Germany’s Julia Krajewski allowed the tears to flow after a superb clear round made her the first woman ever to win individual Olympic eventing gold.
China’s Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi triumphed in the women’s team sprint as Tokyo 2020 track cycling competition began at the Izu Velodrome.
France’s Jean Quiquampoix equalled the Olympic record to earn gold in the men’s 25 metres rapid fire pistol event on the final day of shooting competition at Tokyo 2020.
Sport climbing will make its historic first appearance at the Olympic Games tomorrow when four days of vertical competition begins at Aomi Urban Sports Park.
Sifan Hassan successfully negotiated the first of the three Olympic challenges she has set for herself here as she won the women's 5,000 metres gold medal.
Cuba’s Mijaín López emulated Japanese women’s great Kaori Icho as he earned a stylish victory over Georgian Iakobi Kajaia to become the first male wrestler in history to win four Olympic gold medals.
Emily Campbell’s superb performance in the super-heavyweights at Tokyo 2020 made her the first British woman ever to win a weightlifting medal at the Olympic Games.
Denmark's Viktor Axelsen dethroned reigning champion Chen Long after a superb performance in the final of the badminton men's singles at Tokyo 2020.
Laurel Hubbard made Olympic history by becoming the first openly trans woman to compete at the Games, but bowed out of the women’s over-87 kilogram competition prematurely after failing to make a lift in the snatch.
World record holder Li Wenwen finished 37 kilograms clear of her nearest rival and a whopping 117kg ahead of the last-placed athlete as she took gold in the over-87kg super-heavyweight category and claimed China’s seventh weightlifting gold medal of Tokyo 2020.
Jade Carey of the United States quickly erased the memory of yesterday's vault mishap by capturing the women’s floor exercise gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.
After winning five weightlifting gold medals at every Olympic Games this century, China went one better with a sixth at the Tokyo 2020 Games when Wang Zhouyu took the women’s 87 kilograms gold today.
No sailing action was possible at Tokyo 2020 today due to a lack of wind, with two medal races postponed until tomorrow.
British Taekwondo (BT) performance director, Gary Hall, has applauded the "phenomenal" performances of Team GB's taekwondo stars at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and backed their fight strategy despite a series of last-gasp defeats.
Three more countries have been accepted as African Sambo Confederation (CAS) members at the organisation's Congress in Cairo - Burkina Faso, Togo and Congo.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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