Less is more: LA Olympic Games do not need every sport so let’s cut your favourite
Jonathan Liew in Paris
From the Observer archive
Alec Rose, the greengrocer who circumnavigated the globe in 1968
Domination but no gold: are some Olympic events arbitrary and cruel?
Team GB’s Ellie Aldridge wins first ever Olympic kitesurfing gold medal
False start woe as Team GB sailors controversially ruled out during medal race
Paris Olympics 2024: day 12 – in pictures
Alfred the great puts St Lucia on map as GB Olympic medal surge continues
Emma Wilson claims mental health put at risk after Olympic windsurfing bronze
Grae Morris goes from dreaming of playing for the All Blacks to windsurfing Olympic medal
July 2024
From living in a van to Olympics contender: GB windsurfer Sam Sills
In 2021, out of cash and and heading out of the sport, the naval architect found himself with one last chance in rural Switzerland, he tells Ben Bloom …
June 2024
Hook knife and a crash helmet: the New Zealand hopeful preparing for kite foiling’s Olympic debut
One man dead and two rescued after yacht capsizes on Great Barrier Reef
April 2024
UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution
Jim Lawrence obituary
Beyond the Raging Sea review – cross-Atlantic rowing race likened to refugees’ ordeal
Iain Oughtred obituary
February 2024
Rocking the boat: would your marriage survive being shipwrecked together?
Imagine you and your partner were cast adrift in the ocean – it sounds romantic but what might happen?
Hannah Mills aims to win first women’s America’s Cup and buoy female sailors
The double Olympic gold medalist, who will reunite with her former partner Saskia Clark, has said: ‘I believe we can win, absolutely, and it would be mega’
Other lives
Harry Harrison obituary
Other lives: Social worker who helped numerous children and their families in a 50-year career
