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Olympics 2024 – Day two: Paris schedule, latest results, July 28 events and start times, Team GB medal hopes | Olympics News
There are 13 gold medals up for grabs on day two at the Olympics Games. We look at where those medals will be won and which Brits will be in action on Sunday. Team GB athletes and medal hopes Adam Peaty is searching for a historic third consecutive men’s 100m breaststroke Olympic title, with the…
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IOC apologizes for South Korea gaffe in Paris Olympics opening
Paris 2024 Olympics – Opening Ceremony – Paris, France – July 26, 2024. Athletes of South Korea, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Democratic Republic of Congo aboard a boat in the floating parade pass the Musee du Louvre on the river Seine during the opening ceremony. (Photo by Peter Cziborra / POOL / AFP) The…
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Olympics 2024: Dan Evans eyes Paris medal in men’s doubles to give Andy Murray memorable send-off | Tennis News
Dan Evans wants to win an Olympic medal for Andy Murray to give the Scot a memorable send-off. Murray is playing the final tournament of his career in Paris and, having withdrawn from the singles, all his hopes now rest on a men’s doubles campaign alongside Evans. On his central role in one of the…
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China wins first gold of Paris Olympics 2024
(fromL) South Korea’s Keum Jihyeon and Park Haju (silver), China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao (gold), Kazakhstan’s Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev (bronze) pose at the end of the shooting 10m air rifle mixed team during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Chateauroux Shooting Centre on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)…
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Mirra Andreeva wins in Romania for first WTA Tour title ahead of Paris Olympics | Tennis News
Mirra Andreeva will head into the Olympics off the back of her first WTA Tour title after she won the Iasi Open in Romania. The 17-year-old triumphed after fellow Russian Elina Avanesyan had to retire in the third set close to midnight. Andreeva led 5-7 7-5 4-0 at that stage having lost just four points…
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Cauldron at Paris Olympics looks like a hot-air balloon
Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec watch as the cauldron rises in a balloon in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2o24, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman) PARIS — The identity of the person who would light the Olympic cauldron for the Paris Olympics 2024 on Friday night (spoiler alert:…
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Paris Olympics opening ceremony: Five memorable moments
A photograph taken from an helicopter on July 26, 2024, shows an aerial view of the Eiffel Tower and the Olympics Rings lightened up during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / POOL / Agence France-Presse) PARIS, France — Boundary-breaking, genre-defying, and unprecedented: the opening ceremony…
Read MoreLady Gaga, Celine Dion add sparkle to Paris Olympics opening show
A grab of a video released by the Olympic Broadcasting Services shows Canadian Singer Celine Dion performing on the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024, in Paris, on July 26, 2024. (Photo by various sources / AFP) / Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura joined dancers, an…
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Team Philippines sails into Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony
Athletes from the Philippines, Poland’s and Puerto Rico’s delegations sail in a boat along the river Seine near the Pont Royal during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 on July 26, 2024. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP Team Philippines made its first appearance early Saturday morning (Manila time) in the 2024 Paris Olympics, whose…
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First positive doping test at Paris Olympics is Iraqi judoka
FILE–The Eiffel Tower is seen behind a Paris Olympics canvas, from the Trocadero plaza Thursday, July 18, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/David Goldman) PARIS— A male judoka from Iraq tested positive for two anabolic steroids at the Paris Olympics, the International Testing Agency said Friday. Sajjad Sehen, a 28-year-old first-time Olympian, tested positive for metandienone…
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