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🏆 winning journo & 🇬🇧 Masters🏊🏻♂️. Broadcaster, writer, digital consultant & #dyslexic . 20+ Olympics & Paras, BBC et al. Now freelance 🤙 @SONICKMedia
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2023, a quite simply INCREDIBLE year personally & professionally 🙏
From reporting at a host of global championships and being commissioned to produce, film + edit short form digital content for major tournaments in 🇬🇧; to a little international swim success, oh & GETTING
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Tom Daley’s LEGENDARY stats:
Olympics: 🥇🥉🥉🥉
Worlds: 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉🥉
Euros: 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈
Commonwealths: 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈
“I’m definitely going to have a break & a few margaritas, but don’t rule me out for Paris,” he tells me with a wink.
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Imagine being Kalvin Phillips & waking up to those headlines 😔.
While professional athletes have a responsibility to remain in condition to perform, in an era where awareness about body image concerns & mental health is supposed to be improving...
I just hope he’s okay 🙏
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MEGA MOMENT FOR 🇬🇧 DIVING!!!
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix becomes the 1st female British diver to win an individual World Championship medal in an Olympic discipline!
The teenager claims 10m🥉 behind the reigning Olympic 🥇&🥈medallists from 🇨🇳. Here’s how Andrea finished it off…
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CONFIRMED: TOKYO 2020 (in 2021)
Olympics: 23 July - 8 August.
Paralympics: 24 August - 5th Sept
More information here..
👉
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Break GB Taekwondo action.. so let’s take a moment to appreciate some of the local Japanese children.
It’s devastating they can’t be here to be inspired by the athletes, but they are still involved. They’ve left HUNDREDS of messages outside the venue here for athletes to see ❤️
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“Hard work beats talent,” states Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, before I remind her she has both - & she laughs.
An incredible comeback European 10m🥇 today & powerful post-event interview. She is 17-years-old. (This generation scares me) 😂🙌🇬🇧
@britishswimming
|
@fredsirieix1
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‘My son will be mixed race. I want him to be judged on his achievements not his skin colour.’
Powerful interview today with Olympic champion
@adam_peaty
by
@sallynugent
on
@BBCBreakfast
.
He wants more diversity in swimming & backs
#OpenOurPools
campaign.
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HE'S DONE IT!!!
@TomDaley1994
WORLD 10m CHAMPION! 🥇🙌🇬🇧
After Olympic heartbreak, this comeback is the greatest achievement of his career!
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AMAZING historic Olympic gold for GB’s Charlotte Worthington!
Here’s a story about how she went from being mocked for riding a scooter & ‘not being a girly-girl’ to becoming a chef to pay the bills - before her stunning Olympic BMX🥇!
#BBCOlympics
👉
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“WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED!?”
“I can’t believe after all the years it’s finally happened,” Tom Daley tells me.
Matty Lee adds, “I just have no words, it’s just amazing to share this with Tom.”
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“There seems to be an odd muffled sound on the interview,” says the director.
“Sorry,” says my camera operator. “I can’t stop my reporter sobbing.” 🤣
“I’m not crying, you’re crying!” 😭
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‘𝘿𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙.’ 💔✌🏻
🙏 to all who supported my mission ‘to give a voice to those who’d have otherwise gone unheard’ over the last 11 years!
An epic time in 🇯🇵 ends an unbelievable BBC chapter x
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“This means EVERYTHING,” new Olympic 🥉 medallist
@JackLaugher
.
“I’m not going to lie, earlier in the year I wanted to quit. I’ve been crying myself to sleep, I’ve been so stressed. I totally lost my confidence with what happened at the 2019 Worlds. I am so proud, Jack is back!”
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THEY HAVE DONE IT! A Paris 2024 place & HISTORY MADE with World🥈!
@LoisToulson
& Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix become the first 🇬🇧 divers to win a World Championship medal in a women’s event EVER!
They prove their Olympic medal winning potential & here’s the moment they did👇
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🔥 stats for
@TeamGB
..
With 10 medals in total so far on day 4 of the Tokyo Olympics, this is the best start for a British team in Olympic Games history.
The previous record was six, in 2000, 2008 & 2016.
4x 🥇’s is also the highest number of gold medals for 🇬🇧 at this point.
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HE’S DONE IT AGAIN - Tom Daley wins the 4th Olympic medal of his career with BRILLIANT 🥉!!!
