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2024 Paris Olympics? With 33 gold medals each, the US and China are tied for the topmost position on the medla taly. Only two days are left before the curtain falls on the game and the players vow to meet again after four years. However, both the US and China have opportunities to win many gold medals so all eyes will remain on the players of these two teams.

I wrote a lament in this column regarding a number of excellent watch brands not being available in India. Amongst these, I counted such great favourites of watch enthusiasts like Tudor and Hamilton. I’d also mentioned some other such bugbears, like the lack of fantastic quartz Timex timepieces such as the Q chronograph and the Q GMT, as well as the mechanical Timex Marlin.

men's marathon in Paris on Saturday as Eliud Kipchoge's bid for a third gold went up in smoke. Tola clocked an Olympic record of 2hr 06min 26sec for victory, finishing 21 seconds ahead of Belgium's Bashir Abdi, whose silver marked an upgrade from his bronze garnered at the Covid-hit Tokyo Games three years ago. Kenya's Benson Kipruto, winner of Tokyo, Boston and Chicago marathons in recent years, rounded out the podium, a further 13sec adrift.

X by Elon Musk have amassed nearly 1.2 billion views this year, a watchdog reported Thursday, highlighting the billionaire's potential influence on the highly polarized White House race. Ahead of the November election, researchers have raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation. They have also flagged that Musk, who purchased the platform in 2022 and is a vocal backer of Donald Trump, appears to be swaying voters by spreading falsehoods on his personal account.

Indian Racing Festival has announced a year-long partnership with FanCode to stream live motorsports events to fans across India. This partnership will feature the Indian Racing League and the FIA Formula 4 Indian Championship, starting with the IRL 2024 season opener at the Madras International Circuit on August 24. The festival, now in its third year, aims to bring high-speed racing action from eight city-based teams to viewers across the nation.The Indian Racing Festival will include teams from Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Kochi, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata, competing for the championship title. A notable addition to this year’s festival is a groundbreaking night race on a street circuit in Chennai, a first for Indian motorsport. Prominent figures in Indian sports and entertainment, including Sourav Ganguly, Arjun Kapoor, and John Abraham, are also involved in the festival. Sourav Ganguly, who recently became the owner of the Kolkata Royal Tigers Racing team, Arjun Kapoor, who owns the Speed Demons Delhi team, and John Abraham, who owns the Goa Aces by JA Racing, will all participate in the event.

presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on Sept. 10 on ABC, setting up the first face-to-face matchup between the rivals in what polls show is an extremely close race. In a rambling news conference at his Palm Beach, Florida, residence, Trump said he wanted additional debates on Sept. 4 and Sept. 25 that would air on Fox and NBC. Harris said in a post on X that she was looking forward to the Sept. 10 debate after Trump «finally committed.» She told reporters after a campaign stop in Detroit that she was open to discussing more debates.

A recent pullback in mortgage rates is spurring more homeowners to refinance their home loan and lower their monthly payments

ABC News says Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have agreed to a Sept. 10 debate

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, and the student leadership which led the protests that ousted the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh earlier this week are at loggerheads over general elections, according to people in the know. Sources told ET that Rahman is in a hurry to hold elections that may enable him to become the next PM, and is worried that «pro-BNP» and «pro-Jamaat» sentiments may dilute if elections are delayed. However, the student leadership has a different view. It does not have a political structure and wants time to create a party before contesting the polls.

JD Vance soon be a liability for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election 2024? If media reports are to be believed, his ratings in the opinion polls are plummeting. In an article published in the 'Washington Post', it was said that his selection as a running mate was not encouraging as he was a historically unpopular running mate. He is not a popular voter-friendly candidate is evident by he fact that in the 2022 Ohio Senate campaign all other Republican candidates for statewide office performed better in their races. As if it was not enough, his popularity has been waning since Donald Trump selected him as his running mate.

Avinash Sable failed to keep pace with the best in the business as he finished 11th in the Paris Olympics men's 3000m steeplechase final race here on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Sable clocked 8 minutes 14.18 seconds while crossing the finish line after running in the lead briefly in the dramatic race. Sable had recently broken his own national record with a time of 8: 09.91 seconds at the Paris Diamond League. He has been training abroad for a long time in preparation for the Paris Games on funding from the government. Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco defended his title, clocking his season's best of 8:06.05 while Kenneth Rooks (8:06.41) of USA and Abraham Kibiwot (8:06.47) of Kenya took silver and bronze respectively.

Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz made their joint presidential campaign debut at a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia, kicking off their battleground state tour with an introduction from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. With the Minnesota Governor as her pick for vice president, Harris pushed to shore up «Blue Wall» states-Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania-that Democrats need to win to keep the White House. Walz's advocacy for in vitro fertilization and child tax credits-an idea that he has used in hist state-were issues that resonated with the Democratic presidential nominee. A turbulent campaign is now set to play out as a 90-day sprint across two fronts: the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt.

Around the world, endgames are looming in four high-stakes political, environmental and military disputes. The results will resonate well beyond the immediate protagonists.

wrestler Vinesh Phogat after she was found to be overweight ahead of her 50kg category Olympic final, legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar said here on Wednesday. Vinesh was disqualified from taking part in the final for being overweight by 100 grams. Gavaskar said that the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as well as the Indian government must do everything possible to address this. «I think it's (the) most unfortunate. I also think it's (the) most unfair. I do hope that the authorities will take notice of it, take a strong response to this because this is not just the initial round,» he told reporters on the sidelines of the Spartan racing event here.

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.

Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking

The head of the United Auto Workers union says putting Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket increases the Democrats’ chance of winning Michigan and keeping the White House in November

Noah Lyles set the stage on fire with his amazing run in the men's 100m, and delivering up to the expectations of American fans, Sha'Carri Richardson fulfilled her hopes of an Olympic medal with a silver, narrowly missing out on a gold medal, grabbed up by Julien Alfred, the St. Lucian star, who has become a celebrity overnight.

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.

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.

Kamala Harris's campaign moving on a sound basis of policies and the backing of a huge number of her supporters? Or is it riding on the «irrational exuberance» of the Democratic Party after President Joe Biden pulled out of the US Presidential Election 2024? If Democratic strategist David Axelrod is to be believed, Harris’s campaign is just “irrational exuberance,” reports Fox News. He has also warned that the race is still neck and neck.