Commonwealth Games to actively encourage athletes to use their voice on social issues after previous Olympic podium protests ban Athletes will be allowed to protest on podiums at 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games Federation will encourage athletes to use their voices Dinas Asher-Smith criticised the ban on podium protests ahead of the Olympics By Riath Al-Samarrai … Read more
History is made! USA’s Erin Jackson becomes first African-American woman to win Olympic speedskating gold, as 29-year-old earns America’s first medal in the category since 2010 Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win Olympic speedskating gold Jackson’s win was also the USA’s first medal in the category for over a decade 29-year-old previously … Read more
Swiss ski star Kim Gubser, 21, is forced to hike back UP the slope after his WALLET flew out of his pocket mid-flip during the men’s Big Air qualifiers at Beijing Olympics Swiss skier Kim Gubser had an embarrassing moment during recent qualifiers On his third run in the men’s freestyle skiing big air qualifiers an … Read more
Heartbreak for Gemili! Team GB star immediately PULLS UP in 200m heats with injury as British sprinter is left inconsolable following ‘worst feeling in the world’ after Tokyo agony By Ollie Lewis For Mailonline Published: 22:40 EDT, 2 August 2021 | Updated: 00:23 EDT, 3 August 2021 Adam Gemili was left in tears after the … Read more
For a fleeting moment, Britain’s Laura Muir might have fancied that prospects of all those years of work translating into Olympic 1500m gold had improved when her rival Sifan Hassan stumbled and fell in her heat with only a lap to go. What ensued was a reminder gold may need divine intervention, as well the … Read more
‘It’s not personal but there can only be one winner’: Meet the ex-British Cycling allies – and former rider and coach – plotting to end Team GB’s ‘medal factory’ velodrome dominance in Tokyo with Holland and Denmark By David Coverdale For The Daily Mail Published: 12:28 EDT, 2 August 2021 | Updated: 18:08 EDT, 2 … Read more
Laura Collett did not imagine she would be here on this humid night under floodlights with a gold medal hanging round her neck. She wasn’t sure she would be alive at all, let alone part of the British eventing team who had just waltzed to a wonderful triumph at the Tokyo Equestrian Park, the country’s … Read more
There was an almighty splash and then the tiniest of waves. If Laurel Hubbard is the beginning of the end for the female category in sport then it truly is a takeover by stealth. A day that started with portents of doom closed with a Chinese lifter, Li Wenwen, breaking the Olympic record and a … Read more
Rafael Nadal chides old rival Novak Djokovic for angrily hurling his racket into the stands during Olympic defeat, calling his reaction ‘strange’ and reminding him he’s ‘an example for many children’ By Richard Martin For Mailonline Published: 05:12 EDT, 2 August 2021 | Updated: 13:18 EDT, 2 August 2021 Rafael Nadal has given Novak Djokovic … Read more
Soufiane El Bakkali becomes the first non-Kenyan man to win the Olympic 3,000m steeplechase as Moroccan ENDS their 37-YEAR reign of dominance after pushing to the front on the final lap in Tokyo Soufiane El Bakkali finished fourth at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro The Moroccan also came third at the 2019 World … Read more