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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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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Great Britain’s Galal Yafai will compete for the 52kg flyweight gold after defeating Kazakhstan’s Saken Bibossinov. Yafai defeated Bibossinov via split decision (3-2), and will face the Philippines Carlo Paalam in the final – he is now guaranteed at least a silver. The British fighter got off to a spectacular...
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Team GB’s Liam Heath took bronze in a photo finish during the men’s kayak single 200m. Heath hoped to defend his title after winning gold in the event at Rio 2016, but will be happy with a medal after making a “hesitant start” in the event. He crossed the finish...
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Team GB moved past 50 medals with success in a number of events, including an omnium gold and the nation’s first-ever pole vault medal. We saw the first-ever Olympian claim a climbing gold, while Australia excelled in the skateboarding and the US 4x100m team faced criticism from sprint legends. Matt...
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Grady Hendrix's latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group, explores survivor's guilt and trauma, yet manages to be a fun and pacy read. Reece Goodall shares his thoughts on the release.
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s bid for a heptathlon medal at the Tokyo Games is over after she injured her Achilles in the 200m event. The British world champion came into the Games with injury worries after a serious Achilles problem, and had barely competed this year. Johnson-Thompson’s heptathlon began strongly in the...
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Team GB’s Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre have won a sailing gold in the women’s 470 class. Mills entered the history books as GB’s most successful female Olympic sailor, while McIntyre followed in the footsteps of her father Mike, who won gold in the Star class at Seoul 1988. The...
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Sky Brown has become GB’s youngest Olympic medallist of all time after winning bronze in the women’s park skateboarding event. She produced a composed final run to finish third in the event with a score of 56.47, recovering from mistakes in the first two of her three runs to win...
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A medal rush lifted Great Britain to fourth in the medal rankings of Day 12, with medals in the skateboarding, sailing, showjumping and boxing adding up to a successful day. Sky Brown became GB’s youngest Olympic medallist ever after winning bronze in the women’s park skateboarding, Britain’s first-ever medal in...
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In the latest attack by the government against the arts, Gavin Williamson announces plans to reduce funding for arts courses at English higher education institutions. Reece Goodall takes a look at key figures' reactions to this news.
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