📺BBC One was facing mounting anger over its Olympics coverage on Sunday after missing live coverage of Britain's first two medal-winners telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
The youngest podium ever?
🇯🇵13-year-old Momiji Nishiya has won Gold in the skateboarding women's street event.
Fellow 13-year-old Rayssa Leal from Brazil took the silver with Japan's Funa Nakayama, aged 16, taking the bronze.
🥇"Tom Daley is an Olympic champion. Six little words Britain has waited for ever since he burst onto the international stage as an absurdly precocious child four #Olympics ago have become a reality"
🏊♂️"With Adam Peaty, a sculpted human torpedo who revels in taking his body to places it was never designed to go, we are watching nothing less than the redefinition of sporting dominance" | Writes @oliverbrown_tel
🇦🇺Australia's Ariarne Titmus lit up the pool with a stunning victory over Katie Ledecky, but when it comes to celebrations it was her wide-eyed, hip-thrusting coach Dean Boxall who deserved an Olympic gold.
🇷🇺In 2019 the WADA banned Russia from all international sport for 4 years.
Russian athletes not implicated in doping can still compete as neutrals.
Strictly speaking then, Russia aren’t here. Yet they have more athletes in Tokyo than they did in Rio telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
Pidcock’s win came only two months after he was hit side-on by a car while out training, breaking his collarbone.
🥇The 21-year-old returned to training within a week and completely dominated the field on Monday bringing home gold for #TeamGB telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🇯🇵Naomi Osaka advances to round three.
The world number two, is back on the court after pulling out of the French Open on mental health grounds and also missing Wimbledon.
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.