As the Norway women's beach handball team are fined for not competing in bikini bottoms, we ask: why are female Olympians required to wear less clothing than their male counterparts?
Brazilian Ítalo Ferreira holds the honor of being the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in surfing. But it almost didn't happen after a chaotic travel story at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games.
When Olympic organizers heard Typhoon Nepartak was heading their way across the Pacific, it must have felt like a storm too far. Delayed for a year by a still-raging global pandemic and with athletes forced to compete in empty arenas, these Tokyo Games have had no luck.
There is something of a boom currently in around the world racing, with six new pro-am events set to bring the ultimate sailing feat within affordable reach. Elaine Bunting investigates