The 2024 Games have provided romantic moments, uplifting camaraderie and frayed tempers The Paris Olympics is over and it’s still a week or so before the Paralympics begins and global sports fever hits us again. The 2024 games have provided many standout sporting highlights with thrilling comebacks, unexpected wins and uplifting camaraderie among c

Behold the giant feast. Courses upon courses. Over the past 17 days this has been a city engorged, its every nook and crevice stuffed with sport, to the point where they had to parcel some of it off to the outskirts and even wrap some of it up in a doggy bag and send it […]

Paris Olympics day 15: GB take both 4x400m bronzes, taekwondo silver for Cunningham, bronze for Bell and more Women’s 1500m: Kipyegon’s gold set an Olympic record, breaking her own set in Tokyo. She comes across in 3:51:29. Silver goes to Australia’s Jessica Hull and GB’s Georgia Bell has bronze. Taekwondo: “Allez les Bleues” rings around […

Goodness me, in the long jump, Mattia Furlani of Italy has absolutely taken his first effort off the set, as Dough Boy might say, recording 8.34; that might be enough for gold. Jacob Fincham-Dukes of GB is second on 7.95.

Over to the men’s hammer throw now and both qualification groups have finished and we now know who is progressing. Earlier we told you Canada’s Rowan Hamilton and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo are through but since then another group has gone and there are seven other athletes who have qualified. Canada’s Ethan Katzberg threw the longest throw in [&helli

Yang wins gold in women’s 20km race walk The world record holder is an Olympic champion for the first time! It was an enthralling last 10km but Jiayu Yang’s quick start and steady pace throughout was what won her this race. She really dug deep with her fastest lap being her last despite looking like […]

Mountain biker stayed in the race with endurance, patience and pure speed. Then came the duel on the hill Shortly before 4.30pm Paris time, as the last notes of God Save the King were dying away, a mechanic called Rune Kristensen was wheeling the most prized artefact in British cycling back to its truck. The […]

Men’s synchronised 10m diving: a huge dive from Tom Daley and Noah Williams (GB) – a *checks notes* back 3½ somersaults in the pike position – scores 93.96. But hold on, here come Junjie Lian and Hao Yang (Chn) with 95.88. Nobody can get close to them. The Chinese are 13 points ahead. Canada remain third, Mexico fourth. Women’s volleyball: an

If football is going home, it is only because it belongs to Spain. A record fourth European Championship title was their reward for ­beautiful ­passing, outstanding wing play and ruthless finishing, even though there was a brief spell when it seemed another illogical escape act from England was on the cards in Berlin. For Gareth Southgate

Is it time for a rethink about Gareth Southgate’s substitutions? As the tension rose at the BVB Stadion and extra time beckoned, it was England who found an extra burst when two players who had not been on the pitch long combined to send them through to a first final on foreign soil. They were all off […]