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Great Britain’s men’s eight stormed home at Paris 2024 to add the Olympic title to world honours. Victory came just 20 minutes after the women’s eight had taken bronze as Britain’s medal haul at Paris 2024’s rowing regatta rose to eight. Morgan Bolding, Sholto Carnegie, Jacob Dawson, Tom Digby, Charlie Elwes, Tom Ford, Rory Gibbs...

Lewis Richardson saved Great Britain’s boxing team from their first Olympic wipeout since 1996 after victory in his opening 71kg contest in Paris on Wednesday evening. A narrow defeat for middleweight Chantelle Reid earlier on Wednesday had left the British team facing the prospect of returning from the French capital with all six of their...

Great Britain’s boxing team are on the brink of their first Olympic wipeout since 1996 after a narrow defeat for middleweight Chantelle Reid in Paris on Wednesday. The Derby 26-year-old’s split decision defeat to Morocco’s Khadija Mardi means all five of the British boxers to compete at the Games so far have been beaten in...

Laura Collett and London 52 sealed a first British gold medal at the Paris Olympics as the eventing squad won the team competition at the Chateau de Versailles. Collett and teammate Tom McEwen were both winning the title for a second time having triumphed in Tokyo three years ago, but it was a debut Olympic...

Great Britain sealed a fifth Olympic eventing team title at the Chateau de Versailles in Paris. Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter enjoyed a perfect opening day, chalking up record low scores for the dressage phase both as a group and for Collett individually. A total of 15.8 penalties incurred on Saturday’s cross-country stage...

Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen got Great Britain up and running for the Paris Olympics with a bronze medal in the women’s 3m synchronised springboard. The pair became the first British women to win an Olympic medal in diving since Elizabeth Ferris won bronze in the 10m platform in Rome in 1960. Anna...

Last updated 10 hours ago Team GB earned its first medal of Paris 2024 after Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen claimed diving bronze in dramatic circumstances. A tricky third round in the women’s 3m synchronised event saw the duo plummet down the scoreboard into sixth after scoring 63.90, but they quickly improved with the...

Tess Howard has been tipped to star on the hockey pitch at her first Olympics but the 25-year-old’s impact will be felt beyond any goals she manages to score in Paris. When the British women’s team open their campaign against Spain on Sunday, some players will wear skorts – skirts with tight shorts underneath –...

The Paris 2024 Olympics began with a groundbreaking – and rain-soaked – opening ceremony, the first to be staged outside a stadium. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at a selection of standout images from the floating parade down the River Seine and the finale at the Trocadero. Great Britain flag bearers Tom...

Paris welcomed the Olympic Games with an opening ceremony like no other as athletes sailed down the River Seine to the sound of Lady Gaga and more, but relentless rain put a dampener on the party. Zinedine Zidane starred in a video to tee up the arrival of the Olympic flame before flares set off...

Paris welcomed the Olympic Games with an opening ceremony like no other as athletes sailed down the River Seine to the sound of Lady Gaga and more. Zinedine Zidane starred in a video to tee up the arrival of the Olympic flame before flares set off from the Pont d’Austerlitz Bridge formed a tricolore. A...

Ukraine’s world champion Oleksandr Usyk quoted Sir Winston Churchill as he thanked Great Britain for its continued support during his country’s war with Russia. Usyk, 37, who defeated Britain’s Tyson Fury in May to become the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in nearly 25 years, was speaking at an event in London to mark the...