Chinese gymnast Zhou Yaqin has captured the hearts of many, not just for her impressive silver medal win at the Paris Olympics 2024, but also for her humility. Following her success on the world stage, the 18-year-old gymnast returned to her hometown of Hengyang City in Hunan Province to assist her parents at their restaurant. […]
Team USA’s Jordan Chiles and Romania’s Ana Barbosu are now in a heated dispute over the bronze medal. The International Olympics Committee had originally awarded Chiles the bronze for her floor routine at the 2024 Paris Olympics but later decided to re-allocate it to Barbosu. USA Gymnastics has since submitted new evidence to challenge the […]
Listen to article PARIS: American gymnast Jordan Chiles is set to lose her bronze medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise competition after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favour of an appeal by Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who will move up to third place, it said on Saturday. Barbosu and her team had appealed […]
Simone Biles revealed that her body was running on fumes by the end of the 2024 Paris Olympics in a recent TikTok video. “I am really tired,” the accomplished gymnast, 27, said in a video she made on Sunday but didn’t post online until Tuesday. “I feel like my body is slowing starting to shut […]
Listen to article PARIS: It definitely was not the ending Simone Biles was expecting as she was surprisingly upstaged in the floor exercise final by Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade — but a silver medal on Monday capped the American’s remarkable Olympic comeback. Stepping out of bounds with both feet at the end of two of her four […]
Listen to article PARIS: Italian gymnast Alice D’Amato emerged as the surprise champion on the balance beam at the Paris Olympics on Monday after American favourite Simone Biles unexpectedly fell off the 10cm wide apparatus during the final to finish out of the medals. D’Amato had ranked only seventh during the qualifying competition but after performing a […]
Oscar Piastri and Valtteri Bottas, both prominent figures in Formula 1, have amused fans with their unexpected presence at the Paris Olympics 2024. Not as spectators, but as athletes—well, sort of. Their doppelgangers have made notable appearances, creating a buzz among fans. The first to draw attention was American curler Matt Hamilton, whose resemblance to […]
Listen to article PARIS: Simone Biles won the vault final on Saturday to clinch her third gold medal at the Paris Olympics, dominating the competition with her signature Biles II vault to beat Brazilian silver medallist Rebeca Andrade with American Jade Carey taking bronze. Biles soared high into the air as she performed her explosive Yurchenko double […]
Simone Biles continues to make history at the 2024 Summer Olympics, and her support system is overflowing with pride. Following her historic win with Team USA in the gymnastics team final, Biles secured another gold medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics all-around final, becoming the first woman since 1968 to achieve this feat. Her husband, […]
PARIS: Simone Biles clinched her sixth Olympic gold medal in front of an ecstatic crowd at the Paris Games on Thursday, reasserting her status as the number one all around gymnast three years after she withdrew from the same final at the Tokyo Games. In a tight race between Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, the […]