Olympics

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 ...

Cyprus athletes among early countries at River Seine parade Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy rain showers as they lined the banks of the Seine river in Paris ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged countries around the world to stop armed conflict as part of the Olympic truce, with the Paris 2024 Olympics set to open later on ...

The Norwegian delegation engaged in some good-natured ribbing of their hosts over comments about food quality and small portions at the athletes’ Olympic village, claiming to have more medals in ...

Cypriot athletes have been competing in the Olympic Games since they were revived in 1896, despite wars and numerous other obstacles, showing the world that the Olympic spirit cannot be contained. ...

Vandals targeted France’s high-speed train network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption to some of the country’s busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris ...

France aims to wow the world on Friday with an extravagant Olympics opening ceremony through the heart of Paris, officially kicking off a Games fraught with security risks at a ...

When early proponents of hosting an unprecedented Olympics opening ceremony along the river Seine first pitched the idea to the then-head of Paris police, he was dead-set against it. “It’...

All of Cyprus will be watching the Paris Olympics urging our athletes to make the country proud on the biggest sporting stage – the Paris Olympics – as they compete for distinction ...

The original ‘Dream Team’ set the gold standard for Olympic basketball but today’s American stars face a tougher test in Paris, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry said on Thursday, ...

Argentina coach Javier Mascherano said he had never witnessed such a circus after a pitch invasion triggered a dramatic and long-delayed climax to the country’s 2-1 loss to Morocco ...

New Zealand Football CEO Andrew Pragnell called on FIFA to take urgent action over a spying scandal involving Olympic champions Canada at the Paris Games and said failure to do ...

The sporting action at the Paris Olympics kicked off with two soccer matches on Wednesday, two days before thousands of athletes and artists are set to take part in an ...

World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics due to tonsillitis, the Italian said on Wednesday. Sinner won his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier ...

The video footage that led to Britain’s joint-most decorated female Olympian Charlotte Dujardin pulling out of the Paris Games shows her whipping a horse’s legs multiple times. Dujardin ...