Matt Walls won Team GB’s 16th gold and 50th medal of any colour at Tokyo 2020 with a dominant performance in the men’s omnium. The 23-year-old scored 153 points across four different disciplines in one intense day, beating New Zealand’s Campbell Walsh by a commanding 24 points for Team GB’s…
Leading dementia charity will work with The Football Association over the next two seasons, using the power of football to change lives of people affected by dementia Alzheimer’s Society has been confirmed as official charity partner of The Football Association (The FA) for the next two football seasons, following a competitive…
Ben Maher followed in the footsteps of Nick Skelton by taking individual show jumping gold in a dramatic six-rider jump-off at Tokyo 2020. Maher and horse Explosion W went round in 37.85 seconds to take the title ahead of Sweden’s Peder Fredricson by just 0.17s. His gold is Team GB’s…
Hannah Mills became the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time as she grabbed 470 gold alongside Eilidh McIntyre. The pair had a 14-point lead heading into the medal race, worth double points, and put in an assured performance to finish fifth. It was more than enough for helm…
Ben Whittaker secured Team GB’s fourth boxing medal of Tokyo 2020 after defeat in the men’s light heavyweight final in Tokyo. Whittaker was beaten on a split decision by Cuba’s Arlen Lopez, joining welterweight Pat McCormack with a runners-up spot. The British boxer lost the first round 10-9 on all…
Sky Brown became Team GB’s youngest Olympic medallist ever as she banked skateboarding bronze in Tokyo. Aged 13 years and 28 days, Brown finished behind Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi and Kokona Hiraki, the latter just 12 years old. The X Games champion, who qualified for the final in second place, fell…
The countdown to the next British Basketball League season has officially begun with the release of the fixtures and dates for 2021-22. After a delayed start to last season, the 2021-22 season will return to its traditional tip-off of late September with the new season commencing on Friday 24 September…
It’s 2031, can I still go and watch a Formula 1 Race? One of LinkedIn’s most influential voices on electric vehicles Roger Atkins asks that question – and lots of others about the future, as well as talking about the here and now. As a motorsport fan, he wanted to…
Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell snatched sailing gold by just centimetres in one of the most dramatic Olympic regatta races of all time. The British 49er crew held off their German rivals by just fractions, the lead continually changing hands in a drag race to the finish line. New Zealand’s…
Emily Campbell wrote her name in the history books as the winner of Team GB’s first ever medal in women’s weightlifting after brilliantly taking silver in the +87kg category. Team GB had previously won one gold, three silvers and three bronzes in Olympic weightlifting but those were all by men…
JAMA Neurology: Association of Field Position and Career Length With Risk of Neurodegenerative Disease in Male Former Professional Soccer Players Researchers at the University of Glasgow have today (Monday 2 August) found that the longer an ex-professional footballer’s playing career, the higher the increased risk of neurodegenerative disease. They also…
Team GB claimed their first eventing team title in nearly half a century as Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen struck equestrian gold in Tokyo. British riders were perennial silver medallists in the competition, coming second in Los Angeles, Seoul, Sydney, Athens and London, plus claiming bronze in Beijing.…
Max Whitlock took on all-comers again to defend his Olympic pommel title with a nerveless display in Tokyo. Whitlock was the first of eight to compete in the final and posted a score of 15.583 to set the standard. Chinese Taipei’s Lee Chih Kai took silver with 15.400 while Japan’s…
Former chef Charlotte Worthington cooked up another golden recipe for Team GB’s BMX stars. After Bethany Shriever’s gold in the BMX Racing, Worthington won the first BMX Freestyle competition to ever take place at the Olympic Games, rewriting the history books in more ways than one. An error on her…
Team GB ensured their place in the history books as they won the inaugural mixed 4x100m medley relay at an Olympic Games with a mesmerising world record swim at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The quartet of Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin delivered a dominant display to smash…
Alex Yee led home a brilliant performance from Team GB to claim the first Olympic gold medal ever contested in mixed relay triathlon. The Olympic silver medallist in the men’s triathlon was put into the perfect position by teammates Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, who also won silver…
Bryony Page claimed her second Olympic medal with a brilliant trampolining bronze in Tokyo. The 30-year old became the first Brit to win an Olympic medal in the discipline five years ago when she won silver in Rio. In the years since she has had to overcome a series of…
Great Britain’s men produced an impressive performance in their final Pool B match as they took a 2-2 draw against Belgium. Rupert Shipperley’s first Olympic goal had given GB a first-half lead, but three goals in six third quarter minutes changed the complexity of the game. Tom Boon had levelled…
Bethany Shriever struck gold and Kye Whyte silver as Britain’s BMX stars dominated in Tokyo to win Team GB’s first Olympic medals in the sport. Shriever went unbeaten through her three semi-final runs and surged out the start gate to open up a lead on her rivals in the medal…
Mallory Franklin delivered a nerveless run to canoe slalom silver in Tokyo in the very first Women’s C1 event to be contested at the Olympic Games. The 27-year-old opened up an early 0.90s lead on the field and despite dropping into trouble and touching the 15th gate, posted 108.68 which…
Charlotte Dujardin became the first British woman to win six Olympic medals with a stunning individual dressage bronze in Tokyo. Riding young horse Gio, the three-time Olympic champion produced a brilliant ride to snatch third place on the podium in the Grand Prix freestyle final she won at London 2012…
Team GB won a men’s quadruple sculls medal for the first time in Olympic history after coming home for silver for the first rowing medal of Tokyo 2020. Harry Leask, Angus Groom, Tom Barras and Jack Beaumont held their nerve to make history on the Sea Forest Waterway, stopping the…
British Olympic history continues to be made at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre as the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay team claimed a brilliant gold medal in the pool. That means Team GB have won three swimming golds at a single Games for the first time since 1908 – also the last…
Team GB won gold and silver in the same race in the pool for the first time since 1908 as Tom Dean and Duncan Scott completed a British 1-2 – a result that was just the beginning of an historic day four at Tokyo 2020: • Dean and Scott make…
Team Speedo stars Tom Dean and Duncan Scott fought out an intense finish to the 200m freestyle final, with Dean coming out on top and landing the gold. Posting a time of 1:44.22, Dean beat his great friend Scott by just 0.02 seconds, setting a new British record in the…
Georgia Taylor-Brown conquered a flat tyre to claw back incredible Olympic silver in the women’s triathlon. The Mancunian lost 22 seconds after a mechanical failure on the final lap, leaving her fifth. But she bridged the gap to bronze in little more than a kilometre and caught USA’s Katie Zaferes…
Lauren Williams secured Team GB’s fifth medal of Day 3 with Olympic taekwondo silver in the women’s -67kg. The 22-year-old was leading the gold medal contest by three points with 10 seconds to go but ultimately lost 25-22 to Croatia’s Matea Jelic. She follows in the footsteps of gold medallists…
Tom Daley and Matty Lee produced the performance of a lifetime to claim Olympic gold in sensational fashion at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. For Daley it marks the culmination of a remarkable career. A bronze medallist at London 2012 and again in Rio five years ago, he now has a…