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Emphatic rowing gold kicks off NZ triple medal rush
2 Aug 2024The double sculls win in Paris marked the start of a magic hour that saw three medals for New Zealand's Olympic rowers. Audio
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Gender test row as boxer pulls out mid-fight
2 Aug 2024Italy's Angela Carini abandoned her Olympic bout against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif inside 46 seconds, saying: "I had to preserve my life."
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Olympics live: 'Fairytale ending': Victorious Black Ferns welcomed home
2 Aug 2024The gold-medal winning team have arrived home to a heroes' welcome, after New Zealand's rowers have moved the country up the table with a triple.
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Olympics: Races to watch on Friday night
2 Aug 2024Plenty of must-watch competition is in store to kick the weekend off. Here's who to look out for.
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Olympics 2024: Iga Swiatek stunned in semi-finals by China's Zheng Qinwen
2 Aug 2024Iga Swiatek will have to wait four more years to try and win an Olympic gold medal.
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Canterbury Rowing Club gathers to support rowing gold medal win
2 Aug 2024A club member described Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis as 'so deserving'. Audio
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Men's four team wins silver in 'intense' race
2 Aug 2024The Kiwi rowers have added another Olympic medal to the haul - the third in an hour of frantic action.
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In pictures: Adrenaline high on sixth day of Olympics
2 Aug 2024Rowing dominated the competition in Paris, but there were plenty of other highlights too. Here are some of the best photos.
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At Versailles, the Olympics intrude on history and create something magical
Analysis - Paris has thrown its doors open to the world, and that has meant allowing modern intrusion to some of history's most storied places.
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Rowing: Bronze for Olympic women's quartet
2 Aug 2024The women keep winning on the water with another medal for New Zealand's rowers.
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Skiff medal race a bonus for NZ's Aleh and Meech
2 Aug 2024New Zealand's Jo Aleh and Molly Meech thought their Games were over and were celebrating their last sail, but then things changed.
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There are tough jobs at the Olympics. Surf forecasting is one
1 Aug 2024Kevin Wallis' job is mostly science - but there's some art, too.
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Can trampolinist make it back-to-back medals?
1 Aug 2024Despite a podium finish at the last Games Dylan Schmidt is the least prominent of Kiwis fancied to win a medal this time round. Audio
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Should golf be an Olympic sport? Top players can't agree
1 Aug 2024When golf returned to the Olympics in 2016, only six of the top male players in the world showed up - but the tide is turning.
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Can Zoe Hobbs be first Kiwi in an Olympic sprint final in 100 years?
The country's fastest ever female 100m sprinter is set to make her Games debut in Paris.
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Canada reach football quarter-finals despite points deduction
1 Aug 2024The defending champ have reached the quarter-finals despite their punishment over a spy drone saga.
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'I had nothing left': Nailbiter finish with rival leaves Wilde 'depleted'
1 Aug 2024Kiwi Hayden Wilde got the showdown he wanted, but not the ending, as Alex Yee ran past him in a tense final stretch to snatch the gold. Audio
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After months of doom and gloom, Olympic fever has caught on in France
1 Aug 2024"My God. It's crazy," one French gold medallist said of the fan support at her venue in the heart of Paris.
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Silver! Triathlete Hayden Wilde claims NZ's second medal
31 Jul 2024Hayden Wilde led for much of the run, but was beaten at the last minute by a sprint from the favourite Alex Yee.
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Olympics diary: Who to look out for on day 6
1 Aug 2024More medals could be on the cards as our rowers take their marks in the finals. Here's who to watch.
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Olympics 2024: Leon Marchand's historic golden double; Pan Zhanle smashes world record
1 Aug 2024France's Paris Games poster boy Leon Marchand achieved what no swimmer has done before on an explosive night in the Olympic pool.
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Gymnast gets do-over after equipment malfunction
1 Aug 2024A handgrip broke unexpectedly during his routine, sending him flying through the air.
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Rowing: Bronze for Olympic women's quartet
2 Aug 2024The women keep winning on the water with another medal for New Zealand's rowers.
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Olympics live: It's going to be 'pretty cutthroat' to land golf medal - Daniel Hillier
1 Aug 2024The Kiwi is preparing for a first round at Le Golf National in Guyancourt near Paris.