Robbie Simpson spent a day fishing on the banks of the River Don as a way of relaxing after competing in the Great Britain Olympic marathon trials at London’s Kew Gardens.
Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson is targeting at least two more Olympic Games before retirement as she feels she has unfinished business.
Banchory’s Robbie Simpson battled through the pain barrier to finish sixth in the Great Britain Olympic Games marathon trial at Kew Gardens this morning.
Jade Jones says the burden of an unprecedented build-up to this year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics has given her renewed motivation to claim a third straight taekwondo gold medal.
Thomas Bach says the International Olympic Committee will support Tokyo Games organisers “without reservation” on the subject of letting overseas spectators into Japan this summer.
British Athletics chief Christian Malcolm has urged his team’s stars to heed the example of Keely Hodgkinson and show “no fear” as they build towards the delayed Olympics in Tokyo later this year.
A decision will be taken on whether overseas spectators will be able to attend the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games at the end of the month, the organising committee president said.
The Yoshiro Mori sexism row has resulted in trust being lost in the Tokyo 2020 organising committee which must be recovered, its new president Seiko Hashimoto has said.
Tokyo prospect Cheavon Clarke says his sport’s “macho” image counts for nothing as he and his GB Boxing team-mates confront the same uncertainties surrounding this year’s delayed Olympic Games.
Tokyo 2020 organisers are “extremely confident” their plans for the rescheduled Olympic Games are on track but will not confirm final details until June due to the unpredictability of coronavirus.
Japan’s first coronavirus jabs were given to health workers, beginning a vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics.
Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have not ruled out a future role for Yoshiro Mori, despite him quitting as the organisation’s president for making sexist remarks.
Yoshiro Mori’s comments about women were “inappropriate”, the International Olympics Committee has said, but it has not called for the Tokyo 2020 organising committee president to stand down.
Athletes and officials face the prospect of very different Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics after the first ‘Playbook’ for the delayed Games was released on Wednesday.
The devastating impact of coronavirus on disabled sport has not stopped Great Britain wheelchair basketball player Sophie Carrigill staying “tunnel-visioned” in her pursuit of the Olympic podium.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has dismissed renewed speculation surrounding the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games and insisted: “It’s not about the ‘whether’ the Games takes place, it’s about the ‘how’.”
Athletes planning to retire after the Tokyo Games face a mental health “double whammy” if the event is cancelled, according to the chair of an athletes’ representative body.