Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson bucked the trend on a huge night for United States women athletes as she became the first woman since Florence Griffith-Joyner at Seoul in 1988 to win the sprint double at the Olympics, winning the 200 metres in 21.78sec after holding off the world champion Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands, who clocked 21.88.

Either side of her victory the US stacked up the medals as Tianna Bartoletta’s late personal best of

of 19.19 in the longer sprint.The pity of it that all this drama was played out before something very

Looking ahead, he added: "I definitely think I can try for the world record, I definitely feel that.

come to life.Reese missed out on the world title last year after having surgery in 2014, but the five-times

Reese commented: "I'm not disappointed at all."

China secured their third successive table tennis clean sweep of Olympic gold medals here tonight in

with singles champion Ma Long securing two points in a 3-1 victory.It continued their 100 per cent record

left-handed players, drawing level before gaining three match points in the fifth set.Once, twice, three times

This golden medal is not only achieved by these three players on the court, it is also due to all the

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan has given a "guarantee" that all lifters

serious risk of receiving a similar ban.This comes after the IWF vowed to hand a one year suspension to all

anyway as the "integrity of the weightlifting sport has been seriously damaged on multiple times

was applied in order to preserve the status of the sport".But lifters from Kazakhstan have won five medals

, including a world record breaking under 77 kilograms title for Nijat Rahimov.Belarus have won two silver

“We wish weightlifting to be a clean sport and there’s only one way - we have to ban all the countries

The Czech Republic have won the Ivan Hlinka Under-18 Cup following a 4-3 victory over United States in the final in Bratislava.

 Heading into the final the Americans had won all four of their games, including a 4-2 win over

the Czechs in the group stage - the only blemish on the record of the champions.Both teams made it to

 The Americans came back three times before edging Russia 4-3 while Zadina was the Czech hero, scoring

 Hlinka won two Olympic medals in his career, a silver at Innsbruck 1976 and a silver at Sapporo

When the French director Marcel Camus took the classic Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to a Brazilian favela in the late 1950s, he created a film that would not only beguile Barack Obama and his mother, but would make a little bit of Olympic history. 

After all, how many Olympic athletics gold medallists have had a major role in a movie that won the Palm

He is still the only South American to have won two Olympic athletics gold medals.

 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva en-route to setting a new world record at the Helsinki Olympics ©Getty

four times in six jumps.

“The Olympic Games now are all about business, so different from the Games my father went to.

retired legend that is Sir Chris Hoy - beat world champions New Zealand to earn gold in an Olympic record

That rounded off a hugely impressive day for Britain at the Rio Olympic velodrome following a world record

the World Championships since 2012.There had been doubts over Skinner’s capacity to replace the six-times

We were outsiders coming into the Games so it is great for it all to come together," said Kenny, who

Olympic champions.Only rower Sir Steve Redgrave and fellow cyclist Sir Chris have now won more gold medals

Kenny’s fiancée Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald had set a world record

As the Rio 2016 swimming programme got underway this weekend, the ripples were still spreading from the August 1 premiere airing at the Los Angeles Film Festival of The Last Gold.This is a documentary on the victory earned by the United States women’s 4x100 metre freestyle team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, against the East German athletes who otherwise swept the board at those Games through what we now know were illegal means.

nine times, taking it from mid-58sec to 55.65.

of 3:44.82.If the record books were to remove all the East German performances for that Olympics, Babashoff

books, strip the East Germans of their medals and award new medals to the rightful winners.

“I am not in favour of taking away their medals.

In both races I was placed next to the GDR record holders.

USA Curling has named its 2016 team and athletes of the year.

 "We achieved nearly all of them, which was pretty remarkable.

team progressed from the round robin stages of the 2016 World Junior Championships in Denmark with a record

 After advancing to the gold-medal game, the US team ended up taking home silver medals after losing

honoured to have been chosen for this award,” said Christensen, who has won the junior national title four times

 “Thank you to the committee, my coaches, all of our supporters, and especially my team-mates.

Russia's double Olympic pole vault gold medallist and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva believes

Isinbayeva, winner of gold medals at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 a bronze at London 2012, is one of

will be responsible for ensuring that the procedures and regulations are followed at all times as well

 All athletes participating in Rio 2016 will be eligible to vote and will be asked to elect four

 She has made the threat even though she claimed she is in shape to break her own world record of

My coach and I expected that I would win with a world record at the Olympics."

Is Yulia Stepanova, the Russian 800m runner whose whistleblowing activity triggered the scandal which has resulted in Russia’s track-and-field athletes being suspended from international competition including the forthcoming Rio Olympics, a “Judas” or a “true Olympic hero”?

her training camp and was met by her husband Vitaly Stepanov, she told John Brant for the New York Times

the couple spoke about her position, sitting in their car, the idea emerged that she might secretly record

been taking cocktails of prohibited substances since 2007 as she worked towards her goal of winning medals

statement to WADA, she said that once she was receiving effective testosterone injections, her personal record

found to have cheated, Stepanova’s performances have hurt other athletes who have been deprived of the medals

The third day of the African Athletics Championships Kings Park Athletics Stadium in Durban produced one big surprise - no Kenyan victory in the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase - and one big non-surprise, namely home athlete Caster Semenya , the former world 800m champion who has dominated her main event this year, taking the gold medal in the 1500m.

Semenya, winner of all three of her International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League

silver ahead of Rynhardt Van Rensburg.The men’s 400m produced a shock as Makwala, who set an African record

of 43.72sec last year, finished outside the medals in a race where two of his fellow countrymen took

bigger shock in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase where, for the first time since Morocco’s former world record

in respective times of 38.8 and 43.7.

Skate Canada have announced they will submit a bid to host the World Figure Skating Championships in 2020.

“We are proud to have held the world championships 10 times previously and we know that if the ISU brings

this event back to Canada we will continue our outstanding hosting record while inspiring not only

Championships in 2013 ©Getty ImagesIt is hoped that the city will act as a strong partners across all

dance events, in June 2017.Canada have left the past two editions of the World Championships with gold medals

Australia’s Olympic TV network, 7Olympics, has just put out a short clip of footage from the London 2012 Olympics featuring home race walker Jared Tallent en route to his eventual golden glory in the 50km race walk - eventual in the sense that he had to wait until June 17, 2016, 1,405 days later, to claim the medal originally won by Sergey Kirdyapkin.

London 2012 Opening Ceremony the focus moves to the 50km race itself as we see Tallent moving clear of all

medal around his neck.On the subject of the real thing, Tallent - who has also become the Olympic record

I just asked my driver to pull over and I cried it all out.

I needed to be reassured two or three times.”On the subject of the ceremony itself, she commented:

But on the first night we will give all the gold medals from Berlin 2009.”Given the recent re-test of

South Africa's six-times Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is due to face a sentencing hearing

Another car pulled alongside Adams' vehicle and the passenger shot her four times.

He successfully defended his title 14 times and is widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of

all time.But the boxer had a history of domestic violence, and of attacking paparazzi who attempted

She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but was later stripped of

a cheque-cashing scheme which led to the conviction of the father of her child, former world 100m record

Cristiano Ronaldo comes into the reckoning, but if you were to say that Lionel Messi and Neymar Jr were among the three best footballers in the world right now you would not get many arguments.

has a winners medal from the UEFA Champions League and Super Cup and Messi has four Champions League medals

imperative even than the traditions of the Catalan club they represent.Brazil have won the World Cup a record

five times - one more than Germany - but they have never lifted the Olympic title.

The closest they have come to getting their hands on those gold medals came just four years ago in London

We have nearly won our last two tournaments but we came up just short both times.