Former cook Charlotte Worthington serves up gold medal as Team GB success continues August 1, 2021 Former cook Charlotte Worthington served up a gold medal for Team GB in the BMX freestyle as British success in Tokyo continued on Sunday. Worthington, from Manchester, landed the first-ever 360 backflip to be performed in women’s competition, having worked in a Mexican restaurant as she trained for this year’s Games. The 25-year-old’s gold was [...]
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Team GB kicks off super Saturday with gold rush July 31, 2021 Great Britain kicked off super Saturday by taking gold in two new Olympic events, pushing their medal total in Tokyo up to 27 on day eight of the games. Team GB claimed gold in the first Olympic mixed triathlon relay event, followed by winning the inaugural swimming 4x100m mixed medley relay in world-record time. Read [...]
Socios: The blockchain-enabled fan token platform promising to unlock revenue from the global fanbases of sport’s most famous teams July 31, 2021 Football’s transfer market may have lacked headline-grabbing deals so far this summer but the same can’t be said for Socios. The platform, which sells “fan tokens” offering supporters the chance to influence decisions at their team, has instantly increased visibility with a clutch of major partnerships. Last week Socios announced the launch of an Arsenal [...]
Record low ratings: TV audiences are tuning out of Tokyo Olympics July 31, 2021 The TV audience for the Olympics has fallen since 2016, as viewing becomes more fragmented and athletes compete in Japan when audiences are mostly asleep in the UK, Europe and the US. Watch the full report.
Why the British and Irish Lions brand has gone from strength to strength – and what the future holds for the touring side July 30, 2021 Ahead of this weekend’s second Test between the British and Irish Lions and South Africa, City A.M. examines why the touring side’s brand has endured and how it might evolve. “It shouldn’t work,” former England captain Lewis Moody says of the British and Irish Lions. The concept of a band of disparate players from the [...]
EP77 City A.M. Racing Podcast: Saturday Goodwood July 30, 2021 The final day of glorious Goodwood 2021 features the Group 2 Lily Langtry Stakes for fillies and mares, plus the 6 Furlong Stewards’ Cup cavalry charge. Newmarket trainer James Ferguson is our guest and he tells us all about First Folio who is strongly fancied to win the Stewards Sprint Handicap on the same card. [...]
EP: 76 Glorious Goodwood – Friday July 30, 2021 Friday at glorious Goodwood features the King George Qatar Stakes where Battaash looks to win the race for an extraordinary fifth time in succession. Angus Gold from the Shadwell Estate joins us to discuss the chances of their leading Friday hopes which include the likes of Battaash, Baaeed and Maydanny. City A.M. racing editor Bill [...]
Ollie Phillips: Rassie Erasmus rant shows how huge second Test is – and that Lions coach Warren Gatland has got under his skin July 30, 2021 If you needed any further proof of how big the second Test between the British and Irish Lions and South Africa is this weekend, look no further than Rassie Erasmus. The Springboks’ director of rugby this week issued a bizarre, hour-long video rant about refereeing decisions in the Lions’ first-Test win, even hinting he could [...]
Tokyo’s intense heat could force more tennis competition schedule changes July 29, 2021 Intense heat and humidity could force more competition schedule changes at the Tokyo Olympics with the International Tennis Federation, in charge of the competition at the Games, already moving today’s matches. Watch the full report.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Team GB star Dan Bibby calls RFU cuts to Sevens funding ‘a joke’ July 29, 2021 Team GB Rugby Sevens star Dan Bibby has criticised funding cuts to the sport’s programme, calling the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) plans “a joke”. Bibby’s comments come after GB narrowly missed the podium at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics yesterday, losing to Argentina 17-12 in the bronze medal match. The team’s central contracts ended last August [...]