Dina Asher-Smith: Athletics - women’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m
The headline act on the British team, Asher-Smith won three medals at the 2019 World Championships - including 200m gold - and has her sights firmly set on matching that achievement in Tokyo.
Sam Atkin: Athletics - men’s 10,000m
Based in the United States since moving there as a teenager for his studies, Atkin, now 28, made a huge breakthrough when he moved fifth on the British all-time 10,000m list in December 2020 to qualify for Tokyo.
Niclas Baker: Athletics - men’s 4x400m
Baker smashed his personal best to win the British 400m title this June and secure a first senior international call-up.
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Grant Holloway wins the 110m hurdles in Szekesfehervar (© Organisers)
Many events at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar – a
World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – on Monday and Tuesday (5-6) will offer a sneak preview of what may happen at the Olympic Games in a few weeks’ time.
In fact, the men’s 400m should come with a spoiler alert because world record-holder Wayde van Niekerk and US champion Michael Norman have decided that the Hungarian city, and not Tokyo, should be the site of their first ever head-to-head.
It will also be the first time that Norman takes on world 400m champion Steven Gardiner of The Bahamas, setting up an intriguing three-way battle over one lap of the track.
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Riley Keough (left) stars as “Stefani” and Taylour Paige stars as “Zola” in Zola. // Photograph courtesy of Anna Kooris / A24 Films
How a Detroit woman’s viral Twitter thread became the highly anticipated film Zola.
In 2015, A’Ziah “Zola” King posted a 148-tweet thread about a chance meeting at a Hooters leading to a life-changing road trip. That story birthed the movie,
Zola, in theaters now.
Ypsilanti native Tiffany Porter makes history, advancing to her third Olympics.
Porter, a 100-meter hurdler and former University of Michigan athlete, qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a stadium-record time of 12.78
Two Michigan judges are nominated to federal bench by President Biden.
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