DINA ASHER-SMITH was beaten for the first time this year – and faces a massive battle to win a 100m Olympic medal this weekend. In the opening heat on the first session of the athletics programme at the Tokyo Games, Britain’s poster-girl was second in a time of 11.07 seconds The 25-year-old was beaten into first place by American Teahna […]

More Tokyo Olympics, more life. The action rolls on Thursday night as we make our way over to the track for the first time since the opening ceremonies when track and field qualifying events begin. Team USA has medal contenders in Rai Benjamin in the men’s 400-meter hurdles, and Athing Mu and Ajee’ Wilson in the women’s 800 meters. The […]

TOKYO — South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker set the first individual swimming world record at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday. She won the women’s 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2 minutes, 18.95 seconds, breaking the mark of 2:19.11 set by Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen at the 2013 world championships in Barcelona. The United States claimed the other two medals. Lilly […]

Hege Riise is relishing the chance of shaping the Team GB footballing culture as they eye the Olympic semi-finals. Great Britain face Australia in their quarter-final in Kashima on Friday after topping Group E with seven points. Riise was not initially due to manage the team in Japan but former England boss Phil Neville who was pencilled in for the […]

A NEW dawn begins on Thursday with the first Racing League night live from Newcastle. SunSport's top tipster Templegate has been studying the form, facts and figures religiously and delivers his picks below. Don't forget, you can join the brilliant new Racing League fantasy game where £10,000 is up for grabs. And you can find out all you need to […]

MANCHESTER CITY are set to add another £6.8million to their summer transfer kitty by selling Serbian midfielder Ivan Ilic to Hellas Verona. The 20-year-old has been on the books of the City Football Group for four years but has never played a game for Pep Guardiola’s side. DREAM TEAM IS BACK! SIGN UP NOW FOR THE 21/22 SEASON FOR YOUR […]

LEWIS HAMILTON has risked the wrath of Max Verstappen by insisting he has NO regrets over his role in the Dutch ace's crash at the British GP. Verstappen span off the track in the first lap after his car touched Hamilton's during a heated battle for top spot. Verstappen's crash meant he was unable to continue racing at Silverstone. And […]

Anti-Olympic protesters gather outside Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as the country sees record-breaking number of infections Japan surpassed 10, 000 daily Covid infections for the first time on Thursday leaving health officials in the country rattled as they battle to get the outbreak under control. Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga said that the government will decide on Friday whether to […]

By Juliet Macur Sunisa Lee’s uneven bars routine is the hardest in the world, with her flying over and between the bars so gracefully that it looks like she’s dancing in midair. She has been dreaming of winning the Olympic medal in this event during apparatus finals next week, and she is certainly one of the favorites to do it. […]

BBC presenter Clare Balding unintentionally told Olympic gold medal swimmer Matt Richards that his "third leg was just phenomenal". The 18-year-old swimmer was being interviewed by Balding alongside 4x200m freestyle team-mate Tom Dean after their gold medal success on Wednesday. And Balding left Dean, in particular, struggling to hold it together when she told Richards "your third leg was just […]