Athletics
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Gadirova gold seals Britain’s best ever gymnastics worlds haul
Nov 7, 2022On the final day of the World Gymnastics Championship in Liverpool on Sunday, Jessica Gadirova won gold for Britain in the women’s floor to secure the hosts’ best-ever medal total. Jordan Chiles of the USA came... -
USA win men’s 4x400m and women’s 4x400m relay World Championship gold
Jul 25, 2022The United States won the men’s 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene on Sunday. The US quartet of Elija Godwin, individual 400m gold medallist Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Champion Allison, clocked 2min... -
Macron addresses worries about the Olympics in Paris in 2024
Jul 25, 2022Nearly two years to the day before the opening of the sports spectacle, French President Emmanuel Macron will convene a meeting of ministers on Monday to discuss difficulties overshadowing the Paris 2024 Olympics preparations. The Olympics... -
IOC president Bach ‘very disturbed’ by Valieva Olympic performance
Feb 18, 2022IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s performance in the Beijing Olympics final, in which she fell multiple times and appeared overwhelmed by the doping issue that has surrounded her, had... -
Peng Shuai meets IOC chief at Beijing Winter Olympics
Feb 7, 2022The IOC announced Monday that Peng Shuai met with Olympic leader Thomas Bach at the Beijing Winter Games, while US skier Mikaela Shiffrin was bitterly disappointed in her first shot at gold in China. Tennis star... -
Teenage figure skater first woman to land quad jump at Olympics
Feb 7, 2022Kamila Valieva, a Russian adolescent figure skater, became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics on Monday, and she didn’t stop there: she landed two. The 15-year-old landed quadruple jumps, which are... -
Beijing Olympics opening ceremony starts under cloud of Covid, rights fears
Feb 4, 2022The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics began on Friday as China attempted to turn the page on a troubled build-up overshadowed by human rights concerns and Covid. The lattice-shaped “Bird’s Nest” stadium took center... -
Indian diplomat won’t join opening, closing ceremonies of Beijing Winter Olympics
Feb 3, 2022In a dispute over China’s choice to designate a commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as the event’s torchbearer, an Indian envoy in Beijing said he would not attend the opening and closing ceremonies of... -
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: China criticises US diplomatic boycott
Dec 7, 2021China has vowed retaliation in response to a proposed US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Zhao Lijian, a spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry, said the country would take “decisive counter-measures,” but did... -
Thompson-Herah has Griffith-Joyner’s 100m record in her ‘reach’
Aug 25, 2021Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Olympic gold medalist in the women’s 100m, said on Wednesday that Florence Griffith-33-year-old Joyner’s world record in the event is within her “reach” before this week’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. Thompson-Herah, 29,...
