Olympics sees 40-plus Covid cases as global figures rise: WHO
More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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France's surfing champion Vaast says 'life force' helped him win
Kauli Vaast says a supernatural force in Polynesian culture helped him win Olympic surfing gold in his native Tahiti.
Hodgkinson in 'life changing' moment with 800m title
Britain's Keely Hodgkinson said becoming women's Olympic 800m champion on Monday after a succession of silver medals in major finals was a 鈥榣ife changer鈥�.
Henry 'living a dream' as France reach men's football final
Thierry Henry won almost everything possible in a glittering career as a player and is now 鈥榣iving a dream鈥� as a coach after leading hosts France to the final of the Olympic men's football.
Duplantis fulfils childhood dream with world record
Armand Duplantis says the defence of his Olympic pole vault crown in world-record style came as no surprise as he had visualised it a 鈥榤illion times鈥� when practising as a child in his own backyard.
'Happy, proud' Biles caps campaign with floor silver
US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles polished off a redemptive Paris Olympics campaign with a floor exercise silver on Monday, shrugging off a balance beam fall to finish runner-up to Brazilian Rebeca Andrade.
Brazilian amputee table tennis star savours Olympic dreamland
Twenty-two years after first picking up a bat, Brazilian amputee table tennis star Bruna Alexandre is finally making her dream come true, warming up for the Paralympics by competing at the Paris Olympic Games.
Record-breaker Duplantis retains pole vault title
Sweden's Armand Duplantis improved his own world record en route to retaining his Olympic pole vault title in Paris on Monday.
Kenya's 'smiling assassin' Chebet wins 5,000m gold
Kenya's Beatrice Chebet produced a masterful display of tactical running to win gold in the Olympic women's 5,000m on Monday to end defending champion Sifan Hassan's dream of a long-distance treble.
Dominant Britain smash world record on way to team sprint gold
Emma Finucane spearheaded Britain to the first track cycling gold of the Paris Olympics in the women's team sprint on Monday, with the world record shattered five times in the session.
IBA stripped of boxing claims gender-row fighters 鈥榓re male鈥�
The International Boxing Association claimed Monday at a chaotic press conference that tests on two boxers at the centre of a gender controversy at the Paris Olympics show...
Brazil's Andrade beats Biles to Olympic floor gold
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade beat Simone Biles to floor gold on the final day of the Olympic gymnastics competition on Monday, ending the US gymnastic great's bid for a fourth title at the Paris Games.
Sprint king Lyles confident of Olympic treble in Paris
Newly minted Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles has his sights on triple gold at the Paris Games. Lyles came out on top of a thrilling race at the Stade de France Sunday that ended in a photo-finish to open his golden account.
After France split, Nemour wins gymnastics gold for Algeria
Kaylia Nemour claimed an historic gold for Algeria on Sunday after a stunning performance on uneven bars two years after being denied a place on the team of her native France on medical grounds.
Emotional Mahuchikh dedicates gold to slain Ukrainian athletes
Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh dedicated her Olympic high jump gold medal on Sunday to the nearly 500 athletes and coaches who have been killed since Russia invaded her country in 2022.
Sifan Hassan: from 'shy' refugee to Olympic champion
On a gloriously sunny Tuesday night training session at the Eindhoven athletics club, young hopefuls are put through their paces, dreaming of emulating their most famous member -- double Olympic champion Sifan Hassan.
China shrug off doping controversy to win 12 swimming medals
Pan Zhanle and stalwart Zhang Yufei spearheaded China to 12 Olympic medals in the Paris pool, shrugging off intense scrutiny over a doping controversy that engulfed the team ahead of the Games.
Scheffler basks in national pride after triumph
Scottie Scheffler said he felt 鈥榩roud to be an American鈥� after a dramatic triumph in the final round of the men's golf event to win Olympic gold on Sunday.
Taiwanese boxer in gender row wins to guarantee medal
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting became the second fighter at the centre of a Paris Olympics gender row to guarantee herself a medal after convincingly winning her quarter-final on Sunday.
Ukraine's Mahuchikh wins women's high jump gold
Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh lived up to her pre-Paris Games billing to win the women's Olympic high jump at the Stade de France on Sunday.
Lyles wins Olympic 100m gold in closest finish in modern history
World champion Noah Lyles roared to victory in 9.79sec to claim the men's Olympic 100m gold in Paris on Sunday.
Sleepless in Paris: Yulo defies tiredness to win second gold
Carlos Yulo shrugged off a sleepless night to win gymnastics gold in the men's vault at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, 24 hours after claiming the floor title for a piece of Philippines sporting history.
Birthday boy Pan leads China to men鈥檚 4x100m medley relay gold
World record-holder Pan Zhanle celebrated his birthday Sunday with a storming final leg to hand China gold in the men's Olympic 4x100m medley relay.
US win women's 4x100m medley gold with world record
The United States set a new world record time as they powered to Olympic gold in the women's 4x100m medley relay on Sunday with Australia taking silver and China bronze.
Djokovic says gold 'probably biggest success', eyes 2028 Olympics
Novak Djokovic described his Olympic gold medal triumph on Sunday as 鈥榩robably鈥� his 鈥榖iggest sporting success鈥� and revealed he may defend the title at the 2028 Los Angeles Games when he will be 41.
Record third Olympic title the sweetest, says shot king Crouser
World record-holder Ryan Crouser said his unprecedented third consecutive Olympic title in the men's shot put on Saturday 鈥榙efinitely means the most鈥� of the trio.
China's Liu Yang retains men's gymnastics rings title
Liu Yang clinched China's first men's gymnastics gold of the Paris Olympics on Sunday, delivering a formidable display of strength and skill to retain the rings title he won in Tokyo.
'So, so proud': St Lucia celebrates Alfred's historic gold
Saint Lucia celebrated Sunday after sprinter Julien Alfred stormed to victory in the women's 100m in Paris for the tiny Caribbean nation's historic first Olympic medal.
German keeper's heroics knock Canada out
Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger saved two penalties in the shoot-out and scored the winning kick to knock holders Canada of the Olympic women's football on Saturday, taking Germany into the semi-finals along with Spain, the United States and Brazil.
Alfred overcomes obstacles to become sprint queen
鈥業'd love to be the first,鈥� Julien Alfred said of the possibility of becoming the first Olympic medallist from the tiny Caribbean island of St Lucia -- on Saturday she achieved that in style by winning the women's 100 metres in Paris.