'Dream come true' for Olympic debutant, 58, despite loss
Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying said her "dream came true" Saturday after making her Olympic debut aged 58, despite suffering defeat for her adopted Chile.
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Penalised Verstappen tops qualifying, Leclerc takes pole
Max Verstappen, facing a 10-place grid penalty for taking a new engine, topped the times for Red Bull ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in a qualifying session run in mixed wet-and-dry conditions at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
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Australia's Brown defies rain for Olympic time-trial gold
Australia's Grace Brown stormed to her first Olympic gold in the women's individual time trial raced over 32.4km of rain-slicked Paris streets on Saturday.
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Referee 'killed me' again storms Georgian world number one fencer
Sandro Bazadze said the referees at the Olympics had "killed him for a second time" after the Georgian world number one lost in the last 16 of the men's sabre in Paris on Saturday.
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Suryakumar leads India to 213-7 in T20 opener against Sri Lanka
New captain Suryakumar Yadav hit an attacking half-century as India reached 213-7 against Sri Lanka in the first of three T20 internationals on Saturday.
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Macron says Olympic opening ceremony made France 'extremely proud'
President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday hailed the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, saying the bold showpiece on the River Seine had made France extremely proud.
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Djokovic closes in on Nadal Olympic clash as Alcaraz, Swiatek cruise
Novak Djokovic set-up a potential Olympic Games blockbuster with Rafael Nadal on Saturday as Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek made winning returns to a rain-swept Roland Garros where they were crowned French Open champions last month.
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'Not a good image' says Djokovic after Olympic romp over unranked player
Novak Djokovic said his 6-0, 6-1 rout of unranked Matthew Ebden in just 53 minutes at the Olympics on Saturday was "not a good image" for tennis and demanded a change in the rules governing late call-ups.
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Spain win, Argentina off mark in Olympic men's football
Argentina bounced back from the chaos of their opening game in the Olympic men's football tournament to beat Iraq 3-1 on Saturday, while Spain got the better of 10-man Dominican Republic.
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Root leads England revival against the West Indies in third Test
Joe Root became just the seventh man to score 12,000 Test runs but fell short of a hundred after spearheading an England recovery against the West Indies at Edgbaston on Saturday.
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