The final four quarter-finals in the men's and women's team table tennis events at the Paris 2024 Olympics were held on Wednesday, August 7. Intense matches determined the last teams to advance to the semi-finals, setting the stage for an exciting continuation of the tournament.

Women's beach volleyball favourites Brazil resolutely ended the Olympic hopes of their Latvian opponents in the women's quarter-finals Wednesday, continuing their unbeaten streak in a defiant Paris Games.

A Soufiane El Bakkali masterclass showed how to control a final in the 3000m steeplechase, after the Moroccan won his second Olympic gold.

Paris Bercy witnessed another triumphant afternoon for France. The men's team pulled off a surprise against Canada, and the women's team overcame Germany. Belgium outclassed Spain. Australia overcame Serbia and the USA fulfilled the prediction against a great Nigeria.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony will take place on Sunday 11 August. The Stade de France in Saint-Denis will host a two-and-a-half hour ceremony full of surprises from 21:00 to 23:30. Many details of the show are being kept under wraps. It will retrace the history of the Games and feature performances by world-famous acrobats, dancers and singers.

On the opening day of the women's golf tournament at Le Golf National, France’s medal prospects received a significant boost as Celine Boutier took the lead with a commanding three-stroke advantage. South Africa’s Ashleigh Buhai trails in second place. Out of the field, only 12 players managed to finish under par, underscoring the challenging conditions of the course.

It was an incomplete day for sailing on August 6, as only two of the four scheduled finals took place. Dutch sailor Marit Bouwmeester and Australian Matt Wearn clinched gold in their respective Medal Races. The remaining events were postponed due to weather conditions.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed on Wednesday that the future Olympics will prominently feature high-profile product placements, marking a significant shift from the tradition of keeping sports free from overt branding.

The quarter-finals were highly competitive today, with Germany and Spain advancing to the first semi-final of the Games after extra time in each match. The second round will feature Denmark, as expected, against Slovenia, who pulled off a surprise by eliminating Norway.

Kirsty Burrows, head of the IOC's Safe Sport Unit, filed a complaint of cyber-bullying on Sunday 4 August. The British executive claimed to have received "hate messages following a press conference she gave in defence of Imane Khelif, the target of a wave of transphobic hatred on the internet," the prosecutor's office said.

A commemoration took place Tuesday at the Israeli embassy in Paris, honouring the memory of the Israeli athletes taken hostage and killed during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

New scandal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. A player from the Australian field hockey team was arrested on the night of Tuesday 6 August by French police, who caught him buying cocaine on the street from a drug dealer, according to the Prosecutor's Office of the French capital.

Novak Djokovic has pledged to donate the €200,000 he earned for his gold medal in Paris to Serbian charities, according to B92. The funds were awarded by the Serbian government. Serbia will also open a museum dedicated to Djokovic.

The double world champion and world record holder Aleksandra Miroslaw from Poland improve on her fourth-place Tokyo 2020 finish to take gold at Paris 2024.

French authorities have detained seven self-described "Spanish Christians" in Paris this Tuesday, 6 August, who were protesting against the controversial scene in the Olympic Games opening ceremony, which allegedly depicted the 'Last Supper'. All of them have been released.