A tough act to follow. And while the build up was far from ideal, with political scandals, a financial crisis and worries about the zika virus, brazil was always going to offer a spectacular setting for south americas first ever olympic and Paralympic Games. Thered be plenty of time for selfies after the success, and team gb had big ambitions hoping for their best ever foreign olympics. Paralympics gb hoping to better their medal haulfrom london 2012. More on their Success Stories later, but first to athletics. And Super Saturday, part two the stadium erupts three gold medals for gb what a night sydney 2000 heptathlon champion denise lewis was there in rio as mo farah, Jessica Ennis hill and Greg Rutherford bid to defend their respective olympic titles. We were all looking forward of Super Saturday from london 2012. We had mo farah going in the 10,000 metres. Not without its drama. Falls. Fallen, clip there. Bumps, barges. But mo still came through. The atmosphere in the stadium was el
A tough act to follow. And while the build up was far from ideal, with political scandals, a financial crisis and worries about the zika virus, brazil was always going to offer a spectacular setting for south americas first ever olympic and Paralympic Games. Thered be plenty of time for selfies after the success, and team gb had big ambitions hoping for their best ever foreign olympics. Paralympics gb hoping to better their medal haulfrom london 2012. More on their Success Stories later, but first to athletics. And Super Saturday, part two the stadium erupts three gold medals for gb what a night sydney 2000 heptathlon champion denise lewis was there in rio as mo farah, Jessica Ennis hill and Greg Rutherford bid to defend their respective olympic titles. We were all looking forward of Super Saturday from london 2012. We had mo farah going in the 10,000 metres. Not without its drama. Falls. Fallen, clip there. Bumps, barges. But mo still came through. The atmosphere in the stadium was el
A tough act to follow. And while the build up was far from ideal, with political scandals, a financial crisis and worries about the zika virus, brazil was always going to offer a spectacular setting for south americas first ever olympic and Paralympic Games. Thered be plenty of time for selfies after the success, and team gb had big ambitions hoping for their best ever foreign olympics. Paralympics gb hoping to better their medal haulfrom london 2012. More on their Success Stories later, but first to athletics. And Super Saturday, part two the stadium erupts three gold medals for gb what a night sydney 2000 heptathlon champion denise lewis was there in rio as mo farah, Jessica Ennis hill and Greg Rutherford bid to defend their respective olympic titles. We were all looking forward of Super Saturday from london 2012. We had mo farah going in the 10,000 metres. Not without its drama. Falls. Fallen, clip there. Bumps, barges. But mo still came through. The atmosphere in the stadium was el
Nathan Collins has been ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's friendly against New Zealand on Tuesday. The Brentford defender suffered ankle ligament injury in the closing stages of Saturday's 1-0 loss to the Netherlands in Amsterdam and left the stadium on crutches. Collins' injury deepens the defensive injury problems for Thomas Frank who is already without full-backs Rico Henry and Aaron Hickey for the long term while Ben Mee has only recently returned from a muscle issue.
there was also a record breaking performance by canada as they thrashed lebanon 128 73 in jakarta. the canadians dished out 43 assists the most in a world cup game since records began in 1994 breaking their previous record of 37 set five years ago. nine canada players scored double figures in the victory. in the other games, the dominican republic, lithuania and montenegro both registered their second wins of the world cup from their opening two matches against italy, mexico and egypt respectively. elsewhere, there were wins for angola and japan while france and latvia are into the closing stages. history at the 2023 badminton world championships as an se young became south korea s first ever singles world champion. the world number one continued her dominance of the sport in 2023 as she beat three time former world champion carolina marin in straight games in copenhagen. the 21 year old has now won eight bwf titles in 2023 while there was further success for south korea in the mix