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PARIS (AP) — China pulled off a stunner in rhythmic gymnastics Saturday, becoming the first non-European country to win Olympic gold in the group event by finishing just ahead of Israel and Italy. The five-woman Chinese team of Ding Xinyi, Guo Qiqi, Hao Ting, Huang Zhangjiayang and Wang Lanjing...

China becomes first non-European country to claim Olympic gold in rhythmic gymnastics

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won Olympic gold in the Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-around final.Varfolomeev topped the rotations in hoop (36.300), ball (36.500) and clubs (36.350) and came second in the ribbon (33.700) to score a total 142.850 points.Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn won the silver with 140.600 points and Italy's 2023 World Championships silver medallist Sofia Raffaeli took the bronze medal with 136.300 points.Having made her senior debut in 2022, Varfolomeev earned her first world title in the clubs before becoming the youngest gymnast to achieve the feat of a clean sweep of four apparatus finals and the all-around title at the 2023 World Championships.

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev wins Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-round gold

PARIS -- American gymnast Jordan Chiles must return the bronze medal she won in the Paris Olympics floor exercise after sport's highest court voided an on-floor appeal by Chiles' coach that vaulted Chiles to third, the International Olympic Committee confirmed Sunday. The IOC announced early Sunday it was reallocating the...

US gymnast Jordan Chiles must return bronze medal after court mandates score change

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With a hard, late kick, Sifan Hassan won the women’s marathon in Olympic record time. The gold-medal performance caps a stunning Olympics for her. She also bronze in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races.

Sifan Hassan wins Olympic women's marathon, for a third U.S. medal at Paris Olympics

The US Sun

ELIUD KIPCHOGE could make history at the Paris Olympics. The Kenyan has already established his legacy as perhaps the greatest marathon runner of all time. He has two Olympic golds and is the only athlete to run a sub-two hour marathon. But who is the man trying to achieve a feat not matched by any […]

Meet Eliud Kipchoge, world record holder hoping for third successive gold aged 39 at Paris 2024 Olympics

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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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The chances for the tropical wave in the Atlantic developing have now risen to 80% over the next seven days. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has advised that this disturbance could become the next tropical storm or hurricane within the coming days, potentially targeting the U.S. East Coast.

Tropical Wave That Could Impact Georgia Now Has 80% Chance of Development

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Tamirat Tola set an Olympic record, running 26.2 miles in 2:06:26 to win the men's marathon Saturday in Paris. Bashir Abdi and Benson Kipruto joined him on the podium, while defending champion Eliud Kipchoge dropped out.

Tola wins gold in men's marathon, defending champ Kipchoge drops out

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During Heat 3 of the men's 3000m steeplechase race, the world record holder Lamecha Girma took a hard fall at the end of the race, remaining face down on the track in Stade de France, before medical aides helped put him in a stretcher and rushed the Olympian to the hospital.

Olympic World Record Holder Lamecha Girma Was Stretchered Off The Track After Collapsing During Steeplechase Final

PARIS -- From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking's Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at the Paris Games. Rachael...

Cringy moves and a white b-girl's durag prompt questions about Olympic breaking's authenticity

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A 20-year-old woman was found dead following a multiday search in the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service said.

Woman, 20, found dead in Grand Canyon following multiday search: NPS

PARIS -- There were plenty of concerns about swimming in the long-polluted Seine River. When the final gold medal was handed out Friday, everyone seemed thrilled to have taken a nearly two-hour dip in the the iconic waterway. Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary wrapped up Olympic events in the Seine by...

Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary wins Olympic men's marathon to complete swimming events in the Seine

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay -- The government of Paraguay on Thursday effectively ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave the South American nation, escalating tensions between the allies in the wake of the Biden administration's sanctions on a tobacco company linked to the country's powerful former president. In a dramatic statement that...

Paraguay says it wants the US ambassador to leave the country in apparent protest over sanctions

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Medal table | Olympic schedule |How to watch | Olympic news. SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson has her gold at last. Richardson and the rest of Team USA’s 4x100 women’s relay team triumphed on Friday night, bringing home gold. The victory is the sweetest of prizes for Richardson, who had missed out on opportunities to win gold in both Tokyo and earlier in these Games. The team from Great Britain finished in the silver medal position, and Germany won bronze.

Paris Olympics: Sha'Carri Richardson wins her first gold as part of 4x100 relay

SAINT-DENIS, France -- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone insists and insists that her biggest competition in any race are those 10 hurdles that circle the track. These days, those are no problem. The real thing she's running against is the clock. McLaughlin-Levrone once again broke her own world record, powering over the 400-meter...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks her own world record, wins Olympic gold again in 400-meter hurdles

The Independent

Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman claimed a historic Olympic silver in artistic swimming as Team GB won six medals on Saturday – although none of them gold.Caden Cunningham was a runner-up in the men’s +80kg category in taekwondo while there were individual bronzes for Noah Williams in diving and Georgia Bell in the women’s 1500 metres.Team GB also claimed bronze medals in both men’s and women’s 4x400m relay events.Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at Saturday’s action.A first in artistic swimmingThorpe and Shortman won technical silver and free bronze at the World Aquatics Championships earlier this year...

Day 15 at the Paris Olympics: GB add six more medals as duo make history in pool

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has issued a state of emergency in Northeast Florida and across much of the state as a tropical system appears almost certain to develop. The National Hurricane Center said Friday morning that a tropical wave has a 90% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression over the next seven days. Most models show it moving into the Gulf of Mexico and then coming ashore and crossing the state, possibly moving over Northeast Florida.

Tropical system is nearly certain to develop

Keely Hodgkinson might have secured Great Britain’s only athletics gold in Paris but there were plenty of silver linings for Team GB.‘Queen Keely’ shrugged  off enormous expectations to shine as brightly as the crown tossed from the crowd to complete the Atherton athlete’s coronation following her 800 metres triumph.In France, the girl once inspired by Jessica Ennis-Hill at London 2012 became the heptathlete’s successor as the most recent British woman to win track and field gold.Altogether there were 10 medals – that gold, four silvers, five bronzes, and a clean sweep of five podiums from five relays for a best...

Keely Hodgkinson 800m gold and several silver linings for GB’s athletics squad

BRITAIN’S sprinters missed out on a relay gold for the first time in two decades after two far-from-clean baton exchanges. Daryll Neita guided the British female quartet to second place behind the Americans in the 4×100 metres sprint final at the Stade de France. Sha’Carri Richardson was the spearhead for the United States as they […]

Team GB are forced to settle for silver in the 4×100 metre women’s relay at Olympics 2024

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Sifan Hassan wins women's marathon at Paris Olympics, edging ahead of Tigst Assefa

PARIS -- Nobody will ever accuse Sifan Hassan of taking the easy route at the Olympics. Heading into the last 150 meters of a 10-day odyssey...

Sifan Hassan wins women's marathon at Paris Olympics, edging ahead of Tigst Assefa

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