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Sam Watson, 18-year-old, set a speed climbing world record of 4.75 seconds at the Olympics. At a speed climbing event, spectators must be vigilant as athletes can scale the 15-meter wall in around five seconds. Climbing first appeared at the Tokyo Games in 2021, having been introduced to the Olympic radar at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in 2018. The sport, along with skateboarding and surfing, aimed to attract younger audiences. It will continue to be part of the program for the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics.

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.

It’s not just Simone Biles — a number of gymnasts and coaches are speaking out about the “weird and awkward” atmosphere during the individual balance beam final at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Monday.

Some Olympic triathletes who swam in the River Seine have fallen sick and were forced to pull out of competition this week amid concerns about the river’s water quality – a simmering issue plaguing Paris 2024 organizers.

Yui Susaki of Japan, Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat, was seen crying after winning the match. She is all set to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games. Competing in the 50kg category, Phogat's victory over Susaki marks a significant achievement in her wrestling career. Susaki, a reigning Olympic champion and four-time World Champion, has never lost an international match until now, making Vinesh's victory that much sweeter. Trailing 0-2 after conceding penalty points for passivity, Phogat made a brilliant comeback in the last five seconds to clinch three points, winning the match 3-2.

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About half the U.S. state attorneys general have traveled to France for an event cosponsored by a group largely funded by companies

Caitlyn Jenner is launching an Olympic gold medal-inspired token on an Ethereum layer-2 Base.

Noah Lyles won the Olympics gold medal for the men's 100m sprint and Team USA added yet another gold medal to their rising tally. However, there have been stern discussions around the close finish of the particular finals, that has seen Jamaica's Kishane Thompson finish almost on the same lines with the gold medalist from USA.

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Olympic medal podium is no longer a given for U.S. swimmers. Nine days of thrilling competition at La Defense Arena wrapped up Sunday night with the Americans barely pulling out the lead in the gold medal standings thanks to a victory in the final race. The U.S. finished with just eight golds, its fewest since the 1988 Seoul Games and one ahead of its biggest rival, Australia.

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.

Since last week, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been at the centre of a ‘gender row’. Khelif has had to face accusations that include her of ‘not being a woman’. Amit Chaudhary spoke with UK-based athlete rights advocate & executive director, Humans of Sport, Payoshni Mitra, who has been at the forefront of the fight against sex testing policies in sports to declutter the mess surrounding the issue. Excerpts: Your immediate thoughts when you heard about Khelif? My first reaction was, ‘Not again’. See, it's not about gender. There was no proper test. Everything is speculation. Sometimes misinformation is being shared by people in powerful positions. We really need to question all of that and see where this information is coming from, what’s fuelling this controversy? Is there any real basis to it? And with this one as well, there wasn't any complete medical assessment there.

Olympic hockey quarter final match against Great Britain with 10 men. And, with nine for a few minutes in the crucial fourth quarter with scores tied at 1-1. That’s what India was reduced to while playing when Amit Rohidas, India’s best first rusher, was shown a red card for lifting his stick in the 17th minute. India, though, did not lose hope and took the lead through captain Harmanpreet Singh in the 22nd minute from a penalty corner before Britain drew level through Lee Morton from a field effort in the 27th minute.

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.

Olympics organizers said Sunday that arbitrary testing imposed on boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting that led to a storm of vitriol misidentifying the women as transgender or men was «so flawed that it's impossible to engage with it.» International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams again vigorously defended Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan, hammering the sport's now-banned governing body, the International Boxing Association, that claimed the fighters failed unspecified eligibility tests for women's competition. The two athletes were «carted off and tested» during the 2023 boxing world championships because «there were suspicions against them,» Adams said, slamming the process that singled them out. «I need hardly say if we start acting on suspicions against every athlete of whatever, then we go down a very bad route,» he said. He rejected the testing in its entirety.

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.