July 2021

Australia’s medal rush at the Tokyo 2020 continued on Saturday with the Dolphins adding gold, silver and two bronze medals to their already-sizeable haul at the pool. Kaylee McKeown won her second individual gold of the Olympics with victory in the women’s 200m backstroke, while two-time gold medallist Ariarne Titmus added a silver to her […]

Another day and, incredible to say, another gold for Great Britain in the Olympic swimming pool. This one in the mixed 4x100m relay, which the quartet of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin won in a world record time of 3min 37.58sec. It was Britain’s fourth swimming gold medal of the week,

Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem, after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watching an Olympic event at a mall. The 40-year-old man was detained on Friday after allegedly waving colonial-era Hong Kong flags and booing, while urging others to join him in insulting the

American BMX racer Connor Fields suffered a brain bleed during a horror crash in Friday’s Olympic event but has been moved out of intensive care, his team confirmed on Saturday. Fields went down hard in a first-corner crash during the semi-final runs and was treated by the side of the circuit before being rushed to

Emma Wilson was not yet born when her mother narrowly missed out on Olympic windsurfing glory in 1992 and 1996. But 25 years after Penny Way finished seventh in Atlanta, her daughter secured a medal for the family at last with bronze at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour. Wilson entered the medals race on Saturday –

Until this month, few Australian sports fans had heard of Jian Fang Lay. Despite appearing at every Olympics since Sydney 2000, and winning seven Commonwealth Games medals, the 48-year-old had flown under the radar. With minimal funding and limited media interest, Australia’s table tennis players too often toil in obscurity. No longer. By competing at

In May last year, Sky Brown, the young skateboarding phenom, almost died when she fell 15ft onto her head while transitioning between vert ramps at a skate park in California. The horrifying impact fractured the 12-year-old’s skull, broke her wrist and hand, and left her unconscious as she was airlifted to hospital. Footage of the

Caeleb Dressel did not even have time to walk to the practice pool. The American star’s schedule was so tight that he warmed up for his third race of the morning by gently swimming laps of the diving pool while Advance Australia Fair played during a medal ceremony at the other end of the arena

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare is out of the Tokyo Olympics after being handed a provisional doping ban on the day of her 100 metres semi-final. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced that Okagbare had “tested positive for human growth hormone” in an out-of-competition test on 19 July. That resulted in a mandatory suspension, coming on the

A slow-burning Olympic golf tournament roared to life on Saturday as Xander Schauffele fought off attacks to cling to a one-shot lead over Hideki Matsuyama heading into the final round with Britain’s Paul Casey in a tie for third. The stage is set for a battle royale at Kasumigaseki Country Club on Sunday, with nine