Category: Sport

Magnus Carlsen has never won the $1.9m World Cup, and his early exit at his last attempt in 2017 still rankles. Despite a few early hiccups, it was soon clear that the 2021 version of the 206-player knockout was made for the No 1 as he sailed through the majority of his matches comfortably while […]

Nobody should have to go to work in their bra and knickers. So when the Norwegian women’s beach handball team were fined earlier this month for defiantly choosing to compete in shorts – rather than the buttock-revealingly skimpy bikini bottoms mandated by their sport’s governing body – it was the organisers of the European championships, […]

Saya Sakakibara was on the final turn, leading the pack with the finish line and an Olympic final in sight. The Australian BMX racer said she was racing for both herself and her brother Kai, who would have been in Tokyo too but for a serious crash last year which left him with permanent brain […]

New Zealand have claimed two more rowing golds at the Tokyo Olympics, with Emma Twigg powering to victory in the single sculls and the men’s eight upsetting the odds to beat much more fancied rivals. After Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler won New Zealand’s first gold in the women’s coxless pairs on Thursday, Twigg immediately […]

Beth Shriever and Kye Whyte were around 12 years old when they first met on the youth talent teams in Great Britain’s BMX system. In the time since, they have gone their separate ways on their own unique, testing paths and then converged again as training partners and professionals in Manchester. They have seen each […]

Team Australia have had an upbeat start to their Tokyo 2020 campaign. With nine gold medals as of Friday lunchtime, they have already surpassed their overall Rio haul of five years ago – with more than a week of competition still to go. There are many explanations for this success: exceptional individual performance, good fortune, […]

The inquest into British Rowing’s dismal Tokyo display began in earnest after a solitary bronze on the final day of competition at the Sea Forest Waterway meant Britain’s rowers registered their worst Olympic performance for 49 years. The debate is likely to reach into the heart of the culture at the organisation and focus on […]