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‘This old dog’s got a lot of fight left in him’: South Africa’s Chad Le Clos aims for second Olympic gold, aged 32

By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — When 32-year-old swimming star Chad Le Clos is asked about his chances at the Paris Olympics, South Africa’s most decorated Olympian of all time is resolute: “I have unfinished business,” he told CNN. Despite his “horrendous time” at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where he didn’t win a medal and

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Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata withdraws from Olympic Games after smoking and drinking alcohol

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Shoko Miyata, the captain of Japan’s women’s gymnastics team, has withdrawn from Paris 2024 after allegedly breaking the team’s code of conduct by smoking and drinking alcohol, according to the Japanese Gymnastics Association (JGA). The legal smoking and drinking age in Japan is 20 and the JGA’s code of conduct prohibits gymnasts from doing

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