James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott retained their men’s 4×200 metres freestyle relay title to give Team GB their first Olympic gold of the Paris Games in the pool. Richards had come within two-hundredths of a second of winning the individual event, settling instead for silver, as did Adam Peaty, who lost...
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Olympic swimming: Great Britain retain relay title to win first swimming gold in Paris
Men’s freestyle is Britain’s great strength in swimming. The quartet who took the title are huge rivals for individual places but also great friends whenever they come together as a team. As well as their Olympic gold in 2021, they won the world title in 2023 and came into this race as huge favourites. With...
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Olympics swimming: Daniel Wiffen wins historic gold in 800m freestyle
Daniel Wiffen has become the first athlete from Northern Ireland to win an Olympic gold medal in 36 years in a thrilling 800m freestyle final in Paris. The Team Ireland swimmer edged the USA’s Bobby Finke to take gold by 0.56 seconds after a stunning burst of pace over the final 50 metres. The 23-year-old...
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Gold for Simone Biles and Team USA as Great Britain just miss out on a medal
Simone Biles claimed her first Olympic gold medal since coming to terms with the ‘twisties’, while Great Britain’s gallant quintet missed out on the podium by less than half a point in the women’s team gymnastics final at Bercy Arena. Watched by Serena Williams and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Biles brought the house down with...
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Simone Biles leads USA to Olympic gymnastics team gold as GB finish fourth
Simone Biles inspired the United States to victory in the women’s team gymnastics event as the first leg of what she has billed a “redemption tour” began with a fifth Olympic gold. For the world’s most decorated gymnast it is a first Olympic gold since Rio 2016 after she pulled out of several events in...
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Olympic gymnastics 2024: Live updates and results as Simone Biles leads USA to gold
Simone Biles makes history as first woman to land Yurchenko double-pike at the 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 Day four of the Paris 2024 Olympics is underway as Simone...
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Olympics 2024: Team GB retain swimming relay gold as Nathan Hales breaks records and Simone Biles cements legacy
Team GB won two medals on day four, with the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team retaining their gold medal and Nathan Hales claiming gold in the men’s trap shooting along with an Olympic record. James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott retained their title to give Team GB their first Olympic gold in...
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Paris 2024: Charlotte Dujardin video a ‘huge shock’ and she has ‘paid very heavily’, says Carl Hester
Dujardin has been provisionally suspended by equestrian’s governing body the FEI. Hester gave Dujardin a job at his yard in 2007 and has been a mentor to her during her career. The pair won team dressage gold at London 2012, silver in Rio in 2016 and bronze in Tokyo three years ago. Dujardin said the...
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Amy Wilson-Hardy withdrawn from GB women sevens squad ‘on medical grounds’
Team GB rugby sevens player Amy Wilson-Hardy has been withdrawn from the squad “on medical grounds” the morning after the British Olympic Association confirmed it was investigating the athlete in over an alleged racist message. The 32-year-old was replaced in the squad by 2020 Olympian Abi Burton for Great Britain’s 19-15 loss to China in...
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Lauren Irwin going for Team GB’s first women’s eight gold
By Paul Martin in Paris PETERLEE’S first-ever Olympian Lauren Irwin will go for gold this weekend after helping Great Britain’s women’s eight through their heat in Paris. The rower, 25, played her part in an impressive display which saw the British crew edge out Australia and reigning champions Canada. Britain took home just two medals...
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Paris 2024: Defending champion Charlotte Worthington misses out on BMX freestyle final
Great Britain’s Charlotte Worthington will not defend the Olympic BMX freestyle gold medal she won three years ago as she agonisingly missed out on the final in Paris. On a scorching hot day in the French capital, the 28-year-old scored 79.20 then 78.82 in her two runs to give an average of 79.01 and finish...
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Olympics 2024: Top five stories from day four of Paris Games including Richards, Draper & Worthington
The men’s triathlon was due to start at 07:00 BST on Tuesday, with the swimming leg taking place in the River Seine. But after swimming training for triathletes was cancelled on Sunday and Monday, tests revealed the water quality still did not reach the required standard. Heavy rainfall in Paris on Friday and Saturday has...