- The haircuts that help traumatised Ukrainian soldiers heal
- Sinner crushes Medvedev to set up potential Alcaraz Shanghai semi
- 7-Eleven owner restructures to fight takeover
- England's Harry Brook blasts triple century against Pakistan
- Chinese electric car companies cope with European tariffs
- Zelensky in London for whirlwind tour of Europe ahead of US vote
- Sri Lanka recovering faster than expected: World Bank
- Hong Kong, Shanghai rally as most markets track Wall St record
- Record-breaking Root, Brook both pass 200 as England pile up 658-3
- Football mourns Greek defender George Baldock's shock death at 31
- Uniqlo owner reports record annual earnings
- Hong Kong, Shanghai rally as markets track Wall St record
- Indonesia biomass drive threatens key forests: report
- Home is far away for Madagascar in AFCON qualifying
- Two months on, Donbas soldiers begin to question Kursk offensive
- Rugby Australia to counter-sue in dispute with Melbourne Rebels
- Mumbai mourns Indian industrialist Ratan Tata
- Philippines challenges China over South China Sea at ASEAN meet
- Mets advance on Lindor blast, Dodgers stay alive in MLB playoffs
- Injury-ravaged Krygios aiming to return at Australian Open
- Greek international Baldock, dead at 31: family
- EU talks deportation hubs to stem migration
- Deaths and repression sideline Suu Kyi's party ahead of Myanmar vote
- S. Africa offers a lesson on how not to shut down a coal plant
- China opens $71 bn 'swap facility' to boost markets
- Mets advance on Lindor grand slam, Yankees and Tigers win
- Taiwan President Lai vows to 'resist annexation' of island
- China's solar goes from supremacy to oversupply
- Asian markets track Wall St record as Hong Kong, Shanghai stabilise
- 'Denying my potential': women at Japan's top university call out gender imbalance
- China's central bank says opens up $70.6 bn in liquidity to boost market
- Zelensky on whirlwind tour of Europe ahead of US vote
- Youth facing unprecedented wave of violence, UN envoy warns
- 'A casino in every kitchen': Brazil's online gambling craze
- Nobel chemistry winner sees engineered proteins solving tough problems
- Lindor powers Mets past Phillies into NL Championship Series
- Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF
- 'Sleeper agent' bots on X fuel US election misinformation, study says
- Death toll rises to 109 after Haiti gang attack, official says
- Tigers beat Guardians and on brink of advancing in MLB playoffs
- Argentina MPs back Milei's veto of university funding
- Man City sink Barca in Women's Champions League as Bayern outgun Arsenal
- Greek international Baldock, 31, found dead in pool: state agency
- Florida seaside haven a ghost town as hurricane nears
- Pharrell Williams to co-chair Met Gala exploring Black dandyism
- Wall Street indices hit fresh records as Chinese shares tumble
- Taiwan's president to deliver key speech for National Day
- Sea row on the menu as ASEAN leaders meet China's Li
- Injured Kane won't start England's Nations League clash with Greece
- Discord seen as online home for renegades
Olympics: Athletics, Day 8
A trio of American stars highlight Thursday's track and field line-up at the Olympics.
Noah Lyles goes for a sprint double while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone takes on Femke Bol in the women's 400m hurdles.
Grant Holloway will also bid to add Olympic gold to his three world titles in the 110m hurdles in Paris.
AFP Sport looks at five stand-out events on the eighth day of competition in the athletics programme.
Men's 200m - Final
After streaking to victory in the 100m by just five-thousandths of a second over Kishane Thompson, Lyles now turns his attention to his favoured 200m.
A three-time world champion in the event, Lyles goes into the final as hot favourite.
"I spent years working on the 100m, but the 200 is where it's at," said Lyles. "This is where I get to show my speed and endurance and my top-end speed.
"This is where I get to show I'm stronger than everybody else."
Contenders for the podium include teammates Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton as well as Botswana's Letsile Tebogo.
Men's 110m Hurdles - Final
Grant Holloway goes after the elusive medal missing from his packed trophy cabinet: Olympic gold.
The 26-year-old is a three-time world champion and the second-fastest man in history at the event, with a personal best of 12.81sec, just one-hundredth off Aries Merritt's mark.
But he was surprisingly beaten into silver at the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games in 2021 by Jamaican Hansle Parchment.
"The biggest thing is to execute this time and not really worry about the past and continue to show great form," said Holloway, also the two-time defending world indoor champion and world indoor record holder with a time of 7.27 seconds.
Women's 400m Hurdles - Final
This final promises to be one of the races of the Paris Games, pitching defending champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone against Femke Bol of the Netherlands.
McLaughlin-Levrone was one of the stars of the Tokyo Games after setting a world record when winning gold. Bol claimed bronze in that race.
Since then, the two stars have approached competition from differing stands.
While the American is very choosy of how often she races, Bol never seems to be off the track.
Already in Paris, Bol has won one gold after anchoring the Dutch to victory in the 4x400m mixed relay, with the aim of treble gold as a runner in the women's 4x400m relay.
Women's Long Jump - Final
Once mighty Germany would not have normally waited till the eighth day of track and field Olympic competition for their first sniff of a gold.
They look to defending champion Malaika Mihambo to once again save their honour and also make history by becoming the first woman to defend the title.
Mihambo, 30, threw down the gauntlet when she won the European title in Rome earlier this year.
Her biggest threat is likely to come from American duo, world indoor champion Tara Davis-Woodhall and Jasmine Moore.
Moore is seeking her second medal of the Games, having already written her place into the history books by becoming earlier this week the first American to win a medal in the women's triple jump.
Making history is nothing new to Moore -- who finished runner-up to Davis-Woodhall in the USA trials -- as she is the first American woman to qualify for both jumps at a Games.
Men's Javelin - Final
This could be a cracking clash between India's defending champion Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan.
Chopra made light work of qualifying, needing just one throw -- his second best ever mark of 89.34 metres -- and sending out a warning to the pretenders to his throne he is going to be very difficult to dislodge.
Nadeem took silver behind Chopra in the world championships last year but he knows what it takes to win a title having done so at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
In a stacked field Julian Weber is a contender and could make Germay's evening a double gold one.
The 29-year-old showed he is in potential title-winning form by throwing farther in qualifying than Chopra did in winning gold in Tokyo.
Others who could be contenders for medals at the very least are two former world champions Anderson Peters of Grenada, who took silver behind Nadeem in the Commonwealth Games, and Kenya's Julius Yego, who was runner-up in the 2016 Games in Rio.
Th.Berger--AMWN