August 2021

Athing Mu has raced to Olympic gold in the women’s 800m with Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson winning silver – Team GB’s first athletics medal of the Tokyo Games. Mu stormed home in a time of 1min 55.21sec to become the first US woman to win 800m gold since Madeline Manning in 1968. Fellow 19-year-old Hodgkinson […]

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah completed the double double after defending her 200 metres title at the Olympics. The 29-year-old finished ahead of Namibia’s Christine Mboma and the USA’s Gabby Thomas in Tokyo on Tuesday to successfully retain both of the Olympic gold medals she won in 2016. She set a new national record in 21.53 seconds

Simone Biles has spoken again on the importance of recognising mental health in sport. The US gymnast was speaking after securing a bronze medal in the beam, the seventh Olympic medal of her career. Earlier in the Games, Biles pulled out of the team final due to mental health concerns, and then also withdrew from

On a day that looks to have marked the end of Great Britain’s dominance of track cycling at Olympic level, there were symbols aplenty that the world has moved on, beyond the bald facts of the medal table. Dramatic crashes involving the men’s and women’s team pursuit squads closed the run of Olympic Games when

For so long, an Olympic medal has eluded the Australian men’s basketball team, the Boomers. At four Olympics, spread across four decades, the Australians have reached the semi-finals only to lose and then lose again in the bronze medal clash. Most recently, at the 2016 Rio Games, the Australians lost out on bronze to Spain

10.30am EDT 10:30 Climbing: Mickaël Mawem of France has qualified in first place for the inaugural sport climbing final on Thursday. He finished with 33 points. His brother Bassa has also reached the final. Here are the eight finalists for the men’s event: 1. Mickaël Mawem, France, 33 points2. Tomoa Narasaki, Japan, 56 points3. Colin

Roniel Iglesias, the brilliant Cuban veteran, became a two-time Olympic champion when he beat Britain’s Pat McCormack on a wide and unanimous decision in Tuesday’s final of the welterweight division. The 32-year-old Iglesias won bronze at the 2008 Games in Beijing before becoming the Olympic light-welterweight champion at London 2012. He is now one of