Explainer-Can Paris 2024 be the greenest Games yet?
LONDON : With medals made of iron salvaged from Eiffel Tower refurbishments and stadium seating of recycled plastic, Paris 2024 aims to be the greenest olympics yet.
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Le Clos reveals minor tear ahead of Paris Games
PARIS : South African swimmer Chad Le Clos revealed on Thursday he had suffered a training injury ahead of a Paris Games the former Olympic champion has presented as unfinished business.
200 doping tests in 10 days: China's swim team staff cries foul over increased testing before Paris Olympics
SINGAPORE: China’s Olympic swimmers were reportedly tested for doping around 200 times over 10 days after they arrived in Paris for the Games, in a sign of the scrutiny facing the contingent after a recent doping row.
Singapore to hold most of World Aquatics Championships in Kallang for 'logistics and operations efficiencies'
SINGAPORE: Most of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships will be held within Singapore's Kallang precinct to "achieve logistics and operations efficiencies", organisers said on Monday (Jul 22).
He's battling a 'once in a lifetime' illness but Mark Chay's mission to drive sport in Singapore goes on
SINGAPORE: When Mark Chay made his Olympic debut in 2000 at the age of 18, he made a statement by swimming the best time in Asia that year in the 200m freestyle. “It was when I truly believed that I could make an impact on the Asian level,” the Singaporean recalled.
We need a level playing field, says Britain's Peaty after Chinese doping cases
(Corrects to clarify that Peaty is talking about athlete safety in paragraphs 13 and 14)
Singapore Aquatics president Mark Chay diagnosed with leukaemia
SINGAPORE: Singapore Aquatics (SAQ) president Mark Chay has been diagnosed with leukaemia and will not seek a second term as chief of the national sports association.
World swimming body promises additional pre-Olympic anti-doping tests of Chinese team
Chinese swimmers going to the Paris Olympics are undergoing increased drug testing of at least eight times this year before the Games, World Aquatics said on Monday.