“He will go to these Games with a different status, and [rivals] thinking, ‘I want to defeat the Olympic champion’,” Koenig said. “Before, he was the underdog, nobody was waiting for him. When you are the Olympic champion you have the maximum pressure, and we have to see how he will handle it. “He is …
William Edward Hoffman, the Hong Kong tenpin bowling coach, was recognised in the Senior Athletes Team Event category. The stellar performances of the Hong Kong rugby sevens teams in 2023 earned Paul John, the sport’s head coach, the prize for Best Team Sport Coach. Cheung will go for a second successive Olympic gold medal at …
New Zealand’s women go into next weekend’s sevens World Series stop in Singapore on top of the standings, and veteran Tyla King warned the team had still not reached its full potential. Victory in Hong Kong earlier this month was the Black Ferns’ third in a row, after wins in Vancouver and Los Angeles, and …
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won the London marathon in a women’s-only world record on Sunday as Alexander Mutiso Munyao’s victory in the men’s race made it a Kenyan double. The race was preceded by 30 seconds of applause for Kelvin Kiptum, 2023 winner of the men’s race, who was killed in a car accident in …
Police set up a security cordon in Paris’ wealthy 16th arrondissement Friday amid reports that a man was threatening to detonate an alleged explosive belt at an Iranian consulate, but the suspect was soon detained without further incident. Police were questioning the man but they found no explosives on him. The area was cordoned off …
The United States will top the medals table for the fourth straight Summer Games in Paris, while France will get a major host-nation bump from eighth to third, according to a forecast 100 days out from the opening ceremony. The Gracenote virtual medals table, which is compiled using results data from key global and continental …
United States athletics bosses have defended the kit provided by Nike for the Olympics, following criticism over one skimpy design for the Paris Games that has been branded “sexist”. Officials said that track and field athletes will have multiple kit options to choose from. Several female athletes have taken aim at a leotard uniform revealed …
The 28-year-old played in recent world series tournaments in Vancouver and Los Angeles, after recovering from long-term injury, but missed the cut for Hong Kong. Quansah was instead told to play the 10s competition at the Hong Kong Football Club. “Ideally, I would be playing in the sevens, but I want to be in Paris, …
Organisers of the Paris Olympics are to distribute 220,000 condoms to athletes who want to get romantic during this year’s Games in the City of Love. Issued on: 20/03/2024 – 13:55Modified: 20/03/2024 – 13:53 2 min Although they might be focused on sport, competitors will be free to indulge in sex if they wish – unlike during …
Lee rode conservatively in the closing race, however, settling in the peloton for long periods. As she lost position, head coach Herve Dagorne could be heard shouting: “You are sleeping”. “I was not thinking anything, then heard he was screaming at me, and thought, ‘I have to do a sprint’,” Lee said. Lee said she …