This is what we know about the men’s 100m final in Tokyo: Armed with his three Olympic 100m golds and a seemingly unapproachable world record, Usain Bolt is now happily retired. His twin sons Thunder and St Leo arrived a few weeks ago. The reigning world champion, Christian Coleman, is banned from competing until November […]

Hege Riise spoke of the importance of managing the mental toll tournament football can take on players and described her whirlwind management of Team GB as a “privilege” as she readied her squad to face Australia in the quarter-finals of the Olympics. The former Norway midfielder – who won Olympic gold in 2000, the World

It was the morning after the morning before for Duncan Scott, who produced a composed swim to qualify for the men’s 200m individual medley final, winning his semi-final 24 hours after the emotional rush of anchoring Great Britain’s 4x200m freestyle team to gold. The Glasgow-born 24-year-old, an individual silver medallist in the 200m freestyle on

Sunisa Lee produced a brilliant performance to secure gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around on Thursday in Tokyo. The 18-year-old won ahead of Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade in silver and the Russian gymnast Angelina Melnikova, who won bronze. Jessica Gadirova was Great Britain’s best finisher in 10th. “It feels crazy, it is so surreal,” Lee said

Among those willing on Helen Glover and Polly Swann as they finished fourth in the Olympic women’s pairs rowing, few were more tense than Heather Stanning, Glover’s former gold medal-winning partner. “It was absolutely nerve-racking,” said Stanning, whose own son was born two weeks after Glover (who already had a young son) gave birth to

Great Britain were so far ahead that, just for a moment, Tyla Nathan-Wong struggled to remember the score – “21-0 down, or however it was,” the New Zealand player said afterwards. That is exactly how it was, as three tries in the first four-and-a-half minutes gave Great Britain an improbably large lead against the world’s

Simone Biles has given us many groundbreaking performances. This week she has pushed the boundaries of sport once more. Not by expanding her already extraordinary technical expertise as a gymnast but by challenging the persistent, macho narrative around what Olympic success and sporting strength should look like. Biles follows tennis players Naomi Osaka at the

Crystal Dunn believes the US women’s national team have only “scratched the surface” of what they can achieve at the Tokyo Olympics before a quarter-final against the Netherlands on Friday. The US uncharacteristically held back in their final game of Group G against Australia and a 0-0 draw ensured they finished second behind Sweden but

Twenty minutes till start time. Here’s a more detailed look at the 24 women in today’s competition: First group • Sunisa Lee (USA)Making Olympic Games debut. Finished 8th at 2019 WCh, silver in floor, bronze in uneven bars and 12th in beam. Won team event at 2019 WCh and at 2018 Pacific Rim Ch. •

10.21am EDT 10:21 Volleyball: Turkey win the third set 25-17! Get those rally caps on, Turkish fans. “We’re going to find out what these world champions are made of,” says the TV commentator. “This is the Olympic stage.” Call Me Maybe plays around the arena, which is straight from the London 2012 playlist. 17mil views!