GB’s Kate French win Olympic gold for Modern pentathlon, to make GB’s 18th gold in Tokyo. GB’s cyclist Laura Kenny became the first woman to triumph at three Olympics and Katie Archibald claim gold in the madison. GB’s Carlin wins bronze in men’s sprint. In women’s hockey GB world number 4, and gold medal winners…
Liam Heath claims bronze in the K1, 200m canoe sprint. He got out of his canoe and slapped the winner, the Hungarian Sandor Totka, and the silver medallist Manfredi Rizza generously on the back. Jamaica’s Hansie Parchment crosses the finish line to win the 110m hurdles ahead of second placed USA’s Grant Holloway and third…
Sportswear brand Sweaty Betty founded in 1998, from London’s Notting Hill Gate which expanded rapidly on the back of the popularity of so-called athleisure fashion, favourites of Jennifer Anniston and Halle Berry, had been bought by US-based Wolverine Worldwide best known for selling footwear for £294.4m. Brendan Hoffman, President of Wolverine Worldwide, said “Sweaty Betty…
Sky Brown, wins bronze to become GB’s youngest medal winner at Olympics, surpassed Sarah Hardcastle, who took two medals in swimming in 1984, when she was 15 years old. Brown broke 93-year-old record of Margery Hinton to become the youngest athlete to represent Team GB. Skaura Yosozumi of Japan wins gold for skateboarding with a…
World number one Oliver Townend, Laura Collet and Tom McEwen sealed victory in the final show jumping stage before McEwen won a solo silver. Emily Campbell (27) became first British woman to win an Olympic weightlifting silver medal in the 87kg category to win the 35th medal of the game for Team GB. GB…
Team GB wins a gold medal in the inaugural Olympic triathlon mixed relay by Jessica Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee ,followed by winning the 4x100m mixed medley relay in a world record time. Learmonth set the platform, Brownlee broke away from the pack and Taylor-Brown and Yee maintained the advantage to secure…
John Boyne skewers the brutalities of social media and the incongruities of wokeness for those who value friendship more than followers. Boyne’s characteristic humour and razor-sharp observations, follows five members of the Cleverley family who lived a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, only one tweet away from disaster, during a week…
The Darkest hour of Pandemic arrived on September 21, 2020 for Jeremy Farrar, a global expert in infectious disease control, one of the UK’s leading scientists, head of the Wellcome Trust, and a member of the SAGE emergency committee, describes how it feels as one of the key scientists at the sharp end of a…
Although the social security Act signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935 in addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new American way of life is beyond comprehension. For a guy and his girlfriend with two kids, to survive in America all you have to do follow the steps below First…
Steve Bouquet, 54, from Brighton, was sentenced to five years and three months, at Hove Crown Court, for stabbing cats and other pets and left them dying on door steps. The cat killer was found guilty of attacking 16 cats in the East Sussex city killing nine. A Jury at Chichester Crown Court found the…