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To choose and we have to respect that, but it is not necessarily that helpful. theres more from andy anson in the sports desk podcast, where the panel weigh up the risks and rewards of staging the worlds biggest sports event during a global pandemic. you can listen via bbc sounds. mo farah has one last chance to make tokyo at an invitational race in manchester tonight. the four—time, olympic champion swapped the track for marathon—running in 2017, but he switched back two years ago, because ...

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has written to the President of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic Games to provide assurance that the athletes and staff of Team GB are “doing everything possible to minimise any risk to the people of Japan” ahead of the Olympic Games. In a letter to President Hashimoto, the BOA’s Chair, Sir Hugh Robertson, outlined additional testing measures for the delegation members prior to departure, over and above the requirements of the Tokyo 2020 ...

Team GB launches heat-resistant official kit for Tokyo Olympics Plus: Telegraph Fashion casts a critical eye over the best and worst of the rest of the worlds clobber for Tokyo Games 6 May 2021 • 3:51pm Team GB athletes pose in the new kit that will be worn at this summers Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan Credit: ADIDAS It was accused of being “too blue” after Stella McCartney was brought in to design it. But there was no mistaking the red on the new British Olympic and Paralympic kit unveil...

'If we thought it was irresponsible, and if we thought the Games were not safe, we would not go for it'

Sir Mo Farah: Athletes have been told they will receive vaccines before Olympics PA 26 January 2021, 12:17 pm Sir Mo Farah believes the Olympic Games will go ahead this summer and says athletes have been told they will receive vaccinations against Covid-19. Farah, who has won 5,000 and 10,000 metres gold at each of the last two Games in London and Rio, has previously said he is targeting success in the longer distance only in Tokyo. However, the Games are again under threat from the coronavirus...

Olympic chiefs are working with World Health Organisation-backed scientists to help vaccinate the competitors 22 January 2021 • 9:00pm Olympic chiefs are working with World Health Organisation-backed scientists to get all athletes vaccinated in an attempt to save the Tokyo Games, Telegraph Sport can reveal. Accelerating Covid-19 jabs for competitors where national programmes are yet to begin is a priority in the International Olympic Committee’s plan. High-level meetings are advancing with ...

Tokyo 2020 Games may have to be held behind closed doors, says Lord Coe Last updated on Lord Coe confident that the Olympic Games in Tokyo will happen The rescheduled Tokyo Games may have to be held behind closed doors if they are to go ahead in Japan this year, athletics chief Lord Coe has admitted. The World Athletics president remained confident the Olympics and Paralympics would take place despite a Times report "I would love to have fans, noisy and passionate," Coe told the BBC. "But if t...

Festivals, holidays, Euro 2020… will summers big events still go ahead? Tom Wall, Vanessa Thorpe and Harriet Sherwood © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA As Covid-19 cases rise across the world, hopes that life could get back to some semblance of normality by summer are fading. What chance do we have of going to a festival, flying off for a holiday or attending a major sporting event? © Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA The crowd for Kylie Minogue at the Glaston...