dancers known as B-Girls laying down their moves in front of a panel of judges. The sport’s appearance at the…
Sha’Carri Richardson powered the US to an Olympic sprint relay gold with a storming anchor leg at the Paris Olympics on Friday, while Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam clinched a historic treble of heptatholon golds. US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson celebrates her team’s…
Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer thrust into the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Games, defied misinformed scrutiny of her sex to win gold on Friday in front of a pulsating Roland Garros crowd that roared her to…
Paris (AFP) – Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at the centre of an Olympic gender eligibility row, goes for gold in Paris on Friday as Thierry Henry bids to lead France’s footballers to glory. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is at the centre…
From our Olympics correspondent in Paris – France surged through to the men’s basketball finals Thursday night after a hard-fought victory over Germany that had Paris’s Bercy Arena incandescent with joy. Les Bleus will be fighting the US team for gold…
