Just days ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, Nielsen’s Gracenote releases its final Virtual Medal Table (VMT) forecast for the 2024 Games. Considering available results data from key global and continental competitions since the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, Gracenote has projected gold, silver and bronze medal counts for participating countries and...
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Ottawa’s Lucas Farabaugh plays well for Team Great Britain at WBSC European Championships
Ottawa High School junior Lucas Farabaugh recently played for Team Great Britian at the 18U World Baseball Softball Confederation European Championships at Armin Wolf Stadium in Regensburg, Germany. Farabaugh was the primary catcher for Great Britain in the tournament and batted 1 for 6 while drawing four walks. He helped Great Britain to a fourth-place...
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Man City consider £68m move for Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze – Paper Talk
The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… DAILY MIRROR Manchester City are considering a move for £68m Crystal Palace playmaker Eberechi Eze. Real Sociedad are resigned to losing Arsenal target Mikel Merino this summer after failing to tie the 28-year-old midfielder down to a new contract. Trent Alexander-Arnold has revealed that Gary Lineker’s...
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Wrestling and fencing among sports in Paris with no British athletes competing
Record medal hauls may be mooted for Team GB when the Paris Olympics get underway in the French capital on Friday, but there are some Games venues at which the Union flag will be conspicuous by its absence. The tentacles of sustained podium success, spread liberally by almost £250million of UK Sport funding for the...
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Inside the Olympic medal factories: how Team GB are shaping up in key sports
Athletics Star name: Keely Hodgkinson, women’s 800m For all the financial strife at UK Athletics, which lost £3.7m last year, its high-profile stars and strong relay squads should ensure that it hits its target of six to eight medals in Paris. There appears to be three medal bankers. The most certain? Keely Hodgkinson, who smashed...
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Olympics 2024 live: Latest Team GB news and ceremony tickets still unsold
Tom Daley reveals real reason behind Olympic Games comeback for Paris 2024 Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news The Olympics begins with the opening ceremony on Friday night – then the...
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Olympics 2024: Meet the 34 Scots in Team GB for Paris
Neil Gourley Age: 29 Event: 1500m. A calf injury ended Gourley’s hopes of going to Tokyo and he also missed this year’s World Indoor Championships in his home city of Glasgow through injury. However, he recovered to claim his Paris place with a 1500m win at the trials. Having gathered his first major medal last...
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Paris 2024 Olympics: Macron visits athletes’ village and water bottles recalled amid final preparations – live
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Dame Sarah Storey to compete in her record ninth Paralympics Dame Sarah Storey will become the first British athlete to compete at nine Paralympic Games after being named in a 17-strong cycling team for Paris 2024. The 46-year-old surpassed former swimmer...
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How Keely Hodgkinson can spark a ‘golden era’ for British athletics in Paris
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Keely Hodgkinson really should have won her first world 800m title last summer. That’s what the numbers said, and athletics is nothing if not a...
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Meet the Welsh athletes going to the Paris 2024 Olympics
Wales will have the most athletes at an Olympic Games in more than a century after a record 31 were included in Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics. It will be the largest contingent of Welsh athletes to go to an overseas Games. Only once have there been more – 32 in London in...
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Team GB’s secret Olympic weapon revealed: go-faster trisuits
Great Britain’s triathletes will pursue Olympic gold in Paris with the help of a new weapon: cutting edge trisuits designed to make them go faster on the water or a bike. The new kit, which uses different materials and covers more of the body than conventional trisuits, was tested secretly in competition by Team GB’s...
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Great Britain women’s basketball match abandoned after medical incident in crowd
Great Britain women’s basketball match against Germany on Sunday was abandoned after a medical incident in the crowd. The exhibition match at the Copper Box Arena in London was called off after the third period when a fan alerted the Germany bench to the emergency. Medics moved into the stands to assist and raised sheets...