2021

Netflix Original ‘The Investigator: A British Crime Story’ Leaving Netflix in August 2021

The Netflix Original docuseries The Investigator: A British Crime Story is scheduled to leave Netflix in the US and multiple other regions where it’s classed an Original series in August 2021.  Hosted by British journalist Mark Williams-Thomas, the series originally aired back in 2016 which was compared to Making A Murderer. The first season focused […]

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Confident Brisbane eagerly awaits its time to shine as host of the 2032 Olympics

The last time Brisbane bid to host the Olympic Games, many locals still referred to the place as “a big country town”. The Queensland capital’s opponents to host the 1992 games argued the city was too small and unknown. There are few similar doubts this time around, as Brisbane is set to be anointed host

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Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko found by police after fleeing hotel

A Ugandan athlete who fled during pre-Olympics training in western Japan last week has been found and is being interviewed by police, officials said on Tuesday. Mie prefectural police in central Japan said the 20-year-old weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was in the city of Yokkaichi, 105 miles east of his host town in western Japan. Police

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Tokyo 2020 on a knife edge as rumours spread as quickly as Covid

In Tinderbox Tokyo, on the eve of the first sporting action of these troubled Olympics, everyone appears to have the jitters. Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, admits to sleepless nights. Athletes and journalists increasingly fear their Games could end with a ping on their phone and a 14-day spell in quarantine. And

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Cake and Call of Duty: GB’s Reece Prescod on weight battles in lockdown

With an honesty every bit as breathtaking as his blistering speed, the most talented male sprinter in Britain is explaining how fast food, cake, and epic Call of Duty sessions nearly derailed his Olympic dream. “Deliveroo is the problem,” admits Reece Prescod and then, suddenly, it all starts to tumble out: how he turned up

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Australian Olympic showjumper suspended after testing positive for cocaine

Controversy hit Australia’s Olympic team on the first day of sporting action in Tokyo, with a remorseful Jamie Kermond kicked off the team after the showjumper tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine. Australia’s chef de mission at the 2020 Games, Ian Chesterman, confirmed on Wednesday that Kermond’s membership of the team had been terminated

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Australian team enjoy softball’s Olympic return despite mercy-rule defeat

There was no crowd, and no win, but for Australia’s softballers, returning to the Olympic stage was itself worthy of a cheer on Wednesday. Despite a heavy 8-1 loss to home-side Japan in the opening event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Aussie Spirit were pleased to be back after softball’s absence from recent Games.

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No entry: symbolism in Fukushima as Olympics begin in empty stadium

After a year’s delay and months of rancour … finally, some Olympic sport. Few will remember the details of Yukiko Ueno’s opening pitch to Michelle Cox in Japan’s softball match against Australia in Fukushima on Wednesday morning. But her delivery, witnessed by the organising committee president, Seiko Hashimoto, signalled that the most bizarre Games of

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