The Latest Breaking News from the Paris Olympics

Days after bagging his first gold in the 400m medley, France's Léon Marchand on Wednesday won his second gold medal of the Paris Olympics, cheered on by a home crowd at La Defense Arena.

The Paris Olympics has commenced with much excitement as fans soak in athletic achievements, medal counts and inspiring stories of success and triumph.

After heavy rain drenched last week's opening ceremony, the Paris Olympics on Tuesday wrestled with entirely different conditions as temperatures soared to 35 degrees Celsius.

Some swimmers and officials believe the shallow depth of the pool is contributing to slower times. Here's what the stats and the science say.

James Guy, Tom Dean, Matthew Richards and Duncan Scott won Great Britain’s first swimming gold at the Paris Olympics, producing a dominant display to defeat USA and Australia

More Chinese athletes – one of whom is swimming at the Paris Olympics – have been cleared using a contaminated meat defence

It’s one thing to aspire to be the “greenest games in history”, quite another to achieve it. While the Paris Olympics are responding to the threat to sport from the climate crisis, they also highlight the contradictions inherent in making global sport a platform for climate action.

It was a hot, steamy day at the Paris Olympics. Indoors and outdoors, the Games kept going.

Simone Biles won her record-breaking eighth medal at the Paris Olympics.

The controversy over the iconoclastic opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is refusing to abate days into the Games, with conservative political figures worldwide condemning a show that has been staunchly defended by President Emmanuel Macron and its creators.

Simone Biles leads the U.S. women into the gymnastics team final today at the 2024 Paris Olympics