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PARIS : Before striding on to the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics platform to perform her hoop routine, Germany's Margarita Kolosov took a breath, squared her shoulders and flung a small towel to the floor.
In a spine-chilling incident that has surfaced from the world of chess, a Russian chess player is said to have poisoned her opponent by spilling mercury on the board and pieces. The said player entered the room before the start of the match, went to an opponent's desk, and spilled mercury all over the board and pieces. The entire episode was caught on CCTV. The chess star accused of such a doing is said to be named Amina Abakarova. The opponent she poisoned was her childhood rival Umayganat Osmanova. Abakarova has been arrested by the police for the act and could be handed at least three years of imprisonment if found guilty, as per reports.
In 100 years of Olympic competition, just half a dozen Irish athletes have medalled in athletics.
Today, a gridlocked Libya ambles along in an unsettling calm as Russia increases its presence in the region.
PARIS : Ukraine's Taisiia Onofriichuk received her Olympic rhythmic gymnastics uniform on July 8, the same day Kyiv's main children's hospital was blasted by a Russian missile in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months.
PARIS: Two-and-a-half years after competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, American and Japanese figure skaters stepped on to the podium in Paris on Wednesday (Aug 7) to receive reallocated gold and silver medals, drawing a line under a Russian doping saga that rocked those Games.
World Athletics President, Sebastian Coe, has hit out at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not having a policy to deal with the current controversy over gender eligibility in Olympic boxing, reports insidethegames.biz. “It’s simple: have a policy,” he said.
