GDP and population Olympic Games: How do medals stack up at Paris 2024? August 12, 2024 The national peacocking that goes in tandem with the Olympic Games is nothing new, countries love being at the top of the medal table. But at what cost? A country’s GDP versus their medal haul is a great way of looking at what the the GDP per gold medal. Here are the key takeaways: Olympic [...]
Au revoir, Paris. You have been a spectacular Olympic Games host August 12, 2024 Kinzang Lhamo finished her Paris 2024 Olympic Games marathon 90 minutes after gold medallist Sifan Hassan, but she finished it. The athlete from Bhutan walked towards the finish at Les Invalides as fans walked beside her, ensuring she completed the most iconic event of any Olympiad. While she encapsulated what it means to reach the [...]
Paris 2024 vs Tokyo 2020: How do Team GB medals compare? August 11, 2024 The Olympics is over and Team GB are heading back to the United Kingdom. They won more medals than three years ago in Tokyo, but how does that break down? Their haul of 65 medals beats the 64 they won in the Japanese capital but they could muster just 14 gold medals, eight down on [...]
LA 2028: When are the next Olympic Games and how much will they cost? August 11, 2024 Are you planning to tune into the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony today? Well when you do there will be a segment about LA 2028. The Olympics will head Stateside in four years time for the first time since Atlanta 1996, returning to Los Angeles 44 years after the West Coast last hosted a [...]
Paris 2024: Team GB win more medals than Tokyo but down on golds August 11, 2024 Team GB have won all of the medals they are able to win at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. After two weeks of competition there is no more Great Britain can do. So how does their Olympics stack up against other recent Games? Number of medals With Emily Campbell’s bronze medal in weightlifting on Sunday, [...]
Paris 2024 prize money: How much did World Athletics pay to each country? August 11, 2024 Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games World Athletics, the governing body of track and field, controversially said they would pay gold medallists. Some nations pay there athletes with financial rewards and other assets such as titles and land, but it is not common for a governing body to pay athletes at the Olympic Games. [...]
Tiktok strikes gold with Team GB: 25 per cent revenue surge in UK during Olympics August 9, 2024 Tiktok’s revenue has soared since the start of the Olympics thanks to an increase in advertising spend after it launched a campaign to debut GB athletes on the platform and as audience interest in the Games has piqued. The video sharing app, which is an official partner of Team GB and Paralympic GB, has revealed [...]
Who is Cindy Ngamba, the Cameroon-born British-based gay boxer? August 8, 2024 It is fair to say that Team GB’s boxing record at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has not been up to scratch. But one athlete who has trained with the Brits, Cindy Ngamba, has guaranteed herself at least a bronze medal. But Ngamba is not fighting for Great Britain. Instead she’ll box for the Refugee [...]
The Capitalist: Abercrombie & Fitch fall silent; Paris shouts ‘Merde!’ at Olympic muffin man August 8, 2024 Rumours, whispers and City gossip… Abercrombie & Fitch silent on diversity pledge The noughties are back, baby: and that means Von Dutch caps and Abercrombie & Fitch. All of a sudden ‘Brat Summer’ sounds appealing. The return is quite the coup for the company once voted “America’s most hated retailer”. The firm has been heavily [...]
Coke arrest at Paris 2024 Olympic Games forces apology from athlete August 8, 2024 Olympic Games hockey player Tom Craig, from Australia, was forced to apologise after being released from custody following an arrest for allegedly buying cocaine in Paris. He was released with a warning and did not get a conviction and has already been removed from the athlete village at the Olympic Games after Australia’s exit from [...]