Month: July 2021

With the sport making a one-off return to the Olympic Games this year, which teams and names are the ones who should have the most attention on the diamond? After not being held in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games, softball will be one of five sports that will be either debuting or returning […]

Being held as an Olympic sport for the first time ever, the various karate competitions will be worth having an eye on in Tokyo Combat sports like judo and boxing have played a pivotal part in the Summer Olympics, and now a new one gets to enter the fray for 2021. The 2021 Games in […]

Baseball is being played in the Olympics this summer for the first time since 2008 and, while there won’t be any ‘Dream Teams,’ there are still plenty of intriguing storylines Baseball is back on the Olympic stage. For the first time since 2008, six countries — host Japan, the United States, Mexico, South Korea, Israel, […]

Table tennis could become your new summer obsessions at the 2021 Olympics. Here’s everything you need to know to dive in to this fast-paced sport. I was fortunate enough to be on the ground in Rio reporting at the 2016 Summer Olympics as an intern with the Olympic News Service. Table tennis was one of […]

Rugby sevens is still relatively new to the Olympics but it could easily become your new summer obsession. Here’s everything you need to know to dive in during the 2021 Olympics. After making a successful debut at the 2016 Rio Olympics, rugby sevens is back for some fast-paced action at the 2020 Tokyo Games. For […]

The 2021 Olympics men’s and women’s tournaments, which play second fiddle to the World Cup, are worth your time and will feature some of the planet’s best players. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport so it is only natural that they would feature at the Summer Olympics. The men’s tournament is limited to players […]

The Bulldogs opted against snapping up Tevita Pangai Junior immediately so they could start the new pre-season with "a clean slate" and give those already on their roster a chance to "make a statement", new footy boss Phil Gould has revealed.