Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe won Great Britain's first ever Olympic medal in artistic swimming - performing an exquisite free routine to take silver in the duet. The childhood friends, whose mothers also used to compete as a pair in the sport, performed to a theme of Rising Phoenix to score 294.5085 - for a combined total of 558.5367.

Shortman and Thorpe win historic artistic swimming medal

After that silver for Elinor Barker and bronze for Jeremiah Azu last night, Llanishen High School in Cardiff can boast three Olympic medals by its former pupils in Paris. Anna Morris, along with Barker, won bronze in the women’s team pursuit earlier in the week. Incidentally, one silver and two bronzes would put Llanishen High 72nd in the medal table - just ahead of Kosovo, Cyprus and Fiji.

A Games to remember for Llanishen High

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

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SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (Reuters) - Portugal claimed their first-ever Olympic track cycling gold medal as Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliviera blasted out of nowhere to win a crash-littered men's Madison race on Saturday.

Olympics-Cycling-Portugal win historic gold in crash-littered men's Madison

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Germany’s Sophie Weissenberg suffered a horrifying injury Thursday during warmups for her first heptathlon event, and she was pushed off the track in a wheelchair after collapsing in pain with her 2024 Olympics debut over before it ever officially began.

After clearing one hurdle at Stade de France, Weissenberg appeared to clip the second, regain her footing and then continue before slowing ahead of the next hurdle — barely making it over while falling to the ground and apparently realizing the severity of her injury.

The German outlet Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported that Weissenberg tore her Achilles.





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Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

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Susan Wojcicki, the former boss of YouTube and one of Google's earliest employees, has died aged 56. Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Ms Wojcicki had passed away after two years of living with lung cancer. Mr Pichai, who is also the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet, said...

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This year's festival in Scarborough is no longer going ahead, organisers have announced.

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Jodie Beer is jailed for six years for trying to take cocaine, pills and phones into Parc prison.

Prison officer smuggled drugs in juice cartons

Nigerian police are investigating the death of a Nigerian transgender TikToker known as “Abuja Area Mama”. The beaten and bruised body of 33-year-old transgender woman was found along a highway in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday, local media report. Abuja Area Mama had a loyal fan base on...

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A tribunal determines Dr Marc Whitehouse's fitness to practise to be impaired.

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A fish and chip shop destroyed in a large fire could have its restaurant reinstated. Members of East Suffolk’s planning committee are due to discuss the Sole Bay Fish Company’s bid to restore the building in Blackshore Quay, Southwold. No objections to the proposals were submitted but a...

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(MA) Meet Winks, an adorable and incredibly strong puppy with a heartbreaking origin. Winks was found unmoving on the side of a road with severe injuries. He had several very infected wounds and was barely holding on when his rescuers rushed him to the vet. Once there, x-rays revealed the horrifying truth that Winks had been shot numerous times around his face and neck. These injuries resulted in him having his eye removed. Despite that, Winks has made a miraculous and full recovery. He certainly does not let his handicap slow him down at his new foster home. Winks was truly given a second chance at life, and now all he needs is a family to call his own.

10-Month-Old Dog Who Was Hit In Face Several Times Now Searching For Family

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Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

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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

A man who claimed his puppy was injured and scalded as a result of accidents has been jailed and banned from keeping animals for a decade. Dontae West, 19, from Hilliards Croft, Birmingham, was sentenced at the city's crown court for causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. In 2023,...

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Two teenagers have died and two others are in a critical condition after a crash near Exeter, police have said. The crash involving a silver Peugeot 107 happened at about 01:20 BST on a back road at Haldon near Exeter Racecourse, Devon and Cornwall Police said. The 18-year-old male driver...

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[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes in this article are from interviews the author conducted with those individuals mentioned.]. This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the classic TV show Bewitched, which originally aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972. The show remains popular in reruns, and will soon be released in a special Blu-ray edition to mark the anniversary.

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Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart fall short of the medal places in the men's madison as Portugal win a historic first Olympic gold on the...

Wood 'rear-ended by lorry' as GB miss out in madison

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