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Now streaming from Tokyo: Canadian swimmers say the darndest things

Sydney Pickrem admitted to being nervous before her 4x100 medley swim, but she phrased it a little differently.

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Dean Kirby

Team GB's gold haul grows as Max Whitlock is hailed as Britain's greatest ever gymnast

Max Whitlock and Charlotte Worthington helped Team GB to their tenth gold of the Games

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Doug Smith

Canadian women a long way from Tokyo podium in basketball after digging a hole they can’t get out of

Canada is 1-2 after the preliminary round and hoping there’s some math that will get them to the quarterfinals.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Penny Oleksiak is Canada’s most decorated Olympian after swim medley relay bronze

Six medals in Tokyo after six in Rio. As a swimming nation, Canada has evolved into something small but mighty, Bruce...

almost 3 years ago

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Tokyo soccer semifinal pits Canada against the U.S. again, and the Americans just might be beatable

Canada joined soccer’s elite in a 4-3 loss to the U.S. in the London semifinals nine years ago.

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | The women’s 100 metres in Tokyo ended with Elaine Thompson-Herah’s celebration. It migh...

Thompson-Herah beats compatriot Fraser-Pryce and leads a Jamaican sweep of the podium.

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Team GB win gold in swimming and triathlon before two more bronzes as medal tally hits 28

It was a world record 4x100m mixed medley relay for Adam Peaty and team while Jonny Brownlee finally added gold to hi...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Dina Asher-Smith withdraws from Olympics 200m with injury after crashing out of 100m semis

Team GB's great sprint hope, who had an outside chance of winning double gold, has been suffering from a hamstring in...

almost 3 years ago

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Dina Asher-Smith crashes out of 100m semi-finals but Team GB's Darryl Neita progresses to final

Team GB's great sprint hope faded badly to finish third and did not make it through as a fastest loser with a disappo...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Simone Biles withdraws from two more events with Olympic participation now looking unlikely

US superstar is still scheduled to compete in uneven bars final on Monday and beam the following day but participatio...

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Canada’s Moh Ahmed takes his best shot in the Tokyo 10,000 but can’t hang on to late lead

“Maybe I was little eager,” St. Catharines distance runner says after settling for sixth place.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Doug Smith

Canada’s surest route to the Olympic basketball quarterfinals is with a win over third-ranked Spain

A loss and Canada’s fate could depend on tiebreakers or what happens in other groups.

almost 3 years ago

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Aakanksha Surve

Calls for public screening of Harrington's Olympic quarter-finals in Dublin park

Councillor Anthony Flynn has requested for a screen to be erected in Kellie's inner-city community of Portland Row

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Beth Shriever wins BMX gold as Team GB enjoy glut of medals on Friday morning

Kye Whyte wins silver in men's BMX while there was success in the pool, boxing and rowing with promise of more elsewhere

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Penny Oleksiak’s push for a seventh medal comes up just short in 100-metre freestyle

Toronto swimmer finishes seven one-hundredths of a second off the podium.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

A second gold medal is something to sing about for Fiji’s men’s rugby sevens. So is a return home

The Fijians have not seen their families since Easter Monday, when the country went into lockdown.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Tokyo Olympics make clear Russia won in wake of state-sponsored doping scandal — and th...

The International Olympic Committee moved bureaucratic heaven and earth to make sure that a country that perverted an...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Mallory Franklin through to canoe slalom final as Team GB seeks 17th Olympics medal

Elsewhere, Team GB rower Helen Glover announces her retirement for a second time and Australia's athletics team are i...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Australian athletics team isolating after Covid-19 rules pole vaulter out of Olympics

Australian media reports that all 63 members of team are in isolation after pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall was in trai...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Canadian rowers Hillary Janssens, Caileigh Filmer go through agony for the ecstasy of b...

