If the primary day at Paris 2024 is something to go by, sports activities followers are in for fairly an exhilarating trip over the following couple of weeks, with each on- and off-field occasions proving as attention-grabbing as they have been contoversial in lots of respects – and the Olympics aren’t even formally underway but.
Day “minus two” noticed the rugby sevens and males’s soccer get underway, with the latter seeing a pitch invasion, the stadium cleared, an injury-time equaliser dominated out and the ultimate minutes performed behind closed doorways, culminating in Argentina dropping to Morroco – and all that was after the Canada Girls’s staff had despatched dwelling two employees members for spying on a rival’s coaching session.
Away from the soccer, extra response from Charlotte Dujardin’s fall from grace continued and now Paula Radcliffe has raised eyebrows by suggesting she needs “the perfect of luck” to a convicted youngster rapist who’s competing on the Video games this month.
It’s fairly the gathering of incidents earlier than the official opening ceremony even takes place – and on Thursday we’re bringing you the beginning of girls’s soccer, extra rugby sevens plus two periods of archery and girls’s handball getting underway. Observe the stay weblog beneath for all the newest information and updates from Paris:
Olympics pundits and commentators for BBC and Discovery+
Viewers in the UK will benefit from the perception of loads of previous Olympic greats with each Discovery+ and the BBC unveiling robust line-ups of presenters, commentators and pundits for Paris 2024.
Identical to on the final Olympic Video games in Tokyo, each second from the French capital shall be proven stay on Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service with intensive tv protection on Eurosport’s tv channels.
The BBC has additionally struck a cope with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to proceed to supply free-to-air protection of the Video games as much as and together with 2032.
Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 11:10
Paris 2024 Olympics: World report on opening day of archery motion!
Effectively effectively effectively. We thought it is perhaps a quiet day on the archery as seedings are decided earlier than the motion intensifies over the weekend, however South Korea’s Lim Sihyeon has different concepts. The 21-year-old has set a brand new world report within the ladies’s particular person recurve, recording 694 of a potential 720 factors to take prime spot within the seeding.
Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 11:09
How Keely Hodgkinson can spark a ‘golden period’ for British athletics at Paris Olympics
May or not it’s a classic Video games for Staff GB on the Stade de France? Ben Bloom examines the runners and riders hoping for medal success, led by Keely Hodgkinson.
Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 11:00
Olympics athletics schedule: Each occasion, date and begin time at Paris 2024
And right here’s if you’ll have the ability to watch Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the remainder of the athletics stars in Paris.
Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 10:53
Katarina Johnson-Thompson: ‘France will at all times have a particular place in my coronary heart’
Jack Rathborn25 July 2024 10:43
Emma Hayes particulars Olympic-sized job for USA to regain standing as ladies’s soccer elite
Emma Hayes has grit and guile; the query stays will that be sufficient for gold. The previous Chelsea coach was in combative temper as she put the ultimate touches to the USA’s preparations for the Olympic ladies’s soccer match.
Expectation administration is commonly the secret in these seemingly limitless days earlier than the Olympic flame really ignites. Some wish to beat their chest and discuss themselves up, others – from the ‘no-one places extra strain on me than me’ college of sports activities psychology – favor to fly underneath the radar.
Hayes – as we’ve come to study from her seven Girls’s Tremendous League titles – doesn’t overthink these things, she simply tells it like is it.
Karl Matchett25 July 2024 10:33
Paris 2024: Denamrk open handball competitors with victory
We’ve seen just a few sporting tussles between Denmark and Slovenia this summer time, with the 2 nations assembly at Euro 2024 earlier than Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar duelled on the Tour de France. The most recent encounter between the pair has come on the opening day of handball motion, with Denmark’s ladies beginning strongly with a 27-19 win.
The Netherlands at the moment maintain a slender lead over Angola within the second of the day’s fixtures. The group stage motion is happening on the Porte de Versailles expo centre earlier than a relocation to Lille for the knockout rounds and the Stade Pierre Mauroy.

Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 10:26
Paris 2024: Romanian athlete hit with doping ban earlier than Olympics
Romanian athlete Florentina Iusco is not going to compete on the Paris Olympics after world sport’s prime court docket partially upheld a World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) enchantment on Thursday following her constructive check for a banned substance final yr.
The 28-year-old, who competes within the lengthy leap and triple leap, examined constructive for furosemide, a diuretic on WADA’s prohibited checklist, in an out-of-competition doping management in April 2023.
The evaluation of each her A and B samples confirmed the end result, leading to an anti-doping rule violation.
Romania’s Nationwide Anti-Doping Organisation sanctioned her solely with a reprimand on February 1 with no interval of ineligibility on the premise that she was not at fault or was not negligent.
Nevertheless, after WADA appealed that call to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the arbitrator decided she had did not train the usual of care required for a “no important fault or negligence” discovering.
CAS imposed a two-year ban on Iusco backdated to February 1 and disqualified all of her outcomes from April 23 final yr.

Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 10:20
Paris 2024 Olympics: Angelique Kerber confirms retirement
Becoming a member of Andy Murray in bowing out among the many tennis stars bowing out of the game after these Olympics shall be Angelique Kerber, the German has confirmed. Kerber, like Murray a three-time grand slam champion, received a silver at Rio 2016 as a part of a outstanding yr that introduced titles on the Australian Open and Flushing Meadows and a Wimbledon ultimate.
“Paris 2024 will mark the end line of essentially the most unimaginable journey I may have ever dreamed of rising up with a racket in my hand,” Kerber introduced on Instagram. “There are lots of extra issues I need to say and other people to thank, which I’ll do as soon as I accomplished my final match…however for now, I’ll take the time and absorb each second of this ultimate episode on court docket.”

Harry Latham-Coyle25 July 2024 10:14
Paris 2024 Olympics | Newest occasions and information
Israel’s participation within the Paris Olympics acquired underneath method amid a hoop of metal and a refrain of boos on the Parc des Princes on Wednesday night time.
Over 1,000 French police, together with masked counter-terrorist officers, created a further safety barrier previous to the nation’s conflict with Mali of their first sport within the males’s soccer competitors.
Israel’s nationwide anthem was booed by some sections within the roughly half-full stadium previous to kick-off, and a bunch of spectators stood in a line carrying t-shirts with initials that spelled ‘Free Palestine’ in protest over the battle in Gaza.
Karl Matchett25 July 2024 10:04