It follows
#Tokyo2020
synchro 🥇& 🥉’s at London 2012 & Rio 2016.
If it is the end, what an incredible career. 🇬🇧’s greatest-ever diver has transformed this sport in the UK.
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“I’m so proud I reached the final & I’m happy with my performance,” says 16-year-old 🇬🇧 diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieixi.
“The last 18 months has been a dream. For me this is the first step & I’m excited for the future.
“Hello to everyone at school & love to everyone back home!”
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TOM DALEY - BACK AT THE OLYMPICS!
The reigning synchro 10m champion crowns his comeback to the sport by claiming World 🥈 with Noah Williams!
It secures
@TeamGB
quota spot for Paris 2024. A HUGE achievement for the pair so early in their partnership 🔥
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“You’re not falling behind.”
@adam_peaty
with an important message for youngsters who aren’t able to swim due to lockdown.
“I didn’t start taking swimming seriously until I was 15 & six years later I was Olympic champion.”
He also has tips for land training..
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WATCH Olympian
@TomDaley1994
'dive into Rio' & reveal highs & lows of his amazing life story:
http://t.co/3rQbXPYe3n
http://t.co/4c6w3dlsaG
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The 🇬🇧 men’s 4x200m team delivered a masterclass performance en route to claiming another World 🥇 tonight!
They admit to some “mixed emotions” after missing out on the USA’s (2009) world record by 0.53 secs, but they’re optimistic something “special” can happen at Paris 2024..
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“I’m back to World number one & that’s job done,” says
@adam_peaty
.
The Olympic champion secures his place in the 🇬🇧 team for this summer’s World Championships with 100m breaststroke GB🥇in Glasgow.
Here’s his full
@BBCSport
interview.
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“I’m pretty speechless right now, but WHAT A MOMENT,” says Eve Muirhead, who won🥉at Sochi 2014.
“It’s amazing to say we’re going into an Olympic final. I was desperate for it because these opportunities don’t come around often. I’m so proud of the girls!”
🇬🇧 vs 🇯🇵 for🥇on Sun.
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🚨 To confirm rumours, BBC Sport will close my role & I’m for the 🪓 after the Olympics 🤷🏻♂️🤪
Heartbroken, baffled, but thankful for the experiences & v.proud of my work.
If anyone does want an 🏆-winning writer / broadcaster, self-shooting producer & media trainer.. DM me✌🏻
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"I'm proud, but hurting; I wanted gold for GB. I'll be back; it's extra motivation for Tokyo," says Lutalo Muhammad.
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NOT a winter sport nation!?!?
Over 7 days 🇬🇧 athletes won… 👀
🥇World 🛷skeleton
🥇X Games 🎿
🥇Euro 4-man 🛷bob
🥇&🥈Euro Youth Olympics🏂
🥇&🥈🥉World VI⛷️
🥈World Para Nordic ❄️
🥈Euro⛸️
🥈Euro Para 🛷Mono-bob
🥈&🥉World skeleton 🛷team
🥉X Games 🎿
🥉Moguls World Cup ⛷️
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THEY HAVE DONE IT! World 🥈secures
@TomDaley1994
& Noah Williams a place at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!
Here’s how they finished off their competition, to take second behind China, with Ukraine third.
Canada, Australia & Germany take the other Olympic places.
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What a sight this was earlier at the archery!
@ParalympicsGB
's first podium sweep for 20 years!
🙌🏅🏅🏅🏹🇬🇧
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The International Swimming League (ISL) IS COMING TO THE BBC 🔥
@ISL_LondonRoar
fans will be able to follow their team’s
@iswimleague
performances in Budapest during season 2 across
@BBCSport
!
We’ll show each of their qualifying ‘matches’ (from 18 Oct) + cover the SF’s 🏊🏼♂️💨🏊🏽♀️
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Rio diving pool an hour ago. Definitely more green now. Officials don't seem worried. 10m synchro final begins 🇧🇷🇬🇧
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Who’s the winner & who’s the loser now Sun Yang!?
British Olympic medallist Duncan Scott - who clashed with the Chinese swimmer at last year’s Worlds - praises the 8 year ban handed to Yang.
“I fully respect and support the decision,” he says in a statement.
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#SuperSaturday
super stats!
