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Tom Daley has retired from diving following his silver medal at the Paris Olympics. Daley and diving partner Noah Williams produced six brilliant dives in the men’s synchro 10m platform diving final to finish in second place in Paris on July 29. The 30-year-old was competing at a fifth Olympic Games after returning from a...

BBC Sport’s coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics was streamed a record-breaking 218 million times online – more than doubling the 104 million streams recorded during the Tokyo Games three years ago. BBC TV also enjoyed consistently high viewing figures, with a peak audience of over six million viewers on 14 separate days. Keely Hodgkinson’s...

STREETON/GREGSON ARCHIVE The Devon and Somerset Wanderers were already going to Paris to compete in a three-match tour when they agreed to take part in the 1900 games Great Britain can claim to be the reigning Olympic cricket champions, having won the gold medal on the one occasion the sport was ever in the games....

In the early 20th century, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refused to publish medals tables, considering them vulgar and a goad to competitive nationalism rather than the cooperative internationalism that the Games were meant to nurture. It heartily disapproved of the US press which invented them as part of its coverage of the 1908 London...

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Great Britain’s rowers achieved their best medal haul from an overseas Olympics, while the athletes upgraded on their Tokyo tally at Paris 2024. There was...

Bach, who will step down as IOC president in 2025, said Paris 2024 had been “sensational, or dare I say, ‘Seine-sational'” – a play on words referencing the river which flows through the host city. He added that they were “Olympic Games of a new era” as the first “delivered completely under our Olympic agenda...

The Paris Games concluded with Tom Cruise dropping into the Stade de France from its roof and an Olympic medal haul for Great Britain that was bettered only by the sporting superpowers of the USA and China after 19 days of sublime athleticism. As the Olympic baton was handed to Los Angeles 2028 at a...

While the USA topped the official medals table, with population of just over 112,000, Grenada were actually the most successful nation when it comes to winning Olympics medals based on the size of their nation. Anderson Peters and Lindon Victor’s bronze medals in both the men’s javelin and decathlon meant they averaged one medal per...

Britain’s performance at the Paris Olympics was incredible and should be celebrated, despite falling from fourth in the medal table in Tokyo to seventh. That was the bullish message emanating from Team GB house after an extraordinary 16 days of action came to an end on Sunday. While there were only 14 gold medals for...

For the first time Northern Ireland had three current world champions competing in Paris. Rhys McClenaghan, Hannah Scott and Daniel Wiffen are now Olympic champions. They now want their success to inspire the children and young people who pack Northern Ireland’s gymnastics, rowing and athletics clubs and swimming pools and hockey pitches and every other...

What a showpublished at 23:15 11 August 23:15 11 August A fitting way to end the Greatest Show On Earth. What an Olympics it has been. Nearly three weeks of brilliant sporting action, great drama, tears, celebrations and amazing stories. That concludes our coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics, but don’t forget, the Paralympics start...