August 2021

The Belarus Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has received a humanitarian visa from Poland upon seeking asylum after she was threatened with being bundled back to Minsk over her criticism of Olympic team officials. Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, wrote on Twitter on Monday that the Belarusian sprinter was in direct contact with Polish diplomats […]

Sam Kerr has the ball in the net and a protest on her lips. She’s buried it before anybody on the field can take a breath, but not before the referee has blown her whistle. An interference off the ball, it was adjudged, a mere half-second after Steph Catley took the free kick that her

The Ukrainian shooter Serhiy Kulish missed out on a medal after committing one of the most extraordinary howlers at the Tokyo Olympics by hitting an opponent’s target. Kulish, who won silver in the 10m air rifle event at Rio 2016, had sailed into Monday’s men’s 50m rifle final and was pushing for the podium when

As Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova’s wonderful, history-making first major competition came to an end with respectable sixth- and seventh-place finishes in the floor exercise final at the Tokyo Olympics, along with their joy was a resolve to be even better next time. “Unfortunately I wasn’t really up there. I did the best that I could

World number two Serhiy Kulish left the Asaka Shooting Range cursing himself after committing one of the most extraordinary howlers at the Tokyo Olympics – hitting an opponent’s target. The Ukrainian shooter had sailed into Monday’s final of the men’s 50-metre rifle 3 positions event chasing a second Olympic medal to go with his 10m

An underwater view shows Nikita Shleikher, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, after he completes a dive in the preliminary round of the men’s three-metre springboard diving. Photograph: François-Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images