Sports
America's reigning Olympic champion Carissa Moore was knocked out of surfing's quarter-finals by France's Johanne Defay in Tahiti on Thursday, and said she couldn't imagine a better place to call time on her storied career.The five-time world champion skipped this year's professi...
Switzerland's Chiara Leone won the gold in the women's 50-metre rifle three positions at the Paris Olympics on Friday.Sagen Maddalena from the United States wins the silver while China's Zhang Qiongyue took the bronze.Leone's total of 464.4 is an Olympic record as she followed in the...
French poster boy Leon Marchand and U.S. distance dynamo Katie Ledecky made history while the Paris pool saw its first world record on one of the great nights of Olympic swimming on Wednesday.China's Pan Zhanle ended the programme with another firecracker, the teenager obliterating his own 100 m...
Simone Biles clinched her fifth Olympic gold medal as she made a triumphant return to the women’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Games on Tuesday, reinforcing her status as one of the world's greatest athletes just three years after abruptly withdrawing from the same event at the Tokyo...
Sports,Football
Hosts France secured a place in the quarter-finals of the men's Olympic football tournament with a 3-0 win over New Zealand that put them to top of Group A, while the United States edged Guinea 3-0 to progress on the final day of the group stage on Tuesday.France, coming off two wins, only neede...
World
Venezuela's opposition said it had voting-tally proof it had won the election claimed by President Nicolas Maduro, as anti-government protests erupted across the country, with police firing tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital Caracas.Protesters took to the streets after Maduro was dec...
China's Yang Hao and Lian Junjie won the gold medal in the men's synchronised 10 metre platform event on Monday to keep China's goal of taking all eight diving golds on offer alive.The pair led from the first round and finished on 490.35 points.Tom Daley and Noah Williams of Britain took...
Business
Gold prices rose 1 percent on Friday as US Treasury yields fell on optimism for an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve in September after data showed US prices rose modestly in June.Spot gold rose 0.8 percent to $2,382.98 per ounce by 1741 GMT, after hitting its lowest since July 9 on Thursday....
Ariarne Titmus got Australia's women off to a golden start by winning a race of record breakers on a rocking opening night of the Paris Olympic swimming meet at the La Defense Arena on Saturday.The Dolphins added another gold in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay, with Australia also taking two si...
Despite hours of rain Paris puts on a dazzling display for Olympics opening ceremony on Friday that dazzled the crowds and the world.It combined can-can dancers, tributes to French history and acrobatics with drag, jet flyovers and rap.Surprise performances by Lady Gaga and Celine Dion were highligh...
Canada soccer great Christine Sinclair said on Friday national team players were never shown drone footage during the more than two decades she was on the team, following a spying scandal that cast a shadow over the Canadians at the Paris Games.New Zealand complained that Canada staff flew drones ov...
Defending champions Canada defeated New Zealand 2-1 in their Paris Olympics opening game on Thursday overshadowed by a spying scandal that has engulfed the women's tournament.Cloe Lacasse and Evelyne Viens scored on a night that might have been a routine group win for Canada before it was thrust...
Every Olympics has its defining sporting moment such as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games or Sydney Crosby's golden goal for Canada on home ice in Vancouver in 2010.Some appear as if out of thin air. Others can be scheduled, as in Paris where on the opening night of c...
Sports,Cricket
Pakistan registered the first 10-wicket victory at the Women's Asia Cup since it switched to a Twenty20 format on Tuesday, with the comfortable win over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) securing a place in the semi-finals.Gull Feroza scored an unbeaten 62 as Pakistan chased down their target with ...
With a pair of baristas churning out coffees and a rooftop terrace for social gatherings, Australia's quarters at the Olympic village embody the social spirit of a Paris Games unencumbered by COVID-19 restrictions.Strict health protocols sucked the fun out of the summer Games in Tokyo and Beijin...
Islamist militants attacked a military base in northwestern Pakistan, killing eight security personnel, the military said on Tuesday, after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a perimeter wall.The attack, which occurred on Monday, coincides with a resurgence of Islamist mil...
Waving flags and dressed in Spain's red and yellow colours, tens of thousands of people jubilantly greeted the country's triumphant Euro 2024 men's football team on Monday during a parade in Madrid."Champions, champions!" fans shouted out to the players and coach, who celebrate...
Reuters, Buenos AiresArgentines took to the streets to celebrate their 1-0 victory over Colombia in the Copa America final on Sunday after Lautaro Martinez scored an extra-time winner in Miami.After a tense 90 minutes finished 0-0, Martinez latched onto a through ball before lifting his shot over Co...
Sports,Tennis
Barbora Krejcikova held off Italian crowd favourite Jasmine Paolini to win the Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, coming through 6-2 2-6 and 6-4 on a sunlit Centre Court.As a precocious 12-year-old tennis novice, Barbora Krejcikova had scribbled into her notebook that her ambition was to win the F...
Uruguay needed a late equaliser and penalties to beat Canada in Saturday's Copa America third-place playoff match, with coach Marcelo Bielsa saying the South American side had performed well below their level.Canada made several changes to their lineup for the match and looked the fresher side a...
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