The Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who alleges she was taken against her will by team officials to Tokyo airport, is being protected by police and the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are also involved, the IOC confirmed on Monday. Tsimanouskaya, who was due to compete in the women’s 200m on Monday, sought the protection of […]

If there’s one message the Olympics unfailingly conveys, it’s that elite competition is all about making the right choices. At a certain point every athlete needs to make the decision not to do certain things: the fencer lunging for the head rather than the body, the trampolinist starting their routine on the third jump instead

Simone Biles will compete again at the Tokyo Olympics. The six-time Olympic medallist will contest the balance beam final on Tuesday, the final day of artistic gymnastics in Tokyo. USA Gymnastics announced on Monday that both she and her teammate, all-around champion Sunisa Lee, will take their places in the final. Its tweet read: “We

Team GB won two eventing medals at the Tokyo Olympics after Tom McEwen added individual silver to the team competition gold won earlier on Monday evening. The British equestrian team last won the event in 1972, and it is Team GB’s 11th gold medal of the 2020 Games. The 62-year-old Andrew Hoy led the Australian

Canada’s manager, Bev Priestman, said the team’s historic victory against USA was “absolutely” the best moment of her career and that her players “have got to believe we can do something really really special” in the final, where they face Sweden. “We were clear we wanted to change the colour of the medal and we

Here’s a look at today’s teams. USA coach Vlatko Andonovski makes three changes from the lineup that faced the Netherlands in the quarter-finals: Tierna Davidson for Abby Dahlkemper in the back, Rose Lavelle for Sam Mewis in the midfield and Alex Morgan for Carli Lloyd in front. USA XI: Naeher, Dunn, Davidson, Sauerbrunn (C), O’Hara,

When climbing makes its Olympic debut at these Games the spotlight will be on a field including Great Britain’s Shauna Coxsey. Elite climbers like Coxsey perfectly coordinate their movements, swinging their hips and using explosive power in their legs and arms to push downwards and launch towards their target hold, before catching it and controlling

In the hours between Taiwan winning gold and silver in Olympic badminton on the weekend, local courts in Taipei were packed with enthusiastic young players. The nail-biting matches had lit a fire of sporting patriotism – not least because both were against China, Taiwan’s goliath neighbour, which claims Taiwan as a province it must retake.

Eight-time Olympian Andrew Hoy has become Australia’s oldest Olympic medallist, winning a Tokyo 2020 silver medal as part of the equestrian eventing team on Monday. The 62-year-old Hoy, plus teammates Shane Rose and Kevin McNab, finished second behind Great Britain in the equestrian team eventing discipline. The French team were narrowly behind in third. Then

The track cycling at Tokyo 2020 has begun with high drama and world records, as Great Britain were put on notice that their dominance is at risk. Neither of their Rio gold medal-winning team pursuit quartets qualified fastest on Monday, with the men fortunate to remain in contention to defend their Olympic crown. But it