Olympics

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma is recovering the day after a fall that shocked fans at the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase final, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. “We understand ...

Rule number one for winning an Olympic medal in men’s sailing? Don’t shave during the competition, it’s seen as unlucky. When Australia’s Matt Wearn, Pavlos Kontides ...

Australia’s Olympic hockey player Tom Craig was released from police custody and apologised to his family and teammates, after being arrested in Paris for buying cocaine. Craig, 28, a silver ...

The Olympics are in their home stretch with four days left at the Paris Games and more than 30 medals will be up for grabs on Thursday. Medals will be awarded ...

Australians bagged a national record 18 gold medals at the Olympics in Paris as the sports-crazed nation moved into third place in the medals tally behind China and America, sparking celebrations ...

American hot favourite Grant Holloway continued to look a class apart in the 110 metres hurdles on Wednesday as he qualified fastest for the Olympic final, where three Americans will face ...

European champions Poland stormed into the Olympic men’s volleyball final with an extraordinary five-set win over the United States on Wednesday, giving themselves a chance of winning a first ...

‘I shed tears of joy with my coach, my wife, and my child‘ Cypriot dinghy sailor Pavlos Kontides won a silver medal at the Olympic Games on Wednesday, finishing second ...

Australia’s Olympic hockey player Tom Craig was arrested in Paris and is being held in custody for buying cocaine, a police union source said on Wednesday. The Australian Olympic ...

Cypriot fencer Alexander Tofalides wrote a letter to fans who supported him during the Paris Games, where he became the first Cypriot athlete to ever compete in the discipline at ...

Imane Khelif, one of the two boxers at the heart of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics, vowed on Tuesday to put the controversy behind her and make Algeria ...

The French basketball team announced their arrival in Paris with a rip-roaring 82-73 win over Canada on Tuesday, riding a wave of national pride into the Olympic men’s semi-finals ...

Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou leapt 8.48 metres to become only the second man after Carl Lewis to successfully defend the men’s Olympic long jump title on Tuesday, delivering his country’...

Australia’s Matt Wearn and Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus look set for a potential head-to-head ‘match race’ for the Olympic men’s dinghy gold on Wednesday, after a frustrating day ...

A luxury Parisian hotel has apologised to tennis great Serena Williams after she complained, in a social media post seen by millions, that she and her family were turned away ...

Australian Matt Wearn and Cypriot Pavlos Kontides look set for a potential head-to-head tactical ‘match race’ for Olympic men’s dinghy gold on Tuesday, with light winds forecast. Wearn, 28, leads ...

Germany overcame a sleepy start to ease past Greece 76-63 on Tuesday and become the first team through to the semi-finals of the Paris Olympic men’s basketball tournament. Franz ...

The latest edition of the U.S. Dream Team will add their star power to the City of Light this week as the Paris Olympics basketball competition moves onto the ...

A Greek athlete has tested positive for banned substances at the Paris Games and has been expelled from the athletes’ village, the Greek Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. The team ...

Hosts France will play an Olympic men’s football final for the first time in 40 years after beating Egypt 3-1 in extra time at the Lyon stadium on Monday and ...

Local hero Kauli Vaast said he was ready to go to war to win an Olympic surfing gold medal at his home break – for his family, for all Tahitians and ...

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.25 metres at the third attempt on Monday having retained the Olympic gold medal with a 6.00m ...

The Algerian and Taiwanese boxers embroiled in a dispute over gender in sport at the Paris Games were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after a sex chromosome test ruled both ...

Simone Biles suffered a shocking defeat in the floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics on Monday after two costly errors allowed Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade to snatch an unexpected ...