Month: August 2024
Brave gymnast competes with nasty injury after heavy fall
Despite competing with a bandaged eyebrow just days after a nasty fall, Brazil's Flavia Saraiva delivered an impressive performance, finishing in the top 10 of the artistic gymnastics all-around final on Friday (AEST).
Judge kicked out of Olympic surfing over this photo
An Australian surfing judge has been removed from the Paris Olympics judging panel after a photo circulated online of him embracing an Australian competitor along the shore's edge in Tahiti this week.
McEvoy, McKeown shine to lock in gold medal shots
PARIS: Australia's Kaylee McKeown has booked her place in the women's 200m backstroke final in her pursuit of winning an historic fourth individual Olympic gold medal in Paris.
Simone Biles makes history with second Olympic gymnastics all-around gold medal
Simone Biles won her sixth Olympic gold medal, and her second of the Paris Games, on Thursday, seeing off a stiff challenge from Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade to capture the women’s all-around final for a second time. Biles’s US teammate, Sunisa Lee, won bronze.
Medal assured for Aussie after 'dessert', 'great sleep'
Australian windsurfer Grae Morris will have a "big dinner, good dessert and a great sleep" then wake up in Marseille and chase Olympic gold.
