Canadians mine pair of golds in Paris
Canadian wheelchair racer Cody Fournie won his second gold medal of the Paralympic Games on Thursday.
The 35-year-old from Victoria won the men's T51 100 metres at Stade de France in a Paralympic-record time of 19.63 seconds. Fournie also won the 200 metres Tuesday.
Fournie's gold medal was the Canadian team's fourth at the track and seventh medal overall.
Also Thursday, Canadian swimmer Sebastian Massabie set a new world record in claiming gold at the Paralympics.
The 19-year-old Toronto product finished with a time of 35.61 seconds in the men's S4 50-metre freestyle event on Friday. That reset his previous Paralympic record of 36.95 from Friday morning's heats and broke the world record of 36.25 by Israel's Ami Omer Dadaon from June 2022.
The gold is Massabie's first career Paralympic medal in his debut at the Games. He finished fifth in the 100 freestyle and sixth in the 200 freestyle earlier in the Paralympics.
Jelena Ostapenko and Lyudmyla Kichenok
won the U.S. Open women's doubles championship Friday for their first major title as a team, beating Kristina Mladenovic and Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-3.
The No. 7 seeds began the season with a loss in the Australian Open final but were too good in Flushing Meadows, where they didn't drop a set.
The city of Paris wants
to honour late Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her.
The proposal was announced by Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Friday and will be discussed by city officials in October.
Cheptegei died on Thursday at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80 per cent of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33.
Cheptegei competed in the women's marathon at the Paris Olympics less than a month ago and finished 44th.
Every 11 minutes on average, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member somewhere in the world, according to figures from UN Women, the agency promoting gender equality, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
All-pro Jalen Ramsey and the
Miami Dolphins have agreed on a three-year, Us$72.3-million contract extension.
NFL Network first reported the deal that will pay Ramsey US$24.1 million per year and make him the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL, reached just days after the Denver Broncos signed Patrick Surtain II to a four-year contract extension.
The US$24 million-peryear average on Surtain's deal vaulted him past Tampa Bay safety Antoine Winfield Jr. (US$21.025 million) and Green Bay cornerback Jaire Alexander (US$21 million) as the highest-paid defensive back in the NFL.