The attempt to ‘kidnap’ an Olympic sprinter and the suspicious death of an activist are signs of growing oppression It is a fraught and dangerous time to be a Belarusian activist or dissident abroad, where the scrambling of a MiG-29 to ground a Ryanai…
GB’s Walls and Hayter take Olympic silver behind Denmark in men’s madison
Walls grabs second medal of Games after omnium goldDenmark’s Hansen and Morkov claim top spotNo country competing at Tokyo 2020 has welcomed the return of the madison to the fold with more enthusiasm than Team GB. A day after Katie Archibald and Laura …
Tom Daley takes 10m diving bronze and uses platform for LGBTQ+ awareness
Daley: ‘I hope seeing out athletes will help people feel less alone’Briton eyes Paris 2024 after finishing third behind Cao and YangTom Daley took the bronze medal in the 10m platform dive on an afternoon of vertiginously high-grade competition. This w…
Galal Yafai completes arduous journey to win GB’s first Tokyo boxing gold
Early dominance over Philippines’ Carlo Paalam secures title‘I’m Olympic champion now, it sounds crazy,’ says BritonIf ever there was a measure of how well Galal Yafai had managed the most important, pressure-filled moment of his career so far, it came…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Kenya’s Jepchirchir wins marathon, plus diving, boxing and more – live!
Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageMen’s basketball final: USA v France – liveBarney Ronay on life inside the Tokyo Games experienceEmail Scott with your thoughts or tweet him @scott_heinrich 5.57am BST For those just waking up in Br…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA 87-82 France – as it happened
Kevin Durant leads US to fourth straight Olympic gold Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage 5.31am BST Did I mention the final score? 87-82On that note, I’ll sign off. Thanks for staying up to watch with me, congratulations to our Fren…
The support group at the heart of Belarus’s sporting resistance
The Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation offers aid to dissident athletes while organising opposition to the regime’s sportwashing effortsIOC strips two Belarus Olympic coaches of accreditation over Tsimanouskaya scandalWhen Belarusian officials trie…
‘Italy’s fairytale’: men’s 4x100m gold continues summer of success
President among those hailing first-ever victory in relay event that takes country’s Olympic medal haul to 38 Italy continued its summer of incredible sporting success by clinching gold in the men’s 4x100m relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.It was the co…
Small margins and mixed emotions for Britain’s 4x100m relay teams | Andy Bull
Italy’s spectacular summer scuppered golden dreams in the men’s 4x100m, while the women’s team took bronzeThe mixed relays may have finished last weekend, but what a lot of conflicting emotions for the eight British sprinters who won medals in the 4×10…
Team GB rise to fourth in Olympic medal table after flurry of success
Laura Kenny the first British female Olympian to take gold at three consecutive Games as Kate French wins modern pentathlonA day of golden glory for Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday saw cyclist Laura Kenny become the first British female Olympia…