SAINT-DENIS, France — China is 7 for 7 in diving golds at the Paris Olympics. Tokyo Olympic champion Cao Yuan topped Friday preliminaries, followed closely by Rikuto Tamai of Japan, Rylan Wiens of Canada, and China’s Yang Hao. Both divers were cheered on by a large Chinese crowd waving China’s red-and-yellow flag and shouting “jiayou, jiayou” — roughly translated as …
The margin between success and failure is always a precarious tightrope. Unfortunately for Australian divers Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith, they fell on the wrong side of that divide as they missed out on winning Australia's first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the 3m synchronised springboard final on the first full night of competition. Smith and Keeney …
Life as a professional athlete is a stressful business — particularly during a global pandemic. Key points: Research has found COVID-19 has been the most stressful influence in athletes' lives There's been a 79 per cent jump in mental health referrals among athletes compared to last year A survey found nearly half of all athletes experienced anxiety due to the …
Tesla joined the prestigious S&P 500 with a market value of more than $600bn, the largest addition in the history of the index. Tesla’s rise to become the world’s most valuable carmaker and rank among the top 10 biggest United States companies is a surprising accomplishment considering that the company lost $1.1bn in the first half of 2019. “If you …
