Charlotte Bankes continued her fine form heading into Beijing 2022 with her second snowboard cross World Cup victory in as many days in Krasnoyarsk. The 2021 world champion added to her victory on Saturday with a repeat of the same podium, holding out France’s Chloe Trespeuch and Lindsey Jacobellis of…
After an unprecedented 17 years on the international stage, Danny Kerry – the most successful coach in the history of hockey in Great Britain – has today announced his decision to step down from his role as head coach of the men’s programme. Having been part of the England and…
New Team GB’s Olympic heroes have been recognised in the 2022 New Year Honours List after they lit up the summer of 2021 with a host of stellar performances in Tokyo. They are joined by the CEO of the British Olympic Association, Andy Anson, after he led the organisation through…
Bestselling author Geoffrey Littlefield’s Last Night When I Was Young: Sporting Favourites of Mine takes readers on a sentimental stroll down a memory lane lined with elite athletes of the past. Littlefield masterfully intertwines history-making moments and mini biographies of some of the U.K.’s greatest athletes of the 1950s and ’60s with…
Amy Truesdale is a British para taekwondo pioneer with multiple World and European titles having made her the sport’s first major star in the pre-Paralympic era. At Tokyo 2020 she aimed to build on her legacy by adding Paralympic gold to her impressive list of titles as the sport made…
Team GB has today announced the names of the curlers who will compete in the women’s discipline at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Skip Eve Muirhead will compete in her fourth Winter Olympics, while teammate Jennifer Dodds is also set to make history as one of the first players…
2021 Paralympic champions, GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR), have announced their fifteen-athlete-strong long squad for 2022: Name Classification Club Stuart Robinson 3.5 West Coast WRC Aaron Phipps 3.5 London WRC Faye West 3.5 West Country Hawks Ollie Mangion 3.0 London WRC Jamie Stead 2.5 Leicester Tigers WRC Ayaz Bhuta 2.5 West…
‘Keep us fishing’ is the Christmas message to Government ministers from the Angling Trust following the refusal of the Health Secretary, Saijid Javid, to rule out further Covid restrictions or even a fourth lockdown as is occurring right now in parts of Europe. Angling Trust CEO Jamie Cook has written…
Lord Willis, Chair of the House of Lords Committee on Sport and Recreation, and Baroness Brady who was a Member of the Committee, feature on the new episode of the House of Lords Podcast which has been released today. The pair talk about why we need a new National Plan…
With 50 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games the British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the three figure skaters who will represent Team GB in February. Natasha McKay will compete in the Women’s Singles with the pairing of Lilah Fear and…
A new team will be challenging for the next America’s Cup, as Red Bull joins forces with double America’s Cup–winning syndicate Alinghi in a campaign for the oldest trophy in international sport. Alinghi founder Ernesto Bertarelli and two-time Olympic champion Hans Peter Steinacher announced the launch of the new Alinghi…
Individual gold medals for Megan Keith (coach: Ross Cairns; club: Inverness) and Charles Hicks (Shaftesbury Barnet) and a second consecutive mixed relay title led the way as 40-strong British contingent topped the medal table at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships with five golds in Fingal-Dublin. Keith continued her stellar…
Alex Bell (coach: Andrew Henderson, club: Pudsey and Bramley) has been chosen as the captain of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for this weekend’s European Cross Country Championships in Fingal-Dublin. The Pudsey and Bramley athlete has enjoyed a remarkable season as she finished seventh in the Olympic Games…