Paris Olympics: Last News

Jordan Chiles, stripped of her bronze medal in gymnastics by the International Olympic Committee,  spoke out for the first time today in a social media post.

Dr. Dre has shared that he is “deadass serious” about competing in archery for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight in an interview, the iconic producer and musician opened up about the prestigious sporting event and how it’s being held in his native hometown in 2028 and shared that he is interested in competing in the games.“I’m starting to try out for the Olympics in 2028,” Dre said.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars have collaborated on a new single, ‘Die With A Smile’.The song and video is set to drop at 9pm Pacific Time today (August 15), which is 5am BST on August 16. Representatives of Gaga have confirmed that the song will not appear on her forthcoming seventh album.‘Die With My Smile’ is the first song Gaga has released since appearing on The Rolling Stones track ‘Sweet Sounds Of Heaven‘ last year.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, better known as Raygun, is speaking out against the harassment she has faced since going viral during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her unconventional dance moves while competing against the U.S.’s Logan Edra, Lithuania’s Dominika Banevič and France’s Sya Dembélé garnered worldwide attention and led to accusations that Raygun manipulated Australia’s selection process for the Olympics. “I just want to start out by thanking all the people who have supported me,” Raygun said in a video message posted to her Instagram page.

Strictly Come Dancing has addressed the response to its line-up for the 2024 series after the celebrities taking to the ballroom were officially confirmed.

Lady Gaga is changing up her look in a big way ahead of the launch of her new musical era!

The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is set to bring back some events that haven’t been included in the Games in decades. It’ll also add some new sports to the mix. However, breakdancing will not be on the menu.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Sha’Carri Richardson’s successful Olympic debut may be over, but the Team USA track and field star is just getting started with her post-Olympics glow-up. Richardson is among a handful of athletes who have partnered with Olay, to help promote the beauty brand’s new “Cleansing Melts” skin cleansers.

Both Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling have been named in a new criminal complaint filed by recently-crowned Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif.

Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling have been named in a lawsuit filed by the Olympic gold medal boxer from Algeria, Imane Khelif.Khelif won gold at the Paris Olympics in the women’s 66kg (welterweight) event on August 9, but became the subject of what the suit claims were “acts of aggravated cyber harassment”.According to Variety, the suit was filed against the social media company X/Twitter in France last Friday (August 9), citing the “online hate speech” to which Khelif was subjected during her route to the gold medal match.Some of the online posts cited referred to Khelif as a man, despite the fact that she was born a female and does not identify as transgender or intersex.Khelif’s legal representative Nabil Boudi confirmed that Musk and Rowling had been named in the body of the criminal complaint, which has been submitted to the anti-online hatred centre of the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, which has now launched an investigation.Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.

Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav has revealed the custom bronze clock he’s had made for Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles, this week (August 12).The gymnast was ordered to return a bronze medal that she won at the Paris Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Chiles competed in the individual floor exercise at the Olympics and was awarded a bronze medal after an initial appeal from her coach altered her score.However, after this, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation filed an appeal of their own that reversed the decision after it was ruled that Chiles’ coach made her appeal just four seconds too late.The IOC then subsequently announced on August 11 that the bronze medal had been reallocated to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu.

Ana Barbosu will receive the bronze medal this weekend.

Well, there is a new twist in the current gymnastics drama out of the Paris Olympics!

Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif has filed a cyberbullying lawsuit after being wrongly accused of misrepresenting her gender at the Paris Olympics.

TikTok this week – but who is she and why is Adele “shitting” herself over her memes?Raygun (real name Rachael Gunn) recently competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics as a breakdancer. Though she scored zero points across three rounds, the dancer and professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, has become one of the most memorable athletes from the sport overnight – with singer Adele even giving her a shoutout in a show at her current Munich residency.But if you’re in a headspin about the many Raygun memes populating social media, take a breather and don’t freeze – just read on for more…User @mariahkreutter on X/Twitter was one of the first posters to shed light on Raygun, writing: “I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer”.They then shared a still of Raygun in her green and gold Olympic kit, with her fingers pointing outwards and a confident smile on her face.I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer pic.twitter.com/1uPYBxIlh8— mariah (@mariahkreutter) August 9, 2024There are many photos and videos of the breakdancer doing the rounds on social media, each focusing on a specific move Raygun busted out at the Olympics.One meme focuses on a crawling move Raygun executed, where she wriggles on the floor and touches her toes.

Ayesha Curry was involved in a now-viral confrontation with French police on Saturday… And they struck her newborn baby?!?!

Ellise Shafer It was only a matter of time before a comedian spoofed Australian breakdancer Raygun, whose performance at the Paris Olympics over the weekend earned her zero points and inspired countless memes. “Saturday Night Live” alum Rachel Dratch did so during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night, interrupting the late-night host’s monologue with some kooky dance moves. “Breakdancing made its Olympic debut, and everyone’s still talking about the competitor from Australia named Raygun,” Fallon said as he proceeded to show a clip from Raygun’s performance, which included a lot of floorwork and jumping reminiscent of a rabbit.

Kavinsky‘s ‘Nightcall’ has broken the record to become the most Shazamed song ever in a single day.The 2010 song was played by the French electro-pop pioneer during the closing ceremony at the Stade de France on Sunday (August 11), when he performed alongside Phoenix, Air and Vampire Weekend‘s Ezra Koenig.French electronic icons Phoenix and Air were both heavily rumoured to be making an appearance last week, and came together to perform a medley of songs, surrounded by Olympic medallists who had competed at the event since the opening ceremony on July 26.Among the songs featured was Kavinsky’s hit ‘Nightcall’, which was shared in 2010 but gained huge popularity after being featured in the movie Drive starring Ryan Gosling. CSS singer Lovefoxxx sang on the original version.The track then went on to gain more notoriety in the music world, having been covered by London Grammar in 2013, sampled by The Weeknd – with the two later joining forces for the song ‘Odd Luck’ – and played as the track Avenged Sevenfold enter the stage to during their most recent tour dates.Now, it has been confirmed that its feature at the 2024 Olympics has led to it breaking the record as the song to be Shazamed the most times in a single day.The song is currently sitting tight at the top of the Top 200 Global chart on Shazam and, at time of writing, has 6,921,000 Shazams on the app.

Strictly Come Dancing fans have been fearing which professional dancers may not make the cut and get a celebrity partner this year as they spotted a problem after the official line-up was confirmed.

Flavor Flav is making sure that Jordan Chiles can still wear bronze around her neck, despite the Olympics stripping her of a bronze medal.

Prince William wasn’t the only one referencing the past in that new Olympics video!