Browsing: Tokyo Olympics 2020

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.