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      Tokyo 2020: US silver medallist swimmer Erica Sullivan reveals she trained in ‘gross’ duck poo and ‘green-brown’ pool

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      TEAM USA swimmer Erica Sullivan has revealed how she trained in duck poo en route to scooping a silver medal at the Tokyo Games.The 20-year-old was pipped to the gold medal in the women’s 1500m freestyle event by compatriot Katie Ledecky.
      Erica Sullivan won the silver medal for Team USA in the women’s 1500m freestyle eventCredit: Getty
      American youngster Sullivan finished behind her team-mate Katie Ledecky at Tokyo 2020Credit: AP
      It was a remarkable swim from the Las Vegas native who has spoken of how difficult her training was in the build-up to competing in Japan.
      Due to the coronavirus pandemic, access to swimming pools was restricted, with athletes forced to look elsewhere to train.
      Some unorthodox methods involved swimmers using paddling pools, while Sullivan opted to train in Lake Mead, located 24 miles off the Las Vegas strip.
      And the American has remarked how the water was often ‘brown-green’ – resembling the murky water from pools at Rio 2016.
      Quoted by Yahoo, Sullivan said of Lake Mead: “There was just duck poop everywhere.
      “And it was murky and a solid brown-green on a good day.
      “It was just gross. We were getting duck mites, apparently they like to eat on ducks’ poop and they like still water.
      “We’d get in the water and we were covered in bites. It was nasty.
      “It built character. I’m funnier because of it.”
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      Sullivan also discussed the death of her father who passed away when she was 16 – just four weeks before she made the national team.
      Speaking in her press conference, she said: “The last five years, I’ve had a lot of struggles, and I think everyone knows that. It’s pretty much (an) open book now.
      “But it feels good to have it all finally pay off, and I really hope I can be like a beacon of hope to anyone who’s struggling with mental health or coming out or any minority that they are, to show that there’s hope.
      “And honestly me getting to do it here, where half my family is from, means the world.”
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      Helen Glover has emotional message for kids as mum-of-three suffers Tokyo 2020 medal heartbreak on inspirational return

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      HELEN GLOVER had a special message for her kids after her Olympic comeback ended in an agonising fourth place.The inspirational rower failed to make a medal-winning comeback on her return from becoming a mum.
      Helen Glover and Polly Swann finished fourth in the women’s coxless pair final at Tokyo 2020Credit: Getty
      Glover delivered a passionate speech to kids after she and Swann came up short
      The 2012 and 2016 pairs champ and new partner Polly Swann have always had their backs against the wall at the Sea Forest Waterway.
      New Zealanders Grace Prenderghast and Kerri Gowler, who have looked the class act from the start of the regatta, set a world and Olympic record in the semis yesterday.
      And as the Kiwi pair rowed away from the field again, Glover and Swann saw their bronze hopes fade and die as they could not haul back the fast-starting Canadian boat as Russia took silver.
      It was a dose of hard reality for Glover, 35, who took time out of the sport after her Rio gold with Heather Stanning, having three kids with TV presenter hunny Steve Backshall while her boat partner returned to her role in the Army.
      Addressing her children Logan, Kit and Willow, Glover added: “They’re sometimes up at this time in the morning so they might be watching now.
      “I love them so much, they’ve been my inspiration. I never saw myself getting back in a rowing boat until they came along. You can do anything you want to do.
      “Trying and failing is not a problem, as long as you try. All the parents who have supported me on the way, thank you for your messages.”
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      The three-time world champion only announced she was coming back to the water in January, making the task of landing a third successive Olympic crown unlikely.
      And so it proved although it was the Canadian boat, in lane one, who flew off the start.
      The Canadians led at 500m with GB third behind New Zealand and were still ahead of the same pairings at the half-way mark.
      But New Zealand, with both rowers also part of the eight, came through to take the lead in the third quarter of the race as Glover and Swann lost third place to the Russian boat.
      As Russia tried to hunt down the leaders, Glover and Swann were hoping that the Canadians would fade to allow them into the top three.
      It was not to be, with GB finishing a length and a half off the Canadians.
      Glover told BBC: “I’m pleased that we put everything on the line. We knew it was going to be a really big final to be in.
      “Getting here was a tough route. We knew that if we crossed the line having spent everything. Looking back on the way we got here, we’re pleased with that result. It shows a lot of our hard work.”
      And emotional Swann then remarked: “I think we always knew in the Olympic final people were going to go out hard.
      “We thought we might have a bit more of a buffer but it wasn’t to be.

