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Olympics 2024 headlines with summaries.
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'Hungry for more': Silver stokes pursuit team's aim of more success
8 Aug 2024New Zealand's medal-winning pursuit team is young, ambitious and has high hopes for the future, one of the riders says. Audio
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Figure skaters get Beijing Olympic medals in Paris after doping saga
8 Aug 2024Two-and-a-half years after competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, American and Japanese figure skaters stepped on to the podium in Paris to receive reallocated gold and silver medals, drawing a…
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Product placement to increase at future Olympics - IOC
8 Aug 2024The growth in sponsor product placement at the Paris Olympics is set to accelerate at future Games, the IOC says.
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Aussie bonanza: Country's best single day at an Olympics
8 Aug 2024Australia has had its most successful single day at an Olympics, with four gold and two bronze medals.
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Olympics 2024 Hard work to the very end for retiring kayaker Luuka Jones
8 Aug 2024The Rio silver medallist is the third New Zealand woman to be selected for five Olympic Games. Audio
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A 'crazy' crowd and rubbing shoulders with a champion
8 Aug 2024It was an Olympic debut that Kiwi runner Maia Ramsden won't forget in a hurry. Audio
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Kayaker's brother hoping New Zealand can pull off double podium finish
8 Aug 2024Aimee Fisher and Dame Lisa Carrington are on track for a gold medal showdown on Saturday. Audio
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Olympics live: Dream over for McCartney in pole vault
8 Aug 2024McCartney was the last of the Kiwi trio left in the competition, while the women's team pursuit has won silver
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Australian Olympian arrested allegedly trying to buy cocaine in Paris
8 Aug 2024The Australian Olympic Committee confirmed a member of its hockey team had been taken into custody.
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Taiwan boxer Lin into featherweight final amid gender dispute
8 Aug 2024Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics, moved a step closer to the gold medal.
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Olympics 2024: Letsile Tebogo beats Noah Lyles to clock fastest 200m semi time
8 Aug 2024Botswana's Letsile Tebogo set the fastest time in the men's Olympic 200 metres semi-finals, proving his intent to upset American Noah Lyles' quest for a sprint double.
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How high jumper Hamish Kerr bounced back - and into the Olympic final
8 Aug 2024High jumper Hamish Kerr was close to leaving the Paris Games early. Now, he's one of the top contenders for a medal.
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Sailor Barbara Kendall made Olympian for Life
7 Aug 2024The five-time Olympian has been honoured alongside Jesse Owens and Luz Long, whose friendship at Berlin 1936 defied Hitler.
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Olympics: Fisher and Carrington top kayak sprint qualifiers
7 Aug 2024Dame Lisa Carrington and Aimee Fisher are on track for a gold medal showdown.
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Olympians to watch on day 13 of the Paris Games
8 Aug 2024Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Lukas Walton-Keim and Justina Kitchen would compete in delayed kite races. They have both wrapped up their Olympic campaigns placing...
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China arrests woman suspected of 'defaming' Olympic table tennis players
7 Aug 2024Beijing police have arrested a woman suspected of posting defamatory comments on social media about Chinese athletes and coaches.
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'She can really annoy me at times': Sibling rivalry at Paris Games
7 Aug 2024An Auckland-based brother and sister are flying the flag for Samoa in the canoe events. Audio
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Greek athlete ejected from Games over failed drug test
7 Aug 2024Pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polak has been provisionally suspended ahead of the medal round in which three Kiwis have qualified.
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Equestrian governing body finds blue horse tongues
7 Aug 2024The equestrian governing body in charge of Olympic riding in Versailles has found pictures of horses with blue tongues caused by oxygen shortage during dressage competition.
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Olympics 2024: What to watch on day 12 of the Paris Games
7 Aug 2024Dame Lisa Carrington is out on the water again, three Kiwis, including Eliza McCartney, are in the women's pole vault final, while golfer Lydia Ko begins her Paris campaign.
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No more ink for Lydia Ko
7 Aug 2024Not even a gold medal in Paris is likely to persuade Lydia Ko to get another tattoo.
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Serena Williams receives apology from Paris hotel over fully booked restaurant
7 Aug 2024A luxury Parisian hotel has apologised to tennis great Serena Williams after she complained, in a social media post seen by millions, that she and her family were turned away from its restaurant.
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Boxer at centre of gender dispute wins Olympics semi-final
7 Aug 2024Imane Khelif, the boxer at the centre of a gender dispute, has won her way through to Paris Olympics welterweight women's final.
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NZ Olympic climber to meet world record holder - much to his surprise
7 Aug 2024In a 5.2 second race, Julian David has set himself up for a clash with the world's fastest speed climber . Audio
