Olympics

If anyone needed any confirmation about Simone Biles’ standing in gymnastics, the sparkling GOAT necklace she slipped on and ecstatically showed off to a TV camera after she sealed the ...

Emotions ran high at the surfing venue in Tahiti on Thursday, with reigning Olympic champion Carissa Moore and local favourite Vahine Fierro knocked out, while Brazil’s Gabriel Medina set ...

Algerian Imane Khelif moved past Angela Carini when the Italian surprisingly abandoned their welterweight round of 16 fight after 46 seconds in the first round on Thursday, feeling pain in her nose. ...

Simone Biles will be chasing a sixth Olympic gold medal and her second of the Paris Olympics when she competes in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday in ...

Britain’s Alex Yee ran a perfectly-paced 10km to snatch a dramatic Olympic triathlon gold on Wednesday, overhauling a fading Hayden Wilde of New Zealand in brutal conditions. The race ...

Athletes dived into the Seine on Wednesday for the Olympic women’s triathlon after water tests showed lower levels of bacteria, ending days of uncertainty over whether the central Paris ...

Top-ranked Italy silenced a partisan crowd as they claimed the women’s epee gold medal by beating arch rivals France 30-29 in a high-octane, sudden-death contest at the Paris Olympics ...

Spain overcame a tricky test to beat Greece 84-77 and Canada stunned Australia 93-83 in the second round of men’s basketball Group A action at the Pierre Mauroy stadium ...

Cypriot swimmer Nikolas Antoniou was knocked out of the Olympic Games on Tuesday despite winning his men’s 100-metre freestyle heat at La Defense Arena in Paris. Antoniou’s winning ...

Serbia’stop-seeded Novak Djokovic overcame a brief bout of nerves in the second set before beating 14-times French Open champion Rafael Nadal 6-1 6-4 at the Paris Olympics on Monday ...

Ukraine diver Oleksii Sereda opened up on Monday about how hard it was to train during a war after he and Kiril Boliukh finished fifth in the men’s synchronised 10...

Paris Olympics organisers said on Monday they have fixed early logistical teething problems after several delegations complained about food and transportation at the Games. The quality and quantity of food ...

Cypriot fencer Alexandros Tofalidis was knocked out of the Olympic Games at the last 32 stage after an agonising 15-10 defeat at the hands of American Nick Itkin on Monday. Itkin ...

France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin. Saboteurs struck ...

Cypriot judoka Sofia Asvesta was defeated on Sunday by French double Olympic medallist Amadine Busa, in the last 16 of the judo tournament in Paris. Asvesta is now the 9th ranked ...

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against three Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympic Games, the Paris’ prosecutors office said on Sunday. Anti-cybercrime officers are also investigating ...

Τhe government will upgrade sports in Cyprus to the level they should be, President Nikos Christodoulides, said addressing Cypriot Olympic athletes at a reception at the residence of the Ambassador ...

Cypriot Artistic Gymnastics champion, Marios Georgiou, qualified on Saturday in Paris in the Men’s Horizontal Bar category final, which will be held on August 5. President Nikos Christodoulides, who watched ...

Paris 2024 organisers apologised on Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous ‘The ...

Samoa’s boxing coach Lionel Elika Fatupaito has died during the Paris Olympics, the International Boxing Association said on Saturday. According to reports in Samoan media, he died on Friday ...

Men’s top seed Novak Djokovic began his fifth Olympic Games with an emphatic victory over Australia’s Matthew Ebden after women’s favourite Iga Swiatek launched her bid for ...

Katie Ledecky set up another Olympic showdown with Australia’s champion Ariarne Titmus for the 400 metres freestyle title, the American great qualifying fastest for the final as the Paris swimming ...

China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao won the first gold medal of the Paris Games on Saturday in the 10 metres air rifle mixed team event. Keum Ji-hyeon and Park ...

South Korea expressed regret that its delegation of athletes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday was introduced as from rival North Korea and has demanded assurances from organisers ...