Paris. The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, condemned on Saturday the “unacceptable” attacks launched on social media against two female boxers from the Paris 2024 Games, who have been called for their exclusion due to suspicions about their gender. Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who will be fighting for … Read more
Marseilles. Italy’s Marta Maggetti took gold in the women’s windsurfing final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Saturday, after coming back in the final stages of the event with an intelligent strategy. Maggetti raised his fist as he crossed the finish line and jumped off his board into the Mediterranean Sea to celebrate. The … Read more
Paris. The International Boxing Association (IBA) has announced that it will financially reward “like an Olympic champion” Italian Angela Carini, who withdrew from her fight against Algerian Imane Khelif, one of the two boxers at the centre of a gender controversy at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The controversy erupted last Thursday after Khelif’s first opponent, … Read more
Paris. American Simone Biles claimed her third gold medal in Paris 2024 and the seventh Olympic title of her career on Saturday, taking the vault crown from Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, winner in Tokyo 2020 and reigning world champion, who took silver. Once again out of reach, Biles thus regained another of the golds she won … Read more
Paris. Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel, who played football for his country’s youth teams until he was 17, made history on Saturday by becoming the first rider to win both the road races and time trials at the Olympic Games. Evenepoel, 24, was crowned Olympic road champion after an unprecedented and gruelling 273-kilometre ride through the … Read more
Paris. China’s Zheng Qinwen won the gold medal in women’s tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday by beating Croatia’s Donna Vekic in an unexpected final, thus claiming the first singles medal in this sport for the Asian country. The Chinese, ranked seventh in the WTA, won 6-2, 6-3 in less than two hours … Read more
Paris. Carlos Edriel Yulo put in a spectacular performance on Saturday as he won the men’s floor exercise final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, giving the Philippines its first-ever Olympic medal in gymnastics. Yulo’s gold medal is also the second ever medal won by the Philippines at both the Summer and Winter Games, and … Read more
Lille. Already eliminated, Puerto Rico said goodbye to the men’s Olympic basketball tournament against the United States with a 104-83 defeat this Saturday in Lille, in a duel in which it was winning by one point after 14 minutes, at which point LeBron James decided to cut to the chase and wake up his team. … Read more
Paris. France staged a spectacular comeback on Saturday with another success from the legendary Teddy Riner, beating Japan 4-3 to claim the mixed team judo title at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Japanese were on the verge of climbing to the top of the podium by taking a 3-1 lead in the duel, but … Read more
Paris. World champions Spain overcame a 2-0 deficit to advance to the semi-finals of the women’s football tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by beating Colombia on penalties on Saturday. The Red claimed victory 4-2 from the 11-yard line at the Stade de Lyon. Aitana Bonmatí, the reigning Ballon d’Or winner, scored the decisive … Read more