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Olympic boxers handed prize money boost for winning medals at Paris 2024

Gold medallists will be awarded $100,000 while silver and bronze medals will take home $50,000 and $25,000 respectively

The Independent UK

Karsten Warholm: ‘I’m the world’s biggest hypocrite over super spikes’

The 400m hurdles Olympic champion once criticised a rival over their footwear but has changed his mind before defending his title

The Guardian - UK

This travel company is offering a Paris Olympics trip worth £16,000 to ‘luxury sports critic’

Exclusive: A high-end hotel, private champagne tasting, and tickets to the opening ceremony await one lucky traveller

The Independent UK

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Senegalese rifleman who fought for France prepares to carry Olympic flame

Oumar Dieme, a former rifleman from Senegal who fought alongside the French during its colonial wars, will help carry the Olympic torch as part of the opening of this summer's Paris Games. The 91-year-old says it's a miracle he was picked.

Radio France Internationale

Renewed call for new stadium build for Brisbane 2032

The Brisbane 2032 Olympics are on track to be sustainable, the Games organising committee chief says, as she renews the push for a new stadium.

AAP

Snowboarders get Olympic-sized halfpipe boost

Australia's snowboarders will soon be able to train at home although the halfpipe is said to be unrelated to that built in 2013 for American legend Shaun White.

AAP

Hooper gets Paris Olympic sevens commentary call-up

A groin injury threatens his selection, but Michael Hooper is set to be part of the Olympic sevens after the Wallabies great was named a commentator for Paris.

AAP

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Josh Kerr makes 1500m Olympic medals guarantee after beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Kerr broke the British record, and beat firece rival Ingebrigtsen, in the mile race at a recent Diamond League event and believes Team GB are entering a golden period for men’s 1500m running

The Independent UK

‘The world didn’t care enough’: Ukrainian climber’s journey from Crimea to Olympic chance

From a dynasty of Ukrainian climbers, Jenya Kazbekova was displaced by Putin’s invasion with her family but now she is determined to reach Paris 2024

The Guardian - UK

'Last chance to be Olympic champion' - Pauline Ferrand-Prevot to end MTB career after 2024

Multi-discipline star re-opens door for a return to the road with final big MTB goal at her home Paris Olympics

Cycling News

How do athletes peak for the Paris Olympics? Well, here are my tips

Sports science is challenging traditional approaches but perspective and staying in the present can make a difference

The Guardian - UK

Aussie rowers bag four World Cup silver medals

Building towards the Paris Olympics, Australia's rowing team have claimed four silver medals at the World Cup, but the highly fancied men's eight missed out.

AAP

13-year-old breaks 42-year-old California swimming record held by Olympian

Gabi Brito broke two records over Memorial Day weekend, one of which was a 42-year old record held by 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Aussies Picklum, Wright through to last eight in Tahiti

Molly Picklum and Tyler Wright are through to the quarter-finals of the Tahiti Pro as the Australian pair get to grips with the Olympic break at Teahupo'o.

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Stop body shaming kids playing sport: Olympic champion

With the Paris Olympics two months away, swim champion Libby Trickett has joined a campaign to protect young people's body image and combat body shaming.

The Independent UK

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix ‘elated’ with 10m platform qualification for Olympics

The 19-year-old finished ahead of Lois Toulson and Eden Cheng.

The Guardian - AU

Australian rowers out to correct curious quirk of Olympic history at Paris Games

One of the sport’s most successful nations has never won gold in the eight but a selection gamble could help break the drought this year

The Guardian - UK

Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine

Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events

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The Guardian - UK

Josh Kerr ready to take on fierce rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen in race for the ages

The rivals will compete in the mile at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon while Dina Asher-Smith and Darryl Neita face the world and Olympic champions

The Independent UK

Olympic gymnast star Mary Lou Retton slams haters who criticized family for crowdfunding medical bills

Former Olympics star was left fighting for her life in the ICU with a rare form of pneumonia

The Guardian - UK

David Wilkie obituary

One of the greatest British swimmers who won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the Montreal Olympics in 1976

The Independent UK

Man is held in France over posts about California murders as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux

A French prosecutor says a man who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own

Evening Standard

Andy Murray handed wildcard to play French Open men's doubles with Dan Evans

The former world no1 is heading to Roland Garros ahead of the Paris Olympics

The Independent UK

From schools to the Olympics, how France's staunch secularism affects religion in public life

As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism

AAP

Kooka-brothers to push Olympic case on Europe trip

A 22-man Kookaburras squad to tour Europe next month will be reduced to 16 for the side's Olympic hockey charge in Paris in July and August.

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