Team GB’s swimmers made history on a thrilling day at the Olympics, which saw the team pick up more medals (expanding the gold count to 10) and a surprise victor in the men’s 100m. Charlotte Worthington got the day off to a great start with a gold medal win in...
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Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi will share the gold medal for the men’s high jump. In a display of good sportsmanship, after both jumpers cleared 2.37m, they opted to share the top spot on the podium. The two athletes are good friends, and they were perfect throughout the...
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Team GB’s Charlotte Worthington recovered from a fall to win a gold medal in the women’s BMX park freestyle final. She fell on her first run, but performed a ground-breaking 360-degree backflip on her second to score 97.50 and claim the gold. Worthington is the first woman to land the...
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Team GB’s Emma Wilson won a bronze medal on her Olympic debut in the women’s windsurfing event at Tokyo 2020. Wilson started the double-point medal race in second place in the overall standings after winning four of the 12 preliminary events, meaning she was guaranteed a medal. However, she was...
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Day Eight of the Tokyo Games got off to a great start for Team GB after winning a gold in the triathlon mixed relay. The quartet of Jonny Brownlee, Jessica Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee produced a superb performance to finish 14 seconds ahead of silver medallists the USA,...
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Great Britain won its fourth swimming gold at an Olympics for the first time in 113 years after wining the inaugural 4x100m mixed medley relay. Kathleen Dawson (backstroke), Adam Peaty (breaststroke), James Guy (butterfly) and Anna Hopkin (freestyle) won in 3:37.58, smashing the previous world record of 3:38.41 in the...
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Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the second fastest women’s 100m time ever, winning in 10.61 seconds, and retaining her Olympic title at the Tokyo Games in the process. The Rio 2016 champion held off teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who took silver with a time of 10.74 seconds, itself inside the top 10 fastest...
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A pair of mixed relay events kickstarted a golden Saturday for Team GB, but there was disappointment in the athletics after poster-girl Dina Asher-Smith announced she would withdraw because of an injury. The first gold came in the triathlon mixed relay, after Jonny Brownlee, Jessica Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex...
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World number one Novak Djokovic’s Olympic quest was ended without a singles medal after defeat by Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta in the bronze-medal match. Djokovic was out of sorts at points in the match, and the Spaniard punished him for it on the way to a 6-4 7-6 6-3 win....
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Team GB’s Dina Asher-Smith has withdrawn from the women’s 200m after suffering a hamstring tear. The athlete was as a potential gold-medal hope for the event, but the injury – sustained at the British Championships – has made her appearance impossible. Asher-Smith had sought medical advice about her appearance at...
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Great Britain’s men’s eight crew took bronze in the final race of the Tokyo 2020 regatta. They were just pipped to the silver by Germany, while the New Zealand team took the gold. The British men’s eight crew were well placed at the hallway stage of the 2,000m race, but...
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Team GB poster-girl Dina Asher-Smith began her bid to become the first British woman to win an Olympic individual sprint gold after routine progress in the 100m heats. In her heat, Asher-Smith set a time of 11.07 seconds, beaten by American Teahna Daniels, who ran 11.04 seconds. It was the...
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