Paris Olympics News

Paris Olympics 2024 within a matter of a week but one certain incident caught the eye of the entire world when boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria knocked out her Italian opponent within a matter of 46 seconds. Right after this knockout, there were cries of unjust and unfair means being used, with Khelif's sexual identity coming into question.

JSW MD and Chairman Sajjan Jindal has declared that his company will gift an MG Windsor car to every Olympic medallist. The industrialist took to social media platform X to make the announcement. «Delighted to announce that every Olympic medalist from Team India will be gifted an MG Windsor, a remarkable car from JSW MG India! Because our best deserve the best, for their dedication and success!» Jindal wrote on X. This announcement comes a day after Morris Garages India launched their new electric car- the MG Windsor CUV.

Cameroon, left the country at the age of just 11 with her family, and went to the UK, where she was granted an asylum status. Meanwhile, she has no country to properly call a home but her skills in boxing is already taking her place and winning hearts, be it the 2023 European Games, or the ongoing 2024 Paris Olympics, where she is a part of the Refugee Olympic Team.

IOC has called AI a ‘game changer in sport’. How is AI being used at the Olympics? ET explains: How are the Paris Olympics using AI? To safeguard athletes from cyber abuse, AI is being deployed to monitor hundreds of thousands of social media accounts and flag abusive messages.

Paris Olympics 2024 schedule for August 2, which is the seventh day of the sporting action, will be one of the most intense few hours. This is because as many as 23 gold medals lie in wait for the countries gunning for the top prize at the respective medal events. Be it the BMX racing finals or judo, there are some major surprises, shocks, and dominance lying in wait for all Olympic viewers on Day 7.

silver medal at the Paris Olympics 2024, in the mixed 10m Air Pistol shooting, where India’s Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won the bronze medal.

Paris Olympics judging panel after a photo circulated online of him embracing a competitor along the shore's edge in Tahiti this week. During one of the competition's off days, a commentator shared a photo on his social media showing Australian judge Benjamin Lowe posing alongside Australian surfing team member Ethan Ewing. Bede Durbidge, coach of the Australian team, was also in the photo, as per an AP report. The International Surfing Association released a statement Thursday saying it removed Lowe from the judging panel for the remainder of the competition to «protect the integrity and fairness of the ongoing competition.» «The ISA is aware of a photo circulating on social media in which one of the Olympic surfing judges from Australia is seen socially interacting with an Australian athlete and the team manager,» the ISA said.

Italian female boxer Angela Carini has spoken for the first time after her opponent and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif's 46-second win in a 66-kilogram fight at the Paris Olympics 2024 on Thursday. Carini revealed that she didn't give up but a punch hurt her badly. Subsequently, she decided to leave with her «head held high». 25-year-old Italian boxer retired hurt and shrugged off attempts by Khelif to shake her hand, before collapsing to her knees and sobbing uncontrollably in the middle of the ring.

Olympics 2024 schedule for football shows that the United States will take on FIFA World Cup 2022 semi-finalist Morocco in a mouth-watering soccer match at quarterfinals stage on Friday, August 2. Olympics 2024 soccer match between Team USA and Morocco is scheduled to kick off at 9 am (ET) at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on Friday. Viewers in the US can watch the United States and Morocco's soccer game on Peacock. Morocco is likely to win the Olympics 2024 football quarterfinals against Team USA.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's dreams of securing a maiden Olympic medal came crashing down after a heartbreaking three-game loss to Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia in the men's doubles quarterfinals at the Paris Games here on Thursday. One of the favourites for the gold medal, Satwik and Chirag, the reigning Asian Games champions and Commonwealth Games winners, squandered a first-game advantage to go down 21-13 14-21 16-21 in a hard-fought quarterfinal against the world number 3 Malaysians. Aaron and Chia, the 2022 world champions and Tokyo Games bronze winners, will face world number one and top seed Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang in the semifinals. The Indians entered the contest after stitching three successive wins against the Malaysians in the last three meetings.

Swapnil Kusale doesn't quite know just why it has taken so long for him to be at the Olympics, where he landed a medal on debut on Thursday. A medal that is definitely life-changing for him personally but also historic in significance for Indian shooting given that it's the first time that a rifle shooter has managed to do it in the physically draining 50m 3 positions event. Ask him why it took him so long to arrive, he was as candid as one can be. «May be I was not as strong mentally,» says the 28-year-old son of a teacher father and sarpanch mother from Kambalwadi village near Maharashtra's Kolhapur.

Swapnil Kusale won a bronze in the men's 50m rifle 3 position shooting event, becoming the first Indian to win in this discipline.

Paris Olympics action is currently in progress with swimming being one of the primary actions here in the La Defense Arena in the city as Team USA and others are on the hunt for multiple gold medals from the various swimming events that lie ahead. Although, the road ahead seems quite tough for the athletes as the pools in France seem 'slow' to them, as they are not nearing world records quite easily, according to a previous ET report.

Ana Carolina Vieira, who has been sent home from the Paris Olympics 2024 after they left the athletes' village without clearing it with the team, has talked about her plight.

Simone Biles and Shaquille O’Neal are two sport stars from US, who are well known for their respective fields. However, one thing that definitely sets them apart is their height, as a 7-foot-1 O'Neal looks gigantic beside a 4-foot-8 Biles, an picture of which has become a sensation yet again on social media.

Pavel Durov, who founded the social media companies Telegram and VK, has disclosed that he is the father of more than 100 children worldwide. His inventive contributions to Russian social media have helped him earn a wealth of £13.6 billion. In a Telegram post, Durov revealed that he became a prolific sperm donor, helping over 100 couples in 12 countries conceive while being single and living alone, as per the reports of The U.S. Sun.

Paris Olympics 2024 and most importantly so, because of the photogenic vibe of the surfing events, happening under the cool Tahiti climate. Brazil's Gabriel Medina has now emerged as the top sensation of the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 after his image of hovering in the air, with his arm pointed to the sky, broke the Internet, right after he set a new Olympics record in a surfing event.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are getting the hang of this doubles thing, improving to 2-0 as a team at the Paris Olympics and moving into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-7 (2), 10-2 match tiebreaker victory over Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands on Tuesday. Playing a day after Nadal's singles loss to rival Novak Djokovic and Alcaraz's win against Griekspoor, the old-and-young Spanish duo, wearing polo shirts in slightly different shades of red, didn't look like a pairing that never had played together until this event.

Paris Olympics as 18 gold medals lie in wait for the respective nations, five of them from just swimming, where USA are one of the favorites in select categories. Will Day 5 be the occasion when Team USA reach the top of the Paris Olympics medals tally and consolidate their position? The jury is still out on this question and the picture around the intense contest around the leaderboard will become clear once the Day 5 action ends.