Olympics - Paris 2024 Games

Olympic fans were left cringing at the hilarious skills of Australia's 'Raygun' as breaking made its long-awaited debut at the Paris Games on Friday. A clip of the 36-year-old - real name Rachael Gunn - quickly went viral as she awkwardly squirmed on the dance floor with her hand on her chin to end what was already a dreadful routine. As videos of the performance circulated on the internet, users shared their thoughts on all things Raygun, from her stage name, outfit choice, and overall performance.

Talash, whose real name is Manizha Talas, was taking part in the Olympic premiere of the dance sport. She received a roar of approval from the crowd at Urban Park in Paris and later explained why she had made the powerful statement. 'I wanted to show people what is possible,' she said. However, the 21-year-old's actions landed her in hot water with officials as she was subsequently disqualified.

Imane Khelif credited 'eight years of work' and 'eight years of no sleep' for her gold medal-winning performance in the Olympic women's welterweight boxing final following weeks of scrutiny and misconceptions over her gender. 'Yes! It's my dream, I'm very happy,' the 25-year-old Algerian told BBC through an interpreter. 'My family is happy. The whole of Algeria is happy today. Eight years of work. Eight years of no sleep… Today I'm very happy to win the gold medal.' Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final of the women's welterweight division, wrapping up the best series of fights of her boxing career with a victory at Roland Garros, where crowds chanted her name, waved Algerian flags and roared every time she landed a punch.

How bad was Noah Lyles' fever when he took bronze in the 200-meter final at the Paris Olympics? Coach Lance Brauman told The Associated Press that the 100-meter gold medalist had a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius). It's what made that medal, in his last sprint at the Paris Olympics, all the more impressive to Brauman, who described the sprinter's condition and future Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. Lyles tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and finished third in Thursday´s final behind Botswana´s Letsile Tebogo and American teammate Kenneth Bednarek.

Rap superstar Snoop Dogg helped bring some credibility to breaking on its Olympic debut, but viewers have been left unimpressed by flat performances and non-existent commentary

This is the bizarre moment Rahel Daniel, who was leading the women's Olympic 10,000m final, 'wanders off' midway through the race in Paris. The Eritrean runner was ahead of the field in the long-distance event under the lights at the Stade de France when she inexplicably decided to stroll of the track, leaving her rivals free to overtake her. Daniel had been looking comfortable at the 2,000m mark of the race and was leading Japan's Rino Goshima. Then, in a baffling incident, the athlete walked off the track as she entered the home straight on around the eight-minute mark of the contest. The incident seemed to be prompted when Daniel appeared to stumble slightly before raising her hand to her face and spitting on the track.

This is the scary moment emergency medics rushed to help French athlete Alessia Zarbo after she collapsed to the ground during the Olympics 10,000m final. With a handful of laps left in the Stade de France, one of the home favorites fell to the ground on the home straight, while the race continued alongside her. As the camera followed the leading pack around the bend, TV viewers saw medics urgently attending to the runner, with others bringing a stretcher to her aid.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has had to settle for silver in the women's heptathlon at the Paris Olympics after failing to overturn a sizeable deficit in tonight's 800m finale. The Team GB star went into tonight's race 121 points behind rival Nafi Thiam, from Belgium, and had to win the contest by eight and a half seconds or more. But the Brit was only able to gain a six second lead over her fierce rival, leaving her painfully short of a gold once again. Johnson-Thompson was top of the heptathlon standings heading into day two of the event after winning the 200m race in front of a raucous crowd at the Stade de France on Thursday.

Footballer Lea Schuller and sailor Lara Vadlau were in a relationship going into the Games, regularly speaking about their love and sharing snaps of their lives together on social media. They were representing different countries at the Games, with Schuller being from Germany - playing or Bayern Munich and her country - while Vadlau is from Austria. They had hoped to be able to spend some time together in the French capital, but things appear to have gone south quickly, so south that the relationship is now no more.

Letsile Tebogo pulled off a shock 200m gold medal win on Thursday - and delivered a savage verdict on Noah Lyles after defeating the American sprinter. Lyles had confidently told reporters beforehand that he would win the race, and made an extremely bombastic entrance into the Stade de France as he jumped around and waved his arms towards the crowd. But the American (who later revealed that he had COVID) finished third in the race as Tebogo led the pack, and the sprinter from Botswana went on to call Lyles 'arrogant' and 'loud.'

