Teenage sport climber Toby Roberts won Great Britain’s 14th gold of the Paris 2024 Olympics after victory in the men’s boulder and lead competition. Roberts, 19, secured 155.2 points to beat favourite Sorato Anraku of Japan, who lost his grip and fell needing only 86 points on the lead wall to relegate Roberts into silver-medal…
Josh Kerr took silver in the men’s 1500m at the Paris Olympics with American Cole Hocker stunning the Brit and favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win gold. Hocker pulled the upset of the Olympics, outracing Kerr and Ingebrigsten to the finish line. The Stade de France final was billed as the showdown of the century between…
Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull were forced to settle for Olympic men’s team sprint silver for Great Britain as skateboarding star Sky Brown secured a bronze medal, despite dislocating her shoulder before the Games. The British men took team sprint silver as pre-race favourites the Netherlands broke the world record twice on their…
Britain’s Amber Rutter won a controversial silver medal in the Olympic women’s skeet shooting final in Chateauroux on Sunday. Just over three months after giving birth to her son, Tommy, Rutter kept her cool during a tense six-athlete shoot-off to seal her place in the gold medal showdown. After Rutter and Chile’s Francesca Crovetto both…
Tom Daley and Noah Williams claimed silver in the men’s synchronised 10m platform diving final at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Daley and Williams produced six brilliant dives to guarantee at least a silver, but were ultimately beaten into the gold medal position by flawless Chinese pair Lian Junjie and Hao Yang, who led from the…
