From Imane Khelif’s ‘I am a woman’ to US player’s ‘cut-throat way’: Top 10 quotes from Paris Olympics 2024

Paris Olympics 2024: As the Summer Olympic Games 2024 come to a close on Sunday, August 11, in the French capital Paris, here are some top quotes from this year's international multi-sports event.

• Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, caught amid gender row after winning gold said, "I am fully qualified to take part, I am a woman like any other. I was born a woman, lived a woman and competed as a woman," reported AFP.

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• “I'm the wolf amongst wolves,” American track and field athlete Noah Lyles said after winning the 100 m race by just five-thousandths of a second.

• Criticising the catering in the Olympic village, American gymnast Hezly Rivera, who won a Gold medal, said, “I definitely think French food is good, but what we are having in there I don't think is the best. But it gets the job done,” reported AFP.
• Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic said, “This is probably the biggest sporting success I have ever had and the most special feeling.” He made this remark after he won a gold medal and completed the Golden Slam of the Olympic title and the four majors.

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• After the Chinese tennis player Zheng Qinwen won singles gold, US tennis player Emma Navarro said, “I think she goes about things in a pretty cut-throat way. It makes for a locker room that doesn't have a lot of camaraderie, so it's tough to face an opponent like that, who I really don't respect.”

• Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus said, "I look at myself, and I'm so normal. I hope nobody looks at me any differently. I'm just the same old goofy Tassie (Tasmanian) girl out here living her dream," after successfully defending her 400m freestyle title.

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• “This is fun no matter what age you are -- the coolest, funniest, most inclusive thing that you can do,” AFP quoted The 51-year-old British-American skateboarder Andy MacDonald as saying.
• “It was a record that needed to be off the books,” said Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen after American swimmer Bobbie Finke broke Chinese athlete Sun Yang's long-standing 1500m world record.

• Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen said, “It's the worst and best thing I've ever done in my life,” after swimming the 10k marathon in the Seine.

• “I ended up a little blind in one eye but I said 'here we go, I'm here to fight until the end,'” said Brazilian gymnast Flavia Saraiva, who competed with an eye bandage and won women's team gymnastics bronze following a fatal fall during warmup.

(With inputs from AFP)