• Neeraj Chopra secured 2024 Olympics berth with 88.77m throw at World Athletics Championships

    Neeraj Chopra secured 2024 Olympics berth with 88.77m throw at World Athletics Championships

    Reigning Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra began his World Athletics Championships campaign in style as he qualified for men’s javelin throw final with a season best of 88.77m and sealed qualification for 2024 Paris Olympics, here on Friday. The season-best distance of 88.77m saw Chopra breaching Paris Olympic qualification mark of 85.50m. The qualification for the…

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  • Paris Olympics 2024: Organizers hopeful of selling 13.4 million tickets

    Paris Olympics 2024: Organizers hopeful of selling 13.4 million tickets

    Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics are hoping to sell a record 10 million tickets for the sporting extravaganza with an additional 3.4 million available for the Paralympic Games, the boss of the organising committee said. London 2012 put just under nine million tickets up for sale and sold some 8.2 million, while Atlanta 1996…

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  • Paris 2024: Olympics are already economically hit due to COVID-19

    Paris 2024: Olympics are already economically hit due to COVID-19

    The Paris Olympics might be scheduled for 2024, but they are already feeling the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that has seen this year’s Tokyo Games postponed by a year to 2021. “There will be better days to come, that’s for sure,” says Denis Masseglia, president of the French National Olympic Committee. Masseglia has…

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