They are Sydney McLaughlin, a Californian who turned 25 this Wednesday, and Femke Bol, a Dutch woman who is six months younger. Her competitions have the charm of the unusual. And they always have an extraordinary result, like the 50.37s with which the American set a new world record, lowering by 28 hundredths the mark … Read more
Osmar Olvera (Mexico City, 20 years old) is an extraordinary athlete. The Mexican has won his second medal at the Paris Olympic Games after dazzling in the individual springboard final. The Mexican’s fine and energetic diving helped him to win the bronze medal, behind the unstoppable Chinese Siyi Xie and Zongyuan. Mexico thus adds its … Read more
Paris (from our correspondent) – In the final, in which her friend Amálie Švábíková also shone with fifth place, Newman improved the national record just like her. She was very happy with the bronze for 485 centimeters. She will receive $10,000 (about 231,000 crowns) in her account for it, which is the prize that Canada … Read more
Faced with disqualification from the wrestling finals in the Paris 2024 Olympics Wrestler Vinesh Phogat appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The Indian star’s decision came after she was not allowed to compete in the finals of the women’s 50 kg category due to her weight loss of 100 grams. At the … Read more
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
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland have qualified for the quarter finals of the individual sprint tournament at the Tokyo Olympics. On the first day of the royal sprint event, the Dutch track stars had few problems in their heats. For Lavreysen, the sprint tournament could not have started … Read more
• Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 7:00 PM Interview “Lovely.” It came out spontaneously, while Harrie Lavreysen did the cooling-down on the rollers with the gold medal of the team sprint on his neck. In the scorching Velodrôme of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the Dutch trio had improved the world record twice on the final day to sovereignly … 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
At the Olympic Games in Paris, kayaker Josef Dostál already secured a place in the semi-finals on the 1000-meter track without any problems, and saved his strength in the final. The third Uzbek Shakhrijor Muchkamov was significantly losing to him, and with the leading Australian Tom Green, the Czech representative did not engage in a … Read more
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The team arrived in Riga on “AirBaltic” flight “BT 692” at 1:30 pm. First, there will be a reception at the VIP center of Riga Airport, but then the team will proceed along Kalnciema Street, over the Vanši Bridge, past the Freedom Monument and finish the route at the office of the Latvian Olympic Committee … Read more