      “The way we have attacked this project has been really exceptional and I couldn’t be prouder of her and what we’ve done together, it’s been a special ride.”
      But while Glover and Swann could have no complaints, there was pure heartbreak for the lightweight double scull of Emily Craig and Imogen Grant as they missed out on a medal by just ONE HUNDREDTH of a second.
      The pair led through the first 500m but looked to be rowed out by a Dutch attack and closing sprints from Italy and France.
      But as Italy pushed through in the final 50m, the Dutch, defending champions from Rio, literally stopped rowing two strokes from the line.
      It appeared that Grant and Craig had taken third, with the Dutch in despair, but a photo-finish went against the Brits by maybe three inches.
      And Vicky Thornley produced an excellent row to reach the final of the single sculls, although Emma Twigg of New Zealand of New Zealand looks unstoppable.
      Thornley, who won silver with Katherine Grainger in Rio, kept her form and composure to finish second behind the Kiwi in the semi and looks set to contest the silver and bronze medals with Russia’s Hanna Prakatsen and Austria’s Magdalena Lobnig.
      Emily Craig and Imogen Grant missed out on a bronze medal by by just one HUNDREDTH of a secondCredit: PA
      Team GB duo Craig and Grant were just pipped to the finish line by Holland
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      Tokyo 2020: Dina Asher-Smith carrying British track & field hopes on her shoulders – but she is NOT feeling the heat

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      SHE WILL single-handedly carry the hopes of a British track-and-field gold at these Olympics.But as Dina Asher-Smith prepares to start her Tokyo campaign, there is little sign of the 25-year-old Londoner feeling the heat.
      Dina Asher-Smith isn’t feeling the pressure to deliver a medal at the Tokyo OlympicsCredit: AFP
      Asher-Smith won a gold medal at the 2019 World championships in Doha in the 200mCredit: Getty
      Crowned Britain’s first female world sprint champion in Doha in 2019, Asher-Smith’s smile belies an ice-cold temperament.
      She is a heavy sleeper who loves a lie-in and is a self-styled ‘championship performer’, who rises to the big occasions.
      Stages do not come any grander than an Olympics and as the Tokyo Games heads into its centre-piece athletics meeting, all British eyes will be on Asher-Smith.
      With Britain’s only other current world athletics champion, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, still suffering the after-effects of a ruptured Achilles, Asher-Smith stands alone as a serious gold medal contender.
      During the London Olympics, the ‘Inspire a Generation’ motto often sounded overblown.
      But Asher-Smith, a schoolgirl kit-carrier on the night Britain won three athletics golds on Super Saturday, is proof of the effectiveness of that slogan.
      There is no chance of a similar British track-and-field gold rush this time around, with Mo Farah the last of the class of 2012 to bow out of contention and British athletics at a low ebb.
      But nine years after that Olympic work experience stint in her hometown, Asher-Smith kicks off her 100 metres campaign in the heats in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
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      She said: “I volunteered to do kit carrying in London and I was fortunate to be given that Saturday, which obviously I didn’t know was going to end up being Super Saturday.
      “I remember being kind of disappointed that I wasn’t going to see Usain Bolt in the men’s 100m final, but when I got there and witnessed probably one of the greatest nights in British athletics history I felt incredibly lucky.
      “To describe the atmosphere that night to somebody who wasn’t there is incredibly difficult. The closest word is probably ‘euphoric’.”
      While she must compete in silence at these behind-closed-doors games, Asher-Smith has a burning ambition to repeat, or even better, her Doha campaign, which brought a 200m gold as well as silvers in the 100m and the sprint relay.
      If she lands gold, it will be a truly historic achievement.
      No female British sprinter has ever won an Olympic title and none have landed an individual medal since Dorothy Hyman way back in 1960. 
      Neither has any British man won individual sprint gold since Linford Christie in 1992, nor any medal since Darren Campbell in Sydney 21 years ago.
      Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is favourite to win the 100m but Asher-Smith is first among equals in an open 200m.

