Olympic athletes WON’T need Covid-19 vaccine to participate in Tokyo 2020 games, organisers reveal

REVEALED: Olympic athletes WON’T need Covid-19 vaccine for Tokyo 2020 games, they can only ‘clap rather than cheer and sing’ when watching team-mates and they MUST avoid bars and public transport There have been growing fears over whether Olympics can take place in summer There has been a recent spike in infections in Japan and … Read more

Cricket WAGs are ‘feuding’ over an article ‘power-ranking’ the wives of famous athletes

How a harmless newspaper article about Australia’s most powerful WAGs ‘sparked a feud’ among the wives and girlfriends of the national cricket team By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:18 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 01:18 GMT, 18 January 2021 Tensions are reportedly simmering among the Australian cricket WAG community. According to New Idea, … Read more

Olympics 2020: IOC member says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine to ensure delayed Tokyo 2020 can go ahead… just weeks after Olympics chief Thomas Bach insisted they wouldn’t be able to jump the queue! IOC member Dick Pound says Olympic athletes should get a Covid vaccine soon Tokyo 2020 was delayed last summer … Read more

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine to ensure delayed Tokyo 2020 can go ahead… just weeks after Olympics chief Thomas Bach insisted they wouldn’t be able to jump the queue! IOC member Dick Pound says Olympic athletes should get a Covid vaccine soon Tokyo 2020 was delayed last summer … Read more

Tokyo Olympics: Athletes won’t be forced to get coronavirus vaccines to compete next summer

Olympic athletes WON’T be forced to get coronavirus vaccines to compete in Tokyo next summer, IOC president Thomas Bach says – as he tells Olympians they CAN’T jump the queue to get vaccinated first Thomas Bach revealed Olympians at Tokyo 2020 won’t be forced to get vaccines He said that mandatory shots would be ‘going … Read more

Professional athletes can take in oxygen TWICE as fast as the regular person

Professional runners with the ability to run a marathon in under two hours take in oxygen twice as fast as a regular person of the same age, a new study revealed. University of Exeter researchers analysed the rate of oxygen uptake among elite athletes as part of the sub-two-minute marathon Breaking2 project run by Nike.  … Read more

Heart inflammation in athletes who survive COVID-19 is NOT a major concern, say US doctors

Doctors say heart inflammation in American athletes who survived COVID-19 is not a major concern. Recent reports have found increased rates of the condition, known as myocarditis, in young athletes infected with coronavirus.  Now, a team of cardiologists led by Massachusetts General Hospital, have suggested this is no need to due wide-based screening or to cancel … Read more

Caster Semenya loses Swiss Court appeal over restriction of testosterone levels in female athletes

Caster Semenya LOSES appeal in Swiss Federal Supreme Court over restriction of testosterone levels in female athletes… meaning South African star cannot defend her Olympic 800m title in Toyko next year Caster Semenya lost an appeal over testosterone restrictions for female athletes The South African star appealed against a Court Of Arbitration ruling last year   The … Read more

Natalie Portman opens up about climate crisis while showing support for new Athletes Unlimited

Natalie Portman opens up about climate crisis while showing support for new Athletes Unlimited pro sports league on social media By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 01:16 BST, 2 September 2020 | Updated: 01:28 BST, 2 September 2020 Natalie Portman is never one to shy away from speaking her mind, with the actress opening up … Read more

Two more Team GB gymnasts call for athletes to speak out after she stood down amid bullying probe

Two more Team GB gymnasts coached by Amanda Reddin have called on athletes to come forward over allegations of bullying in the sport. Double-Olympian Hannah Whelan, 28, and Olympic athlete Jennifer Pinches, 26, used social media to ask fellow gymnasts with concerns to respond to the Whyte Review. ‘I know how hard it is to … Read more