Much as critics and film fans often disagree, there is one universal truth uniting them this year – the summer blockbuster season has, on the whole, been a bit poor. Our cinemas have been prone to dud after dud and, after the record summer last year, it is worth asking...
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Mo Farah made yet more Olympic history after winning the Rio 2016 5,000m, taking his gold medal tally to four and completing an historic ‘double double’. He is only the second athlete to win the 5,000m and 10,000m at two successive Olympic Games, matching the benchmark set by Finland’s Lasse...
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Usain Bolt has secured his place as one of the greatest Olympians of all time after completing an historical triple-triple at Rio 2016. After the Jamaican men’s team claimed victory in the 4x100m relay, Bolt picked up his ninth Olympic gold medal – at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and now...
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Nicola Adams successfully defended her Olympic flyweight title at the Rio 2016 Games, becoming the first female in history to win back-to-back boxing golds. After a unanimous decision against France’s Sarah Ourahmoune, Adams became the first Team GB boxer to retain an Olympic title in 92 years. It took a...
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Team GB’s Alistair and Jonny Brownlee proved why they are the biggest names in triathlon, as they won the gold and silver respectively at the Rio 2016 Games. Alistair protected his title in the men’s event as he picked up Britain’s 20th gold medal of the Games, while his brother...
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And just like that, we have reached the end of Rio 2016. Reece Goodall picks and previews his events to watch over the final weekend of action.
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Superman is one of the best-known characters in comic book history, an icon that everybody is familiar with. An alien from the planet Krypton, there is no doubt that he is an impossible idea but, if we were to use our current understanding of science to think about him, how...
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Liang Wenbo has won his first ranking title in the inaugural English Open, defeating Judd Trump 9-6 in the final. He became only the fourth Asian player to win a ranking title after James Wattana, Ding Junhui and Marco Fu, and just the second from mainland China (after Ding). For...
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South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk won the men’s 400m gold in one of the stories of the Rio Olympics, breaking Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record in the process. The runner finished in 43.03 seconds, 0.15 seconds quicker than the time Johnson produced in Seville in 1999 – it had rarely...
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Andy Murray has won Olympic gold in the men’s singles tennis at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. After a gruelling four-hour match, Murray eventually overcame Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 7-5 4-6 6-2 7-5 to secure the win on what would be Great Britain’s most successful day at an overseas...
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Team GB's success in Rio this weekend was so unbelievable that it almost (only almost) overshadowed Usain Bolt. Reece Goodall rounds-up the action.
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Nick Dempsey has made history by winning silver in the windsurfing event at Rio 2016, becoming the first man to win three Olympic medals in the sport and adding another medal to Team GB’s Brazilian collection. He won silver in London 2012, and took his first medal with bronze at...
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Justin Rose has won gold in golf, becoming the sport’s first Olympic champion since 1904, by seeing off Henrik Stenson in a close-fought final. The GB golfer had already made history by hitting Olympic golf’s first hole-in-one, but he required all of his nerve as his opponent ate into his...
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