Damanjeet Sethi
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12
Aug
The Netherlands won both the men’s and women’s field hockey matches at the Paris Olympics. The women’s team defeated the People’s Republic of China in a last-minute penalty shoot-out. Meanwhile, the Dutch men’s team beat Germany in yet another shoot-out.
Here’s the complete list of hockey Olympics 2024 winners:
Men’s Podium
Gold
Netherlands
Silver
Germany
Bronze
India
Women’s Podium
Gold
Netherlands
Silver
China
Bronze
Argentina
Men’s Gold Medal Match: Highlights
The final game was tightly contested with no goals scored in the first three quarters. Both teams played defensively. However, The Netherlands’ Thierry Brinkman finally managed to score a tap-in after Germany’s Koen Bijen flicked the ball across the goal, giving Brinkman a chance to score....
09
Aug
The men’s and women’s 3x3 events in Basketball Olympics 2024 have been completed. The Netherlands won the gold medal in the men’s event, while France and Lithuania won the silver and bronze medals, respectively. In the women’s event, Germany finished with a gold, while Spain and the United States won silver and bronze medals, respectively.
In the 5x5 men’s event, France, Germany, the United States, and Serbia have qualified for the semi-finals.
Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Nigeria, the United States, Serbia, and Australia have made it to the quarter-finals in the women’s event.
Here’s a quick overview of the remaining matches:
Fixture
Date
Time
France vs...
09
Aug
Skateboarding made its debut at the Olympics during the Tokyo 2020 Games and had four events. All four events—men’s park, women’s park, men’s street, and women’s street—were included in the Paris 2024 Olympics as well.
Keegan Palmer of Australia became the two-time gold medalist in the men’s park event. Tom Schaar of the United States and Augusto Akio of Brazil won the silver and bronze medals, respectively. On the women’s side, Arisa Trew of Australia finished with the gold medal. Kokona Hiraki of Japan and Sky Brown of Great Britain retained their silver and bronze medals, respectively.
The United States won...
08
Aug
The Boxing event at the Paris 2024 Olympics started on July 27 and will run till August 10. Preliminary boxing matches are taking place at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, while the medal rounds, including the semifinals and finals, will be held at Stade Roland Garros.
The boxing program for the Paris 2024 Olympics maintained the same number of weight categories as in the last three editions, totaling thirteen (seven for men and six for women).
The seven men’s weight classes are 51 kg, 57 kg, 63.5 kg, 71 kg, 80 kg, 92 kg, and +92 kg. The six women’s weight...
06
Aug
South Korea made a clean sweep of the gold medals at the Archery Olympics 2024. They finished with five golds, one silver, and one bronze medal. France and the United States won two medals each, a silver and a bronze.
South Korea has now become the most successful country in the archery Olympics. It has won 50 medals, including 32 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze in its 11 Olympics appearances.
These were the archery Olympics 2024 winners:
Game Category
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Recurve Men
Kim Woo-jin (South Korea)
Brady Ellison (United States)
Lee Woo-seok (South Korea)
Recurve Women
Lim Si-hyeon (South Korea)
Nam Su-hyeon (South Korea)
Lisa Barbelin France)
Recurve Men Team
South Korea
France
Turkey
Recurve...
30
Jul
Athletics is a group of track and field events that covers a wide range of sports, from sprinting to race walking and javelin throw. Most of the athletics events we see today are a part of Olympic history, dating as far back as 776 BC.
Usain Bolt is perhaps the most recognizable name associated with track and field events. The Jamaican sprinter has won eight gold medals in nine Olympic races. He officially retired from competitive sprinting in 2017 after multiple hamstring injuries.
Another notable athlete was the Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila, who won back-to-back Olympic marathons in 1960 and...