• Izzy Atkin - GB’s 1st-ever Olympic ⛷ medallist
• Lizzy Yarnold - 1st GB athlete to defend a Winter Olympic 🥇
• Yarnold & Laura Deas - 1st GB athletes to share a Winter Olympic podium
• 3 medals = GB’s most successful day at any Winter Olympics
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The '
@TomDaley1994
dives into Rio' doco is back on
@BBCiPlayer
for another week. Check it out!
http://t.co/3rQbXPp23L
http://t.co/ys4ijqaRrp
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OLYMPIC HISTORY MADE!
GB’s Lizzy Yarnold claims 🥇& Laura Deas🥉 in skeleton.
• 1st time GB have 2 athletes on a Winter Olympic podium together
• takes GB’s total to 3 medals today (after Atkin’s 🥉) - their best-ever haul on a single day at the Winter Olympics 🙌
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After all the highs, lows & a “rollercoaster” career TOM DALEY IS FINALLY AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION!
He & Matty Lee claim a stunning synchronised 10m GOLD in Tokyo!
They defeat the reigning Olympic & world champions from 🇨🇳 & it’s only GB’s 2nd ever Olympic diving 🥇!
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DELIGHTED to confirm I’ll be heading to
@Beijing2022
for the Winter Olympic Games early next year 😊
Looking forward to teaming up with the Olympic News Service team 🙏.
#100days
& counting
#Beijing2022
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"I felt more pressure today than during the Olympics," -
@JackLaugher
after comeback GOLD with
@ChrisMears93
. "Everyone expected us to win!"
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SHE’S DONE IT, but can’t believe it!
Grace Reid is Scotland’s 1st-ever female Commonwealth diving medallist with 1m 🥇 at Gold Coast 2018!
A fantastic performance from the 21-year-old who’s made phenomenal progress over the last two years 🙌
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Emma Raducanu rightly deserves a huge amount of praise & attention right now, but we must not overlook this HUGE & historic achievement for 🇬🇧 tennis players Hewett & Reid 🙌
A historic moment in tennis.
@alfiehewett6
&
@GordonReid91
become the first wheelchair men's doubles duo to win all four Grand Slams in the same year.
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Tonight
@BenProud
claimed a brilliant 50m freestyle World 🥉 for 🇬🇧.
He is our greatest-ever free / fly sprinter but IMO has never received the acclaim or ‘love’ he deserves.
Listen not only to Ben, but how highly new World champion Cameron McEvoy of 🇦🇺 speaks about him👇
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My
#Tokyo2020
coverage for BBC TV, radio & online outlets.. 🤪
Diving ✅
Taekwondo ✅
Swimming ✅
Badminton ✅
Boxing ✅
Football ✅
Hockey ✅
Sailing ✅
Canoeing ✅
Rowing ✅
Equestrian ✅
Judo ✅
Shooting ✅
Cycling ✅
Canoeing ✅
Weightlifting ✅
Modern Pent ✅
& Athletics ✅
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Wait for it...
Drone light show over the Pyeongchang Olympic Plaza 🙌
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“It’s incredible,” says Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, after she &
@LoisToulson
become the first 🇬🇧 divers to win a World Championship medal in a women’s event!
“I’m so proud of us & to see women in sport just excelling & proving we can do everything.”
W10m synchro:🥇🇨🇳, 🥈🇬🇧, 🥉🇺🇸
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Zoë Smith’s medal-bid in context:
Since dislocating her shoulder in 2015:
• missed Rio 2016,
• lost her funding,
• gone back to school,
• taken up full-time work (barista, then waitress, now drinks maker).
At the same time tried to train as professional athlete 🏋🏾♀️🙌
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@walter_report
@elonmusk
Fake. ‘Walter_report’ IS subscribed to twitter blue. This represents one of the clearest problems with the new verification system. People have assumed he has a legacy blue ✔️ as a reliable source of information, but hardly anyone has checked!
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So proud to win
@SportSJA
Award🥉in the written journalism specialist correspondent category.
For over a decade I’ve put my heart & soul into giving a voice to those sportswomen & men who would have otherwise gone unheard.
This is for everyone who’s shared their story with me x
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JAMAICA has a BOBSLEIGH TEAM!
@Jambobsled
will have a women’s Winter Olympic team for the FIRST TIME EVER at PyeongChang 2018!
It comes 30 years after the Jamaican men (think Cool Runnings), made their debut at Calgary 1988!
Hear pilot
@JazmineFenlator
’s reaction below 🛷🇯🇲
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“This feels like a really weird dream!”
