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How to win on your own terms: Simone Biles claims her eighth Olympic gold on her Paris 2024 ‘redemption tour’

      By Vaughan Cruickshank, University of Tasmania; Brendon Hyndman, Charles Sturt University, and Carla Valerio, Southern Cross University     Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in history. She won her first world championship all-around gold medal in 2013 and has not lost an all-around competition since. She arrived in Paris with 37 medals from World Championships and Olympics, including 27 golds. She has […]

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Is the shallow pool in Paris really slowing Olympic swimmers down? Here’s what the science says

        By Shane Keating, UNSW Sydney     There has been plenty of rain, sweat and tears shed at the Paris Olympics this week. But the pool at the heart of La Defénce Arena has suffered a drought of world records that has athletes and officials scratching their heads. After five days, Paris 2024 has seen only a single world record fall in a swimming event. That […]

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Gaby Ahrens appointed International Sport Shooting Federation Presidential Ambassador

Three-time Olympian, Commonwealth Games medalist, and multiple African Champion in the sport of trap shooting, Gaby Ahrens has been appointed Presidential Ambassador by the president of the International Sport Shooting Federation, Luciano Rossi. With the Dakar Olympic Games 2026 approaching, this will be the first time the Olympic Games are held in Africa. Here is Ahrens, speaking from Paris, France.  

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South Africa’s Tatjana Smith ‘blessed’ after more Olympic glory

    South African Tatjana Smith claimed the Olympic 100m breaststroke title on Monday with a late surge to win a thrilling battle and with it a second career gold. The 200m breaststroke winner in Tokyo triumphed in Paris with a time of 1:05.28, ahead of China's Tang Qianting, with Ireland's Mona McSharry taking bronze. The 27-year-old from Johannesburg won silver in the event in Tokyo three years ago but […]

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Sabalenka returns from shoulder injury at Washington

    Two-time reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka returns to competition at this week's WTA Washington Open after taking a month off due to a shoulder injury. And the world number three is counting on being as ready as her rivals now playing in the Paris Olympics when the US Open begins on August 26. "It's still way to go to the US Open. I feel like they going […]

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Broken hand heartbreak for Namibian Alex Miller

  Alex Miller was forced to withdraw from his Paris 2024 Olympic Games mountain bike cross-country race. The 23-year-old Namibian national champion injured his hand in a crash during the third lap, which caused him to be unable to control the handle bar. According to team coach Hans du Toit, he had suffered a fracture to his hand. Miller, who had a starting position in the back row of the […]

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Olympic men’s triathlon postponed to Wednesday due to Seine pollution: organisers

    The Olympic men's triathlon was on Tuesday postponed by a day because of pollution in the River Seine, World Triathlon and the Paris Games' organising committee said hours before the race was scheduled to start. Heavy rain that in the French capital on Friday and Saturday had worsened the pollution in some areas of the river to levels "still above the acceptable limits", said a statement issued by […]

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Iraqi churches denounce Olympics opening ceremony scene

      Iraq's top churches have joined international religious bodies in condemning a controversial segment of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, which many interpreted as a reference to the Bible's Last Supper. "What happened at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is shameful and a mockery of the Christian religion," Iraq's Chaldean Catholic church said in a statement Sunday. The contentious scene in Friday's parade in Paris involved […]

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Dujardin’s shame leaves mentor Hester to rally British Olympic dressage team

    Charlotte Dujardin's withdrawal for whipping a horse repeatedly has heaped the pressure on her mentor Carl Hester who must rally his teammates if Britain are to regain the Olympic team dressage title from 2012. At 57, Hester will be the oldest British rider and competing in his seventh Games -- he was once the youngest ever when he rode in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Hester, who gave Dujardin […]

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