Melbourne olympics

The Australian Olympic champions Emma McKeon, Ariarne Titmus, Kyle Chalmers, Kaylee McKeown, and popstar-turned-swimmer Cody Simpson are among the athletes in action. The event also serves as the national qualifier for the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships which takes place in July. You can check our daily result updates below. • • Day 1 results - Tuesday, June 13 Women's 200 IM – Finals GOLD: Kaylee McKeown - 2:07.60 SILVER: Jenna Forrester - 2:09.29 BRONZE: Ella Ramsay - 2:11.89 Men’s 100M Breaststroke – Finals GOLD: Zac Stubblety-Cook - 59.68 SILVER: Samuel Williamson - 59.86 BRONZE: Joshua Yong - 1:00.34 Women’s 100M Butterfly – Finals GOLD: Emma McKeon - 56.74 SILVER: Brianna Throssell - 57.66 BRONZE: Lily Price - 57.78 Men’s 400M Freestyle – Finals GOLD: Samuel Short - 3:43.38 SILVER: Elijah Winnington - 3:43.48 BRONZE: Mack Horton - 3:46.71 Women’s 400M Freestyle – Finals GOLD: Ariarne Titmus - 3:58.47 SILVER: Lani Pallister - 4:02.43 BRONZE: Kiah Melverton - 4:05.05 Day 2 results - Wednesday, June 14 Men's 100M Backstroke - Finals GOLD: Isaac Cooper - 53.46 SILVER: Bradley Woodward - 53.85 BRONZE: Joshua Edwards-Smith - 54.52 Women's 100M Breaststroke - Finals GOLD: Abbey Harkin - 1:07.20 SILVER: Mikayla Smith - 1:07.94 BRONZE: Talara-Jade Dixon - 1:08.64 Men's 200M Freestyle - Finals GOLD: Kai Taylor - 1:46.25 SILVER: Alexander Graham - 1:46.68 BRONZE: Thomas Neill - 1:46.82 Women's 100M Backstroke - Finals GOLD: Kaylee McKeown - 57.50 SILVER: Mollie O'Cal...

Novak Djokovic is no stranger to this situation — playing in the most anticipated match of the French Open, but it’s not the final. Djokovic and top seed Carlos Alcaraz meet in Friday’s semifinals, starting no earlier than 8:45 a.m. ET on Tennis Channel. NBC, NBCSports.com/live, the NBC Sports app and Djokovic is used to these kinds of showdowns at Roland Garros, but the man on the other side of the net has been another Spaniard: Rafael Nadal, a man he grew up playing against. Djokovic and Nadal played 10 times at the French Open, including seven times before the final. These are different circumstances. It is an intergenerational match, not an intragenerational one. FRENCH OPEN DRAWS: Djokovic, 36, and Alcaraz, 20, have never played at a major and only played once anywhere. That was last spring, when Alcaraz prevailed 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (5) in the faster clay conditions in Madrid. At that time, Alcaraz was not yet a top-five player. He had yet to become the youngest man to win a major since Nadal’s first of 14 French Open titles in 2005 and the first teen to be ranked No. 1 in the world, both accomplished at the U.S. Open last September. Friday’s meeting will be closer to a peak-of-their-powers clash. That makes it a bit different from some past torch-passing matches, such as Roger Federer beating Pete Sampras in the fourth round of 2001 Wimbledon, two years before Federer won his first of 20 majors. Or 19-year-old Sampras taking out Ivan Lendl en route to the 1990 U.S. Op...

Track events 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 5000 m 10,000 m 80 m hurdles 110 m hurdles 400 m hurdles 3000 m steeplechase 4 × 100 m relay 4 × 400 m relay Road events Marathon 20 km walk 50 km walk Field events Long jump Triple jump High jump Pole vault Shot put Discus throw Javelin throw Hammer throw Combined events Decathlon • v • t • e At the Medal summary [ ] Men [ ] Event Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres 10.5 10.5 10.6 200 metres 20.6 (OR) 20.7 20.9 400 metres 46.7 46.8 47.0 47.0 800 metres 1:47.7 (OR) 1:47.8 1:48.1 1500 metres 3:41.2 (OR) 3:42.0 3:42.0 5000 metres 13:39.6 (OR) 13:50.6 13:54.4 10,000 metres 28:45.6 (OR) 28:52.4 28:53.6 110 metres hurdles 13.5 (OR) 13.5 (OR) 14.1 400 metres hurdles 50.1 (=OR) 50.8 51.6 3000 metres steeplechase 8:41.2 (OR) 8:43.6 8:44.0 4 × 100 metres relay (USA) 39.5 (WR) (URS) 39.8 (EUA) 40.3 4 × 400 metres relay (USA) 3:04.8 (AUS) 3:06.2 (GBR) 3:07.2 Marathon 2:25:00 2:26:32 2:27:47 20 kilometres walk 1:31:27.4 1:32:03.0 1:32:12.0 50 kilometres walk 4:30:42.8 4:32:57.0 4:35:02.0 High jump 2.12 m (OR) 2.10 m 2.08 m Pole vault 4.56 m (OR) 4.53 m 4.50 m Long jump 7.83 m 7.68 m 7.48 m Triple jump 16.35 m (OR) 16.26 m 16.02 m Shot put 18.57 m (OR) 18.18 m 17.65 m Discus throw 56.36 m (OR) 54.81 m 54.40 m Hammer throw 63.19 m (OR) 63.03 m 62.56 m Javelin throw 85.71 m (WR) 79.98 m 79.50 m Decathlon 7937 (OR) 7587 7465 Women [ ] Event Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres 11.5 11.7 11.7 200 metres 23.4 (=OR) 23.7 23.8 80 metres hurdles 10.7 (OR) 10.9 11...