      American Gabby Thomas ran the second-fastest time ever earlier this year to send shockwaves through the field.
      But as Asher-Smith said: “To me it’s immaterial what people run because a championship is a completely different ball game.
      “The reason why we all love championships is because you honestly don’t know what’s going to happen.”
      The sense of calm about Asher-Smith is helped by the fact that she has only ever had one coach since she started running aged eight — John Blackie of Blackheath and Bromley Harriers.
      And he admitted he would have quit years ago had it not been for his star pupil.
      Blackie said: “I would have given it up some while ago if not for her but she is an inspiration, not just for athletes but also for us coaches.

      “It was around the age of 14 that things started to look very positive for Dina.
      “You still didn’t know she would end up as 200m world champion but you knew she was capable of some really spectacular achievements.
      “There is definitely more to come from her.”
      Four-time European champion Asher-Smith is looking to become Britain’s first female 100m or 200m winner at the OlympicsCredit: Instagram / @dinaashersmith
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      Olympic swimming star Adam Peaty says Games should ditch ‘gimmicks’ and stay with core sports only

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      OLYMPIC star Adam Peaty has a longterm vision for the Olympics.
      Britain’s foremost swimmer is gunning for gold again, after starring at Rio 2016.

      Adam Peaty won the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics in the 100m breast-stroke eventCredit: Dave Pinegar – The Sun
      And now, Peaty’s mind seems to work as rapidly as his whirring arms as he outlines arguments for a more slimline, sustainable Games without gimmicky new sports or facilities destined to become white elephants, while also arguing that drug cheats should be imprisoned.
      With climbing, surfing, skateboarding, baseball and karate all having been added to the schedule for the Tokyo Games, Peaty fears the profile of core Olympic sports will suffer.
      He said: “It’s not just swimming, it’s athletics, too. No disrespect to the other sports but we’re adding more sports at an unparalleled pace and that just dilutes the Olympics.
      “We need to go back to the heritage of the main Olympic sports instead of trying to find something else that could be an Olympic sport.
      “Because, eventually, if they keep following the money, we’re going to have e-sports included.
      “That might be a sport mentally but the Olympics is all supposed to be about physical prowess.
      “I think the way it’s going, the IOC will have competition from private investors for rival events that will give people what they actually want to watch.
      Peaty, 26, won three gold medals at the 2019 Wold Aquatics Championships in South KoreaCredit: PA:Press Association
      We need to go back to the heritage of the main Olympic sports instead of trying to find something else that could be an Olympic sport.”Adam Peaty
      “We’ve got to have a hard think about what is going to be popular and successful in, say, 12 years’ time. It’s getting harder and harder.”
      With the coronavirus pandemic taking hold and the Games delayed, future Olympics may have to look at a more sustainable model, says Peaty.
      And the 26-year-old is concerned about the environmental impact of building new stadia and facilities in each Olympic host city.
      He said: “As the climate-change movement goes ahead, is it sustainable to build a whole athletes’ village and all of the facilities every four years? Absolutely not — just the amount of concrete that’s required alone.
      “And in most Olympic cities the legacy isn’t there — so is it worth all the expense and resources? As climate change progresses, you’ve got to change the way you stage the Olympics.”
      With one of swimming’s greatest global stars, China’s three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang, receiving an eight-year ban for a second doping offence, Peaty believes the menace of doping can only be countered by prison sentences.
      He added: “The biggest fish has been caught. And in life you’ll always have cheats.
      Peaty proudly poses next to SunSport’s Chief Sports Reporter David KiddCredit: Dave Pinegar – The Sun
      “You’ll have mechanical dopers in cycling. You’ll have people who are going to try and get that edge and bend the rules. Unless we start treating this cheating as criminal fraud, where you could actually go to prison, then we are never going to stop people cheating.
      “If they can make a few million quid from cheating and get away with it for six years, they don’t care.
      “But if they are criminalised and given prison time and have to pay back money to sponsors then they will think twice.”
      Peaty’s status as an almost invincible world-record holder has seen him targeted by groundless allegations of drug abuse on social media.
      He said: “You get tweeted it all the time — ‘He’s so far ahead, he must be on drugs’. But you follow me for a f*****g year and you’ll see why not!
      “I was having two drug tests a week for a long while. But are the people I’m competing against having two a week? It’s never a fair playing field.
      “In a lot of countries the problem doesn’t stem from the athletes — it is how much they are taken advantage of.
      “I can understand if you’re not from a very affluent country and someone tells you to put these substances inside you . . . they don’t care as long as their family is being fed. That’s survival instinct.
      The Tokyo 2020 Games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemicCredit: Alamy Live News
      Peaty believes that the Olympics should stick to its core sportsCredit: EPA
      “But it doesn’t belong in this sport. These cheats are creating an environment where kids are looking up to them and thinking, ‘I might as well cheat because it’s easier’.”
      Like many elite swimmers, Peaty is frustrated at the relative inactivity of the sport’s global governing body, Fina.
      And he believes the International Swimming League — funded by Ukrainian billionaire Konstantin Grigorishin and staged for the first time last year — represents the future.
      He explained: “With swimming you get a massive profile every four years and not much in between. So the ISL is the future of swimming from a marketing perspective.
      “You do have a massive fanbase, a big audience — it’s the second most-watched sport at an Olympics. Commercially, football has chewed up a lot of sports and swimming hasn’t been brought into the 21st Century.
      “But I think ISL will be successful. It’s over two hours for two days — people will come along, have a beer, enjoy it and potentially gamble on it.
      “There’s a massive gambling opportunity for swimming — fortunately or unfortunately depending on what side you’re on — but I think that can inject cash into the sport.
      “I think Fina have a few hundred million in the bank but they don’t redistribute it. I’ve got good management but how do we make more of our commercial opportunities? I’m only desirable for the time that I’m successful.
      “Fina need to get the sport on TV more. Apparently the TV rights figures they wanted from the BBC were extortionate and they could only show highlights.
      “I don’t understand why they can’t see that the more people watch it, the more the sport grows and then the more money they’ll make.
      “It just seems to be about short-term gain. I don’t know what their strategy is. But thankfully this league is here, run by a billionaire who is very clued up.”
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      Tokyo 2020: Team GB’s Aimee Willmott fails to secure first Olympic medal with seventh-place finish in individual medley

