2021

Sam Kerr would not have forgotten the weight of the silence that stretched and warped the world around her as she stood staring at the ball she had just launched over the crossbar in Nice in 2019. The Matildas had endured an onslaught from a determined Norway side, somehow stumbling into a desperate, exhausted penalty […]

Hege Riise praised “excellent’ Ellen White, after the striker scored her third goal at the Tokyo Olympics as a patient Team GB ensured their passage to the knockout stage with a defeat of hosts Japan. “It was a great goal,” the manager said, of the headed winner midway through the second half. “That’s the small

Adam Peaty admitted that the Tokyo 2020 Games feel “weird” and very different to a normal Olympics as he set the eighth fastest time in history to move into the 100m breaststroke semi-finals. Peaty promised there was plenty more in the tank after winning his heat in 57.56sec – nearly a quarter of a second

Helen Glover, the double Olympic rowing champion who came out of retirement last year in a bid to win a third gold medal in what she has described as a “lockdown project that’s gone too far”, insisted there was “more to come” after finishing third in her women’s pair heat with Polly Swann and qualifying

In the before times, when “urban cluster” was a phrase that meant something very different at the Tokyo Olympics, 3×3 basketball was poised to make some noise in its Games debut. It still did on Saturday – after all, DJs play music during contests to pump up the atmosphere. But while the world has grown

Last week, the double Paralympic world champion Olivia Breen shared a story of an incident at the English Athletics Championships. When she had just finished her long jump competition, a female official said “my sprint shorts were too short and inappropriate”, she wrote. “I was left speechless… they are specifically designed for competing in.” She

The United States women’s national team rebounded from their opening loss with a 6-1 rout of New Zealand in front of the first lady on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. With the United States leading 2-0 at the break, Jill Biden arrived in time to watch the team put the game away in the second

10.27am EDT 10:27 Via Reuters – A report on Japan’s first gold medal of the Games. Naohisa Takato said the medal was ‘heavy’, presumably referring to its actual weight, rather than any emotional impact he may be feeling: Naohisa Takato delivered the first gold medal of the Tokyo Games for a host nation desperate for

Simone Biles’s iconic status is not afforded just because she is the gold medal favourite going into the Tokyo Olympics and the dominant force in women’s artistic gymnastics for a decade. Nor is it based on the fact she out-performs her peers and predecessors – male and female – in international medal counts. Rather, it