@laurakjs99
is 🇬🇧’s newest World champion after claiming a brilliant butterfly 🥇 at
#AquaDoha2024
!
She’s the first GB woman to win an individual World gold in the pool since Becky Adlington in 2011 & only the fourth in history!!!
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“I really hope it makes a difference,” says
@alicedearingx
after becoming the first black woman to represent 🇬🇧 in an Olympic swimming event.
“I hope people look at this (me) & think it’s doable for anyone out there. I want to show swimming is open & available to everyone.”
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Watch British swimmer
@adam_peaty
set a new WORLD RECORD in the 100m breaststroke! 57.92 INCREDIBLE!!!
#BSC15
http://t.co/xo5zPCHGLx
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“This was for my country, for my family & everyone who’s supported me. It means the world,” Adam Peaty tells BBC Sport after winning 100m Olympic gold in Tokyo.
“I felt pressure in the final, but it wasn’t about the time it was about the race & that closes a chapter for me.”
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“This is a huge moment for me & my country,” says NEW WORLD RECORD HOLDER Siobhan Haughey after winning World 200m free SC 🥇 in 1:50.31.
“I’m Hong Kong’s 1st-ever world champion & world record holder. I hope this is just the start for me & other swimmers in my country.”
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WORLD BRONZE MEDALLISTS!
“Oh my goodness, I was terrified,” admits
@TomDaley1994
. “It’s a massive relief to get the Olympic place!”
@mattydiver
adds; “I thought I’d blown it (in the 5th round) but we kept our cool & I honestly can’t explain how happy I am right now!”
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Jamaican bobsleigh...
• Qualify for the Olympics 👍
• Go back on a deal to use a Japanese sled at the Games 🤔
• Coach who secured the ‘faster’ sled claims to be forced out & takes the rights to use the sled with her 👎
• Beer company donates a sled 🤷🏻♂️
Only in 🇯🇲🙈
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WORLD TEAM EVENT CHAMPIONS!!!
@TomDaley1994
& Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix round off a brilliant display by the 🇬🇧 divers - with
@danngoodfellow
&
@scarmewjensen
- to claim GOLD!
GB take 🥇, ahead of Mexico 🥈, with Australia claiming 🥉.
🎥
@WorldAquatics
|
#AquaDoha2024
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Meet England’s new diving power couple
@JackLaugher
&
@LoisToulson
!
The pair won 🥇&🥉tonight & unsurprising say they’re “proud” of one another; with Olympic champion Laugher predicting “huge things” for Toulson in the future.
“It’s so special to share this night together!”
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THEY’VE DONE IT - WORLD GOLD!
@mennaandjen
have become the 1st British skiers to hold both Paralympic & world titles by adding downhill 🥇 to their 🥈&🥉at the Para Alpine Worlds.
2-years they claimed 1 World 🥉which helped unlock better funding & they’re now storming it ⛷💨🇬🇧
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Had an AMAZING time covering aquatic sports here in 🇯🇵 & I can’t believe it’s over already! 🥇🥈🥉
Such an honour to report on the incredible 🇬🇧 diving medals for
@BBCSport
& many of mind-blowing swimming successes for
@BBCNews
out here.
#Tokyo2020
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“It’s taken a lot to fight back,”
@adam_peaty
tells me after World🥉.
“I’m a little bit disappointed with the time, but it’s key learning & at this time of the season a failure is a good thing.
“It’s still a medal at the end of the day & it’s great to be part of that.”
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GET IN 👊🏻😊🇬🇧✈️🇯🇵🙏
Another negative Covid test & I’m through into Tokyo. Just 3.5 days of hotel room quarantine to get through & then I can hopefully begin some proper Olympic previewing in Japan.
BTW, conscious I’m in a v.privileged position. I’ll do my best for you all ✌🏻
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Devastated for Tom Daley.
He's done SO MUCH for GB diving & will be gutted to miss Rio final.
Hope it isn't the end.
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SHE’S DONE IT AGAIN!
Double Olympic champion
@jadejonestkd
defends her European crown with a ‘superiority’ victory over Turkey’s Hatice Kubra in the -57kg final in Kazan, 🇷🇺 .
Earlier Bradly Sinden took -63kg bronze 👊🥋🇬🇧
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“This is definitely my last Olympics,” confirms triathlete Jonny Brownlee after finishing 5th in Tokyo.
