USA Gymnastics confirms Biles will compete in beam finalAmerican star withdrew from team final due to mental healthSimone Biles will compete again at the Tokyo Olympics. The six-time Olympic medallist will contest the balance beam final on Tuesday, the…
NBC paid $7.75bn for its Olympic rights … and we got televisual vomit
US viewers have been able to see everything at any given moment while understanding fundamentally nothing about what’s going onIf there’s one message the Olympics unfailingly conveys, it’s that elite competition is all about making the right choices. A…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: athletics, hockey, cycling, weightlifting and more – live!
Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingMarcell Jacobs becomes new 100m king with glory for ItalyEmail Scott, tweet or comment below the line 5.12am BST Women’s hockey quarter-finals: it’s …
Raven Saunders throws up X on podium to represent where the ‘oppressed meet’
American pays tribute to black and LGBT communities Silver medalist has spoken of struggles with mental healthRaven Saunders took silver in the shot put on Sunday and later made the first podium protest of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Saunders, who is blac…
Olympics: Marcell Jacobs becomes the new 100m king with glory for Italy
Silver for Fred Kerley and bronze for Andre De GrasseBritain’s Zharnel Hughes disqualified after false startThree weeks ago the sharpest casinos in Las Vegas, who know a thing or two about setting odds and plenty more besides, rated Marcell Jacobs as a…
There are 11,656 athletes at the Olympics. Guy Fraser wanted them all on Wikipedia
Fans across the world enjoy complementing their Olympic viewing with some research. We meet the man who wants everyone’s story toldIn 1992, 11-year-old Guy Fraser spent his summer vacation fiddling with a radio. He was searching, sometimes in vain, for…
USA’s Xander Schauffele holds on to capture Olympic men’s golf title
Schauffele captures Olympic gold medal in tense finishSabbatini’s final-round 61 propels him to silver medalTaiwan’s Pan prevails in seven-man playoff for bronzeXander Schauffele won an Olympic gold medal he badly wanted by overcoming more pressure tha…
Simone Biles on last Olympic chance after withdrawal from floor final
Gymnast had already withdrawn from four other eventsAmerican’s participation in balance beam still doubtfulTwisties: mental block which puts gymnasts at serious riskSimone Biles has withdrawn from Monday’s women’s floor exercise final at the Tokyo Olym…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: McKeon wins another gold, men’s golf, athletics, boxing and more – live!
Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingIn pictures: the best images from day eight in TokyoGet in touch! Email Jonathan, tweet or comment below 4.16am BST It’ll be four gold in one day for…
Great Britain beaten to Olympic men’s 4x100m medley gold by USA world record
Eighth medal means best-ever Olympic swimming result for GBUSA’s Caeleb Dressel wins his fifth gold of Tokyo 2020Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics as Team GB celebrated their best swimming haul at a G…