August 2021

Bev Priestman is a fully paid-up subscriber to the view that fortune favours the brave. “The teams and players that do great things are courageous,” says the first English coach to guide a team into an Olympic football final for 73 years. The 35-year-old from Consett in County Durham will lead Canada out against Sweden […]

Carli Lloyd said the biggest takeaway from the scintillating bronze-medal-winning performance of USA in their 4-3 defeat of Australia was that you “don’t win championships without the winning mentality”. The USA team had laboured to a semi-final against Canada in which they endured a bruising 1-0 defeat and Lloyd reflected on the impact of the

The women’s Olympic football final has been moved to later in the day and switched to a different venue because of heat concerns. The match between Sweden and Canada was scheduled to take place in the main Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and kick off at 11am local time on Friday. However, temperatures in the Japanese

6.33am EDT 06:33 Okay, I’m off, but keep an eye out for Suzy Wrack’s match report which drop soon. In the interim there is a heap else happening in other Olympic sports you can follow here. Ciao for now. 6.30am EDT 06:30 Sam Kerr scored her 48th international goal tonight, which takes her past Lisa

A few minutes after he had finished skating in the Olympics, Dallas Oberholzer, 46, from Durban, South Africa, launched into a story about the time he was nearly eaten by a jaguar while he was travelling in the Amazon. “I was driving a little jeep and I got stuck in the mud, I tried putting

Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw won a surprise bronze medal in the Olympic pole vault competition behind the United States’ gold medal winner Katie Nageotte and Anzhelika Sidorova. Bradshaw, 29, the British record holder, managed a first-time clearance at 4.85m which was enough to secure the bronze medal despite three failures at 4.90m. It marked her

Australia has equalled its best Olympic performance of all time, with two gold medals won in the space of 30 minutes on an eventful Thursday afternoon taking the nation’s Tokyo 2020 haul to 17 golds. With three days remaining, the team’s historic performance at Athens 2004 has already been matched. Skateboarder Keegan Palmer was dominant

It felt like an eternity. After Australia’s Jake Whetton had missed his penalty shootout attempt in the men’s hockey gold medal match on Thursday night, the Belgium team erupted in celebration. They mobbed each other and their heroic goalkeeper, Vincent Vanasch. In the stands, their staff jumped for joy – a pocket of energy at

10.23am EDT 10:23 It has been a very good day for Australia, who are currently winning the battle for the top four in the medal table. 10.17am EDT 10:17 Your friend and mine, Gary Naylor, has been in touch about the toughest sports for commentators: Hi Paul. Commentating on the Points Race in the velodrome