Paris Olympics
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Singapore kitefoiler Max Maeder was named the inaugural Young World Sailor of the Year at the 2024 World Sailing Awards on Tuesday (Nov 5). This is the first time a Singaporean has won a World Sailing Awards trophy, the Singapore sailing team said in an Instagram post. The 18-year-old claimed the title ahead of Italy’s…
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The United States took home a rowing gold medal in a thrilling men’s four race at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, the first time Americans have been Olympic champions in the event in 64 years. By contrast, Team USA hadn’t earned first place in the men’s four — a race where each team’s boat is steered…
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The 2024 Paris Olympics have not held back in catering to the LGBTQ community. The opening ceremony for the Summer Games on Friday night included an elaborate street dance scene that showed men lovingly embracing each other as they cavorted onto one of the many bridges across the Seine River. One of the prerecorded dance…
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Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love”) as the finale of the roughly four-hour spectacle. Her appearance had been…
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The captain of the Japanese gymnastics team was sent home from France and will not participate at the Olympic Games later this month for allegedly breaking a team ban on smoking and drinking alcohol. Shoko Miyata, 19, who is the captain of her country’s women’s artistic gymnastics team, left Japan’s training camp in Monaco on…
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LeBron James was pleased with the progress made by the USA in their 105-79 victory over Serbia in a friendly in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday but insists there is “so much room to improve” in the hunt for Olympic gold. After a narrow win over Australia on Monday, that saw the United States nearly blow…
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The Paris Olympics are being targeted by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign, according to the New York Times. Since last summer, efforts have been under way by a hacker group named Storm-1679, the paper reports. The campaign “began in earnest” when a documentary was released with a doctored International Olympic Committee (IOC) logo, along with an…
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