📺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.
❌The United Nations has warned of a growing crisis along the Mozambique-Tanzania border
Rwandan and South African troops have now been sent in to quell the violence
The insurgency in Cabo Delgado has been escalating since 2017.
Little is known about the motivations of these Isis-affiliated fighters, who have killed nearly 3,000 people and forced another 800,000 to flee their homes
"It is Daley’s story that elevates this accomplishment to the realm of the epic"
📅The mingling of childhood precocity and family tragedy
📽️The decision to announce his sexuality on YouTube
🥇The agonised pursuit of a gold he feared would never come
📸Almost his entire life, Tom Daley has grown up in the public eye.
Many still picture him as a cherubic 12-year-old, talking about his love of Nintendo
🔴Double-vaccinated expats are set to be free to travel to the UK.
✈️British families have been separated by the current quarantine-free travel restrictions because the Government only recognises people who have been vaccinated by the NHS
🚦However, ministers are preparing to change the rules
The new rules would allow UK nationals who have been vaccinated overseas to register the jabs with their GP, clearing the way for them to return to the UK to visit family and friends without having to self-isolate
✈️This could benefit:
🇪🇺300,000 British citizens living in just eight of the main EU countries
🇺🇸 700,000 Britons in the US
🇫🇷150,000 Brits in France (once it is removed from its current "amber-plus" status)