August 2021

Following the drama that has headlined each session of the Tokyo 2020 track cycling, it was perhaps inevitable that Australia’s bronze medal clash with New Zealand in the men’s team pursuit on Wednesday would contain more of the same. Only this time it was Australia – who had missed out on the opportunity to challenge […]

Great Britain’s Ben Maher produced a fast and fearless performance to secure showjumping gold on Explosion W in a jump-off at Tokyo Equestrian Park on Wednesday. An astonishingly quick round by Maher and Explosion, which saw them finish the course in 37.85sec, pipped the Swedish rider Peder Fredricson to the top spot by 17-hundredths of

Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s Olympic medal hopes ended as the world champion pulled up injured in the heptathlon 200m before picking herself up to jog across the line. The 28-year-old went down after completing the bend. She refused treatment and completed the race but was disqualified because she left the lane. British Athletics confirmed Johnson-Thompson

Italy’s golden run of sporting success continued at the Tokyo 2020 track cycling on Wednesday, while the British Olympic legend Jason Kenny looked off the pace in the early rounds of the men’s individual sprint. In the only final of the day at the Izu Velodrome, Italy broke the men’s team pursuit world record to

Canada’s Andre De Grasse has won the men’s 200m at the Tokyo Olympics in a time of 19.62 seconds, ahead of USA’s Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles who won silver and bronze respectively. It was a brilliant run by De Grasse, who had never won a world or Olympic title, despite being one of the

The World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, has defended the sport’s controversial testosterone rules, saying that 18-year-old Christine Mboma’s late surge to win a surprise 200m silver medal suggests that they are vindicated. The Namibian powered home late to finish in 21.81sec – the fastest time ever by someone under 20. And when Lord Coe was

Simone Biles says she may return to Olympic competition again at the 2024 Games in Paris. Biles will be 27 when the Paris Olympics start, an age at which most gymnasts have long retired. Maria Gorokhovskaya won the women’s all-around title at the age of 30 at the 1952 Olympics. But the last time a

“Eye of the Tiger” would have been a more obvious choice, but Richard Torrez Jr defies many of boxing’s cliches. He strode towards the ring for his super heavyweight semi-final to the strains of the first movement of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” It seemed a rather gentle and ruminative choice of walk-up motivational music for an

One morning I woke up and I was like, ‘I’m more than my medals and gymnastics, I’m a human being,’” Biles said. “And I’ve done some courageous things outside of this sport as well and I’m not a quitter and it took all of that realizing to see that, because … if this situation didn’t

For most people watching the debut of sport climbing at the Tokyo Olympics, their knowledge of the sport was probably limited to glimpsing people hanging off ropes when picking the kids up from a birthday party at the local climbing centre. But if terms such as “dyno” and “scorpion” don’t mean much, most observers would