Marathon men and women hoping to go in Seine
PARIS : Open-water swimmers are hoping to plunge into the river Seine for 10km marathon races at the Paris Olympics on Thursday and Friday but pollution readings will have the final say.
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PARIS : Open-water swimmers are hoping to plunge into the river Seine for 10km marathon races at the Paris Olympics on Thursday and Friday but pollution readings will have the final say.
PARIS :The marathon swimming familiarisation session scheduled for Tuesday in the river Seine has been cancelled because of water pollution concerns, the international federation said.
PARIS : The marathon swimming familiarisation session scheduled for Tuesday in the river Seine has been cancelled, Paris Olympics organisers said.
Laura Lindemann won a thrilling sprint finish to give Germany gold in the Olympic triathlon mixed relay on Monday, outkicking the United States and Britain after highly-fancied France were scuppered by a bike crash on the first of four legs.
US sprint king Noah Lyles powered to gold by just five thousands of a second Sunday in the closest 100m in modern Olympic history, as Novak Djokovic added a tennis gold medal to his glittering CV. A thrilling ninth day of Olympic action also saw two world records tumble in the Paris pool, the first-ever gymnastics gold for an African nation and the Refugee Team's first medal in history. But as darkness fell, all eyes were trained on the lilac track of the Stade de France, where Lyles, 27, was bidding to end two decades of Olympic sprinting hurt for the US.
Georgia Taylor-Brown helped Team GB bag a battling Olympic bronze as they were dramatically downgraded from silver on a manic Monday morning in Paris.
PARIS: Triathletes fresh from their second swim in the Seine generally shrugged off the risk of waste in the river making them sick, but highlighted the stress they were put through as the levels of bacteria in the waterway caused repeated disruption.
Laura Lindemann won a thrilling sprint finish to give Germany gold in the Olympic triathlon mixed relay on Monday, outkicking the United States and Britain after highly-fancied France were scuppered by a bike crash on the first of four legs.