2021

In an effort to expand its Asian catalog, Netflix will be producing a feature film adaptation of Maurene Goos’ young adult romance I Believe In A Thing Called Love where a high school senior decides to use the laws of K-drama romances to land herself a boyfriend. The script for Netflix’s I Believe in a Thing […]

Around 9am local time, this coming Friday, Dina Asher-Smith will crouch on a starting line in Tokyo, ready for her first race of the Olympic Games. Nose this close to the ground, hugger-mugger with the other athletes, the moment will smell to her of skin cream and sweat, also the rubber of the track, a

Tom Daley was only 13 the first time I interviewed him in April 2008. “He is small and smiley,” I wrote, “with flashing braces on his teeth and an engaging way of setting you at ease within minutes of meeting him. He likes playing on the Wii far more than football and, one day, he

When are the key events? The opening ceremony is at 8pm Tokyo time (9pm AEST/noon BST/7am EDT) on Friday 23 July, but the baseball, softball and football competitions begin on Wednesday 21 July. The first gold medal is expected to be awarded in the women’s 10m air rifle early on Saturday 24 July, with the

With early coverage of the Games inevitably focused on coronavirus, geopolitical tensions have barely had a look-in. But South Korea and its former colonial ruler Japan are doing their best to revive the Olympic tradition. They have clashed over politically charged banners hanging from the South Korean team’s balconies, while a planned appearance by the

Success at Olympic trials is an invitation to look ahead, but the new star of American men’s swimming sounded nostalgic when he confirmed his trip to Tokyo. Caeleb Dressel may well win gold in three individual events in Japan, but he reflected on what the US team has lost as well as what the coming

Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for Covid-19 before leaving the United States for the Olympics and will miss the Tokyo Games. He’ll be replaced by Patrick Reed. Spain’s Jon Rahm, the world No 1, will also miss the Olympics after testing positive The pair were due to make their debuts in the Games when the men’s

Athletes have been warned to stop hugging each other on the Olympic podium as such celebrations breach strict Covid rules laid out in the Tokyo 2020 rules. All 12 swimmers from the Australia, Canada and US 4x100m relay medal-winning teams hugged each other after Sunday’s final, as did 400m individual medley champion Chase Kalisz and

Chelsie Giles claimed Great Britain’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympics, winning bronze by defeating Switzerland’s Fabienne Kocher in the women’s -52kg judo. The 24-year-old from Coventry, who bagged her first grand slam gold medal in Israel earlier this year, overcame Macedonia’s Arbresha Rexhepi and Morocco’s Soumiya Iraoui to reach the quarter-final, where she was

First, the facts. Great Britain, the reigning Olympic women’s hockey champions, began their title defence with a 2-1 defeat to Germany in Pool A. The statistics will show that a scuffed penalty from Viktoria Huse cancelled out Sarah Jones’s close-range opener before Charlotte Stapenhorst scored the winner in the third quarter. But that’s not the