“I did everything I could today. I’ve been v.fortunate to have 2 medals at 2 Olympics, it wasn’t quite enough to get 3 but we’ve got a good chance (in the relay) on Saturday."
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Attacked with acid at school, bullied into suppressing his sexuality, told “black people can’t swim” & was just 30m from the Manchester Arena bomb in 2017.
But 🇬🇧 & 🇯🇲’s
@MichaelGunning1
keeps smiling, inspiring & trying to change perceptions.
#BHM
👉
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I can’t quite believe what I’ve seen.
Speechless.
Tom Daley, what a legend!
Matty Lee, what a star!
#BBCOlympics
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“This medal means so much to me,”
@TomDaley1994
tells me after he &
@danngoodfellow
claim 10m synchro Commonwealth GOLD at Gold Coast!
“It was a close call as to whether I would be pulled from the synchro as well (as the individual, after his hip injury.)
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‘Coming in as an Olympic champion is a different pressure, but I finally feel respected as a diver,”
@mattydiver
tells me for
@fina1908
.
He & new partner Noah Williams win World🥈, a 🇬🇧 record in 10m synchro & both fee confident for their individuals.
@britishswimming
|
@TeamGB
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From ‘just do it’ - to JUST DID IT!
SKY BROWN IS 🇬🇧‘S FIRST-EVER SKATEBOARDING WORLD CHAMP!
The 14-year-old adds World🥇to her Olympic 🥉, in what is the first qualifier for the Paris 2024 Games 🛹🔥
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GOLD for
@TomDaley1994
& Noah Williams at the Olympic test event in the new Paris 2024 Aquatics Centre 🔥
Looking in a great shape just 2.5 months from the Games this summer 🇬🇧👏
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Will
@billymorgan89
be amongst an elite group of athletes to carry the
@TeamGB
flag one-handed tonight?
“No man - I’m a snowboarder - I barely use my arms,” he tells me 🤣
“People have said there’s a technique to it but I don’t know, I guess I’ll just freestyle it.” 🏂🇬🇧
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When you return to a major event podium 7 years later in your favourite event... ❤️
This is what it's all about kids. Sacrificing yourself for others, fighting for what you love, but never giving up & finally receiving your reward...
@Jimbob95goon
we're ALL so proud of you 🙏
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STRONG statements from 🇦🇺’s Kyle Chalmers & Madi Wilson following their treatment by the media.
Chalmers says his mental health is “rock bottom” after being painted as the “villain” & is considering quitting the sport. Wilson says the team feel “deflated” despite 🥇 successes.
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Wait..
Is this ACTUALLY happening!? 😊
Feeling oddly emotional. Realising, until now, I haven’t actually allowed myself to believe I’d make it to the Games with everything that’s going / gone on.
You can’t see, but I’m grinning from ear to ear & for last time..
LET’S DO THIS 👊🏻
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"After the Olympics, this feels AMAZING!"
@TomDaley1994
tells me after winning World 🥇
"& I can finally go on a honeymoon with my husband!"
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So much emotion in the mixed zone this evening 🙏🏊🏻♂️🇬🇧🥹
@Jimbob95goon
was in tears after a BRILLIANT return to the podium after claiming 200m free Euro🥈
“The last time I did a 200m free & got a medal was 2016. 7 years is a long time, so to everyone - never give in!”
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HISTORY MAKERS!
4 years late, but the GB Bobsleigh 4-man team are OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALLISTS!
CAS upholds key doping bans for Russian Sochi 2014 bobsledders!
It means the 2014 Games were
@TeamGB
’s best-ever Winter Olympics with the squad claiming 5 medals 🇬🇧🥇🥈🥉🥉🥉🇬🇧
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Lovely moment as
@JackLaugher
is greeted by best-mate
@chrismears93
+
@HelenSkelton
&
@LeonTaylorGB
post silver! 🇬🇧
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10-year-old skateboarding sensation Sky Brown (
@skyandocean_
) wins GOLD in her 1st Nationals in the UK!
She scores 308 to beat🥈medallist Amy Ram (275) & Rebecca Davies (260) takes🥉in the Park final.
Catch the rest of the action on the
@BBCSport
website
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"I wasn't even that up for it," jokes
@adam_peaty
after smashing his 50m breaststroke WORLD RECORD with 26.10!
