Great Britain’s Emile Cairess finished strongly to claim an impressive fourth-place finish in a men’s marathon won by Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola in an Olympic record. Tola took the title in a time of two hours six minutes and 26 seconds, winning his country’s first gold of the Games. Belgian Bashir Abdi took the silver in...
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Great Britain’s 4x100m relay teams both bag medals
The British quartet of Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita secured women’s 4×100 metres silver at the Stade de France. Team GB won bronze in the same event for the last two Olympics and were one of the favourites on Friday night. They looked like they might be on course to secure...
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Matthew Hudson-Smith strikes silver for Great Britain in men’s 400 metres
Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith claimed his first Olympic medal with silver in a 400 metres final won by American Quincy Hall. The Wolverhampton athlete was leading into the closing stages when Hall found another gear to snatch gold in a personal-best 43.40. Hudson-Smith finished four hundredths of a second behind to lower his own European...
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Olympics day 12: Medal milestone for Great Britain but golds prove elusive
Great Britain earned their 1,000th medal across summer and winter Olympics on day 12 of Paris 2024. The men’s team pursuit team reached the milestone with silver, just before the women’s team took bronze. Matthew Hudson-Smith had to settle for silver in the men’s 400m, while skateboarder Andy Macdonald made his Olympic debut at the...
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Great Britain take team pursuit silver after Ethan Hayter slip on final lap
Great Britain’s hopes of gold in the men’s team pursuit at Paris 2024 slipped away on the final lap after Ethan Hayter lost control of his bike and narrowly avoided a nasty crash. The 1,000th medal in Team GB’s Olympic history was a silver one as Australia, who had been narrowly ahead on the time...
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Cassidy selected to represent Great Britain in World Rowing Championships
Acorn Cassidy (Image: Impartial Reporter) Fermanagh rower Acorn Cassidy has been selected to represent Great Britain in the U19 World Rowing Championships in Canada. Cassidy will take part in the Women’s Four (JW4-) under coach Bodo Schulenburg (Hinksey Sculling School). Emily Nicholas (Sir William Perkins’s School), Martha Shepherd (Hinksey Sculling School) and Natasha Philips (Wycliffe...
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UK hits out at Elon Musk’s combative X posts, @Two Tier Keir hashtag; says ‘act responsibly….no way acceptable’ | Today News
The Keir Starmer-led British government on Tuesday called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the Tesla CEO used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts about the protests that have been plaguing UK. “Civil war is inevitable,” Elon Musk had posted on X. His consequent posts further questioned the current...
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Great Britain take silver as Netherlands win team sprint in world record time
Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe, and Hamish Turnbull won Olympic men’s team sprint silver for Great Britain as pre-race favourites the Netherlands broke the world record twice on their way to gold. In a repeat of the result from the Tokyo Games, the Dutch trio of Harrie Lavreysen, Jeffrey Hoogland and Roy van den Berg retained...
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’Visitors from India are advised to…’: Indian Embassy alerts citizens in UK to stay vigilant. Here is why | Today News
The Indian Embassy in London, on Tuesday, advised visitors from India to stay vigilant and exercise due caution while travelling in the UK. Rioting and lawlessness have recently swept Great Britain due to misinformation on social media. The misinformation stirred anger over a stabbing rampage that killed three young girls and wounded many others. “It...
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Paris 2024: 10-man India beat Great Britain to enter hockey semi-finals
NEW DELHI: India-Great Britain have traditionally been high octane, feisty affairs with umpires regularly pulling out cards from their pockets. They did so too in the Paris Olympics quarter-final on Sunday, only this time it was a red – a rarity in modern hockey. India’s captain Harmanpreet Singh celebrates after scoring against Great Britain in...
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Great Britain women’s eight claim bronze on final day of rowing regatta
Great Britain’s women’s eight won bronze on the final day of the Paris 2024 rowing regatta at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. The crew of Annie Campbell-Orde, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Eve Stewart and Hattie Taylor finished third behind world champions Romania and Canada in a time of five minutes 59.51...
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Olympic hockey: India to take on Great Britain in quarterfinals
The quarterfinal line-up of the men’s hockey event has been completed at the Paris Olympics. India, who finished second in Pool A, will meet Great Britain for a place in the semifinals. The match will be played at 1.30 pm (IST) on Sunday. India head beaten Britain to make it to the semifinals of the...