Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile
Veronika Haulenga
Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile
Veronika Haulenga
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Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga
France is facing a bill of almost nine billion euros for hosting the Paris Olympics but top officials say the financial fallout could be more "psychological" than economic. Ahead of the July 26 opening of the Games, ministers and financial observers are juggling the figures to estimate the costs and benefits of the sporting spectacle. So far, French authorities are predicting a cost of nearly nine billion euros […]
Caeleb Dressel won't defend his 100m freestyle title at next month's Paris Games, but after a third-placed finish in a storming final Wednesday at the US Olympic swimming trials he's ready to make relay history. Dressel won five golds in Tokyo in 2021, including the 50m and 100m free, and the 100m butterfly. He took his career tally to seven Olympic golds, but stepped away from the sport abruptly […]
Regan Smith clocked a world record 57.13sec to win the 100m backstroke at the US Olympic swimming trials on Tuesday, throwing down a challenge to Aussie Kaylee McKeown six weeks before the Paris Games. Smith eclipsed the world record of 57.33 set by McKeown in Budapest in October 2023. "It was part of the plan," Smith said of regaining the record she held back in 2019. She'd signalled […]
China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a doping scandal to next month's Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games. Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ) -- which can enhance performance -- ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Games, it emerged in April. Eleven of those were named in the squad on Tuesday. em-reb/pst/kma AFP (NAMPA / AFP)
Newly minted world record-holder Gretchen Walsh punched her ticket to the Paris Olympics on Sunday with a victory in the women's 100m butterfly in a blistering 55.31sec. The 21-year-old Tennessean couldn't match the astonishing 55.18 she threw down in the semi-finals to shatter Sarah Sjoestroem's previous mark of 55.48 -- but she clocked the second-fastest time ever and completed the most important job of the week in securing her […]
By Bonface Orucho, bird story agency The 2024 Paris Olympics will be historic for Cape Verde, the island nation that seems to be outperforming across the board, as the nation debuts in a new sport for the country's Olympics team: fencing. The milestone highlights just how much the sport is growing, not only on the Atlantic Ocean island, but across the African continent. According to […]
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