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Tokyo Olympics: Glover and Swann fourth in rowing final, James Wilby sixth in 200m breaststroke Last updated on Tokyo Olympic Games on the BBC Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. Helen Glover and Polly Swann missed out on a fairytale finish to their story as they finished fourth in the women's pair on a frustrating morning for Team GB. It was fourth too for fellow British rowers Emily Craig and Imogen G...

Olympics-Badminton-Danes could give Asian shuttlers a run for their golds FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Badminton - Men's Singles - Group Stage - MFS - Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan - July 24, 2021. Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in action during the match against Luka Wraber of Austria. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger July 25, 2021 By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) – Denmark has not won a badminton gold medal since Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen beat China’s Dong Jiong at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics but that could be about to change in Tokyo. With 11 players – including Viktor Axelsen and ...

July 19, 2021 Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open – the world’s oldest badminton tournament – with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five events. Their overwhelming dominance alarmed Badminton World Federation (BWF) president Poul-Erik Hoye...

news Tokyo Olympics: will European shuttlers threaten Asia’s badminton dominance? Illustration: Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open - the world's oldest badminton tournament - with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five events. Their overwhelm...

Published on: Friday, July 09, 2021 By: AFP TOKYO: Japanese badminton star Kento Momota (pic) said Thursday he feared he might never play at an Olympics after a catalogue of career mishaps, but is feeling “positive” about the Tokyo Games. World number one Momota was banned from Japan’s Rio Games team in 2016 for illegal gambling, and was almost forced to retire last year after a serious car crash. But the unprecedented postponement of the Tokyo Games because of the coronavirus pandemic gave him time to recover, and he is aiming for gold when he finally makes his Olympic debut later thi...