Can Team GB’s track and field stars beat the one medal low from 1976? Sportsmail’s verdict on the prospects to look out for amid fears they could win as few as FOUR medals in Tokyo There will be 77 track and field athletes representing Team GB in Tokyo The focus is on whether they will … Read more
Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s medal credentials continue to be questioned after another modest result in her final warm-up competition before Tokyo Olympics… with heptathlon starting in little more than two weeks By Riath Al-Samarrai for MailOnline Published: 07:56 BST, 18 July 2021 | Updated: 07:59 BST, 18 July 2021 Questions around Katarina Johnson-Thompson‘s Olympic medal credentials are intensifying … Read more
Katarina Johnson-Thompson finishes eighth out of nine in the long jump at the British Grand Prix as she continues her injury-shortened build-up to Tokyo By Riath Al-Samarrai for the Daily Mail Published: 22:09 BST, 13 July 2021 | Updated: 22:09 BST, 13 July 2021 Katarina Johnson-Thompson continued her comeback from a ruptured achilles in Gateshead … Read more
Katarina Johnson-Thompson insists she can challenge for medals at the Olympics as heptathlon world champion finally confirms she ruptured her Achilles last December By Riath Al-Samarrai for the Daily Mail Published: 14:41 BST, 12 July 2021 | Updated: 14:41 BST, 12 July 2021 Katarina Johnson-Thompson declared she can still compete for a medal at the Olympics … Read more
Katarina Johnson-Thompson to miss this month’s British Olympics trials as she continues race to recover from Achilles injury ahead of Tokyo Games this summer By Riath Al-Samarrai for MailOnline Published: 11:25 BST, 15 June 2021 | Updated: 11:34 BST, 15 June 2021 Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been granted a medical exemption to miss the British Olympic … Read more
UK Athletics head coach Christian Malcolm claims heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be ‘100 per cent’ ready for Olympics Johnson-Thompson has been troubled by an achilles injury World champion heptathlete picked up the problem at the end of last year UK Athletics head coach Malcolm has played down fears that the injury is serious By Riath Al-Samarrai for the … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Katarina Johnson-Thompson suffers injury blow just months before Tokyo Olympics as British heptathlon medal hope suffers achilles problem and is forced to wear protective boot Katarina Johnson-Thompson suffered the achilles injury blow late last year British heptathlon medal hope has been wearing a protective boot ever since 28-year-old world champion won’t be able to … Read more
World champions Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson set to compete at Birmingham 2022 after change in athletics schedule There were fears the leading lights of British athletics could swerve the Games World Championships and Europeans will also take place in a five-week stretch Six-day athletics programme will now take place towards the end of the event … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more