Gymnast-to-shooter Ruano wins Guatemala's first Olympic gold - ESPN
A spinal injury ended Adriana Ruano's Olympic dream as a gymnast. She came back as a shooter and won Guatemala's first Olympic gold medal Wednesday.
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Woman says 'my cancer symptoms were dismissed for years due to my age'
When Rachel Conyers started struggling with heavy periods that left her unable to carry out her usual tasks she was told it was due to her age. The 56-year-old dealt with the issue for four years before attending A&E in a bid for answers.
Olympics superfan spends $10,000 on Paris tickets
PARIS : Vivianne Robinson was first bitten by the Olympics bug at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Four decades on, the Santa Monica native is soaking up the sporting extravaganza at her seventh Games, in Paris.
'Miraculous' Istanbul hopes fifth time's a charm for 2036 Games, says mayor
PARIS : Istanbul is banking on its experience in hosting major international sports events and the city's iconic brand, stretching across two continents, as it bids to land the 2036 summer Olympics, Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Friday.
1,000 people suspected of spying have been blocked from Olympics, French official says
Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France's interior minister said about 1,000 people suspected of possibly meddling for a foreign power have been blocked from attending the Olympics — one of the security challenges that Paris is cracking down on in its goal to keep Games safe for athletes and fans.
Civilians try to pick up daily life in Ukraine two years after full scale Russian invasion
Not a single house in the village survived, and a year and a half after the liberation, there is still no electricity, but 39 families have returned to live in Kamianka in the Kharkiv Oblast.
Stemming the rising plastic tide: the teams competing to clean up Hungary’s rivers
We're often told we’re in an ecological race to save the planet. In Hungary, a group of volunteers have taken that idea to heart. Every few months they gather for the Plastic Cup (PET Kupa), a competition where teams go up against each other to collect as much junk as possible.
Why did it take 29 days to find a body in search for missing teenager Jay Slater?
Exactly four weeks to the day Jay Slater vanished in Tenerife, a body was tragically uncovered. It marked a devastating end to almost a month of a desperate search for answers as to what happened to the 19-year-old after he disappeared on June 17.