- By Vladyslav Smilianets / Reuters
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Aug. 4, 2024
Ukraine claimed the gold medal on Saturday, rallying to edge South Korea in a thrilling final bout to add to Olga Kharlan’s individual bronze.
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- By Ed Klajman Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Aug. 3, 2024
With the win, the team finished at the top of Group C of the 12-team tournament, with a perfect 3-0 record, following earlier victories over Argentina and Japan.
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Taking a victory lap after her winning performance at the Paris Games, Biles trolled Trump for his controversial claims that undocumented immigrants are taking so-called “Black jobs” from Americans.
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Kamehameha alum Micah Christenson finished with 28 assists and six digs and Punahou alum Erik Shoji added five digs.
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- By Farah Master and Bernard Orr / Reuters
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Aug. 2, 2024
Pan smashed his own 100-meter freestyle world record, shaving 0.40 seconds off the previous mark he set at the World Championships in Doha in February, to humble rivals including Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and Romania’s David Popovici.
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- By Angelica Medina, Reuters
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Aug. 1, 2024
Defending champions the United States secured their spots in the quarter-finals of the Olympic women’s basketball alongside France and Germany today after convincing victories at the Paris Games.
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- By Martyn Herman, Reuters
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Aug. 1, 2024
Donna Vekic became Croatia’s first-ever Olympic singles finalist when she beat Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova today but not long ago she had considered quitting tennis altogether.
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- By Chang-Ran Kim, Reuters
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Aug. 1, 2024
Brazilian Rebeca Andrade’s second straight Olympic all-around silver appears to be tasting sweeter, especially since she had just given gymnastics GOAT Simone Biles a run for her money.
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Moore, who won the first-ever surfing contest held at the Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, has previously stated she would step away from professional surfing after this event to start a family.
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Biles executed an electrifying routine to secure the gold with a total of 59.131 points, just 1.199 points ahead of her Brazilian rival.
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- By Ian Ransom, Reuters
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July 31, 2024
China’s Pan Zhanle hailed a perfect world record swim that delivered the Olympic 100 metres freestyle gold on Wednesday and said he was unaffected by a doping storm that had engulfed his swim team in Paris.
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- By Alan Baldwin, Reuters
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July 31, 2024
France’s Paris Games poster boy Leon Marchand went where no swimmer has gone before by winning the 200 metres breaststroke and butterfly golds on the same night - and both in Olympic record times - at his home Olympics today.
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- By Lincoln Feast, Reuters
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July 31, 2024
Competition was cancelled at the Olympic surfing venue of Teahupo’o in Tahiti today, with conditions still super challenging after a storm swept though the region, forcing the event to go on hold.
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- By Chang-Ran Kim, Reuters
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July 31, 2024
The spotlight at the men’s gymnastics events at the Paris Games was always going to shine brightest on Japan’s Daiki Hashimoto, but it was Shinnosuke Oka who triumphed in the all around, emerging from the shadow of his more decorated countryman.
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- By Lincoln Feast / Reuters
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July 31, 2024
Tahiti’s Teahupo’o delivered some of the best conditions ever seen for a competition for the men’s round three on Monday before strong winds ripped through the lineup and continued into Tuesday.
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- By Zhang-Ran Kim, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Rory Carroll and Karen Braun / Reuters
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July 31, 2024
Zhang trailed by just 0.233 of a point to take silver and his countryman Xiao Ruoteng claimed bronze.
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- By Steve Keating / Reuters
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July 31, 2024
The time was almost 10 seconds off her own world record of 15:20.48 set in 2018, but the effort was more than enough to bring her home almost half a pool length and 10.33 seconds clear of Frenchwoman Anastasiia Kirpichnikova.
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Pizza Hut’s Hong Kong and Macao branch has offered free pineapple toppings on its pies as fans on social media praised the combination widely shunned by the losing side.
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