Jason Kenny has become the most decorated British Olympian ever after winning his seventh gold medal in the men’s keirin cycling final. The cyclist comfortably won the final, making an early move to leave the leading pack trailing and then sprinting clear with three laps remaining. Malaysia’s Mohd Azizulhasni Awang...
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Team GB won two more gold medals on the final day of the Tokyo Games to move their total to 65, equalling the number won at London 2012. With these medals, Jason Kenny cemented his name in the British history books and Lauren Price consolidated British boxing’s record best showing....
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Great Britain has finished the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with 65 medals. The nation picked up 22 gold medals, 20 silvers and 22 bronzes to finish fourth in the medal table, below the USA, China and hosts Japan. The total equalled Team GB’s tally for London 2012, and was just two...
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Reece Goodall explores new research which dates Canterbury Cathedral's stained glass windows back to the mid-12th century!
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Great Britain’s Joe Choong has won the men’s modern pentathlon event. It is GB’s first-ever Olympic medal for the men’s event, and the 20th gold won at Tokyo 2020. The Briton won with a total of 1482 – Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy burst through the pack to take silver with 1477,...
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Tom Daley won bronze in the men’s 10m platform diving event. In an enthralling final, there was a three-way battle for the gold medal. However, the Chinese divers Cao Yuan and Yang Jian were in impressive form, and won the gold and silver respectively with scores of 582.35 and 580.4....
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Galal Yafai floored opponent Carlo Paalam in a points victory to claim an Olympic gold medal for Team GB in the flyweight final. The Briton defeated the Filipino, sending him toppling to the canvas at the start of the bout and asserting his dominance throughout the match to take the...
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On the penultimate day of the Tokyo Games, Great Britain saw its gold count hit 20 after success in the pentathlon and the boxing. There were also medals in the diving and cycling, putting the nation in a good place to potentially finish in fourth overall. Galal Yafai floored opponent...
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Team GB cyclists Matt Walls and Ethan Hayter have won the silver medal in the men’s madison event at the Tokyo Olympics. It is Walls’ second medal of the Games, after taking gold in the men’s omnium, and it came shortly after Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny won gold in...
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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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