One of the beauties of the Olympic Games is that it can make normal everyday people who have a passion for their discipline, into household names all over the country and the world. There has never...
Continue Reading ...Russia Making Doping Progress Says Lord Coe
IAAF President Lord Coe, has said that the Russian doping authorities are making progress in attempting to tackle the issue. Between 2011 and 2015 more than a thousand Russian athletes were said t...
Continue Reading ...Seven Sports Lose Funding Cut Appeals
The seven sports that had all of their funding cut for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games in Tokyo, have today seen their appeals rejected by UK Sport. Archery, badminton, fencing, table tennis and...
Continue Reading ...2018 Winter Olympics Could Be Record Breaking For Team GB
In exactly one year’s time the 2018 Winter Olympic opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea will have begun kicking off a fortnights’ worth of exhilarating action in some of the toughest a...
Continue Reading ...Nicola Adams Set to Turn Professional
Two-time Olympic champion and Champions Olympic speaker Nicola Adams OBE has announced her intention to turn professional. The current Olympic champion, who won her second gold medal in Rio last s...
Continue Reading ...Seven Sports Begin Appeal Process Over Funding Cuts
Seven sports are beginning the appeal process against UK Sport’s decision to provide them zero funding at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games in Tokyo. Rio 2016 was Great Britain’s most successf...
Continue Reading ...Britain’s Olympic stars nominated for Laureus Awards
Four of Team GB’s athletes from Rio 2016 have been nominated for the prestigious Laureus awards. The ceremony honours remarkable achievements from the last 12 months in the world of sport. Br...
Continue Reading ...Olympians Honoured by the Queen
Many of Team GB’s heroes from Rio 2016 have been honoured by the Queen in her New Year’s honours list. The Olympic Games last summer was extremely successful with Team GB achieving 67 medals (27 G...
Continue Reading ...Outrage at funding cuts to Olympic sports
Rio 2016 was Great Britain’s best medal haul at an Olympic Games since 1908 with athletes from a variety of sports becoming instant heroes. One of the greatest thing about the Olympics is that it pr...
Continue Reading ...Olympic and Paralympic Medallists invited to Buckingham Palace
With the success being celebrated from both the Olympics and Paralympics, the royal family personally invited the champions to Buckingham Palace last week. Personally meeting and greeting them...
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