Great Britain added relay silver and bronze to their Olympic Games athletics haul on the penultimate night of track and field action at the Stade de France. The women’s 4x100m quartet upgraded their bronze medals from Rio and Tokyo to silver, Team GB’s best performance in the event since 1956, as Sha’Carri Richardson’s flying anchor leg took the […]
It was a bad night for Uganda’s Olympians as Tarsis Orogot didn’t go through while Leonard Chemutai missed the podium. Orogot failed to progress to the final of 200m after finishing 6th in his heat with a time of 20:64(20 seconds, 64 microseconds). Usual suspect, America’s Kenny Bednarek won the heat with 20:00 while Dominican
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Peruth Chemutai has scooped silver medal in the women’s 3000m steeple-chase final on Tuesday, marking Uganda’s second medal at the ongoing 2024 Paris Olympics. Despite her dominance for the most laps, Chemutai crossed the finishing line in the second position at f 8:53.34 behind Bahrain’s Winfred Mutile Yavi (8:52.76). Kenya’s Faith Cherotich completed the podium
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THE CABLE D’Tigress of Nigeria have qualified for the quarter-final of the women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The team defeated Canada 79-70 in its final group game at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France, on Sunday. The victory earned D’Tigress their first-ever appearance in the quarter-final of the Olympics basketball tournament. More
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Nakaayi Halima breaks her own 800m National record of 1:57.56 to 1:57.26 during the London diamond league today.
NPR PARIS — A special kind of iron curtain came down across central Paris on Thursday, with the beginning of an Olympic anti-terrorism perimeter along the banks of the River Seine sealing off a kilometers-long (miles-long) area to Parisians and tourists who hadn’t applied in advance for a pass. The words on many lips were
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THE CUT Paris’s mayor may be celebrating the city’s readiness to host the Olympics next week by swimming in the formerly E. coli–infested Seine, but not everyone is impressed with the host city. On Tuesday, Amnesty International called France’s refusal to allow its athletes to wear hijabs while competing in the Games discriminatory and hypocritical. “French authorities
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon poses after beating the world record in the women’s 1500m on July 7, 2024 Kipyegon set the new record by clocking a time of 3:49:04 at Stade Charlety. She eclipsed her previous record by 0.07sec set in Florence in June 2023. PARIS — Faith Kipyegon of Kenya broke her own world record in
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Over 600 runners laced up their shoes and pounded the pavement in Kisoro District for the inaugural Virunga Marathon. This exciting event, held at Saza grounds, drew participants not only from across Uganda (Kampala, Kasese) but also from neighboring Kigali, Rwanda. The marathon wasn’t just about competition – it was a race for a cause.
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2019 world champion Halimah Nakaayi wins the Prevegan women’s 800m final at the Los Angeles Grand Prix with a time of 1:57.56, setting a new national record. Nakaayi left her mark on the race, showing remarkable endurance and strategy. Ethiopia’s Gemiecu Tsige Duguma led for a significant portion of the race, but Nakaayi stayed close
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