By Dan Roan BBC Sports Editor While concern over human rights has become almost a constant theme in international sport in recent years, few hosts of major events have provoked quite as much controversy as Beijing. The venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics has been hit by a flurry of diplomatic boycotts from countries including […]
US Open 2021 Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Date: 30 August-12 September Coverage: Daily radio commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app Emma Raducanu says she does not want to let go of the US Open trophy after her fairy tale in New […]
Disability Sport Hossain Rasouli recorded a best jump Paralympic Games on the BBC Venue: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 24 August-5 September Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Follow on Radio 5 Live and on the BBC Sport website Afghanistan evacuee Hossain Rasouli finally got his chance to compete at the Tokyo Paralympics – and his opponents “couldn’t help but feel joy” as […]
By John Haughey BBC Sport NI Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the women’s half marathon world record at the Antrim Coast event in Northern Ireland. Yehualaw, 22, clocked 63 minutes and 43 seconds which cut 19 seconds off the previous mark set by Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich earlier this year. The Ethiopian was under world record pace […]
Tokyo Olympic Games on the BBC Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has […]
By Katie FalkinghamBBC Sport Tokyo Olympic Games on the BBC Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. The honour fell to Naomi Osaka […]
By Katie Falkingham BBC Sport Venue: Olympic Stadium, Tokyo Date: Friday, 23 July Starts: 12:00 BST Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live; live text on BBC Sport website and app. The Tokyo Olympic Games are upon us. They look and feel different to any other Games of times gone by, […]
Sailor Hannah Mills and rower Mohamed Sbihi have been chosen to carry the flag for Great Britain at Friday’s Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. Mills, who won gold at Rio 2016 and silver at London 2012, will become the fourth British woman to carry the flag at a summer Games. It is the first time nations […]
The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held. Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he appears to be making jokes about the Holocaust. Japan’s Olympic chief Seiko Hashimoto said the video ridiculed “painful facts of history”. The […]
Two South Africa footballers have become the first competitors to test positive for coronavirus in the athletes’ village in Tokyo – five days before the start of the Olympic Games. Meanwhile, six athletes and two staff members from Team GB’s athletics team are self-isolating after being identified as close contacts of an individual who tested […]
