Category: Sports

British No 1 Katie Boulter is out of the National Bank Open in Toronto after defeat to world No 3 Aryna Sabalenka, while top seed Coco Gauff suffered a shock loss to Diana Shnaider. Boulter was unable to take any of the eight break points she manufactured in a competitive match and Sabalenka converted three...

Managing Victory while the world burns. The British Olympic Association has an impressively large selection of mottoes and taglines at its disposal. Even its main competition handle, “Team GB”, is basically a cool slogan, a mid-90s rebrand of UK plc’s Summer Sport division. Beyond this we have a full roster, many already safely trademarked: Believe...

Olympic skateboarder decries deterioration of bronze medal It’s a packed Olympics schedule on day 15 of the Paris 2024 Games with Team GB keen to add to their medal collection on the penultimate day of competition. First up, Eliud Kipchoge bids for history at the Olympics as the 39-year-old attempts to win a third consecutive...

weightlifting Party atmosphere greets weightlifterspublished at 14:58 14:58 Anna ThompsonBBC Sport at the Paris Olympics Great British weightlifting fans are going to have to wait until the final day of the Games for their sole entrant – Tokyo silver medallist Emily Campbell. She will compete in the 81kg plus category. Today it is the turn...

The full Great Britain Men’s 4x400m squad celebrate with their bronze medals. Image provided by PA / Alamy. Brilliant bronze for Loughborough in Men’s 4x400m Relay 10 August 2024 Loughborough athletes were instrumental in the Men’s 4x400m Relay, helping Great Britain to win a stirring bronze medal on the penultimate night of sporting action...

There are not many Olympic events, after all, where the judges give their own performance before they head for their seats. And they were not judging according to a prescribed scoring system of points for moves – they simply used a digital slider to vote. There were not even set routines – the b-girls, as...

Teenage sport climber Toby Roberts won Great Britain’s 14th gold of the Paris 2024 Olympics after victory in the men’s boulder and lead competition. Roberts, 19, secured 155.2 points to beat favourite Sorato Anraku of Japan, who lost his grip and fell needing only 86 points on the lead wall to relegate Roberts into silver-medal...

Toby Roberts: ‘Fighting hard’ for gold Roberts, with the gold medal and fragment of Eiffel Tower iron now around his neck, would be the first to admit that this exact moment has been a long time in the making. It was six years ago, just before sport climbing was added to the Olympic programme, that...

Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson ended her long wait for an Olympic heptathlon medal but narrowly missed out on gold to history-maker Nafissatou Thiam in a dramatic concluding 800m in Paris. Two-time world champion Johnson-Thompson set up a captivating finale by ensuring Belgium’s Thiam remained within 121 points – equating to roughly 8.5 seconds – before...

British diver Yasmin Harper says her Olympic bronze medal is showing signs of “tarnishing” after American skateboarder Nyjah Huston criticised the quality of his medal. Huston, who finished third in the men’s street skateboarding on 29 July, posted a video of his medal appearing to look discoloured and chipped. Harper won Team GB’s first medal...