Yesterday, Iran's new president took office. Edouard Johnson looks at the recent Iranian presidential election that saw victory for Ebrahim Raisi in the continuation of our Global Election Series.
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Laura Muir smashed the British record as she won silver in the women’s 1500m. Muir finished the race in a time of 3:54.50, coming behind defending champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, while world champion Sifan Hassan took the bronze after a close-fought battle over the final 250m. Kipyegon took the...
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Team GB’s Lauren Price will fight for a women’s middleweight gold after defeating Dutch opponent Nounchka Fontijn in the semi-final. Price advanced on a split decision to set up a final-round clash with China’s 2018 world champion Li Qian. Fontijn narrowly won the first round, using her height to keep...
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Kate French has claimed gold in the modern pentathlon after breaking away from the field with a dominant run in the final event. She began the laser run, a 3,200-metre run punctuated by four shooting stages, in fifth place. However, she took the lead during the second running section, surging...
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Laura Kenny became the first British women to win at three Olympic Games after she and Katie Archibald won the madison event gold. The GB cyclists won with a truly dominant performance, taking gold with 78 points. The madison event is typically unpredictable, but Kenny and Archibald were confident through,...
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It was a great day for Team GB’s women as they won seven medals – in the process, Laura Kenny made British history, and Laura Muir ended a near-decade drought for major medals. Kenny became the first British women to win at three Olympic Games after she and Katie Archibald...
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After the BPI reported that over a quarter of music consumed in 2020 came from independent labels, Ines Robledo looks at how indie labels are contesting the dominance of big conglomerates like Sony and Warner.
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Danny Stewart’s Coventry Blaze will open their 2021/22 Elite Ice Hockey League campaign on home ice against the Fife Flyers on Saturday 25 September, with pre-season set to begin ten days earlier versus the Manchester Storm. The long wait for ice hockey’s return to the West Midlands will end on...
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Coventry Blaze head coach Danny Stewart has predicted that new signing Nathanael Halbert will bounce back from injury after signing for the Skydome Arena outfit. Halbert, 25, arrives in Coventry after spending the rest of his career in Canada, where he made seven appearances and registered one assist for the...
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Niall Hawkins explains why the Lib Dem's victory over the Tories in Chesham and Amersham may provide a path back into government for Labour, although that path may not be a comfortable one to travel
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Holly Bradshaw won the first Olympic pole vault medal in British history after taking bronze in the women’s final. Bradshaw cleared 4.85m on her first attempt to beat defending champion Katerina Stefandi of Greece to secure a spot on the podium. The USA’s Katie Nageotte was the only athlete to...
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Spain’s Alberto Ginés López won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in combined sport climbing. The USA’s Nathaniel Coleman won the silver, while Austria’s Jakob Schubert took the bronze. López laid down a marker at the start of the event by winning the speed discipline. He upset Japan’s Tomoa Narasaki in...
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<Great Britain’s Matt Walls has won a track cycling gold in the men’s omnium at the Tokyo Games. On his debut, Walls finished on a total of 153 points, 24 ahead of New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart on 129, while defending champion Elia Viviani of Italy took bronze with 124. This...
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