Tag: Olympics
over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Athletes are pushing back against permitting trans competitors like Lia Thomas. What’s fair?

Athletes are pushing back against permitting trans competitors like Lia Thomas. What’s fair?

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over 2 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | The Beijing Olympics are shaping up to be the Intimidation Games

It seems unlikely the Chinese will take kindly to protest, or to criticism. And, just to be sure, there’s an app for ...

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over 2 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

London 2012 medallist Deon Lendore tragically dies in fatal car crash aged 29

Deon Lendore, an Olympic medallist for Trinidad and Tobago, has tragically died at the age of just 29 following a car...

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almost 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Winter Olympics could be on 'Moon or Mars' with fake snow, slam Beijing 2022 critics

Critics have slammed the planned use of fake snow at the upcoming Winter Olympics by saying that the event could be h...

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almost 3 years ago
thestar.com

Maggie Mac Neil, Canada’s ‘swim nerd,’ wonders what’s next after record-breaking year

At 21 and nearing graduation from the University of Michigan, the Olympic and world champion swimmer prepares for the...

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almost 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

8 sports stars who turned to OnlyFans and what happened next - including Madelene Wright

Footballer Madelene Wright, former UFC contender Paige VanZant and even former boxer Tony Bellow are just three of th...

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almost 3 years ago
independent.co.uk

No NHL players at Beijing Winter Olympics over Covid concerns

The National Hockey League said releasing players during the season was no longer feasible after already being forced...

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almost 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

BREAKING Man, 30, charged with robbery after harrowing break-in at Mark Cavendish’s home

Mark Cavendish's family home was broken into in late November while the Olympic cyclist was recovering from significa...

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almost 3 years ago
metro.co.uk

Tom Daley ditches knitwear as he attends Team GB ball in suit and platform boots

A serve.

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Boris Johnson said Elgin Marbles should 'NEVER have been removed'

When serving as Mayor of London ahead of the London Olympics in 2012, Mr Johnson wrote to a Greek official to say tha...

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almost 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Princess Anne knights 1976 Olympics teammate Brendan Foster

The veteran track runner said it was a 'real honour' to receive the royal accolade at Windsor Castle, where he was re...

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almost 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Police return £10k bike to Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas after it was stolen

Tour de France winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist Geraint Thomas has been reunited with his bike after it was ...

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almost 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Anthony Joshua reveals stance on Deontay Wilder fight before taking on Tyson Fury

Anthony Joshua recently lost his heavyweight world title belts to Oleksandr Usyk with Deontay Wilder also seeing his ...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Lisa Thomaidis parts ways with Canadian women’s basketball team after eight years as head coach

Canada is currently ranked No. 4 in the world but comes off a disappointing run at the Tokyo Olympics, where the wome...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Georgia Simmerling excelled as an Olympian. Now she’s ready to do the same as an agent for female...

The four-time Olympian has launched AG Sports Inc., a sports marketing and agency business whose initial roster of cl...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Lululemon to outfit Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams as COC parts ways with Hudson Bay Company

The Vancouver-based athletic apparel will outfit Olympians and Paralympians, beginning with the Winter Games in Beiji...

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about 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Why Richarlison is the only Brazil player not banned by FIFA and will play this weekend

Richarlison will be free to play for Everton against Burnley this weekend despite the Brazilian Football Confederatio...

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about 3 years ago
metro.co.uk

Strictly 2021: Who is Adam Peaty? Age, girlfriend and Olympic medals

He's having quite the year.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

From bronze to gold: Canadian soccer stars have gone from inspired to inspiring with Olympic win

The Canadian team’s first medal in London nine years ago was “our rallying cry,” Sinclair says.

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about 3 years ago
scotsman.com

If the red button functioned, the chumminess, tweeness and wokeness wouldn't have been such an issue

It’s almost over, the final day is here, the finish-line is in sight and no more will I have to wake up with the BBC’...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | H is for heat: Rosie DiManno’s Tokyo 2020 in review, right down to the letters

Rosie DiManno looks at back at two-plus weeks in Tokyo, and suspects she’ll come around one day.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | How the ‘first gender-balanced Games in history’ are waging a war on women

Faster, higher, stronger — if you’re a man. If you must be a woman, fit in, or else.

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about 3 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Tokyo 2020: Punishing marathon heat sees difficult day for Northern Ireland Olympic trio Pollock,...

Punishing heat and humidity in Sapporo saw disappointment for Northern Ireland’s marathon trio of Stephen Scullion, P...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | Damian Warner, the world’s greatest athlete with a pretty good back story, is the right...

“It is the honour of a lifetime,” the decathlon champions says. “And I understand that this honour could have went to...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Olympic soccer champion Christine Sinclair is golden in her hometown, too

Community centre that bears her name now also sports a rather large gold medal. As for ex-Jay José Bautista ... make ...

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about 3 years ago
dailystar.co.uk

Tom Daley clinches bronze in men’s 10m platform final at Tokyo Olympics

Team GB's diving hero Tom Daley was in sensational form as he clinched a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in t...

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about 3 years ago
dailymail.co.uk

Knifeman goes on rampage in Tokyo 'stabbing at least 10 passengers'

NHK public television said one passenger was seriously injured. It said the suspect left his knife behind as he fled ...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

In Tokyo, a dream of Olympic sumo

Sumo was granted full recognition by the International Olympic Committee in 2018, raising the possibility the sport m...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | There is no Canadian Olympic soccer gold without Christine Sinclair. The impact will re...

The three players who scored in a mistake-marred round of penalty kicks to beat Sweden in Friday’s final were teenage...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Olympic gold gives Canadian soccer goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé licence to thrill

Labbé played a few mind games in the deciding shootout against Sweden, and they might have had an impact. She didn’t ...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | Canadian Olympic runner Moh Ahmed finds daylight just in time for historic silver in th...

The three-time Olympian from St. Catharines became the first Canadian ever to reach the Games podium in the 5,000 or ...

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about 3 years ago
express.co.uk

Team GB sees gold snatched away in 4x100m men's relay by Italy in nail-biting finish

TEAM GB lost to Italy in the 4 by 100m relay final in a blink and you'll miss it finish.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Analysis | Meet the Canadian women’s soccer team that will go for Olympic gold

From Christine Sinclair to Ashley Lawrence to Stephanie Labbé, Canada arrived in Tokyo with one goal: changing the co...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | Canada’s Damian Warner is the world’s greatest athlete after decathlon gold, even if he...

The London, Ont., decathlete sets a Games record as he crashes through the 9,000-points barrier, becoming just the fo...

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about 3 years ago
metro.co.uk

Tom Daley models the Team GB cardie he knitted at Olympics and we need one, stat

A man of many talents.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘Hey, did we make it in?’ Cameraman tips off Canadian women’s relay team on their shot in the finals

A helpful cameraman, a Taylor Swift shoutout and more you should know from Day 13 at the Tokyo Olympics.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | Canadian canoeist Laurence Vincent-Lapointe has a silver lining for her twisting Olympi...

The 13-time world canoe champion wins a silver medal after her late inclusion to the Canadian team.

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Canadian soccer women will be playing for the ones who came before them, including a few, like Ch...

Fleming thinks of the group “who have been working for this for 20 years” as Canada prepares for gold-medal game agai...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | For Andre De Grasse, Olympic gold brings tears of pure joy. Silver and bronze were neve...

There is a special breed of human beings who won’t ever be satisfied knowing there is someone else out there faster, ...

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