GAMES

GINA LEADS: Gina Luckenkemper, of Germany, left, leads Salome Kora, of Switzerland, in a semi-final of the women’s 4X100-metre relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, yesterday, in Tokyo, Japan. —Photo: AP

Italy wins men's 4x100m gold medal pipping Great Britain on the line with Canada taking bronze

The Italians featuring 100m champion Marcell Jacobs won their country's first medal in the event at the Olympics since 1948.

Tyra Gittens, of Trinidad and Tobago, competes in the qualification rounds of the women’s long jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, on Sunday. AP PHOTO -

Understanding what motivates athletes to excel

IT IS safe to say that over the past two weeks we have been spoilt for choice when it comes to which sports, athletes, or action to follow at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. “The year of the unexpected,” some might say, as the underdogs rise, a 13-year-old earns bronze, two high jumpers share gold and Team TTO defy the odds to put on quite the Olympic performance and generate much chatter and national pride locally and abroad.

PREMATURE CONCESSION: Denis Dmitriev of the Russian Olympic Committee, left, acknowledges a win for Team TTO’s Nicholas Paul after the second ride-off in their best-of-three sprint quarter-final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, yesterday, in Izu, Japan. Soon, however, the track judges would penalise Paul and give Dmitriev a reprieve. @Caption:—Photo: AP

‘RAW DEAL’

(drop) Paul’s relegation unfair and brutal, says TTOC boss

Trinidad and Tobago's 3 covid19-positive Olympians in 'good spirits'

Trinidad and Tobago’s three covid19-positive Olympic delegation members are doing well at the isolation hotel facility in Tokyo, Japan.

Quiet Olympic swansong

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