Consecutive victories for GB’s men who defeat Canada 3-1 Liam Ansell scores a brace, Sam Ward also on target GB’s women overpower South Africa with 4-1 triumph Ellie Rayer nets two, Lily Owsley and Laura Unsworth also score Men face Germany next on Wednesday 27 July at 04:15 BST, women to play India at 02:00 on
Tokyo 2020 marks the end of an era for Wokingham’s Megan Fletcher but she says she cannot think of a better climax to a brilliant career than making her long-awaited Olympic debut at the home of judo. After narrowly missing out on qualification for London 2012 and Rio 2016, Fletcher’s years of dedication to her
Chelsie Giles won Team GB’s first medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after securing bronze in the women’s -52kg judo. The 24-year-old from Coventry twice threw Swiss Fabienne Kocher for waza’ari to get her nation off the medal mark, all on her first appearance at an Olympic Games. For an athlete who only made
Judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz may have been born and raised in Great Britain but she will proudly be flying the flag for Mexico at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The 25-year-old will be the sole representative of her mother’s home country when the judo competition takes place in Tokyo’s legendary Nippon Budokan, the spiritual home of
Entertaining game ends in 2-1 defeat for GB’s women Sarah Jones scores on her Olympic debut Team face South Africa next on Monday 26 July at 10:30 BST Mark Hager’s team peppered the German goal throughout the game but came up against an inspired goalkeeper in Julia Sonntag, who made several important saves. Sarah Jones
University of Bath-based triathlete Vicky Holland says she is “shooting for the top” as she goes into the third and final Olympic Games of her stellar career. After making her debut on home soil during the unforgettable London 2012 Games, Holland made history four years later when she became the first British woman to win
Team GB has announced that Olympic champions Hannah Mills and Mohamed Sbihi, have been selected as the flagbearers for Friday’s Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In a positive break from tradition, the IOC confirmed in March, 2020 that each National Olympic Committee could nominate one female and one male athlete as flagbearers.
GREAT BRITAIN’S women’s rugby team are on a ‘smash and grab stay in Tokyo’. And a world cup winning star, England’s Alex Matthews, won’t even be staying long enough to celebrate her birthday which occurs mid-Games. Furthermore, GB women sevens they won’t take part in either the opening or closing ceremonies as they try to
With 11 days to go until the Olympic rugby sevens competition starts in Tokyo, World Rugby and Gilbert have unveiled the ‘Quantum Sevens’ match ball that will be used by the world’s best sevens players as they battle for Olympic gold from 26-31 July at Tokyo Stadium. The Quantum Sevens ball is the most technically
Johanna Konta has withdrawn from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Konta, who made her Olympic debut in Rio, was unable to compete at Wimbledon last month after a member of her team tested positive for COVID-19 and unfortunately, whilst self-isolating, developed symptoms and subsequently tested positive for the virus She said; “As some of you
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