The women’s pair gives Canada its first medal of the Olympic regatta, and its 10th of the Tokyo Games.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Jose Bautista is back in baseball, an Olympian at age 40, but the shine is gone

This is a man so prideful humbled by the game he loves, yet refusing to walk away, Rosie DiManno writes.

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Félix Auger-Aliassime, Gabriela Dabrowski close out Canada’s Tokyo tennis card with ano...

It was the first time the mixed doubles duo had played together, which, as Rosie DiManno writes, is kind of like doin...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Tokyo 2020 Olympics are providing a global platform for women to speak their minds

Female athletes, like Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado, have not hesitated to speak their minds or participate in...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Charlotte Dujardin wins bronze in dressage to become Team GB's most decorated female Olympian

Third place moves Dujardin ahead of Dame Katherine Grainger and tennis player Kathleen McKane Godfree with six medals.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | This Olympic rowing journey deserved a better finish, but Canadian pair didn’t have the...

Sevick and Smith dedicated different 500-metre stretches of Wednesday’s final to important people in their lives, and...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Olympic notables: ‘She already won.’ Simone Biles puts her mental health before her sport in Tokyo

Biles, the most success American gymnast ever, withdrew from the women’s artistic gymnastics team final. After five s...

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Kylie Masse edged out in 100-metre backstroke but wins Canada’s fifth medal in Tokyo

Australian Kaylee McKeown wins gold with an Olympic record of 57.47 seconds.

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Yes, the Tokyo Olympics could end up being the worst Games ever. It’ll probably come do...

Tokyo started from behind, Bruce Arthur writes. There’s a pandemic going on, and the Olympics aren’t built to operate...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Meet the Japanese teen phenom threatening China’s decades-long dominance of table tennis

Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto is hoping to do what is perceived as impossible — end China’s 13-Olympiad cycle reign by ca...

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Olympic notables: Maggie Mac Neil’s gold-medal swim was a sight for weak eyes

One viewer said “the most I’ve ever related to an Olympic gold medallist was watching her squint at the scores.”

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Benjamin Butterworth

How Tom Daley overcame school bullies to win Olympic gold and marry an Oscar winner

Tom Daley, once dubbed the 'baby of Beijing' when he competed at the Olympics there aged 14, overcame childhood bully...

almost 3 years ago

lep.co.uk

Jack Marshall

Tokyo 2020: There's nothing quite like the Olympics | Jack Marshall's column

A brain-teaser: what sits in the exclusive middle bit of a Venn diagram whose circles are marked ‘naked Greek blokes’...

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Late-race cramping ends Canadian Tyler Mislawchuk’s chances at an Olympic medal

“There’s a thousand different reasons why it could have happened,” says Mislawchuk, who won a test event on the same ...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Opinion | Naomi Osaka came, she won and she conquered the mixed zone. That should be enough for us

The Japanese star rolls to an easy victory in her return to tennis and, more importantly, claims to be “happy again.”

almost 3 years ago

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Opinion | Olympic notables: Tunisian and Japanese swimmers inspire ... and sign up that basketbal...

Ahmed Hafnaoui became the second Tunisian swimmer ever to win gold, while Rikako Ikee has inspired a nation.

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Doug Smith

Opinion | France stuns the U.S. in their Olympic men’s basketball opener, but we shouldn’t be sur...

The Americans have lost five of their last eight games against top international competition, including three of five...

almost 3 years ago

inews.co.uk

Dutch cyclist celebrates winning gold... before being told she actually finished second

Riders in the Olympics cannot communicate with their team via radio and it appeared to be the undoing of the heavily ...

almost 3 years ago

thestar.com

Olympic notables: There’s nothing like a little “Schitt’s Creek” to remind you of home

Canadian athletes use the Rose family as an opening act for Tokyo’s opening ceremony.

almost 3 years ago

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The Tokyo Olympics welcome skateboarding’s wow factor, but the sport’s rising popularity is built...

The difficulty of the sport — people out there trying something that could them fall on their faces more times than t...