Browsing: Olympic Games

The Times says Holly Bradshaw won Britain’s first Olympic pole vault medal with a bronze in Tokyo, but if the Games handed out medals for persistence the 29-year-old might have won gold.

The Guardian says Bronze, gold, bronze. Great Britain’s women made history by getting ribbon round their necks for a third straight Olympic Games

BBC News says two Belarusian coaches have lost their Olympic accreditations after allegedly attempting to force an athlete to leave the Games in Tokyo.

Team GB’s Matt Walls has won track cycling gold in the men’s omnium at the Olympics. Its Team GB’s first title in the velodrome of these Games – and the 50th medal overall.

TEAM GB have broken an athletic milestone in the 4x100m women’s relay heat.

The i says TOKYO — She is back. As we were, then. After a week of heartbreak and disappointment at the athletics track – Keely Hodgkinson’s silver medal aside – the face of Team GB, Dina Asher-Smith helped her 100m relay team to a national record and a place in Friday’s final.

The i says Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has arrived in Warsaw, where she intends to stay under the diplomatic protection of Poland, after an attempt to force her to return to her home country.

The Times says a Belarusian Olympic athlete who escaped efforts to fly her back home after she publicly criticised her coaches has left Japan for Vienna, after changing her flight to Warsaw at the last minute.

The Daily Express says: Team GB secured another sailing gold medal in the Women’s 470. Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre put in a brilliant performance and crossed the line in fifth to take home gold. Mills is now the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.

BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.

The Daily Express says: Frazer Clarke’s Olympic Games are over, with the super-heavyweight fighter earning a bronze medal in Tokyo.

BBC News says New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard made history by being the first openly transgender Olympian.

Great Britain has another silver medal to add to the table after Pat McCormack lost a hard-fought men’s welterweight contest to Cuba’s Roniel Iglesias. Team GB are now 5th on the table.

The i says on a night featuring two Olympic records and the first ever transgender lifter, Emily Campbell wrote her own piece of history by becoming the first British female weightlifting medallist.

The Sun says: Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell pipped New Zealand to 49er gold after a thrilling race, securing GB’s first sailing medal of the Games.

France24 says Simone Biles will make her bid for an individual gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, while the men’s 400m hurdles and women’s 200m finals take centre stage on the track.

Team GB has bagged a gold medal in team eventing at the Tokyo Olympics for the first time in almost 50 years. 

The i says a Belarusian athlete says she was taken to the airport to fly home against her will after publicly complaining about national coaches at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Guardian says the Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who alleges she was taken against her will by team officials to Tokyo airport, is being protected by police and the UN Human Rights Commission are also involved

Nigerian Sprinter Blessing Okagbare is out of the Tokyo Olympics after being suspended for failing a drugs test

The Times says Bethany Shriever won Great Britain’s sixth gold medal of the 2020 Olympics, and Kye Whyte claimed silver, as Great Britain enjoyed a superb morning on the BMX track.

German cycling racist comment towards Algerian riders has been sent home from the Tokyo Olympics. Patrick Moster was caught urging rider Nikias Arndt to ‘catch…

Mallory Franklin has won the silver medal in the women’s single slalom and Matt Coward-Holley picked up shooting bronze in the men’s trap final.

The Times says the Olympic Games descended into chaos this morning after a positive Covid test for American world champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks.

The Guardian says Australia’s track and field team has been sent into isolation on the eve of the competition at the Tokyo Olympics after American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks tested positive for Covid-19.