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Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles spoke out about the string of mental and physical issues he has dealt with in his life after claiming gold in dramatic fashion on Sunday in Paris. The American superstar won an incredible 100m final, beating Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson to the gold medal by the narrowest of margins. Lyles came into Paris as the reigning world champion in both 100m and 200m after gold in Budapest last year. He feels the 200m is his best event and will bid to become double Olympic champthis week, with the final coming up on Thursday. It has been…

Volleyball is one of the most popular events at the Olympics for fans hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the lesser-known sports at any Games. And viewers tuning in to watch the volleyball competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympics may well note a quirk – one player is wearing a different colour shirt to their teammates. But what exactly is the reasoning behind this different coloured outfit? Here is everything you need to know. Why does one player wear a different colour in volleyball? The player who wears a different colour top is called a libero. Libero’s are…

Team GB had to eventually settle for bronze in the mixed really triathlon despite initially believing they had won silver at the climax of a thrilling race in Paris. Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson and Beth Potter were competing in the brilliant event for Great Britain, leading for much of the race. Germany took the lead late in the contest, with Laura Lindemann impressively crossing the line first, but it was close as Potter and USA’s Taylor Knibb only just behind. Potter and Knibb were neck and neck, so close together that it was impossible to say who crossed…

Adam Peaty did not hold back in criticising ‘cheating’ at Paris 2024, slamming previously ‘contaminated’ Chinese swimmers after the 4x100m medley. Team GB finished fourth in the medley, with China winning gold, but Peaty was not happy seeing the team stand atop the podium. Two of the four-man team, Qin Haiyang and Sun Jiajun, were among 11 swimmers allowed to compete in Paris despite testing positive for a banned substance. They were allowed to swim because the China Anti-Doping Agency decided the positive tests were down to food contamination. Follow Metro.co.uk’s live blog for updates from the Paris 2024 Olympics…

Team GB silver medallist Amber Rutter believes a VAR system should be in place for future Olympic shooting events after being controversially denied gold in Paris. A shoot-off was required in Sunday’s skeet final after Great Britain’s Rutter and Chile’s Francisca Crovetto tied on 55 shots from 60 targets. The pair still could not be split after three shoot-off rounds but Rutter was then adjudged to have missed a shot which replays appeared to show she hit. Rutter, who gave birth to her first child just three months ago, contested the call but the judges did not overturn the decision…

If you’ve been following the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the word repechage will have been popping up all over the place. A repechage round has been newly introduced for the Games this summer for all the individual track events, except the 100m sprint. From the 110m hurdles and 200m dash, right through to longer distance 800m and 1500m events, you’ll see repechage races. Organisers said it is an ‘innovation’ that’s making its debut in the modern day Olympics. World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in 2022 when the new rounds were announced: ‘The repechage rounds will give more exposure to…

Team GB athlete Holly Bradshaw was in ‘floods of tears’ after quite literally crashing out of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Bradshaw, competing at her final Olympics, failed to clear 4.40m after three attempts, bowing out of the women’s pole vault at the Stade de France. The 32-year-old cleared 4.85m to claim bronze at Tokyo 2020 but could not get anywhere near that height in Paris. One of her attempts went badly wrong and she was sent flying by the pole, almost crashing into a cameraman positioned on the side of the runway. When another camera picked Bradshaw up she was…

With the Paris Olympics in full swing, France is even more popular among British tourists than usual. If you’re heading across the Channel this summer, you’ve likely been brushing up on your parle français is order to fit in with the locals. But there are a few common French phrases native English-speakers often get wrong – and doing so could leave you pretty red-faced. Think of all the idioms we use that confuse UK tourists relying on Google Translate; raining cats and dogs, break a leg, or piece of cake to name a few. Much to the bewilderment of visitors,…

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read

Today’s news summary – Paper Talk If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read