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 Britain finished seventh on the Olympic medal table as Paris 2024 wrapped up on Sunday. Team GB won 14 golds while their 65 total medals...
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Olympics closing ceremony LIVE: Latest updates from Paris 2024 finale
Olympic skateboarder decries deterioration of bronze medal The end of the Olympics is here with a star-studded closing ceremony tonight at the Stade de France. Team GB have added more medals on the final day to conclude a successful Paris 2024, securing one more medal overall but eight fewer gold medals than at Tokyo 2020....
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BOA chief: Team GB should be celebrated despite ‘frustrating’ medal table finish
The British Olympic Association says Team GB’s medal haul at Paris 2024 should be celebrated, despite Britain finishing in its lowest position in the table for 20 years. Great Britain ended the Paris Olympics with 65 medals – the same amount won on home soil at London 2012 and second-best ever tally on foreign soil...
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Why this Paris Olympics bronze medal means more than silver in Tokyo
SOUTH PARIS ARENA — Emily Campbell became an overnight superstar on the back of a silver medal in Tokyo. Her infectious personality and unique style connected with a British public desperate to move on from 18 months of Covid hell. She has since become a regular face on TV and social media, most notably as...
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Olympics 2024: Jack Carlin ‘mucked up’ but ok after keirin crash
Scottish track cyclist Jack Carlin says he “mucked up” in his bid for a third medal of the Paris Olympics after crashing out of the keirin final. The 27-year-old from Paisley was stuck at the back of the race and when two riders collided in front of him, he was taken out and had his...
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Fifth-place finish for Britain in Paris cycling medal table as they lose summit
For the first time in two decades Great Britain did not finish top of the cycling medal table at an Olympic Games. Paris 2024 saw Team GB fifth, below France, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States. Eleven medals was more than any other nation, but this time the colours had changed. Two gold medals...
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Olympic Games 2024: Welsh athletes achieve record medal haul in Paris
Welsh athletes have achieved a record Olympics medal haul in Paris as part of Team GB’s return. The Welsh contingent will head back from France with a total of 13 medals – three golds, three silvers and seven bronze. The medal haul beats the tally of 10 achieved at Rio 2016 which was made up...
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Athletics, rowing and equestrian pass Team GB’s Paris 2024 test in style
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...
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Olympics 2024: Emma Finucane and Emily Campbell win bronze medals for Team GB on final day of Paris Games
Emma Finucane became the first British woman in 60 years to win three medals at a single Olympics as she took bronze in the individual sprint on the final day of the Paris Games. The 21-year-old, the reigning world champion in this event, needed only two races to beat Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw...
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Every Team GB medal won at the Paris 2024 Olympics
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 Team GB have concluded a strong Paris 2024 with 65 medals, one more than Great Britain achieved at the Tokyo Olympics, to finish sixth in...
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Paris Olympics: Top stories from final day of the 2024 Games
Hassan has completed a remarkable distance-running treble. By winning gold in the women’s marathon, she adds to the bronze she won two days earlier in the 10,000m and six days after securing the same medal in the 5,000m. Hassan had initially signed up for the Olympic 1500m as well before deciding three events was enough....
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Olympic weightlifting: Emily Campbell wins women’s +81kg bronze for Great Britain
Emily Campbell claimed Great Britain’s final medal of the Paris Olympics with bronze in the women’s +81kg weightlifting. Britain will leave Paris with 65 medals, one more than they won in Tokyo three years ago, when Campbell took +87kg silver. The 30-year-old finished with a total of 288kg, lifting 126kg in the snatch and 162kg...