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Olympics: Dutch win men's hockey gold with shootout out win over Germany
9 Aug 2024The win gave the Netherlands its third gold medal and 10th medal overall in hockey since 1928.
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Eliza McCartney: From 'absolute emptiness' to soaring high in Paris
8 Aug 2024Eight years on from her Olympic debut, Eliza McCartney re-entered the Games arena much the same way she left it - joyous, exuberant, awestruck.
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Teacher 'thrilled' to see ex-students now medal-winning Olympians
8 Aug 2024An Otago PE teacher has been on the edge of his seat as two of his former students have claimed Olympics medals - and the whole town has been celebrating, he says. Audio
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Athletes to watch on day 14 of the Paris Olympics
9 Aug 2024Dame Lisa Carrington is back on the water and Maddi Wesche is going for NZ's first track and field medal of the Games. Here are all the details.
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US to take on France in Paris dream basketball final after close call
9 Aug 2024The United States kept the dream alive by taming a feisty Serbia 95-91 and moving into the Olympic men's basketball final against France.
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Liti's diet may go out the window for just one day
9 Aug 2024Like most Olympians, New Zealand weightlifter David Liti has been selective with his pickings at the food hall at the athletes village in Paris - but that is not going to last.
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Paris Olympics: 'We know for sure people have become ill'
9 Aug 2024Swedish marathon swimmer Victor Johansson has pulled out of the Olympic 10km event, citing concerns about the water quality.
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The best photos from day 13 of the Paris Games
9 Aug 2024Kayakers powered to a win, sailors bagged a bronze and Lydia Ko surged up the golf leaderboard. Here's all the action.
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Olympics: Maia Ramsden breaks NZ record in 1500m semi
9 Aug 2024Ramsden came sixth in the first 1500m semi-final at the Paris Games, and did not make the women's final.
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Sailors claim Olympic bronze in Nacra mixed multihull
9 Aug 2024The NZ duo took the bronze after their closest competition, Great Britain, were knocked out for a false start.
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Olympic kayak gold: It was a team effort
9 Aug 2024Dame Lisa Carrington may have won her sixth Olympic gold medal today but the emphasis afterwards was very much on all four members of the crew.
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Noah Lyles sets up shot at Olympic sprint double
8 Aug 2024The American runner has the chance to become the first man since Usain Bolt to win gold in two Olympic sprints after qualifying for the 200m final.
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Paris mayor wants Olympic flame balloon to stay near Louvre after games end
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo says she hopes the Olympic flame suspended below its balloon can remain in central Paris near the Louvre museum after the games end.
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Olympic wrestler retires after disqualification for being 100g overweight
8 Aug 2024"Wrestling won and I lost. My dreams are shattered," she wrote after being barred from the final.
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Record holder in hospital after horror steeplechase fall
8 Aug 2024The event has been overshadowed by an injury to Lamecha Girma, who tripped over a barrier and fell hard to the track, lying motionless.
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'I gave everything I could' - McCartney's dream over in pole vault
8 Aug 2024Eliza McCartney isn't sure she'll be back for another Olympics after missing the pole vault podium in Paris - eight years after leaping to bronze at the Rio Games.
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'Hungry for more': Silver stokes pursuit team's aim of more success
8 Aug 2024New Zealand's medal-winning pursuit team is young, ambitious and has high hopes for the future, one of the riders says. Audio
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Figure skaters get Beijing Olympic medals in Paris after doping saga
8 Aug 2024Two-and-a-half years after competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, American and Japanese figure skaters stepped on to the podium in Paris to receive reallocated gold and silver medals, drawing a…
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Product placement to increase at future Olympics - IOC
8 Aug 2024The growth in sponsor product placement at the Paris Olympics is set to accelerate at future Games, the IOC says.
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Aussie bonanza: Country's best single day at an Olympics
8 Aug 2024Australia has had its most successful single day at an Olympics, with four gold and two bronze medals.
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Olympics 2024 Hard work to the very end for retiring kayaker Luuka Jones
8 Aug 2024The Rio silver medallist is the third New Zealand woman to be selected for five Olympic Games. Audio
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A 'crazy' crowd and rubbing shoulders with a champion
8 Aug 2024It was an Olympic debut that Kiwi runner Maia Ramsden won't forget in a hurry. Audio
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Kayaker's brother hoping New Zealand can pull off double podium finish
8 Aug 2024Aimee Fisher and Dame Lisa Carrington are on track for a gold medal showdown on Saturday. Audio
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Olympics live: Dream over for McCartney in pole vault
8 Aug 2024McCartney was the last of the Kiwi trio left in the competition, while the women's team pursuit has won silver
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