Tag: Tokyo 2020
about 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘I felt like I had failed.’ Aurélie Rivard turned bitter disappointment into five medals at Tokyo...

She will go home with gold in the women’s 100-metre freestyle S10 and the 400-metre freestyle S10; silver in the 100-...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Boccia star David Smith scores historic win as ParalympicsGB continues adding to medal table

The 32-year-old took ParalympicsGB’s 30th gold medal of the Games in the precision ball sport, which is similar to bo...

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about 3 years ago
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Gold medal rush in Tokyo as ParalympicsGB secures cycling, swimming and dressage victories

Afghanistan war veteran Jaco van Gass scored ParalympicsGB's second cycling gold medal in a thrilling C3 3,000 indivi...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Athletes urged to show world their ‘skill and determination’ as Tokyo 2020 Paralympics start

A near-empty Japan National Stadium was transformed into a Para Airport in a symbolic display of having wings and tak...

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about 3 years ago
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Team GB Paralympians prepare for crowd-free Games as excitement builds in Covid-hit Tokyo

Taking place in Japan in the shadow of coronavirus, 227 athletes across 19 of the 22 Paralympic sports are eager to l...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Olivia Breen could win a medal in Tokyo by aiming for personal bests, says her sport therapist

George Rentoul said he will be working with double world champion to fulfil her goal of competing in the 2024 Paralym...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Heroes' welcome for Team GB athletes as Queen praises their 'skill, determination and hard work'

Team GB's athletes have returned to the UK, bringing with them a haul of 65 medals

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

From equestrian sumo to a kayak condom repair, the quirky moments at the Olympic Games

'You know, horses don’t want to see a guy, like, looking intense next to a jump, looking like he’s ready to fight you.'

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Despite it all, Tokyo 2020 was an Olympics to revel in

As negative Covid headlines gave way to positive ones about mental health, and Mr and Mrs Kenny confirmed their statu...

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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
inews.co.uk

How many medals Team GB won at London 2012, Rio 2016 and previous Olympic Games

Team GB has enjoyed one of its best ever Olympic Games, claiming 65 medals in total including 22 golds

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | The Tokyo Olympics didn’t implode. That doesn’t mean these Games succeeded. A look back...

Olympic athletes often appear superhuman but columnist Bruce Arthur isn’t sure they ever felt more human than at thes...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | Cycling Kelsey Mitchell’s ‘one last chance’ leads to one last gold medal for Canada in ...

Mitchell, discovered at a talent combine four years ago, wins the women’s sprint at the Izu Velodrome.

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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

A young Canadian women’s soccer team should have continued success, but for how long?

Canada is the only country currently ranked among FIFA’s top 10 that does not have its own women’s league.

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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
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Opinion | Canadian race walker Evan Dunfee can’t avoid the circus after rallying for a bronze med...

The Richmond, B.C., athlete isn’t much for ceremony, but he’ll make an exception for the medal presentation.

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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
inews.co.uk

Tom Daley reveals product of his poolside knitting - a Team GB cardigan

'When I got to Tokyo, I wanted to make something that would remind me of the Olympics to look back on in the future'

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about 3 years ago
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‘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
dublinlive.ie

How Kellie Harrington's mam found out about Olympics hero's win is purely Dublin

Kellie's mam notoriously does not watch any of the fights because of the emotions and nerves that come with it

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about 3 years ago
dublinlive.ie

Kellie Harrington's hometown Portland Row buzzing after Olympics hero secures silver medal and fi...

Kellie's mam told Dublin Live: "Kellie had the smile on her face in the middle of the fight and you could just tell s...

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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
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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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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

Opinion | Canadians Damian Warner and Pierce LePage halfway to the podium after decathlon’s openi...

Their biggest challenge on Day 2 just might be the heat.

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over 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Team GB boxer Ben Whittaker says he's not a 'spoiled brat' after refusing to wear silver medal

'I don’t want to look like a baby or a spoiled brat but I am so upset that I didn’t win the gold'

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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

Jennifer Abel and Aaron Brown show us the human side of Tokyo Olympics

Canadian diver Jennifer Abel found her boyfriend down on one knee holding a ring when she got back to the airport. Sp...

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over 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

The 13-year-old Team GB skateboarder who is already a US reality star and influencer

Last year Brown she suffered a life-threatening fall from a ramp while training in California

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over 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Sky Brown and Hannah Mills make history, as more medals in boxing bring Team GB's tally to 47

Brown becomes GB's youngest ever medallist as Mills is crowned the most successful women's sailor in Olympics history

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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

Canadian soccer women have come this far at the Olympics, coach says, they might as well go home ...

Canada will have to reverse its last result against Sweden, a round-of-16 loss at the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Canadian hammer thrower Camryn Rogers is just getting started with a fifth-place finish...

The 22-year-old, the youngest competitor in Tuesday’s final, says she knows “there is more in the tank.”

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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

Jose Bautista gives his trademark ‘bat flip’ an Olympic spin in Tokyo

Jose Bautista did on Tuesday for Dominican Republic what Blue Jays fans have seen him do so many times before, walkin...

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over 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Team GB's Stuart Bithell's parents cry tears of joy as son wins gold in Tokyo

Their son worked constantly from 16 to achieve his Olympic dream

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over 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Team GB sailors win dramatic gold medals by just centimeters at Tokyo 2020

The parents of Stuart Burnett wept as their son won gold in sailing by just centimetres

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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

PHOTOS: Canada’s swimming heroes back home after triumphant Tokyo Olympics

The swim team matched the number of medals Canada won in the pool at the 2016 Rio Olympics with six.

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over 3 years ago
dublinlive.ie

Kellie Harrington's viral two-word fight phrase 'sums up her Olympics attitude'

She was even snapped smiling in the ring mid-fight and was evidently cool and calm after securing a bronze medal at l...

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over 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘This team wants more.’ Canada’s soccer women avenge a loss to the U.S. nine years ago because th...

“This one genuinely felt different,” says former national team star Diana Matheson.

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Canada slays the U.S. beast and exorcises ghosts of Olympics past. Now they’re going fo...

For some members of this Canadian squad that controversial loss against the U.S. at London 2012 is the reason they’re...

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over 3 years ago
express.co.uk

'In medal hunt!' Team GB cyclists storm through despite 'losing the wheels' in qualifiers

GREAT BRITAIN is in the "medal hunt" after a "ragged" finish in the women's track cycling qualifiers.

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