Tokyo skyline has been on the BBC’s Olympics coverage… but the teams are in Salford 

Just a mirage! The spectacular Tokyo skyline has been on near-permanent display during the BBC’s Olympics coverage… but our TV teams are broadcasting from Salford By Eleanor Sharples Tv And Radio Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 19:58 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 19:58 EDT, 29 July 2021 The spectacular Tokyo skyline has been … Read more

Tokyo 2020: Edwina Bartholomew vows Seven will play more Australian music during Olympic coverage

‘We have heard your call’: Edwina Bartholomew vows that Seven will play more Australian music during their Olympic coverage – after local artists campaigned for help during lockdown By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 10:19 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 10:52 EDT, 29 July 2021 Channel Seven have vowed to include more … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: BBC host Clare Balding innocently tells them ‘your third leg was just PHENOMENAL’

Team GB’s gold medal swimmers Tom Dean and Matt Richards can’t stop smirking as BBC host Clare Balding innocently tells them ‘your third leg was just PHENOMENAL’ By Kate Mcgreavy For Mailonline Published: 06:20 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 08:27 EDT, 29 July 2021 Clare Balding made headlines at the Tokyo Olympics for an … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Alessandra Perilli wins first Olympic medal EVER for San Marino after 61 years

Alessandra Perilli creates history by winning the first Olympic medal EVER for San Marino after 61 years of trying – and the country with just 34,000 people is now the SMALLEST to ever win one The 33-year-old trap shooter took bronze at the Asaka Shooting Range  It was Perilli’s second attempt but her country’s 25th … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Team GB’s Mallory Franklin claims silver in the women’s slalom

Team GB canoeist Mallory Franklin agonisingly misses out on gold in the women’s slalom but claims silver after Australia’s world No 1 Jessica Fox storms through to become Olympic champion By Oli Gamp For Mailonline Published: 03:39 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 04:23 EDT, 29 July 2021 Team GB canoeist Mallory Franklin settled for … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Victoria Thornley becomes FIRST Team GB woman to make final of single sculls

Victoria Thornley becomes makes final of Olympic women’s single sculls… with Team GB star passing Austria’s Magdalena Lobnig to finish Tokyo semi-final in second By Kishan Vaghela For Mailonline Published: 01:49 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 01:49 EDT, 29 July 2021 Victoria Thornley has qualified for the final of the Olympics women’s single sculls … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Ireland win FIRST-EVER Olympic rowing gold ever in lightweight double sculls race

Ireland win their FIRST-EVER Olympic rowing gold as Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy edge out Germany at Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo to win lightweight double sculls race By Kishan Vaghela For Mailonline Published: 21:27 EDT, 28 July 2021 | Updated: 00:20 EDT, 29 July 2021 Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan earned Ireland’s first gold … Read more

Helen Glover insists she will NOT make another rowing comeback for Team GB for 2024 Olympic Games

Helen Glover insists she will NOT make another rowing comeback for Team GB for 2024 Olympic Games… after defending women’s coxless pairs champion missed out on Tokyo medal alongside Polly Swann By Nick Mashiter, Press Association Published: 23:31 EDT, 28 July 2021 | Updated: 23:33 EDT, 28 July 2021 Helen Glover ruled out another rowing … Read more