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Saudi Arabian Olympic champion and Karate player Tarek Hamedi was welcomed with a grand celebration at Jeddah airport following his silver medal win at the Tokyo Games, videos shared on social media showed on Monday.
VOA says the Tokyo Olympics have officially come to an end. During closing ceremonies, IOC President Thomas Bach declared the Games closed. The next Summer Games will be held in Paris in 2024.
Jason Kenny has become Britain’s most decorated Olympian after winning gold in the men’s keirin at Tokyo 2020, a victory that has put on hold talk of an end to his glittering career on the track.
Team GB has matched their medal count from London 2012 on the final day of the Tokyo Games – with 65 medals won.
The 33-year-old British cycling legend, husband to fellow cyclist Laura Kenny, is now the most decorated British Olympian of all time
Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald have added another gold to Team GB’s medal table as they were crowned madison champions at the Tokyo Olympics.
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.
BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The i says Mallory Franklin has qualified for the final of the women’s C1 canoe slalom as Team GB seeks a 17th medal at the Olympic Games.