Новости за 24.07.2021

If you don't have an unlimited data plan, you might want to turn this feature off.

Tia-Clair Toomey, the four-time reigning women’s CrossFit Games champion, trains more in a day than most people do in a week; here’s how she does it, and what anyone can learn from her fitness routine.

The Sky Blues face Cheltenham Town at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium this afternoon in City's first pre-season friendly in front of fans

There is obviously a lot of Olympic news, much of it repeated across several news outlets. It is taking time to make sense of it. It will take about an hour

The Junior Green Army signed off on a hugely productive summer with two wins and a draw against their Welsh Under-23 counterparts at Jordanstown.

Jonathan Selvaraj

Neha Goyal (R) and Nisha Warsi (L) started their hockey journeys together as children, and now play for the Indian national team. Hockey India

Nisha Warsi, 26, didn't have high hopes on the day the Indian women's 16-player-hockey squad for the Tokyo Olympics was to be announced. Sitting in her room at the Sports Authority of India hostel room, she reasoned that having never represented the Indian team at a junior level or even at a major tournament, she'd be considered too inexperienced. Читать дальше...

By Mark Reilly

Ireland’s Roisin Upton celebrates with fans Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

LIMERICK will be represented by a number of athletes at this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo in the form of Roisin Upton, Carolyn Hayes, Sarah Lavin and Greg O’Shea.

Lily Owsley takes on the New Zealand defence. Credit Simon Parker

TOKYO — Black Sticks women are ready to usurp their semi-final hoodoo should they reach the crunch end of the Olympics in two weeks time.

It’s the team behind the team. The ones that don’t get that much recognition but put in as much work as the competing athletes. They watch film, run fitness tests – nurture their minds and bodies to prepare themselves for the international stage.

The Red Caribou look to make history at Tokyo Games

Photo: Yan Huckendubler

The men’s national field hockey team touched down in Okayama, Japan last week to prepare for the Tokyo Summer Games. They have since played two test matches against the host-country Japan, winning both. Now, they call athletes village home for the next 10 days.

Offense is key to taking down highly-touted Die Honamas

It’s game day in Tokyo and Canada begins their Olympic campaign against world-number-5 Germany.The four-time Olympic gold medallists, Die Honamas, qualified for the 2020 Games by thoroughly defeating Austria in the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers 5-0 and 5-3 in the two-leg battle in Mönchengladbach. Most recently, Germany lost in penalties in the European Hockey Championships final match to Belgium, walking away with the silver medal.

The wait is finally over, the Tokyo Olympic Games are here! Great Britain’s men and women will both make their Tokyo bow over the weekend, read below to find out all you need to know ahead of the opening matches:

By Liam Morgan

The hockey tournament at Tokyo 2020 is set to get underway tomorrow ©Getty Images

The Netherlands women's hockey team will be looking for Olympic redemption when they compete here at Tokyo 2020 as they aim to maintain their record of winning every major tournament since their shock loss in the final at Rio 2016.

The former India captain was full of praise for Graham Reid’s hockey team.

VR Raghunath: PR Sreejesh was brilliant for India against New Zealand. Picture by getty images Germany

India men’s hockey team started their Tokyo 2020 sojourn on a bright note as they downed New Zealand 3-2 on Saturday.

By Christopher Reive

India celebrate victory over the Black Sticks. Photo / AP

Goals to Kane Russell and Stephen Jenness have not been enough to lift the Men's Black Sticks to an opening win in the Tokyo Olympics hockey tournament, falling to India 3-2.

Aaron Goile

Black Sticks goalkeeper Leon Hayward gets in the thick of it during his side’s loss to India in their Olympics opener. John Minchillo/AP

The Blacks Sticks men suffer a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to India in their Olympics opener in sweltering Tokyo conditions.

India will next play mighty Australia on Sunday

India midfielder Sumit (17) takes a shot on New Zealand goalkeeper Leon Hayward (20) during a mens field hockey match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday,

Harmanpreet Singh scored a brace and veteran goalkeeper P R Sreejesh stood like a wall in the closing minutes as the Indian men's hockey team overcame a late surge from New Zealand to eke out a close 3-2 win in its opening Olympic Games match here on Saturday.

India beat New Zealand 3-2 in a Pool A match of the men's hockey event at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinderpal Singh scored three between them.

Dilpreet Singh #2 and Harmanpreet Singh #13 of Team India celebrate scoring during the Men's Pool A match against Team New Zealand on day one of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Oi Hockey Stadium.   -  Getty Images

India beat New Zealand (NZL) 3-2 in a Pool A men's hockey match at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Читать дальше...

Christy Doran

Australia suffered a scare. (Photo by Ina Fassbender / AFP)Source: AFP

The Kookaburras are up and running with a 5-3 victory, but the gold medal favourites survived a massive scare on the opening day of the Games by the host nation.

By Daniel Leussink

TOKYO (Reuters) -World champions Belgium defeated the Netherlands 3-1 in the men's hockey tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday thanks to a stunning hat-trick from Alexander Hendrickx, while Australia beat hosts Japan in a thrilling opening game.

The New Zealand men’s hockey team have started their Olympic campaign with a 3-2 loss to India in stifling heat at Tokyo’s Oi Hockey Stadium.

The world number one ranked Kookaburras opened their Olympic campaign with a 5-3 victory over host nation Japan, to successfully begin their gold medal assault at the Oi Hockey Stadium on Day 1 (Saturday).

With the start of the Hockey competition at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 less than 24 hours away, we take a look at some of the fascinating player and team statistics going into the XXXII Olympiad.

All times GMT +9

Men

24 Jul 2021     JPN v AUS (Pool A)     3 - 5
24 Jul 2021     NZL v IND (Pool A)      2 - 3
24 Jul 2021     NED v BEL (Pool B)      1 - 3
24 Jul 2021     ARG v ESP (Pool A)     1 - 1
24 Jul 2021     GBR v RSA (Pool B)     3 - 1
24 Jul 2021    CAN v GER (Pool B)    1 - 7

25 Jul 2021 18:30     IND v AUS (Pool A)
25 Jul 2021 19:00     JPN v ARG (Pool A)
25 Jul 2021 20:45     ESP v NZL (Pool A)
25 Jul 2021 21:15     RSA v NED (Pool B)

Pool Standings

Pool A

If you're ever in California's Mojave desert, look up. The planes overhead could be flying themselves.