The Latest Breaking News from the Paris Olympics

Tennis players competing on the kind of red clay courts being used at the Paris Olympics this week know that it's pretty much impossible to keep clothes — especially white socks — and footwear clean while running around on what’s really dust from crushed red bricks

SCOTTISH athlete Beth Potter said she was “super happy” after clinching a bronze medal in the women’s triathlon at the Paris Olympics.

A storm of outrage about the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony has taken a legal turn, with a DJ who performed at the show saying her lawyer is filing complaints over a torrent of threats and other abuse that the LGBTQ+ icon has suffered online in the ceremony's wake.

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.