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      AIMEE WILLMOTT’S hopes of crowning her career with an Olympic medal were shattered as she failed to deliver at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.The 28-year-old from Middlesbrough had been the second fastest qualifier for the 400m individual medley final.
      Team GB star Aimee Willmott finished seventh in her 400m individual medley finalCredit: PA
      But the exertions of Sunday night’s sessions too a heavy toll as Willmott faded to finish seventh behind home heroine Yui Ohashi, who became Japan’s second gold medal winner of the Games.
      Willmott’s final time of 4:38.30 was three seconds slower than her qualification swim.
      Americans Emma Weyant and Hali Flickinger took silver and bronze.
      She said: “I shocked myself in the heat but it was always going to be tough toi back that up and I didn’t have the time.
      “It seems to be seventh is where I’m at, after doing the same in Rio. But I’m happy with my career.”
      Her disappointment came after Max Litchfield just missed out on an unlikely medal in a humdinger of a 400m individual medley.
      Yorkshire’s Litchfield, whose younger brother Joe is also on Team GB, waa the slowest qualifier and only seventh after the butterfly leg.
      But as American Chase Kalisz went away from the field on the breaststroke leg to claim gold ahead of compatriot Jay Livingston, Litchfield made his move.
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      An excellent freestyle effort saw the 26-year-old close the gap but fall just short of bronze medallist Brendon Smith of Australia.
      Litchfield finished joint fourth in 4:10.59, just two tenths of a second behind Smith.
      Kalisz won in 4:09.42, more than five seconds outside Michael Phelps’ 2008 Olympic and world record.
      There was a major shock in the men’s 400m as Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnoui, the slowest qualifier, shocked the field with a stunning second half of the race.
      The 18-year-old was still second behind Aussie Jack McLoughlin with 50m to go but finished like a train to take gold in 3:43.36, with Kieran Smith of the USA third.
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      Bryson DeChambeau OUT of Tokyo 2020 golf tournament after testing positive for Covid before leaving USA for the Olympics

