IOC praises weightlifter Laurel Hubbard before transgender athlete’s Olympic debut

The International Olympic Committee has praised the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard’s “courage and tenacity” as she prepares to become the first transgender athlete to compete in an Olympics on Monday. The IOC’s medical and science director, Dr Richard Budgett, said “everyone agrees that trans women are women”. Hubbard’s participation in Tokyo has proved controversial with her

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Olympic athletes fear domino effect as pole vaulters test positive for Covid

Two pole vaulters, including the US world champion, Sam Kendricks, have tested positive for Covid-19 in the Olympic Village, raising concerns of a potential domino effect among athletes. Kendricks’s father, Scott, broke the news on Instagram that his son had become the most high-profile athlete to test positive. Shortly afterwards another pole vaulter, the Argentinian

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Seoul boxing memories, Serie A’s heyday and the great Sally Gunnell | Classic YouTube

1) The Olympic boxing is in full swing, so let’s have a look back to the memorable 1988 edition. Here’s the great Roy Jones Jr losing his gold medal fight to Park Si-hun in a robbery so outrageous that he considered quitting the game and here’s Park explaining the impact of the verdict on his

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Team GB disappointed after television commentary gets players’ names wrong

Team GB’s Kim Little and Rachel Daly have criticised “disappointing” commentary in which players have been misnamed, as they prepared to play in Friday’s quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. The errors came in a broadcast of the women’s football tournament on Eurosport, whose coverage has come in for widespread criticism. During Team GB’s game against

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Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy win Ireland’s first Olympic rowing gold

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won Ireland’s first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday with a stunning victory in the lightweight men’s double sculls at the Sea Forest Waterway. It was Ireland’s first Olympic gold medal since 2012, its 10th in total, and its first in rowing. In blustery conditions, the 27-year-old O’Donovan

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Jess Fox a fitting victor in Olympics arena she has dominated for so long | Kieran Pender

In London it was silver. In Rio it was bronze. In Tokyo it was bronze. For so long, Olympic gold has eluded Australia’s slalom queen Jess Fox. But after waiting four years between London 2012 and Rio 2016, and five years for Tokyo 2020, Fox only had to wait 48 hours for a fourth attempt

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