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AFP/APP Paris: The 2024 Paralympics were opened in Paris on Wednesday by French President Emmanuel Macron, firing the starting gun on 11 days of competition in a city still riding the wave of the successful Olympics. Macron declared…

Ishtiaq Ahmed  Bradford: The Paralympic opening ceremony was held in Paris last evening. For the next 11 days 160 delegations of 4,000 men and women with disabilities from across the world will  be competing in a range of expanding…

AFP/APP Paris: Sifan Hassan concluded her remarkable Olympic journey with a stunning win in the women’s marathon, capturing gold on the sun-baked streets of Paris.  The marathon victory capped a spectacular Games, with the final day…

AFP/APP Paris:Olympic athletics results on Tuesday (finals only): Women: 200 metres (wind -0.6m/sec) Gabby Thomas (USA) – 21.83 sec Julien Alfred (LCA) – 22.08 Brittany Brown (USA) – 22.20 Dina Asher-Smith…

News Desk Paris: Pakistan’s javelin star Arshad Nadeem has made an incredible advance to the Paris Olympics finals with a colossal throw of 86.59 m in his first attempt on Tuesday. The throw surpassed the 84-meter minimum qualifying…

AFP/APP  Paris: France's President Emmanuel Macron has expressed his strong condemnation of the cyberbullying directed at the choreographer of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, declaring that "nothing justifies threatening an artist."…

AFP/APP Paris: American Sha'Carri Richardson will go for Olympic 100m gold at the Stade de France on Saturday as Noah Lyles competes in the men's heats of the blue riband event. AFP Sport looks at five stand-outs on Day 3 of competition…

AFP/APP Paris: Simone Biles's sixth Olympic gold medal hung around her neck, and so did a twinkling little goat -- just a reminder to the gymnast hailed as the greatest of all time that she does indeed belong in the pantheon of sports…

AFP/APP Paris: A major new study reveals that millions of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing various risk factors such as smoking and air pollution. However, experts caution that these measures have…

AFP/APP Paris: Home favourite Leon Marchand wrote his name into the Olympic history books with a phenomenal double gold on a pulsating night in the Paris pool Wednesday, as Japanese gymnast Shinnosuke Oka took a thrilling all-around…