The 16-year-old left the United States second-to-last in the race after running a first leg of 47.3 seconds. That left Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon, and Christopher Bailey needing to make up ground to qualify for the final. They did just that, but it was only on the last leg that Bailey snuck into the top three to ensure safe passage to the grand stage.

Jamaica topped the heat with a scintillating time of 3:24.92 while the Netherlands, Ireland and Canada also progressed after a tense dash down the final straight. Only the top four from the second heat qualified with the rest of the competitors - including Schmidt and her three team-mates - brutally eliminated. Schmidt collected the baton from Skadi Schier before embarking on her leg but a sluggish start out of the blocks from Germany left them out of contention. The 25-year-old had realised her Olympic dream last week after competing in the mixed 4x400m relay - but quickly became embroiled in drama in Paris.

IAN HERBERT IN PARIS: His road through management has been bumpy, but suddenly it has brought Thierry Henry rewards beyond his wildest expectations and the effect on him was transparently clear when he gave a press conference of rare and raw emotion on Thursday. Henry, who will send out a young French side into the Olympic final against Spain on Friday night, spoke for nearly 40 minutes about his country, his patriotism and the beautiful circularity of the team's journey concluding at the Parc des Princes, a short drive from the tenements of the Les Ulis commune where he grew up.

Arshad Nadeem, from Pakistan, has smashed the Olympic record in the javelin with a monster throw of 92.97m on his way to victory at the Stade de France. The monumental effort saw him become his country's first medallist in 32 years and their first ever track and field gold medallist on a historic night for Pakistan. Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen had held the javelin record since the 2008 Games but his distance of 90.57m was comprehensively demolished by more than two metres under the lights in Paris tonight. Once the 27-year-old's javelin had sunk into the ground ahead of the boxes denoting the Olympic record, gold was practically guaranteed as he left his competitors floundering in his wake. Silver medallist Neeraj Chopra fell three-and-a-half metres short of his Pakistani rival with the Indian only able to throw a distance of 89.45m.

Dutch star Duco Telgenkamp got in rival Danneberg's face afterwards with a shushing gesture, onsetting feisty scenes as Niklas Wellen rushed over to defend his goalkeeper.

MIKE KEEGAN: Close to 100,000 abusive social media messages have been sent to Paris 2024 athletes. Games bosses have deployed artificial intelligence in their war on trolls with more than 1.5million posts screened since the competition began. Of those, around 97,000 - in 35 languages - have been deemed abusive and officials are sifting through them before deciding which should be forwarded to police.

A horrifying high-speed crash at the Olympic velodrome saw three riders suffer nasty injuries in the women's keirin event on Thursday as medics rushed to the scene of the incident. Steffie Van der Peet was attempting to mount a charge on the race leaders, rising higher into the curved track and pedalling hard to gain momentum, only to find herself careering into other riders.

Mexican diver Aranza Vazquez saw her Olympic dream turn into a nightmare after a disastrous effort in the 3 metre springboard event. Vazquez, 21, had enjoyed a good start to action on Thursday as she sat seventh after her third dive and was on course to reach tomorrow's 3m springboard final. However, on her fourth dive of the day, she attempted a couple of backwards somersaults at a difficulty level of 3.0, but got it all wrong after misjudging her takeoff.

The heptathlon got underway in Paris with the 100m hurdles heats, featuring the likes of Team GB stars Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jade O'Dowda, as well as pre-event favourite Nafissatou Thiam. The Team GB stars ran in the first heat, with Johnson-Thompson coming second in her push for a first Olympic medal in what is her fourth Games since debuting at London 2012. In the second, meanwhile, Weissenberg was set to run, but ended up seemingly picking up a lower body injury of sorts as she fell to the ground in agony.

Turkish boxer Esra Yildiz Kahraman crossed her arms in the shape of an 'X' to protest her semifinals loss to controversial gender row boxer Lin Yu-ting in women's boxing at the Olympics on Wednesday. Yildiz Kahraman, 27, was easily defeated by a score of 5-0 in Paris and seemed to have a sour taste afterwards when she made the gesture in the ring.  The person who shared the clip of the moment on social media posted on X: 'Solidarity with Esra.' 

OnlyFans star Alysha Newman celebrated a memorable Olympic bronze by twerking to the crowd at the Stade de France. The Canadian pole vaulter had just wowed supporters by clearing 4.85metres in a hotly contested final on Wednesday night, breaking the national record in doing so. She then crowned off a spectacular performance by unveiling her unique celebration to a raucous crowd in Paris on another dramatic evening at the Games.