The lessons top athletes are learning about stress and mental health can help us handle pressure in our own livesIt was going to be the Pandemic Olympics; the cheerless games that would inspire ambivalence at best. And then sport did its thing. Despite…
A shift of mindset will let us take more from Olympics of the future | Cath Bishop
It’s time to ditch the old cliches and to change the way we think about Olympic athletes, who are humans rather than robotsChris Boardman signalled the shift when he summed up British Cycling’s performance at the Tokyo Olympics: “Fewer medals but a bet…
Tokyo Olympics was a 16-day adrenaline rush but also a lesson in rights and wrongs | Sean Ingle
The athletes and their performances dazzled, but it is vital to look beneath the surface and ask questions others will notMy Olympics gone by, I miss it so. And despite the Kafkaesque bureaucracy, the hard quarantine, the endless spitting into test tub…
British Olympic silver medallist Chijindu Ujah suspended for doping violation
Ujah was part of Team GB’s 4x100m relay team in Tokyo27-year-old faces prospect of being stripped of his medalChijindu Ujah, the British sprinter who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics as part of Team GB’s men’s 4x100m relay team, has been suspen…
The Olympics proved the IOC will do anything to save face. But we still love the Games | Race Imboden
The Olympic experience in Tokyo was hard on us athletes, run by an organization that cares little for us as individuals. But we still dreamThe Tokyo Olympics were set to be one of the greatest Games ever held. As a fan of Japan and its culture, I was l…
The Leap Year: Team GB athletes’ wait for Tokyo 2020
Following the news that Tokyo 2020 was to become the first Olympic Games to be postponed in its 125 year history, photographer Sam Mellish undertook a project to show the resilience of British athletes Although the challenges of Covid made planning di…
ICC prepares bid for cricket’s inclusion in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
Olympics ‘part of cricket’s long-term future,’ says ICCWorking group to be chaired by ECB chief Ian WatmoreThe International Cricket Council is preparing a bid for the game’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the governing body said o…
‘It spoke of humanity and hope’: our readers’ favourite Olympics moments
Our readers pick their standout memories from an emotional, inspiring and all-consuming Olympic Games in TokyoWhat I love about the Olympics is getting invested in sports I would never watch otherwise. This time, I was absorbed by the taekwondo. The ru…
Women in sport: pride, prejudice and promise
UK Sport’s Sally Munday counters claims of misogyny in the organisation’s support for female competitors, while Ann Deary Francis and Aaron Nelson say cricket’s new Hundred format has boosted the women’s gameUK Sport has a strong, proven and ongoing co…
Tokyo 2020 played out in empty arenas but bound eight billion people together | Andy Bull
Japan spent $12bn on an Olympic party no one could attend yet a shared message of overcoming hardship resonated worldwideSo how was it for you? Whether you loved or hated them, you have to admit these Olympic Games were a crazy proposition. With 206 co…