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...
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Paris welcomes Olympics Games with groundbreaking opening ceremony on the Seine
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...
Oleksandr Usyk quotes Winston Churchill as he thanks Britain for Ukraine support
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...
William Fox-Pitt predicts GB eventers have the class to deliver Paris gold
William Fox-Pitt believes that Great Britain’s eventers are “sitting pretty” ahead of their Olympic team title defence in Paris. Five-time Olympian Fox-Pitt won medals at Athens, Beijing and London during a stellar career that saw him triumph in a record 14 elite five-star events, including Burghley six times and Badminton twice. He also collected 17...
Charlotte Dujardin out of Olympics and provisionally suspended
British Olympian Charlotte Dujardin has been provisionally suspended by equestrian’s governing body with immediate effect. Dujardin withdrew from the Paris Olympics over a video from four years ago showing her making “an error of judgement”, in her words, during a coaching session. Dujardin, a three-time Olympic dressage champion, had decided to pull out of all...
The rise and fall of Charlotte Dujardin
Charlotte Dujardin was the golden girl of British equestrian who went from sporting unknown to Olympic champion in barely a year. But six medals and three Olympics into her remarkable journey, Dujardin’s world has fallen apart. Her withdrawal from the Paris Olympics has come barely a week before she was due to compete after a...
Charlotte Dujardin out of Olympics after video emerges of “error of judgment”
Charlotte Dujardin has withdrawn from the Olympics over a video from four years ago showing her making “an error of judgement” during a coaching session. Dujardin, a three-time Olympic champion, has decided to pull out of all competition while the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigates the incident. The video shows Dujardin repeatedly hitting...
Sir Steve Redgrave backing GB to top rowing medal table in Paris after Tokyo low
Sir Steve Redgrave expects Team GB to top rowing’s medal table at the Olympic Games in Paris. The five-time Olympic rowing champion believes Great Britain will banish the disappointment of Tokyo three years ago when there was no rowing gold for the first time since 1980. Team GB claimed one silver and one bronze to...
Andy Murray confirms he will retire from tennis after Paris Olympics
Andy Murray has confirmed he will retire after the Olympics, saying Paris 2024 will be his “last ever tennis tournament”. It had been widely expected that the 37-year-old Scot would call time on his career after the Games as he looked to go out at the top. Murray was recently robbed of a Wimbledon farewell...
Wrestling and fencing among sports in Paris with no British athletes competing
Record medal hauls may be mooted for Team GB when the Paris Olympics get underway in the French capital on Friday, but there are some Games venues at which the Union flag will be conspicuous by its absence. The tentacles of sustained podium success, spread liberally by almost £250million of UK Sport funding for the...
Keely Hodgkinson sets down Paris marker and calls for more events in Britain
Keely Hodgkinson called for more athletics meets in the UK after laying down a new national women’s 800m record of one minute 54.61 seconds at the London Diamond League meet. In breaking her own national record of 1:55.19, set last September in Eugene, the Tokyo Olympic and world silver medallist became the sixth-fastest woman in...
Hollie Davidson set to make history as she referees South Africa v Portugal Test
Hollie Davidson will make rugby union history on Saturday when she becomes the first woman to referee world champions South Africa in a Test match. The Scottish official will take charge of the Springboks’ clash against Portugal in Bloemfontein. “I think it will be a really energetic game at altitude, so that is a challenge...