City Paris Financial News

Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya is expected to make a statement regarding Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's disqualification from Paris Olympics in Lok Sabha at 3pm on Wednesday. In a big blow to India's medal hopes from the wrestling arena, grappler Vinesh Phogat on Wednesday was disqualified from the 50 kg women's wrestling event. Vinesh was scheduled to take on United States's Sarah Ann Hildebrandt in the Gold Medal watch. A statement issued by the Indian Olympic contingent said that Phogat had tipped the scales above the 50 kg mark and was disqualified.

Vinesh Phogat was disqualified on Wednesday from the 50kg freestyle wrestling for being overweight by a few grams, after she qualified for gold medal bout. Vinesh Phogat had beat World No.1 and Tokyo 2020 champion Yui Susaki of Japan to qualify for quarterfinals. Later in the quarter-finals, Vinesh took on Ukraine's Oksana Livach and beat her by 7-5 to secure a semi-final berth. In the penultimate bout she went on to beat Cuba's Yusneylis Guzman Lopez to secure a medal and become the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the final at the Olympics.

Paris Olympics has seen too tough and intense basketball action this time as almost all team participating in this sport have been performing extremely well throughout the Olympic journey. Among them, Team USA has outdone them all in the main team event in men's basketball, while targeting their fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal here.

Luana Alonso, was sent back home from the ongoing action at the Paris Olympics after reports that her breathtaking beauty was distracting the players in her own team. She lost her Olympics village privileges after being called back by her home country from the Paris Olympics, as she was apparently distracting her own teammates during the events. Alonso, due to her beauty, had won many hearts at the Paris Olympics, mostly, the athletes at the Paris Olympics, and that proved quite costly for her, as her teammates could not handle her beauty, says a Blast report. After her return to Paraguay, Alonso shocked everyone by announcing her retirement from swimming. What her future plans are, have still not been extensive revealed yet.

Olympic controversy has somehow hit the news, this time around Ethan Katzberg, a hammer-thrower from Canada, who recently grabbed a gold medal for the nation, beating formidable athletes from Germany and Australia. With this win, Canada's most awaited gold medal came after waiting for more than half a century, with the last one coming back in 1956.

Vinesh Phogat (50kg) became the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the final of the Olympic Games with a 5-0 win over Cuba's Yusneylis Guzman Lopez in Paris on Tuesday. With this win in the semifinal, Phogat guaranteed herself at least a silver medal. Vinesh was leading 1-0 at the end of the first period. She extended her dominance in the second period with four more points to seal the bout in her favour.

Paris Olympics medals tally. Moreover, all eyes will be on the 'power of women', starting off with the women's 200m final on the day, that is sadly going to see Jamaica's ace sprinter Shericka Jackson pulling out of the race. However Team USA and Team Great Britain will still be top contenders for a medal finish here in Paris' Stade de France.

Anthony Ammirati has become a social media topic of discussion for netizens across the globe after a small incident that occurred during a qualifying event at the Paris Olympics 2024. Ammirati is a popular pole vaulter who was looking to proceed ahead in the Olympics but also became a social media sensation for all the wrong reasons. How what exactly did he do to become an overnight headline?

Perseid meteor shower, which is well-known for its high meteor frequency, is about to peak. Next weekend, specifically from Sunday night to early Monday morning, August 11 to 12, will be its busiest. Up to 75 meteors per hour were visible to observers during this peak period of time, as per the reports of MSN.

Nada Hafez shared a little bit more. She'd been fencing for two, the athlete revealed — and in fact had been pregnant for seven months. «What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three!» Hafez wrote, under an emotional picture of her during the match. «It was me, my competitor, &; my yet-to-come to our world, little baby!» Mom (and baby) finished the competition ranked 16th, Hafez's best result in three Olympics.

Yusuf Dikec, the Turkish shooter who has taken the Paris 2024 Olympics by storm, has a surprising secret: he didn’t always wear glasses. An old footage from the 2011 ISSF Championship reveals a sharp-eyed Dikec without his now-signature eyewear. The transformation from the bespectacled sharpshooter we know today to the focused athlete of yesteryears is intriguing. Did the glasses become a lucky charm, or perhaps a necessity over time? Regardless, the change in appearance has done little to dampen Dikec’s shooting prowess.

