August 2021

Back on track but not exactly back to normal is how it looks for the golden couple of British cycling, Jason and Laura Kenny, who this week have the chance to press on further into the record books as the track cycling programme starts at the Izu velodrome on Monday. Both compete three times – […]

Xander Schauffele won an Olympic gold medal he badly wanted by overcoming more pressure than he could have imagined on Sunday. Right when Schauffele appeared to lose his firm grip on the gold, the 27-year-old American responded with two clutch putts at the end for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot victory over Rory Sabbatini

The Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan has announced she will make an audacious and historic assault on the 1500m, 5,000m and 10,000m treble at the Tokyo Olympics. The triple gold attempt will involve six hard races in eight days, including competing in the 1500m heats on Monday morning followed by the 5,000m final the same night,

If you had not just seen Duncan Scott do it, you could never have guessed what he had achieved. His silver in the men’s 4x100m medley relay made him the first British athlete ever to win four medals at one Olympic Games, and the most successful British swimmer in Olympic history, on the most successful

Members of the Welwyn Wheelers cycling club will be setting their alarms early this week to be sure to catch Laura Kenny’s efforts to smash Olympic records and add three more gold medals to her collection. Kenny trained at the Hertfordshire club from about the age of nine, with her older sister Emma. The girls

In 1992, 11-year-old Guy Fraser spent his summer vacation fiddling with a radio. He was searching, sometimes in vain, for an English-language broadcast of the Olympics in Barcelona. He was trapped in France. Oblivious to the Olympics – and her son’s devotion to them – Fraser’s mother had booked a two-week break that coincided almost

Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade has added a gold medal on vault to go with the silver she earned in the all-around. Andrade put together a pair of soaring vaults to post an average of 15.083. The medals Andrade has won in Tokyo are the first and second ever for Brazil in women’s gymnastics at the

Alexander Zverev followed up his upset of Novak Djokovic by becoming the first German man to win a singles gold medal in Olympic tennis with victory over Karen Khachanov. Having ensured his countrywoman Steffi Graf remains the only tennis player to win the golden slam of all four major titles and Olympic gold in one

Max Whitlock never watches his rivals’ performances. At least not until he is finished himself. Until then, he focuses on his own actions and all the things that are within his power to control. It appears to have been a good tactic for him over the years but on the day of his third Olympic

Great Britain’s eventers will go for Olympic gold in team and individual competitions on Monday after a vintage collection of cross-country performances at Sea Forest Park. The world No 1 Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen hold a huge lead of 17.9 penalties in the team event. Yorkshireman Townend, meanwhile, also heads the individual