July 2021

Australian tennis players Ash Barty and John Peers were awarded the bronze medal in the mixed doubles at Tokyo 2020, claiming only the nation’s sixth tennis medal in Olympics history, after Serbian world No 1 Novak Djokovic pulled out due to injury. Barty and Peers were due to face Djokovic and Nina Stojanovic on Saturday […]

Dina Asher-Smith broke down as she revealed how her Olympic dreams were shattered by a hamstring tear she kept hidden from the world and the hard work it took to make it back to the start line in Tokyo. While the Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah powered home to defend her 100m Olympic title in a stunning

Great Britain’s Lauren Price secured at least a bronze in the women’s middleweight boxing and Karriss Artingstall had to settle for a medal of the same colour after her defeat in the semi-finals of the featherweight competition. “This has been my dream since I was an eight-year-old. Just to be an Olympian, let alone win

Team GB were one minute and stoppage time away from an Olympic semi-final. When the Australian midfielder Emily van Egmond scooped the ball from just inside the GB half on to the chest of an unmarked Sam Kerr, who, with all the time in the world, chested down, twisted and crashed home an equaliser, the

Elaine Thompson-Herah produced a stunning sprinting performance to take gold in the women’s 100m at the Tokyo Olympics. The Jamaican, who won the blue riband event at Rio in 2016, held off her compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who took silver, and Shericka Jackson, who won bronze, to take victory in 10.61sec, breaking Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old

The CEO of the US Anti-Doping Agency, Travis Tygart, has dismissed the punishment handed down for Russia’s state sponsored doping program as a “farce”. The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned official Russian teams from Tokyo 2020, the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2022 World Cup as a punishment for covering up a massive state-sponsored doping

Novak Djokovic will leave the Tokyo Olympics without a medal after falling in the men’s bronze medal match 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 to Pablo Carreño Busta of Spain, capping a painful 24 hours during which he lost three matches before giving a walkover in the mixed doubles bronze medal match to Ashleigh Barty and John Peers.

A point is what Great Britain needed and three points is what they got. This was job done for the defending women’s Olympic champions, who only needed a draw to guarantee progress from Pool A but left the Oi Hockey Stadium with a comfortable 2-0 win against Ireland to set up a quarter-final on Monday

“In the trials final I actually pulled my hamstring at 60 metres. I was initially told in Manchester that it was a rupture, and I would require surgery, and it would take three to four months to get back. It’s been a lot to deal with because that diagnosis, you’re like, yeah I just can’t

Two one-hundredths of a second. Blink and you would miss it – quite literally. But 0.02 seconds is now all that stands between Rohan Browning becoming just the second Australian in history to sprint 100m in less than 10 seconds. Browning is a natural showman. His first post-race comments to the media, gathered in the