Paris 2024: History maker - Kellie Harrington first Irish woman to medal at two Olympic Games
Kellie Harrington has become the first woman to join an exclusive club of Irish athletes who have won medals at more than one Olympic Games.
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Paris 2024: Home favourite Marchand seals swimming double, Ledecky and Pan set records in victory
Leon Marchand was the toast of Paris with an astonishing Olympic double while American Katie Ledecky also made history as she breezed to victory in the women's 1500 metres final.
U.S. women lose to Azerbaijan in 3x3 Olympic hoops; 0-2 in pool play - ESPN
PARIS — Tiffany Hayes scored 11 points, including the go-ahead basket late, to lead Azerbaijan to a 20-17 win over the U.S. in women's 3x3 basketball pool play at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, dropping the defending champions to 0-2.
Paris Olympics: Angelique Kerber's Tennis Career Ends With Defeat; Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz Progress
German tennis player Angelique Kerber's playing career has ended with a defeat to China's Qinwen Zheng in the 2024 Paris Olympics women's singles quarterfinals at Court Philippe-Chartier. In the men's section, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz, who battled in the Wimbledon final recently, continued their quest as they reached the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Angelique, a three-time Grand Slam champion and silver medalist in this event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, had announced before the start of the Paris 2024 quadrennial event that this tournament would mark the finish of her professional tennis career.
Ledecky dominates 1,500m again for 12th Olympic medal, joint-best ever by female swimmer
Katie Ledecky romped to the seventh individual Olympic gold medal — she has one team gold in a relay — and 12th medal overall with a runaway victory in the 1,500-metre freestyle Wednesday at the Paris Games.
Canada reach Olympic quarter-finals despite six-point deduction
PARIS :Defending champions Canada reached the quarter-finals of the women's Olympic football tournament on Wednesday thanks to a 1-0 win over Colombia in Nice hours after they had an appeal against their six-point deduction dismissed.
Basketball 3x3-China claim surprise victory over top-ranked Serbia
PARIS: China pulled off a surprise 21-15 victory over gold medal favourites Serbia on the second day of the men's 3x3 basketball pool stage at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday (Jul 31).
Canoeing-Fox's father delighted after golden slalom double
PARIS : Of the 12,000 or so spectators who watched Jessica Fox win her second slalom gold of the Paris Games on Wednesday, few are better placed to critique her performance than her father Richard, and the 10-time former slalom world champion loved what he saw.