Tokyo Olympic Games 2020

Chinese swimmers won Olympic golds after testing positive for banned drug

Twenty-three Chinese swimmers competed at the Tokyo Olympcs despite testing positive for the banned drug TMZ

Sean Ingle

20, Apr, 2024 @12:43 PM

Duncan Scott: ‘The Olympics are more gruelling mentally than physically’

Scottish athlete is targeting success at Paris Olympics this summer after a record-breaking return of four medals in Tokyo

Andy Bull

01, Apr, 2024 @12:00 PM

Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal threatens to derail Winter Games bid

Japanese official says corruption claims could damage Sapporo’s chances of hosting 2030 event

Justin McCurry in Toyko

07, Dec, 2022 @1:00 AM

Richard Kilty rips into teammate Reece Prescod over CJ Ujah Olympic drugs ban

Richard Kilty has castigated his fellow sprinter Reece Prescod for talking ‘fucking bullshit’ after he suggested that CJ Ujah should not be ostracised for a drug ban that cost Team GB a 4x100m silver medal from the Tokyo Games

Sean Ingle

22, May, 2022 @9:00 PM

Reece Prescod becomes first Team GB athlete to forgive CJ Ujah publicly

The sprinter Reece Prescod has become the first British athlete to forgive CJ Ujah publicly for failing a drugs test and costing Team GB a 4x100m relay silver medal at last year’s Tokyo Olympics

Sean Ingle

19, May, 2022 @2:00 PM

Afghan Olympian Farzad Mansouri: ‘I couldn’t allow the camp to affect me’

GB Taekwondo is helping Mansouri settle in Manchester after the trauma of the Kabul airlift and eight months in an Abu Dhabi refugee camp

Matt Kynaston

16, May, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘A noble choice’: Cedric Dubler’s Olympic act recognised with sportsmanship award

It was one of the most memorable moments of the Tokyo Games and Cedric Dubler’s act of sportsmanship on the athletics track has now been officially recognised with an award

Guardian sport

15, Mar, 2022 @12:19 AM

‘There are no parallels with sport and war’: meet Zhan Beleniuk, the 2020 Olympic gold medal winner in Kyiv

Seven months ago Zhan Beleniuk won his country’s only gold at the Tokyo Games – now the country’s first black MP is a target for Russia and has three guns on his desk

Sean Ingle

09, Mar, 2022 @7:54 PM

Australian basketballer Nathan Sobey has Olympic bronze medal stolen

The Brisbane Bullets guard has appealed to the public for information after his home was robbed overnight

Guardian sport

27, Feb, 2022 @6:36 AM

Team GB lose 4x100m Olympic silver after Ujah doping confirmed

Britain’s 4x100m relay team has been stripped of its 2020 Olympic silver medal after CJ Ujah’s failed doping test at the Tokyo Games was confirmed

Sean Ingle

18, Feb, 2022 @4:04 PM

Jaw-dropping sport moments of 2021: high jumpers share Olympic gold

Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Barshim were already friends but their bond was strengthened when they asked for a gold medal each rather than compete in a jump off at Tokyo 2020

Sean Ingle

27, Dec, 2021 @8:38 AM