Paris Olympic
10 Aug 2024
Ethiopian Tamirat Tola delivered a masterclass in solo front running to win the Olympic men's marathon in Paris on Saturday as Eliud Kipchoge's bid for a third gold went up in smoke. Tola clocked an Olympic record of 2hr 06min 26sec for victory, finishing 21 seconds ahead of Belgium's Bashir Abdi, whose silver marked an…
4 Aug 2024
The duo of Kanyinsola Ajayi and Tejiri Ashe failed to make it to the final race of the men’s 100 metres at the ongoing Paris Olympic Games on Sunday evening. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that both sprinters failed to advance from their respective semi-finals at the Stade de France. They failed to…
4 Aug 2024
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 taking bronze. The win ensured that the US finished at the top of the medal table in swimming with eight golds to Australia's seven. The Americans…
4 Aug 2024
Purity Akuh, Female Head Coach of the Wrestling Federation of Nigeria, has said that Nigerian athletes competing for honours in the Olympics are in high spirits. “The athletes are in high spirit; they are poised to win medals at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics,” Akuh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in…
1 Aug 2024
Ecuador's Brian Pintado won the first athletics Olympic gold medal of the Paris Games on Thursday with victory in the men's 20-kilometre walk. Brazil's Caio Bonfim improved on his fourth-place finish from Rio in 2016, taking silver, with Spain's world champion Alvaro Martin taking bronze. READ ALSO:Olympics: Ofili shocked to be left out of Paris…
29 Jul 2024
Fibre-optic cables in several parts of France have been "sabotaged," police said on Monday, three days after the rail system was hit by attacks that halted trains across the country. Friday's disruption on the rail network came as Paris celebrated the opening of the Olympic Games, and wrecked the travel plans of hundreds of thousands…
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