DIRECT FROM PARIS | Pole vaulter Amálie Švábíková is finally in the same group as the world’s best competitors. In the Olympic final at the Stade de France, she fought like a lioness, jumping a national record of 480 centimeters and taking fifth place, the best so far among Czech athletes in Paris. It was … Read more
Paris (from our correspondent) – He has only fragmentary memories of his early childhood. His mother gave him up, he alternated one foster care after another. “And as a child, you don’t really understand what’s going on,” he recalled to People magazine. His life’s journey finally took a happier turn at age four, when Kenny … Read more
The first medal for Italian gymnastics at Paris 2024, after the glory of Tokyo and the misery of this first part of the French edition of the Games, comes from a 19-year-old boy who has been jumping as which was before Of course, Mattia Furlani has a hero like Milziades in front of him, Tentoglu … Read more
Three Czech four-wheelers went in for repairs right away. Although Tereza Petržilková improved her season’s best with a time of 51.46, she finished fourth in the first of four runs and did not advance to the semi-finals. Compared to the start, Lurdes Gloria Manuel also improved significantly, who took third place with a performance of … Read more
Paris (dpa)It looks like Armand Duplantis is still celebrating winning the gold medal in the pole vault competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics and breaking the world record. The Swedish athlete jumped a distance of 25.6 meters to make a big splash at the Stade de France in Paris, with celebrations continuing for a long … Read more
ATHLETICS – Jorinde van Klinken (24) from Assen finished seventh tonight during the Olympic final of the discus throw. She got stuck at a disappointing distance of 63 meters and 35 centimeters. With that, she remained far from her personal record. That is very sharp at 70 meters and 22 centimeters and dates back to … Read more
The work is done. The kilometers flew by despite the heat, the fatigue, the exhaustion sometimes. But the game is worth it. 8 runners from the association Grasse in New York created in 2016 by Emmanuel Delgrange to bring as many people from Grasse to the famous Big Apple marathon… And after several events since … Read more
Paris. Norway’s Markus Rooth has won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with a cumulative total of 8,796 points at the end of the ten stages of this combined event. Rooth secured victory on Saturday at the end of the last race, the 1,500 metres, to finish leading the … Read more
During the evening program of the fourth athletics day of the Olympic Games, the Stade de France is filled to the brim. More than 80,000 spectators are ready for a jam-packed athletics program. From the Dutch team, Sifan Hassan, Jorinde van Klinken, Menno Vloon and Tasa Jiya came into action this evening. Sifan Hassan takes … Read more
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are entering their second and final week of competition with the king of sports, athletics, already underway. It was in the 3,000-meter steeplechase event of this sporting discipline in which she competed 12 years ago, in London 2012, an athlete from Rivas, Victor Garcia. Victor Garcia, who is now 39 … Read more