IOC ‘in talks with World Health Organisation to accelerate process of getting athletes vaccinated’ in attempt to save Tokyo Games after Japanese government categorically denied summer showcase will be cancelled Olympic chiefs are creating plan to vaccinate every athlete before Tokyo Games The IOC are set to meet with World Health Organisation-backed scientists IOC plan … Read more
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
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 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
Doctors say heart inflammation in American athletes who survived COVID-19 is not a major concern. Recent reports have found increased rates of the condition, known as myocarditis, in young athletes infected with coronavirus. Now, a team of cardiologists led by Massachusetts General Hospital, have suggested this is no need to due wide-based screening or to cancel … Read more
Caster Semenya LOSES appeal in Swiss Federal Supreme Court over restriction of testosterone levels in female athletes… meaning South African star cannot defend her Olympic 800m title in Toyko next year Caster Semenya lost an appeal over testosterone restrictions for female athletes The South African star appealed against a Court Of Arbitration ruling last year The … Read more
President Donald Trump took aim at protesting athletes again on Tuesday, tweeting that people ‘are not happy that players are not standing for our National Anthem!’ Although some NFL players have done so since 2016, athletes across the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball have recently begun kneeling in protest of racism during The Star-Spangled … Read more
British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more
Linford Christie furiously accuses the Met of institutional racism after two of his athletes are stopped, manhandled from their car outside their home and searched – but Scotland Yard claims they ‘sped off’ Two of Linford Christie’s international athletes were stopped by the police The Met said they were patrolling an area known for increasing … Read more
Reebok and athletes around the world have cut ties with CrossFit after founder Greg Glassman tweeted ‘it’s FLOYD-19’ after the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), said racism and discrimination is a public health issue that needs an urgent response. The research firm tweeted a statement from its director Christopher Murray who said that … Read more