When Dina Asher-Smith ran her first cross-country race in primary school she hated it so much she nearly stopped – only for her parents to bribe her with an ice cream to keep going. It worked – and then some. Asher-Smith ended up sprinting through the field to finish fifth out of 400 and a […]

An Olympic skateboarder who was put in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19 called the conditions at the hotel “inhuman” on Wednesday. Candy Jacobs has been in isolation for eight days and missed the street event in skateboarding’s debut as an Olympic sport. The Netherlands athlete said she had to force officials to allow her

Double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin has cemented her place in the history books as the most decorated British female Olympian of all time, winning a bronze in the individual dressage – her sixth Olympic medal. Dujardin and her horse Gio, riding together in their first Olympics, danced their way to legendary status in the Grand

US athletes across the Games have shown support for gymnastics star Simone Biles after she withdrew from the Olympics to focus on her mental health.  ‘I can only imagine the immense amount of pressure she is under’ said gold medal surfer Carissa Moore, ‘she is on every commercial, and billboard, and bag I see, and

South Americans will almost certainly disagree, but this summer of cycling surely belongs to Slovenia. After Tadej Pogacar followed up his second successive Tour de France title with bronze in the Tokyo 2020 road race at the weekend, Primoz Roglic has given the country its first Olympic gold medal in cycling. With Roglic finishing more

Their scrapbooks and trophy cases are filled with memories from glittering college careers and some impressive showings in the pros. Now, they all have Olympic gold medals to go with all that. The US team of Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young took an early lead against the team from Russia, then

Mental health campaigners have applauded Simone Biles for prioritising her wellbeing after the world’s top gymnast withdrew from the women’s all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, 24, pulled out of the competition after a medical evaluation determined that she was not ready to compete, following her decision to leave the women’s team event

10.23am EDT 10:23 Men’s gymnastics: British gymnasts James Hall and Joe Fraser have been chatting to the BBC following their top ten finishes in the men’s all-around. Hall: “I’m over the moon and after the last year the uncertainty and not knowing what will happen or where my gymnastics is at,” he said after finishing

Berlin ready for Olympic Games From our Berlin correspondent27 July 1936 That the Olympic visitor to Germany will perforce not be able to see the great work of preparation that has preceded his corning is a pity, for he would have appreciated it. It has been on an imposing scale and has provided excitement for