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New Zealand's Hamish Kerr won gold in the Olympic men's high jump in Paris on Saturday after a dramatic jump-off with American Shelby McEwen.

Rangers began their temporary stay at Hampden Park with a 2-1 win over Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday.

Tottenham bolstered their attacking options for the new Premier League season with the signing of striker Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth on Saturday in a deal that could reach £65 million ($83 million).

World champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen overcame surging Ethiopian team tactics to win the Olympic men's 5,000m in Paris on Saturday.

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon made history on Saturday after becoming the first woman to win three consecutive Olympic 1,500m gold medals with a superb display of middle distance running.

Paris Olympics boxing champion Imane Khelif, the Algerian at the centre of a gender eligibility row, has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment, her lawyer said Saturday.

Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi held off world champion Marco Arop of Canada to win Olympic men's 800 metres gold in Paris on Saturday.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Saturday that the judging panel at the Paris Olympics women's floor exercise final improperly granted an inquiry that bumped up US gymnast Jordan Chiles's score, moving her into bronze medal position.

Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi held off world champion Marco Arop of Canada to win Olympic men's 800m gold in Paris on Saturday.

Masai Russell of the United States snatched victory in the Olympic women's 100m hurdles on Saturday, edging out France's Cyrena Samba-Mayela in a photo finish.

"It's probably the biggest Olympics mystery of all," says historian Hilary Evans of the chaotic 1900 rowing race in Paris that may have produced the youngest-ever champion.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said at the Paris Games on Saturday he will not seek to remain in charge for a third term.

Erik ten Hag said Manchester United must feel the pain of a Community Shield defeat on penalties to Manchester City to fuel them for the beginning of the Premier League season.

Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliveira kept their cool to win a chaotic men's madison littered with crashes and claim Portugal's first-ever Olympic track cycling gold medal on Saturday.

Mallory Swanson scored the winning goal as the United States edged Brazil 1-0 in Saturday's Olympic women's football final to claim the gold medal for a record-extending fifth time.

Manchester City avenged their FA Cup final defeat to Manchester United to lift the Community Shield 7-6 on penalties on Saturday, after a 1-1 draw at Wembley.

Chinese Olympic weightlifting gold medallist Liu Huanhua on Saturday described the "torture" of stepping up several weight classes, explaining how he had to pile on the pounds to secure his title triumph.

Struggling to put down a major Ukrainian incursion for a fifth day, Russia on Saturday said it had evacuated tens of thousands of people from its border region, launched a "counter-terror operation" and warned that the fighting was endangering a nuclear power plant.

Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola broke the Olympic record to win the men's marathon on Saturday as China completed an unprecedented clean sweep of all eight diving medals.

English Championship favourites Leeds launched their 2024/25 season by snatching a late equaliser in a dramatic 3-3 draw at home to newly-promoted Portsmouth on Saturday.

Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in three crucial battleground states, according to new polls published Saturday, apparently eroding the advantage the former president has enjoyed there over the past year.

New Zealander Lydia Ko completed the set of Olympic golf medals on Saturday after battling to a two-shot victory at Le Golf National during a tense final round to seal gold.

China completed a clean sweep of the Olympic gold medals in table tennis Saturday by winning the women's team title in Paris, the sixth time the Chinese have collected the full set.

Rescuers in Gaza said an Israeli air strike on a religious school housing displaced Palestinians killed 93 people on Saturday, sparking international condemnation despite Israel's insistence that it was targeting militants.

French police on Saturday released US star rapper Travis Scott after 36 hours in custody in Paris over suspected violence, a US-based representative for the artist and prosecutors said.

Chinese Olympic weightlifting gold medallist Liu Huanhua on Saturday described the "torture" of stepping up several weight classes, explaining how he had to pile on the pounds.

Emergency crews on Saturday began removing the victims of a plane crash in Brazil's Sao Paulo state that killed all 62 people aboard, as authorities sifted through the wreckage to try to determine what caused the plane's dramatic plunge.

White body bags littered the floor and mourning filled the air after a school housing displaced Palestinians was struck with Israeli missiles Saturday -- a horrific and increasingly common sight in the Gaza war.

Eight people including two children were killed when a landfill in the Ugandan capital Kampala collapsed on Saturday, the city authority said.

Los Angeles 2028 organisers said Saturday they will force spectators to take public transportation to Olympic venues and encourage remote working in a bid to sidestep the gridlocked city's notorious traffic problems.

Thierry Henry was unable to leave the Olympics with the gold medal he craved but the France great has enhanced his reputation as a coach after taking the hosts to the men's football final.

China's women boxers have made an Olympic breakthrough in Paris with their first golds in a sport that was once banned under Mao Zedong.