Olympic triathlon held up by false start with a BOAT in the way of athletes ready to jump into water

Olympic triathlon held up by shocking false start with a BOAT in the way of athletes ready to jump into the water when the gun went to start in Tokyo – with the BBC commentator branding the scene ‘insane’ By Richard Martin For Mailonline and Reuters Published: 18:46 EDT, 25 July 2021 | Updated: 19:20 … Read more

Japanese fans ignore calls to watch Tokyo 2020 Games at home by lining streets to cheer on athletes

Japanese sports fans are defying government calls to watch Tokyo 2020 Games at home by lining the streets to cheer on the athletes and posing with Olympic symbols. Hundreds of cycling enthusiasts came out to watch the Men’s and Women’s Road Race event around the Japanese capital – creating the first crowd atmosphere of the … Read more

Conor McGregor celebrates topping Forbes’ Athletes Rich List with lavish cake

‘Baby we did it!’: Conor McGregor celebrates topping Forbes’ Athletes Rich List with lavish cake after raking in a staggering £127m this year By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 08:34 BST, 14 May 2021 | Updated: 08:34 BST, 14 May 2021 Conor McGregor celebrated being the top of Forbes’ Athletes Rich List in style on … Read more

Running: Nike Vaporfly 4% trainers boost elite athletes’ performance by up to 1.7%, study finds 

Want to run faster? Change your SHOES! Launch of Nike’s Vaporfly 4% trainers featuring thicker, lighter foam and rigid plate along the midsole in 2017 boosted elite athletes’ performance by up to 1.7%, study finds Nike introduced the Vaporfly with its ‘advanced shoe technology’ back in 2017 The trainers’ midsole has thicker, lighter foam and a … Read more

Chinese Olympic Committee offers vaccine doses to athletes competing at Tokyo 2020

BREAKING NEWS: Tokyo Olympics bosses agree deal to buy Covid vaccines from China to get all 30,000 athletes jabbed and make sure the Games go ahead, despite hosts Japan lagging behind on vaccinations for the public The rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics are due to get underway on July 23 The IOC has urged countries to … Read more

Olympic athletes WON’T need Covid-19 vaccine to participate in Tokyo 2020 games, organisers reveal

REVEALED: Olympic athletes WON’T need Covid-19 vaccine for Tokyo 2020, they can only ‘clap rather than cheer and sing’ when watching team-mates and they MUST avoid bars and public transport There have been growing fears over whether Olympics can take place in summer There has been a recent spike in infections in Japan and across … Read more

Cricket WAGs are ‘feuding’ over an article ‘power-ranking’ the wives of famous athletes

How a harmless newspaper article about Australia’s most powerful WAGs ‘sparked a feud’ among the wives and girlfriends of the national cricket team By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:18 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 01:18 GMT, 18 January 2021 Tensions are reportedly simmering among the Australian cricket WAG community. According to New Idea, … Read more

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine to ensure delayed Tokyo 2020 can go ahead… just weeks after Olympics chief Thomas Bach insisted they wouldn’t be able to jump the queue! IOC member Dick Pound says Olympic athletes should get a Covid vaccine soon Tokyo 2020 was delayed last summer … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Athletes won’t be forced to get coronavirus vaccines to compete next summer

Olympic athletes WON’T be forced to get coronavirus vaccines to compete in Tokyo next summer, IOC president Thomas Bach says – as he tells Olympians they CAN’T jump the queue to get vaccinated first Thomas Bach revealed Olympians at Tokyo 2020 won’t be forced to get vaccines He said that mandatory shots would be ‘going … Read more

Professional athletes can take in oxygen TWICE as fast as the regular person

Professional runners with the ability to run a marathon in under two hours take in oxygen twice as fast as a regular person of the same age, a new study revealed. University of Exeter researchers analysed the rate of oxygen uptake among elite athletes as part of the sub-two-minute marathon Breaking2 project run by Nike.  … Read more