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Organisers of Friday’s opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics 2024 — the first time it will be held outside a stadium — have provided teasers for their spectacular plans but refused to give specifics. While the Summer Games officially kickstart on July 27, some events will be held on July 25 as well….
The Paris Olympics 2024 have been designed to showcase the City of Light in all its splendour, with events taking place at iconic locations. The Olympics will be hosted across 33 different venues, stretching from Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower to all the way in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the France-governed…
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File photo of Jay Shah© X (formerly Twitter) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday announced financial assistance to the Paris Olympics-bound Indian athletes, contributing Rs 8.5 crore to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for their campaign. The Paris Games will begin from July 26. “I am proud to…
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India officially have 35 medals in the Olympics. But two of them – their first two medals – are dubious, and carry a lot of doubt around them. 124 years ago, even before the Indian golden era in field hockey, India’s first two Olympic medals were won by athlete Norman Pritchard, who lived…
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South Sudan’s basketball team nearly delivered a stunning upset to a United States team of NBA superstars on Saturday before losing 101-100 in an Olympics warm-up game in London. LeBron James, 39, the all-time NBA scoring leader, registered a game-high 25 points, including the deciding points on a driving layup with eight seconds…
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Twenty-four personnel from the armed forces, including ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and two women participants, are among the 117 Indian athletes who are set to test their mettle at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The presence of these two women athletes in the contingent, marks the maiden participation of female service athletes at…
File photo of Neeraj Chopra The 2024 Olympics is set to bring an unprecedented windfall for athletes competing in Paris Games. It isn’t just the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals that the athletes will be competing for this year, with different federations announcing various cash rewards for sportspersons, based on their performances. Traditionally,…
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Paris Olympics servers suffered an outage.© Reuters The Paris Olympics organising committee said Friday that its operations were “now running normally” following a global IT outage which affected some of its computer servers. “All of Paris 2024’s operations are now running normally, following this morning’s global IT issue, which had temporarily affected a…
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The athletes’ village for the Paris Olympics, which welcomed its first athletes on Thursday, contains a host of innovations intended to make it a model of low-carbon construction. Faced with concerns about the vast emissions caused by the Games — from the construction work, the air miles and catering — Paris 2024 organisers…
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When Saina Nehwal won bronze in the London 2012 Olympics, few would’ve expected another badminton player, then ranked in the top 30, to eclipse Saina’s legacy. 12 years later, Pusarla Venkata Sindhu has done that and much more. Sindhu now stands as one of only two Indians to ever win two individual Olympic…
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