Peter O’Connor, an Irish track-and-field athlete, competes for Great Britain in the Athens games and wins a gold medal in the triple jump. To protest being considered a British competitor, he climbs up the Olympic flagpole with an Irish flag. The games are officially called the 1906 Intercalated Games because they are held on a different schedule than the one set by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Taking place after World War I and the last wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, the games in Antwerp, Belgium, focus on remembering those killed and moving forward. During the games, the Olympic flag, which shows five interlocking rings as a symbol of the five continents, and the Olympic oath make their first appearance. The countries defeated during the war—Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire—are not invited to attend. The newly formed Soviet Union decides not to participate. The IOC awards both the 1936 Winter and Summer Olympics to Germany before the Nazis take full control of the country in 1933. Several countries, including the United States, threaten to boycott the summer games in Berlin, but they later decide to attend. During the games, Adolf Hitler’s ministry of propaganda attempts to spread his theory of racial supremacy. Germany wins the most medals—eighty-nine—but the United States dominates the track-and-field events, with Black athlete Jesse Owens winning four gold medals. Together, Black American athletes earn fourteen medals, undermin...

Originals 05:33 Da Silva Wins Athletic Gold in Melbourne 1956 About the Games O-hosts Melbourne won the right to host the 1956 Olympic Games by one vote over Buenos Aires. Great Rivalry French long-distance runner Alain Mimoun had tasted Olympic defeat on the track three times at the hands of Czech Emil Zátopek. However, in the marathon, it was Mimoun who pulled away to record a comfortable victory. He waited at the finish line for Zátopek, his old friend and great rival, who trotted home in sixth place. Dominant Team The U.S. basketball team, led by Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, put on the most dominant performance in Olympic history. They scored more than twice as many points as their opponents and won each of their games by at least 30 points. Symbol of Unity Prior to 1956, the athletes in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies marched in alphabetical order by National Olympic Committees. However, in Melbourne, following a suggestion by a young Chinese apprentice carpenter living in Australia named John Ian Wing, the athletes entered the stadium together during the Closing Ceremony as a symbol of global unity. NOCs: 72 Athletes: 3,314 (376 women, 2,938 men) Events: 145 Volunteers: N/A In Oceania This was the first time that the Games had been held in Oceania. Equestrian Sports in Stockholm To allow for the equestrian sports to be held and to avoid the problem of quarantine for horses entering Australia, the Games took place in two different cities (Stockholm and Melbourne), ...

T he Rio Along with the Games’ budget-busting price tag, host cities must also contend with the likelihood that most of the venues face white elephant futures. For those cities that do stay the course and win hosting rights, the months leading up the lighting of the flame can make the honour seem more like a curse. Far from being lauded, the host city and country are put on global trial. This is now a well worn routine but even so, Rio seems to be doing it especially tough. The crushing Olympic expectation has been accompanied by a political crisis and a health emergency, and comes just two years after hosting a Fifa World Cup that left Brazil with a surplus of expensive football stadiums that Such concerns weren’t so prevalent 60 years ago when the Olympics first ventured south of the equator, to Melbourne. The ad-hoc, cobbled-together nature of the so called “Friendly Games” of 1956 stands in stark contrast to the mega-bucks nature of the event now and points not just to a more innocent past but, maybe, also shows that venues can actually have a more sustainable future. Ron Clarke of Australia lights the Olympic flame to commence the 1956 Melbourne Games. Photograph: Getty Images Olympic Park Parks or precincts have become the hallmarks of the modern Olympics. As the Games expanded, organisers wisely decided to cluster venues together in order to reduce costs and improve convenience. Being the Olympics though, such straightforward thinking still lead to grandiose plans a...

History of the Olympic Games. In fact, independent India’s first-ever international football match was at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. So, needless to say, any discussion of the Indian national football team’s progression over the years is incomplete without reference of the Indian football team in Olympics. From 1948 to 1960, India qualified regularly for the Olympics and the period is still regarded as Indian football’s golden era. With their Olympic football pedigree in tow, the period also witnessed India emerge as one of the premier teams in Asian football, which culminated in gold medals at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games. Indian football team at the 1948 London Olympics The Indian football team made its first appearance in Olympics at London 1948. Just a year after India’s independence from the British Raj, the occasion was a special one as India were competing in the Summer Games in the capital city of their erstwhile colonisers. Barring the prevalent political and sociological aspects of the time, the first round match of the tournament against European giants France was also to be India’s first international match as an Independent nation. For the first time under the banner of the Indian tricolour, the Indian football team led by the charismatic Word of the match instantly spread across London as eight members of the team’s starting eleven played barefooted. The absence of boots, however, hardly seemed like a deterrent as the Indian players played football ...