Author: Lizzie Gray

When the British cycling team, in the 4-kilometre team pursuit sport, broke the world record twice in one day to win gold at the Rio Olympics five years ago, it looked as if the crossbar had crossed the limit. The quartet of Ed Clancy, Owen Doll, Stephen Burke and Bradley Wiggins clocked 3:50,265 to beat Australia to give the United Kingdom its third consecutive Olympic gold. The victory mark was 1.4 seconds faster than the previous world record set in London 2012, and that makes what has happened since then all the more surprising. Australia was the first to raise…

A fine imposed on the Norwegian beach handball team for wearing “improper uniforms” has sparked controversy over women’s clothing at competitions. Also in Brazil, the Rio team already had the same problem, for wearing shorts instead of a bikini in the silver-medal dispute against Spain at the European Women’s Beach Handball Championship, in July, the Norwegian team was fined 1,500 euros (R). $9,200) by the European Handball Federation (EHF). According to the agency, the punishment was due to the non-compliance of the costumes with the regulations on the uniform of athletes specified in the IHF beach handball rules. [Federação Internacional…

Published in: 08/03/2021 – 20:35 Brazilian sprinter Thiago Braz won the bronze medal in the pole vault on Tuesday (3) at the Tokyo Olympic Games. In just one day, Brazil climbed to the podium four times: victories that could lead the country to surpass the record 19 medals it held five years ago in Rio de Janeiro. Rio 2016 gold medalist Thiago Braz took bronze on Tuesday after crossing the 5-meter mark and 87. Five years ago, the athlete broke the Olympic record by beating 6.03 metres, a feat that Swede Armand Duplantis, who He won the gold medal when…

Preparations are underway as the Circuit of the Americas gears up for the possibility of hosting back-to-back Formula 1 events later this year. The official website for the venue, the home of the US Grand Prix, is receiving expressions of interest from fans for a second event, called the “Texas Grand Prix”. It has long been claimed that F1 could host a variety of events at its Austin headquarters as the sport adapts to the ever-changing global landscape. In the current calendar, the US Grand Prix is ​​part of a triple title with the Grand Prix of Mexico City and…

The Polish government granted humanitarian asylum to athlete Kristina Tsimanoskaya on Monday (2) amid a diplomatic crisis at the Tokyo Olympics. The runner is from Belarus and had to appeal to the police at the city’s airport so that he would not be forcibly deported on Sunday (1). This information was confirmed by Foreign Minister Marcin Brzydać, but there is still no official position on Tsimanskaya. According to sources reported by Japanese media, the athlete spent the night at the Polish embassy in Tokyo. The Tsimanoskaya case gained global repercussions this Sunday, but it started the day before. The athlete…

In the badminton semi-finals Tokyo Olympics, it was possible to see not just one team, but two Chinese teams playing the match. For China, its ability to place three separate teams in competitions, including the island of Taiwan, represented by Chinese Taipei, appears to be a positive thing for the country. But the question of whether it is fair for a country to bring in more athletes with three different delegations has been raised because Hong Kong is winning medals unprecedented in Olympic history. The city on the southern coast of China also won the gold medal in men’s fencing…

When Kimberly Woods, a rowing athlete from the United Kingdom, heard the request to “tell me you’re in Japan without telling me you’re in Japan,” a common joke on social media these days, she had no doubts. She recorded a video of her sitting on the toilet in Olympic Village at the Tokyo Games, pressing the buttons that make the toilet work. Posted on tik tok. “I’m trying to figure out how pigeons work,” Brazilian Ane Marcelle, who competed in shooting at the Olympics, admitted after her first day in the country.The operation of the device can confuse any foreigner…

Pour Martin Hermann TOKYO (Reuters) – When Britain’s cycling team broke the world record twice in one day chasing teams over four kilometers to win gold at the Rio Olympics five years ago, it looked as if the bar had gone to the limit. The quartet of Ed Clancy, Owen Doll, Stephen Burke and Bradley Wiggins clocked 3:50,265 to beat Australia to give the United Kingdom its third consecutive Olympic gold. The victory mark was 1.4 seconds faster than the previous world record set in London in 2012, and that makes what has happened since then all the more surprising.…

TOKYO, July 31, 2021 (AFP) – Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria, one of the favorites to win the long title at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, qualified on Saturday (31) with virtually no clothing for the final, with a first flight of 8.50. meters, which is enough to secure its place.To enter the final, it was necessary to reach 8.15 meters, or take one of the top 12 places in the qualifying stage. Echevarría calmly completed the first condition and declared his mission accomplished. The Camaguey jumper’s 8.50m is his best mark this season, which until then was 8.38m.Echevarría is close to…

28 July 2021credit, Getty ImagesIllustrative image, Anna Kissenhofer was the Olympic road cycling champion in Tokyo”Is it over? Should I keep pedaling?”Anna Kissenhofer doesn’t have to go another mile in life if she doesn’t want to. The Austrian has already reached its peak. Relatively unknown before Tokyo 2021, she won the Olympic gold out of nowhere.She is a mathematician by trade, with two degrees and a Ph.D., and is not part of any professional cycling team.The 30-year-old cyclist had an astonishing performance – with lungs and legs in limit – managing to lead by more than a minute over 2019…