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 […]

Hege Riise has said her Team GB women’s football squad can “absolutely” win gold at the Olympics and have all the ingredients for success. “The chemistry within the players is excellent,” said the former Olympic champion Riise, who won gold with Norway at the Sydney Games in 2000. “If we can enjoy it and not

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

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.

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

After the clasp of teammates around Ellen White peeled away following her close-range strike against Chile that brought Team GB’s first goal in 3,277 days, the forward looked down and held her hands to her face in her familiar glasses celebration. It was muted; a world away from the exuberant uplifting celebration that became a

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

The 400m hurdler Jessie Knight has revealed she is one of the six British track and field athletes forced to self isolate after coming into close contact with a passenger on her flight to Tokyo. The 27-year-old told the Guardian she had initially panicked when approached by an official on Sunday, as she thought she

Back in the spring of 2019, Naomi Osaka was coming off consecutive grand slam titles and digesting her newfound presence as a leading name in world sport when the subject shifted to the seemingly imminent 2020 Olympics. In order to represent Japan there, the then 21 year-old Osaka would have to attempt to gain full