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Through the first week of the Olympic Games in Rio, it has been moving to see so much of what has lately been generating anxieties at home contribute so powerfully to American pre-eminence on the international stage. If race, gender, immigration and ...

Cameron Pimentel is leaning towards committing to the next Olympic cycle in a bid to qualify for the 2020 Toyko Games after insisting: “I have so much more to give.” Pimentel has only competed in the Laser class for two years but punched above his we...

Shelley Pearson never truly feels alone in the single sculls thanks to a pair of socks she wore in each of her races at the Olympic Games. A gift from her best friend and former team-mate, Mary MaGinnis, the unremarkable-looking white socks have a sy...

Rebecca Heyliger said nerves got the better of her after struggling to find her rhythm in yesterday’s 50 metres freestyle heats at the Olympic Games. Heyliger was one of the fastest in her heat but could only manage sixth-place in a disappointing tim...

Shelley Pearson has qualified for the rowing C final after finishing second in yesterday’s consolation semi-final at the Lagao Rodrigo de Freitas at the Olympic Games. Pearson finished the 2,000 metres women’s singles sculls race in a time of 8min 5....

Emirates Team New Zealand sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke laid down a marker after dominating yesterday’s opening day of racing for the double-handed 49er fleet at the Summer Olympics in Rio. The 2015 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year award wi...

Cameron Pimentel produced a solid day’s sailing after finishing 39th and 34th in yesterday’s Laser class in Rio. It was a much-improved display by Pimentel who placed 45th and 42nd in the previous races on Wednesday in the worst conditions of his car...

Tyrone Smith said he felt completely lost as he ended his Olympic Games career in desperate disappointment after missing out on the long jump final. Smith hoped to challenge for a medal in his third and final Olympics but could only finish sixteenth ...

Sylvan Richards has praised Bermuda’s Olympic athletes for “punching above their weight” during his trip to Rio de Janeiro. The Minister of Social Development and Sport flew into Brazil last Friday to represent the island at the global sporting extr...

Artemis Racing sailors Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen will start the defence of their Olympic gold medal in the 49er class today in Rio de Janeiro. The Australian pair won the gold medal at the previous Olympic Sailing Regatta in Weymouth and Port...

DeVon Bean hopes he can be a “lucky charm” for Bermuda long jumper Tyrone Smith at the Olympic Games. Bean has been identified as a long-term successor to Troy Douglas, the Bermuda head coach, and is serving as a sounding board for Smith and sprinter...

On August 20, triathlete Flora Duffy will aim to bring Bermuda its first Olympic medal in 40 years. And watching anxiously from the Rio de Janeiro grandstand, while sporting specially made “Go Flora Go” shirts, will be father Charlie Duffy, mother Ma...