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      AMERICAN golfer Bryson DeChambeau is OUT of the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for coronavirus.The 27-year-old has been replaced by Patrick Reed for Team USA ahead of the first round in Japan on Thursday.
      Bryson DeChambeau will not be competing for Team USA in Tokyo after testing positive for coronavirusCredit: Reuters
      DeChambeau has contracted Covid back in his homeland as part of the final testing before departing for Asia.
      And he has spoken of his disappointment at missing out on his first Olympic Games.
      He said: “I am deeply disappointed not to be able to compete in the Olympics for Team USA.
      “Representing my country means the world to me and it is was a tremendous honour to make this team.
      “I wish Team USA the best of luck next week in Tokyo.
      “I will now focus on getting healthy, and I look forward to returning to competition once I am cleared to do so.”
      Reed, who finished 11th at Rio 2016, is now undergoing his testing protocol before linking up with Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele.
      Commenting on his call-up, he remarked: “I am so excited to have the opportunity to represent our country and be a part of Team USA in Tokyo.
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      “I wish Bryson nothing but the best, and I know how disappointed he is to not be able to compete, and I will do my best to play my best and represent our country.”
      USA Golf Executive Director Andy Levinson added: “We’re obviously disappointed for Bryson, as we know how much he was looking forward to representing the United States in his first Olympics.
      “But we’re thrilled that Patrick Reed is excited to play for his country when he is called upon, even with the strenuous testing protocols and he is set to arrive just in time to compete – on a golf course he will have never seen prior to the start of competition.
      “It really illustrates the importance of the Olympics and the value Patrick places on playing for Team USA and for his country.
      “We’re excited to welcome him to Tokyo soon and know he’ll be a formidable competitor for Team USA.”
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      Tokyo 2020: Team GB’s European 400m champion Matthew Hudson-Smith out of Olympics on ‘medical grounds’ – but NOT Covid

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      TEAM GB’s European 400m king Matthew Hudson-Smith is out of the Olympics on medical grounds NOT related to Covid-19.The Wolverhampton sprinter, 26, has been replaced in the 4x400m relay squad by 21-year-old Welshman Joe Brier.
      Matthew Hudson-Smith is coming to terms with his Tokyo 2020 dream ending before it properly started, due to a medical problemCredit: Getty – Contributor
      West-Midlander Matthew Hudson-Smith won gold at the European Championships in 2018 but has pulled out of the OlympicsCredit: Getty Images – Getty
      Team GB confirmed Hudson-Smith’s withdrawal from Tokyo 2020 and Brier’s promotion from travelling reserve.
      Hudson-Smith was earmarked for superstardom when he won European 400m silver in 2014 aged 19 and made the Olympic final at Rio two years later.
      He then won gold at the European Championships in Berlin three years ago, plus silver in the 4x400m relay. 
      Just last month he told the BBC Sport was “never plain sailing for anyone”.
      He said: “I don’t want to be one of those athletes who looks back in their career and says they could have done more.

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      “I want to feel I have done everything in my power. That is what drives me.
      “It is never plain sailing for anyone in sport. Everyone goes through it.
      “You almost have to rediscover your passion and goals every day.”
      He had been spending his fourth season training in the USA, with Olympic 400m champions Wayde van Niekerk and Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

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      Tokyo 2020: Youngest Olympics competitor Hend Zaza, 12, loses to table tennis opponent 27 years older

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      THE Olympics’ youngest competitor has crashed out of the Tokyo Games in the preliminary round of the women’s table tennis event.Team Syria star Hend Zaza, 12, lost in straight sets against Austrian opponent Liu Jia who is 27 years her senior.
      Syrian star Hend Zaza, 12, is out of the Olympics after losing to Austria’s Liu JiaCredit: Getty
      Veteran table tennis player Jia won 4-0 in straight sets against Zaza in TokyoCredit: Reuters
      Chinese-born athlete Jia, 39, won 11-4, 11-9, 11-3, 11-5 to secure her place in the first round.
      But Zaza, who is the youngest Olympian since Spanish rower Carlos Front in 1992, more than held her own.
      She was even leading 6-2 in the second set, only for the veteran player to show her class.
      Speaking after her Olympics debut, Zaza said: “It was very tough to mentally be prepared for (the Olympics).
      “But I think I somehow managed to overcome this, and this is the part that I think I did the best during the match.
      “The main lesson was the loss of this match, especially in the first match.
      “So next time, I will be working hard to pass the first, second, third round, because I want to play more in this competition.”
      Zaza – the fifth-youngest person to compete in the Olympics in the modern era – secured her entry at Tokyo after winning West Asia Olympic qualification tournament in Jordan last year.
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      Her coach Adham Jamaan has stated she has only been able to play up to three external games a year due to the Syrian Civil War.
      Commenting on her upbringing, Zaza remarked: “For the last five years, I’ve been through many different experiences.
      “Especially with the war happening around the country and the postponement of the funding for the Olympics.
      “It was very tough, but I had to fight for it. And this is my message to everyone who is in the same situation — fight for your dream.
      “Try hard regardless of the difficulties that you’re having and you will reach your hope.”
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