Simone Biles has withdrawn from the women’s all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday after a further medical evaluation determined that she is not yet ready to compete. The news followed her dramatic decision to stop competing in the women’s team event on Tuesday after only one rotation on the vault due to […]

Daniil Medvedev, the men’s world No 2, has requested the removal of a journalist from the tennis competition at the Olympic Games after being asked about the reaction towards ROC athletes since the Russian doping scandal. The encounter took place in the mixed media zone after Medvedev’s dramatic three-set win over Fabio Fognini at the

Maggie Steffens and the United States have dominated women’s water polo since the country won its first gold medal in the sport at the 2012 London Olympics. The world is pushing back at the Tokyo Games, and it remains to be seen how Steffens and company respond. The Americans were handed their first loss at

Swerving off course, veering out of its lane at the last. Sport loves a metaphor. As Britain’s Olympic rowers reeled off a series of wholehearted but ultimately disappointing finishes at the Tokyo 2020 waterfront it was hard to avoid the sense the men’s coxless four had dished up their own slightly hammy, if unavoidably persuasive

The Great Britain diver Jack Laugher has lost the Olympic crown he won in the synchronised diving in Rio, after a “stinker” of a performance with his partner, Dan Goodfellow, at the Aquatics Centre in Tokyo. Laugher was hoping to become a two-time Olympic champion in the men’s 3m synchronised diving, having defied expectations to

This time there were no question marks hanging over Annemiek van Vleuten’s celebrations, only exclamations of joy that after the pain of Rio 2016 and the mild embarrassment of last weekend, she is finally an Olympic cycling champion. The Dutch cyclist dominated an experienced field on her way to winning gold in the women’s individual

On 3 August 2016, when skateboarding was officially approved for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics, Momiji Nishiya was looking forward to her ninth birthday later that month. Five years and one pandemic postponement later, she became her sport’s first female gold medalist, winning the street event in Tokyo earlier this week. She is just 13

Fiji’s rugby sevens team wrote another chapter in one of the great Olympic stories at the Tokyo Stadium, when they won the country’s second gold medal by beating New Zealand 27-12 in the final. Their captain, Jerry Tuwai, who played in 2016 too, reckoned this victory was “even more special” than their famous first because

Three years ago, reflecting on a career that, until that point had been defined by adversity rather than triumph, Rohan Dennis insisted: “If you keep knocking on the door, one day it will open.” It was an apt mantra for Dennis, a mercurial cyclist from South Australia. In the three years since, the door has

Team GB’s goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck has said she needed to be patient to earn the No 1 shirt as an international, after conceding her first goal at the Olympics in Team GB’s 1-1 draw with Canada. In 2019 the Manchester City keeper was named as a 24th player in the 23-woman squad for the Women’s