Reigning Olympic champion Carissa Moore said she was “stoked” just to be a surfer after the Paris Games venue in Tahiti showcased a perfect day of wave-riding to the world’s biggest sports audience. Read more
Organisers cleared the Olympic women’s and men’s triathlons to go ahead on Wednesday after the latest Seine river water tests showed lower levels of bacteria, ending days of uncertainty over whether the central Paris swim was viable after heavy rains. Read more
The Paris Olympics surfing community awoke in Tahiti today with a collective sense of disbelief after unquestionably the greatest day of Olympic surfing competition went down at Teahupo’o on Monday. Read more
Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, earned the United States their 11th Olympic medal in the women’s team event with a solid performance on all four apparatus after starting off on the vault. Read more
Several athletes have tested positive, including Australian swimmer Lani Pallister who was a medal hope in the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle but had to withdraw from the event. Pallister has been instructed to isolate in her room. Read more
The third round of women’s surfing, with four competitors with Hawaii ties, including defending gold medalist Carissa Moore, was postponed from this afternoon to Tuesday. Read more
While Hashimoto led Japan to their eighth men’s team title at the Games, the United States was celebrating their first Olympic team medal since 2008 as they grabbed bronze. Read more
Larger conditions will also suit Florence, a renowned tube rider who grew up at Hawaii’s famous Pipeline and who has been traveling the world to ride the heaviest waves since before he was a teen. Read more
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The U.S. men’s volleyball team — led by captain and Kamehameha alum Micah Christenson — kicked off its quest for a gold medal on Saturday night with an opening Pool C match. Read more
Hawaii’s surfers representing the United States got off to good starts in the Paris Olympics in the first round of the surfing competition Saturday in the beautiful and sometimes brutal waves of Teahupo’o, Tahiti. Read more
The Punahou alumna competed in the eighth and final heat and won with a two-wave score of 16.50 to beat Japan’s Shino Matsuda (11.16) and Portugal’s Teresa Bonvalot (10.34). Read more
The United States men’s volleyball team rolled in its opening match in the Paris Olympics, crushing Argentina 25-20, 25-19, 25-16 today in a match that lasted 78 minutes. Read more
Tahiti welcomed the 2024 Olympic surfing event on Friday with blazing sunshine, songs and Polynesian culture honoring the sport’s ancient roots, a world away from the rain of the Games’ Opening Ceremony in Paris. Read more
On, a Swiss brand founded in 2010 and listed in New York in 2021, has been trying to muscle its way into the high-tech running shoe contest traditionally fought by market leaders Nike and Adidas. Read more
France’s three-time Olympic gold medallists Marie-Jose Perec and Teddy Riner then lit the Olympic cauldron, suspended on a hot-air balloon, before Canada’s Celine Dion sang Edith Piaf’s “Hymn to Love,” in her first public performance in years, drawing huge cheers from the crowd. Read more
Here are some key details on the surfing competition and what to watch for. Read more
The coordinated sabotage took place as France mounted a massive security operation involving tens of thousands of police and soldiers to safeguard the capital for the sporting extravaganza. Read more
Olympic surfers based in Tahiti will miss out on the spectacle of the Games’ opening ceremony on Friday, but might have trumped their Paris-based peers with their accommodation in a freighter-cum-cruise ship serving as a floating athletes’ village. Read more
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) removed head coach Bev Priestman today following her suspension by Canada Soccer over a drone spying scandal that has thrust the 2020 Olympic gold medalists into an unsavory global spotlight. Read more
When early proponents of hosting an unprecedented Olympics opening ceremony along the river Seine first pitched the idea to the then-head of Paris police, he was dead-set against it. Read more
