Olympics

As Australian BMX racer Saya Sakakibara prepares to compete in the Olympic finals tomorrow, she wears the number 77 on her back to honour her biggest supporter– her older brother Kai. 

Australia still leads the Women’s Medal Tally, thanks to the women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle relay team winning gold on Day 6 of the Olympics.

It was Simone Biles’ defiant gesture after her epic win and 6th Gold Medal this morning that had us bowing down.

American great Katie Ledecky becomes first female swimmer to win gold medals at four Olympics, after winning women’s 1500m freestyle in Paris. 

Kaylee McKeown has defended her Olympic gold medal in the 100m backstroke, setting a new Olympic record.

Olga Kharlan has claimed the first Olympic medal for Ukraine at the Paris Games in the finals of the women’s sabre. 

US women’s water polo team head into the Paris Games with a designated ‘hype man’ — the US rapper Flavor Flav. 

Judo competitor Distria Krasniqi from Kosovo has claimed her second Olympic medal, after winning silver in the women’s -52kg Judo event in Paris.

Over 100,000 people have signed an online petition to disqualify a convicted child rapist from competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

=Olympic broadcaster Eurosport removes commentator Bob Ballard from its team after he made a sexist remark about Australia’s female swimmers.

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the people, teams and events that you’re definitely not going to want to miss witnessing compete this year. 

The Australian equestrian team heading to the Olympics is one to go down in history, with the oldest competing Olympian in the reserve side.