Category: Sports

For all eight athletes on the start line of the 100m final, there appeared a huge opportunity. Reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, of Jamaica, was ruled out of defending her title after sustaining an Achilles tendon injury, while world 200m champion Shericka Jackson chose just to focus her efforts on that event in Paris. Then,...

Great Britain clinched Olympic mixed 4x400m relay bronze as Femke Bol anchored the Netherlands to a sensational gold at Paris 2024. Amber Anning held on to third position as the British team finished in a national record of three minutes 08.01 seconds at the Stade de France. However, she was passed on the home straight...

Richardson was the last Briton standing in the boxing and had he lost the team would have left an Olympics without a medal for the first time since 1996. He was also the last of the Team GB boxing quintet to qualify for Paris and there were tears when he secured his place at the...

Then, in any gymnast’s biggest fear, Loran de Munck made a mistake right before McClenaghan’s run, something he witnessed unfold as he ran his routine through his mind. Three years ago in Tokyo, it was McClenaghan who made a mistake when it mattered most as his medal chance slipped away. In Paris on Saturday, those...

Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel survived a late puncture to secure a dominant victory in the Olympic men’s road race in Paris and add to the gold medal he won in the time trial seven days ago. The 2022 world champion became the first man to win both road cycling events at the same Games. Evenepoel, 24,...

Jarman will have a chance of another medal in the final for the vault (15:24 BST on Sunday), an apparatus on which he is the world champion. There are also other medal chances for Great Britain on Saturday, with Max Whitlock seeking to defend his pommel horse title (16:16 BST) and Harry Hepworth competing in...

Great Britain’s dressage riders put a turbulent build-up behind them to win team bronze at the Paris Olympics. Seven-time Olympian Carl Hester, Lottie Fry and Becky Moody scored a combined 232.492% to place behind gold medallists Germany and Denmark in silver on the podium at Chateau de Versailles. It came less than two weeks after...

Matthew Ebden and John Peers fought back from a set and a break down against America’s Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram to win Olympic gold for Australia in the men’s doubles in Paris. In the first-to-10 match tie-break, they wrapped up a 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (7-1) 10-8 victory with their fourth match point. Peers, a...