Paris Olympics 2024 entered their ninth day, the excitement continued to build with a series of thrilling events lined up for the day. Highlights include Novak Djokovic's maiden Olympic tennis title, Team India's historic win in men's hockey, and record-breaking performances in swimming. Here's a detailed look at what happened on Day 9.

World Cup medal winning archer Deepika Kumari has vowed not to quit unless she ends up on podium which she feels could be Los Angeles in four years' time.For Deepika, it has always been a case of not being able to display enough temperament in pressure situation at the grandest stage. «Obviously, I want to play more in the future and will continue my game,» Deepika told PTI in an exclusive interaction at the India House here. «I really want to win an Olympic medal, and I won't quit until I achieve that. I'll train harder and come back strongly,» added Deepika, who has won every international medal except for an Olympic yellow metal.

PARIS – Canada’s team in Paris was on pace for a record Olympic Games at halftime after a mortifying soccer scandal that began before the eco-flame was even lit in Jardin des Tuileries.

Carolina Marin withdrew in tears from her badminton semi-final on Sunday after her right knee buckled in distressing scenes. Marin, who won women's singles gold at the Rio 2016 Games, was on track to reach the final but collapsed midway through the second game against China's He Bingjiao. Coaches and He rushed to her side as she lay on the ground for several minutes, clutching her leg.

Vinesh Phogat will have to shake off a tumultuous build-up to the Paris Games when she takes mat, aiming for an elusive Olympic medal, while five of her colleagues will also strive to write their own success stories at the biggest stage when the wrestling event begins here Monday. Vinesh is easily India's most accomplished woman wrestler, with two World Championships, three CWG and eight Asian Championships medals adorning her cabinet, but her previous two Olympic campaigns have ended in heartbreaks. She had returned from Rio (2016) with just a broken leg, but from Tokyo (2021), she came back with her soul scarred after a crushing defeat 'by fall' in the quarterfinals. She was accused of misconduct and suspended by the WFI for several alleged transgressions. She claimed to have endured bouts of depression, and she was not sure of returning to the mat but she did. Not only she returned but also waged a battle outside the mat when she accused the WFI chief of sexual misconduct.

Manu Bhaker is set to be India's flagbearer in the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) sources stated that Bhaker will be India's women's flagbearer in the closing ceremony. India's men's flagbearer for the ceremony is yet to be confirmed. The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics will take place on August 11. Bhaker brought her A-game in Paris and broke numerous accolades to claim two bronze medals in the Summer Games.

track on which Olympic athletics champions are crowned in Paris is a vibrant purple — and athletes so far seem pretty pleased with it. «The entire thing just kind of radiates light,» said Thea LaFond, who will chase the first ever Olympic medal for Dominica when she competes in the triple jump final later on Saturday. «It's probably really girly to be like, ah I think it's so cute, but I do — a purple track, how, like, fabulous!»

BMX riders, and she can quickly recount some of her career totals: 18 world championships, two Olympic gold medals in racing (in 2012 and 2016) and one silver, in Tokyo in 2021. But Pajón, a Colombian, can also rattle off the much more painful totals of the cost of so much riding: 25 fractures, 12 screws, eight surgeries and countless tears of ligaments and tendons. The medical hardware in her left arm and knee included so much metal that she used to travel with her X-rays. Opening a door or serving a glass of water hurts. “My joints are of an 80-plus-year-old,” Pajón said with a laugh. She is 32. Pajón, who has been racing competitively since she was 4, wasn’t lamenting her injuries during a recent conversation. They are simply a fact of life for an athlete. Wear and tear naturally degrades human bodies, even the most talented ones. But performing at the elite level, especially in high-impact Olympic sports such as wrestling, rugby or gymnastics, inherently has more risks. Shoulders give out. Ligaments tear. And, for some, metal screws and titanium plates become just more hardware in the lifelong pursuit of gold, silver and bronze.