IT was billed as a repeat of the astonishing Super Saturday of London 2012 – when Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford all stormed to gold. But this time round it was a case of medals of three different colours. There was gold for Farah in the 10,000 metres, heptathlon silver for Ennis-Hill to […]
ADAM PEATY has revealed he even impressed the great Michael Phelps with the relay leg which inspired his team to silver. Great Britain’s golden boy swam an incredible 56.59 seconds in the breaststroke split of the 4×100 metres medley relay. That was even quicker than the world record time of 57.13secs he set when he […]
JUSTIN GATLIN claimed he did not even know who Lilly King was after responding to his fellow American’s comments about drug cheats. Gatlin stormed through the 100m heats in Rio – and straight into a row with Olympic gold medallist King. Nineteen-year-old King won gold in the 100m breaststroke while Russian drugs cheat Yulia Efimova was booed […]
ANTHONY ERVIN has beaten the odds to become the oldest-ever swimmer to win Olympic gold. The 35-year-old American – a practising Zen Buddhist – narrowly took first in the 50m freestyle by an incredible one hundredth of a second, 16 years after winning the same event in Sydney. Ervin – who used to work in […]
MICHAEL PHELPS sensationally won his TWENTY-SECOND Olympic gold medal in the 200m individual medley final on Thursday night. It was the a fourth win of Rio 2016 for the ‘Flying Fish’ – and the incredible haul broke a 2,168-year-old Games record held by Leonidas of Rhodes. Fans the world-wide have been wondering what it is […]