Category: Sports

Teenager Phoebe Gill reveals she watched Gilmore Girls to beat pre-run nerves at first Olympics There are 27 gold medals up for grabs on day eight of the Olympics as Great Britain look to extend their record start to Paris 2024 on what could be a super Saturday. The women’s 100m final is the pick...

‘It’s a dream come true.’published at 18:00 18:00 Gymnastics – men’s pommel horse final Media caption, ‘Dream come true’ – McClenaghan reflects on gold win Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan speaking to BBC TV after winning the pommel horse final: “It feels good, very good, it’s a dream come true. I can’t believe I have done it.”...

Bethany Shriever’s Olympic title defence ended in disappointment as the Team GB rider finished last in the BMX racing final in Paris. The Tokyo 2020 champion had won all six of her races in reaching the final, but was boxed in from the start and could not recover as Australia’s Saya Sakakibara took gold at...

By a combination of her own sustained development and determination, and the misfortune suffered by one of her biggest rivals, Paris represents Hodgkinson’s best chance yet of landing global gold after a series of near-misses. The Briton has run one second quicker than any other woman this year after smashing her own national record in...

Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya know they have won Olympic medals – the gold and silver hanging around their necks is proof – but they will not be shown in the official medal table. The trampoline gymnasts are two of the 17 Belarusians competing in Paris as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) because their country is...

Only three other people – Phelps, fellow American icon Mark Spitz and Kristen Otto, who won four golds for East Germany – have won four or more individual swimming medals at an Olympics. That is the company with whom Marchand, seen as the successor to Phelps and coached by the US superstar’s former mentor Bob...

European Championships gold medallists Ireland failed to qualify for the 4x400m mixed relay final at the Olympic Games as the absence of individual medal hope Rhasidat Adeleke proved too much of a handicap. Like the majority of athletes targeting medals in the individual 400m events, Adeleke, 21, opted to miss the mixed relay in order...

Great Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood shot a seven-under 64 to move into a three-way share of the lead after round two of the men’s golf at the Paris Olympics. Fleetwood, who carded six birdies and an eagle, dropped his only shot of the day on the final hole as he ended locked together with defending champion...

Wilkes beat reigning Olympic 100m breastroke champion and fellow Derbyshire athlete Adam Peaty at freestyle swimming before switching to rowing. “I was a swimmer from a young age, so there were a lot of early mornings and my parents had to make a lot of sacrifices to get me to training,” he said. “Especially in...

Fleetwood, who is hoping to emulate 2016 champion Justin Rose by winning gold for Great Britain, built impressively on his opening 67 with an eagle and three birdies in an outward nine of 31. Further birdies followed on the 13th, 16th and 17th but the world number 14 was unable to save par at the...