August 2021

In an Olympics without crowds, athletes are becoming stars online as they use TikTok to provide a glimpse of life inside the Athletes’ Village and, for the winners, what it’s like to win a gold medal. Although copyright rules limit what athletes can post to TikTok – both of their own performances and within Games […]

Australia is edging towards its best ever Olympic performance, with a gold medal in the men’s 470 class sailing at Tokyo 2020 taking the nation’s tally to 15 – just two short of the 17 golds collected at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Mathew Belcher and William Ryan had established an unassailable lead at Enoshima Yacht

It was an afternoon of bloody, medal-laden, largely glorious defeat for Great Britain’s Olympic boxers at the Kokugikan Arena. In the light-heavyweight gold medal bout Ben Whittaker was beaten over three rounds by the Cuban Arlen López, a 28-year-old of great pedigree who is now a double Olympic champion. A silver medal is a considerable

The United States have drawn first blood in the first of three encounters with Australia across two sports at the Tokyo Games this week. Team USA’s historic unbeaten streak in women’s Olympic basketball continued on Wednesday, as the Americans eased past the Opals in their quarter-final clash. The defending champions have won the past five

Britain’s Hannah Mills said becoming the most successful female Olympic sailor ever “didn’t feel real” after the reigning champion and Eilidh McIntyre clinched the final sailing gold of the Tokyo Games in the women’s 470. “There’s such incredible female sailors. I am sure not too far away that will get trumped and that will be

On Monday when Canada beat the US 1-0 to advance to the women’s football final and guarantee themselves at least a silver medal, Quinn, their midfielder, took yet another step toward history. On Friday, they will become the first out transgender, non-binary athlete to win an Olympic medal. Quinn won bronze with Team Canada in

Sky Brown has become Britain’s youngest ever Olympian securing a bronze medal in skateboarding at just 13 years old. ‘It’s insane to be here,’ said Brown. ‘I am so happy to be on the podium with these guys. They are so amazing. Everyone ripped.’ Sky Brown would have been the youngest medallist from any country

The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has left Japan on a Vienna-bound plane after refusing to return to Belarus because she feared she would face punishment for publicly criticising her coaches for their “negligence”. Tsimanouskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland after she said Belarus officials attempted to bundle her on a plane. She requested

What do you say when you’ve just become the youngest person ever to win an Olympic medal for Great Britain? For Sky Brown, the extraordinarily gifted kid who won bronze in the women’s park skateboarding, it was the same stuff any happy teenager might come out with. “I’m so stoked. I can’t believe it. It’s