Project 25 anyone!? 🙌🏊🏻💨
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“My grandfather was my inspiration & he’s the reason I’m doing this today,” says James Healty, who’s 1m🥉is Scotland’s 1st Commonwealth diving medal since the late, great Sir Peter Healty in 1958!
“I’m a bit emotional right now because it means so much to me!”
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What a finish from Peaty in the 200m breaststroke to grab 2nd!
We usually see him clinging on at the end of the longer distance event but his stroke was measured & he stepped it up in the closing stages.
He has the 50m & the crucial medley relay later today..
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Delighted to be heading to Tokyo as part of the small
@BBCSport
on-site reporter line-up for the Olympics 😊
Working on one Games was a dream & it’s been an honour to cover so many during 14 years with the BBC.
Time to go out with a bang right? 😜
👉
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Olympic champion
@adam_peaty
gives away his GB gold medal to a young boy in the crowd!
"Inspiring others is so important to me," he says 🙌🏊🏻
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DISASTER for Katarina Johnson-Thompson who pulls up running the bend of the 200m in the final event of day 1 in the heptathlon.
She sunk to the floor, medics approached, but incredibly waves them away & limps through the finish. KJT is disqualified though after leaving her lane.
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This exchange between arguably the two greatest, heavyweight-hitting Olympic champion breaststroke swimmers of all-time is... 🙌
Retiring
@Cameronvdburgh
“inspired”
@adam_peaty
to his successes & the South African says he “loved every second” of their duels.
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Marathon swimmer
@alicedearingx
is set to become the first black woman to represent 🇬🇧 in an Olympic swimming event after finishing 4th in the final 10km Tokyo qualification event in Setúbal, 🇵🇹!
She‘ll now be nominated for
@TeamGB
which should be approved in the coming days 🙌.
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Olympic champion
@adam_peaty
tells BBC he's targeting a 100m & 200m breaststroke double up at Tokyo Olympics 🏊🏻💨🏅🏅🇬🇧
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Olympic champion
@adam_peaty
will be on
@BBCNews
at 10pm to talk about the
#OpenOurPools
campaign, which follows the government’s decision not to reopen swimming pools in England.
He’s “frustrated, disappointed” & says the decision “makes no sense.”
More on
@BBCSport
tomorrow...
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THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
Hard to articulate just how historic & significant this achievement is for 🇬🇧 winter sport 🙌⛷💨🥇🙌
Sensational 🔥🔥🔥
@daveryding
becomes Britain's first ever alpine skiing World Cup GOLD medallist with a superb second slalom run 🥇
Not a bad way to warm up for
#Beijing2022
👏
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“𝗜 ❤️ 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗧 𝗞𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚!” 90-year-old Jane Asher who set 5 Masters WORLD RECORDS at the
@Swim_England
Nationals 🙌
“The last 18 months were hard. We lost people but new people also arrived & it’s nice to see people smiling again.”
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HE’S DONE IT
@BenProud
is WORLD CHAMPION in the 50m FREE!
It’s the 2nd world title of his career, following 50m fly gold in this pool in 2019. He did it tonight in 21.32 🔥
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I took the day off social media after my post earlier & I’m just reading through the tweets & messages.
In tears. Thank you SO MUCH for the support everyone, it means the 🌎 & I’m feeling much more positive.
The sun hasn’t set just yet ✌🏻🙏❤️
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Proud of the coverage the BBC team has been able to give aquatics sports during a GREAT 2 weeks for 🇬🇧 at the Euros!
4 network TV shows, over 30 hours of live streams, daily reports & video highlights online + BIG pickup from
@BBCBreakfast
,
@5liveSport
,
@BBCNews
& many more 🙏
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Which ‘wins’ as the most epic placement of Olympic rings?
Like for London 2012
RT for Paris 2024
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7🏅’s FOR GB SWIMMERS in 🇯🇵!
Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy & Anna Hopkin claim mixed medley 🥇
It matches GB’s greatest ever total in the pool, last achieved in 1908!!!
🥇 Adam Peaty
🥇 Tom Dean
🥇 men’s 4x200m
🥇 mixed 4x100m medley
🥈🥈 Duncan Scott
🥉 Luke Greenbank
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THEY’VE DONE IT - WORLD BRONZE!
GB’s
@TomDaley1994
&
@mattydiver
claim their first major honour as a pair & secure
@TeamGB
a place in the 10m synchro event at Tokyo 2020.
China’s Olympic champions take gold, with Russia in second.
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