Basketball 3x3-Netherlands edge France to claim men's gold
PARIS : The Netherlands won gold in the men's 3x3 basketball by beating France 18-17 in the final at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
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Basketball 3x3-France stun champions Latvia to reach men's final, US women lose
PARIS : France will face the Netherlands in the final of the men's 3x3 basketball at the Paris Olympics on Monday after stunning reigning champions Latvia 21-14 in a game they dominated from start to finish.
Paris Olympics 2024: Avinash Sable Qualifies For 3000m Steeplechase Final
Avinash Sable became the first Indian man to qualify for the 3000m steeplechase final after finishing fifth in his heat but quartermiler Kiran Pahal failed to book an automatic semi-final berth in women's 400m following a seventh place finish in her heat at the Paris Olympics on Monday. Sable, easily the most decorated track and field athlete after Neeraj Chopra in the current contingent, timed 8:15.43 minutes to finish fifth in the second heat to make it to the final round. As per rule, the top five athletes in each of the three heats qualify for the final. However, Sable's heat timing was well below his best effort of 8:09.91 minutes, which he had clocked at the Paris Diamond League last month.
Simone Biles Caps Off Paris Olympics 2024 With Gymnastics Silver Medal, Four In Total
US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles polished off a redemptive Paris Olympics campaign with a floor exercise silver on Monday, shrugging off a balance beam fall to finish runner-up to Brazilian Rebeca Andrade.
Olympics 2024: Lakshya Goes Down Fighting In Badminton Bronze Medal Match
Lakshya Sen suffered a heart-breaking loss on Monday as he went down in three games to Malaysia's seventh seed Lee Zii Jia in the men's badminton bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics 2024. Lakshya Sen won the first game 21-13.
International Boxing Association Calls Imane Khelif, Lin Yu-Ting "Male" Amid Paris Olympics 2024 Gender Row
The International Boxing Association (IBA) claimed Monday at a chaotic press conference that tests on two boxers at the centre of a gender controversy at the Paris Olympics show they "are male". The IBA said previously that it disqualified Algeria's Imane Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting from its 2023 world championships after the fighters failed gender eligibility tests, without specifying what the tests were. The boxing in the French capital is run by the International Olympic Committee because of financial, governance and ethical concerns at the IBA.
Basketball 3x3-Germany women win gold medal by beating Spain
PARIS : Germany won gold in the women's 3x3 basketball by beating Spain 17-16 in the final at the Paris Olympics on Monday.
Kenya's Chebet wins women's 5,000m gold medal
PARIS :Kenya's Beatrice Chebet won the gold medal in the women's Olympic 5,000 metres in a time of 14 minutes 28.56 seconds on Monday.