Author: News Desk

UK weather to cool off before becoming balmy next week in london | UK News Brits were given a bit of a relief from the heat this weekend as cooler temperatures moved across the British Isles, but the warm weather isn’t gone for good. Londoners are waking up to partly cloudy skies and comfortable temperatures, with the sun set to come out later in the day as it reaches 23°C. But temperatures will get warmer yet again beginning on Monday, with highs of 26°C expected on Monday and Tuesday in the capital. The Met Office said: ‘Today will be largely…

Artist on one-man mission to paint all 273 stations on tube network | UK News Whether it’s the good, bad or the ugly of the London Underground stations, one artist is painting them all. Darren Hayman, from Crystal Palace, is on a one man mission to paint every single Tube station on the vast TfL network. The 53-year-old musician-artist is working his way through painting every station on the vast network – from the furthest corners of Zone 9 on the Metropolitan line to the likes of Russell Square and Embankment. But when Darren started the artistic mission, he made…

Imane Khelif has hit out at the ‘bullying’ she has received during the Olympics, describing it as ‘harmful to human dignity’. Khelif’s participation at the Paris Olympics has come under scrutiny after she and Lin Yu-ting – who are both now guaranteed medals -were disqualified from last year’s Word Championships. At the time, the International Boxing Association (IBA) said both fighters failed gender eligibility tests, but the International Olympic Committee has cast doubt over the validity of the tests. The IOC have also insisted both fighters were ‘born women and raised women’ but that has not stopped some fans from…

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…