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Sport by Press Association 30/09/2019, 2:23 pm Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter Great Britain’s Olympic team will begin to take shape on Tuesday when members of the sailing squad are first to have their qualification places confirmed for Tokyo 2020. The GB sailors – who won two gold medals and one silver in Rio – are the only team to have qualified a full quota of boats for the Games. With the team announcements set to continue over the coming months, the PA news agency takes a look at the kind of line-up we can expect to see in Japan next year. Girl power Female athletes – including a GB football team – are expected to outnumber their male counterparts in a Great Britain Olympic team for the first time, though it will chiefly depend on the qualification success (or otherwise) of the respective hockey squads. Big numbers The size of the final GB team could stretch to 380 athletes, which would be a slight increase on … [Read more...] about Team GB to start taking shape ahead of Tokyo 2020

More: Olympics Christian Coleman wins world 100m title Annemiek van Vleuten wins world road race title with solo 65-mile attack Daisuke Takahashi, world champion figure skater, switching to ice dance Medalists and top U.S. finishers from the 2019 World Track and Field Championships in Doha … Men’s 100mGold: Christian Coleman (USA) — 9.76 Men’s Long Jump Women’s 10,000mGold: Sifan Hassan (NED) — 30:17.62 Women’s MarathonGold: Ruth Chepngetich (KEN) — 2:32:43 Women’s Hammer ThrowGold: DeAnna Price (USA) — 77.54 OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! TRACK AND FIELD WORLDS: TV Schedule | U.S. Roster … [Read more...] about 2019 World Track and Field Championships results

More: Olympics Berlin Marathon likely to have fast times despite depleted field World championship women’s marathon still on despite heat and humidity World track and field championships to open with field stars, hot marathon In a recent youth judo international event, a referee noticed something on the mat he couldn’t really miss — a cell phone that had suddenly appeared.  He stopped the action and asked both athletes how this phone made its way to the midst of a grappling tangle. One finally admitted the phone was hers. See the video. But it’s not just kids. In the Baku Grand Slam earlier this year, Portuguese athlete Anri Egutidze was disqualified after a phone fell from his gi in mid-grapple. Despite that loss, Egutidze is ranked 17th in his weight class. And if more judokas bring their phones onto the mat, maybe they can check their rankings while fending off an armbar. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! … [Read more...] about Judo athletes forget to leave cell phones off the mat

More: Olympics Iran banned from judo for instructing athlete to withdraw rather than face Israel opponent Jacarra Winchester, after foe bites her, wins first wrestling world title Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir retire from ice dance competition Veterans Allyson Felix and Justin Gatlin and rising stars Christian Colemaen, Noah Lyles and Michael Norman headline the U.S. roster for the world track and field championships that start next week. While most athletes clinched spots at the USATF Outdoor Championships in July, the roster could not be completed until after the Diamond League season concluded two weeks ago. Diamond League Finals champions, in some cases, picked up extra roster spots for the U.S. The U.S. has the fastest man in the 100m, 200m and 400m this year in Coleman, Lyles and Norman, plus the Diamond League 800m champion in Donavan Brazier. Felix, coming back from November childbirth, will compete at a ninth worlds, … [Read more...] about U.S. roster for world track and field championships

The U.S. Olympic team roster for the 2020 Tokyo Games will eventually reach more than 500 athletes. It is currently at seven. Qualifying competitions and Olympic Trials events dot the schedule from now into early summer 2020. Athletes qualified so far: Modern PentathlonSamantha Achterberg Sport ClimbingBrooke Raboutou SwimmingHaley Anderson TriathlonSummer Rappaport OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us! MORE: Tokyo 2020 Olympic master competition schedule … [Read more...] about U.S. athletes qualified for 2020 Tokyo Olympics