Talking Point: Which of the new Olympic sports is your favourite?

Sky Brown became Team GB’s youngest ever Olympic medallist this week, taking bronze in the women’s skateboard park event.

The 13-year-old, who is also a pro-surfer, award-winning dancer, and veritable social media star, has gained legions of fans for her remarkable performance in Tokyo this year.

Many of these fans have never watched professional skateboarding before, but the sport - one of five new additions to the Olympics - has already proved a huge hit with viewers.

Other new sports added this year include Karate, Sport Climbing, Surfing, and Baseball/Softball.

Skateboarding will obviously be a popular choice for supporters of Team GB, but have you discovered any other new favourites this year? We’d love to hear about what you’ve been watching - let us know in the comments below, and we’ll include you in our article tomorrow.

Yesterday’s Talking Point: Should two days in the office be the new normal?

It seems most of you are reluctant to return to the office.

“FarageHasExited” said: “People are employed to provide the services required of them by their employer. It’s not about giving them or them expecting socialising opportunities per se.

“If a job can be performed in a home office or type of popup office, then it will benefit both employer and employee, and it is not for the government or anyone else to expect employees to travel unnecessarily.”

And PhylisStein added: “Why would anyone want to wake up an hour earlier, spend an hour getting washed, ironing clothes, packing lunch and travelling up to an hour on an overpriced, smelly and crowded train or bus to stare at a computer screen at their desk in an ‘open plan’ office with irritating colleagues who dont stop yabbering on about rubbish to come back home 8 hours later on a delayed, packed train with nowhere to sit and get back home in the dark to scoff down a TV dinner before going to bed and repeating it all over again, when they could spend precious time making and sitting down to a nice breakfast, watering their plants, doing a bit of yoga/gardening/ exercise/cleaning before work, finish work on time and have some time afterwards to spend with family/friend/dog go for a walk or make a nice healthy meal from scratch and go to bed happy and refreshed?”

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