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Neeraj Chopra clarifies missing Ostrava Golden Spike only a precautionary measure

NEW DELHI: Shortly after the Ostrava Golden Spike 2024 sports competition organisers said that Neeraj Chopra will be absent from the event due to a muscular injury, the Olympic gold winner and javelin thrower clarified that it is only a precautionary measure in an 'Olympic year.'

The Times of India

Aussies Picklum, Wright through to last eight in Tahiti

Molly Picklum and Tyler Wright are through to the quarter-finals of the Tahiti Pro as the Australian pair get to grips with the Olympic break at Teahupo'o.

AAP

Stop body shaming kids playing sport: Olympic champion

With the Paris Olympics two months away, swim champion Libby Trickett has joined a campaign to protect young people's body image and combat body shaming.

AAP

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Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix ‘elated’ with 10m platform qualification for Olympics

The 19-year-old finished ahead of Lois Toulson and Eden Cheng.

The Independent UK

Australian rowers out to correct curious quirk of Olympic history at Paris Games

One of the sport’s most successful nations has never won gold in the eight but a selection gamble could help break the drought this year

The Guardian - AU

Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine

Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events

The Guardian - UK

Josh Kerr ready to take on fierce rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen in race for the ages

The rivals will compete in the mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon while Dina Asher-Smith and Darryl Neita face the world and Olympic champions

The Guardian - UK

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Ankushita Boro eyes redemption with Olympic qualification

KOLKATA: Ankushita Boro won gold at the Youth Women's World Boxing Championship way back in 2017.

The Times of India

Olympic gymnast star Mary Lou Retton slams haters who criticized family for crowdfunding medical bills

Former Olympics star was left fighting for her life in the ICU with a rare form of pneumonia

The Independent UK

David Wilkie obituary

One of the greatest British swimmers who won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the Montreal Olympics in 1976

The Guardian - UK

Man is held in France over posts about California murders as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux

A French prosecutor says a man who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own

The Independent UK

Andy Murray handed wildcard to play French Open men's doubles with Dan Evans

The former world no1 is heading to Roland Garros ahead of the Paris Olympics

Evening Standard

Paris Olympics: Indian boxers fight in final qualifiers

NEW DELHI: Aiming for the final Olympic tickets, Indian boxers will be motivated to overcome recent disappointments in and out of the ring when they compete in the second World Qualification Tournament, which gets underway in Bangkok on Friday.

The Times of India

From schools to the Olympics, how France's staunch secularism affects religion in public life

As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism

The Independent UK

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Kooka-brothers to push Olympic case on Europe trip

A 22-man Kookaburras squad to tour Europe next month will be reduced to 16 for the side's Olympic hockey charge in Paris in July and August.

The Independent UK

Former British Olympic swimming champion, David Wilkie, dies aged 70

Wilkie won the gold medal for 200m breastroke at the 1976 Olympics capping off a short but brilliant career

The Independent UK

David Wilkie: Swimming star who shattered world record at Montreal Olympics

Wilkie stormed to 200m breaststroke gold in 1976.

The Independent UK

Olympic swimming great David Wilkie dies aged 70 after cancer battle

The Scot, who won 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal in 1976, died peacefully on Wednesday morning.

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The Independent UK

Harrison Walsh would like to see Paralympians receive prize money in the future

World Athletics has promised Olympic champions US $50,000 this summer.

The Independent UK

William Fox-Pitt feels ‘very lucky’ after announcing retirement from eventing

The eventer competed in five Olympics and won 20 major championship medals.

Radio France Internationale

Quest for Olympic gold: French two-time gold medal winner Bertrand Gille

Bertrand Gille won the Olympic gold twice in 2008 and 2012 as part of the French men's handball teams. In an interview with RFI, Gille recounts the feeling after winning his first gold medal and what it means for him.

AAP

Australia returns to Olympic wrestling with two picks

Freestyle wrestlers Jayden Lawrence and Georgii Okorokov will represent Australia at the Paris Olympics, after no representatives in the sport at Tokyo.

The Guardian - AU

Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar cost for Australia’s swimmers

To understand why some Olympians would go into bat for the mining magnate on a matter unrelated to the pool, one need only look at the financial hold she has over the sport

The National (Scotland)

Team GB to host nine fan zones for Paris Olympic Games, with one in Scotland

Fans will be able cheer their favourite athletes on to Olympic glory this summer in a host of fan zones across the country ...

France 24

Forced labour: US Senate probe finds carmakers used parts from banned Chinese supplier

The US Senate Finance Committee has released the findings of a two-year probe which shows that BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen have all used components from a Chinese supplier banned in the US under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). In this edition, we find more about that…

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