LimeLight sports club and BADU Sports have joined forces to launch a brand-new programme to empower children and young people through sports and break down barriers that are traditionally associated with triathlons. In its inaugural year, the programme will aim to train 100 young female and male athletes from ethnic minorities aged between…
England and Great Britain are very pleased to announce the appointment of Jody Paul as new assistant coach to the senior women’s squads. Jody takes on his new role immediately and brings significant experience to the position. As an international hockey player, he made 38 appearances for South Africa as…
In the film, Rory opens up about the disappointments he faced last year and across his career, and how he has learnt to deal with them and be resilient. · “Disappointment is a part of life and I think you have to learn to get past disappointment quite early in golf because you know, even a good week in golf means you don’t win. A top five finish is a good week. It doesn’t,…
CHANNEL 4 AND FORMULA E ANNOUNCE NEW MULTI-YEAR BROADCAST AGREEMENT Channel 4 to be the exclusive free-to-air UK TV home of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in a new multi-year broadcast agreement More races live on free-to-air in the UK than any previous season Channel 4 coverage will…
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the 18 skiers and three snowboarders selected to represent Team GB at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. GB Snowsport athletes will represent the nation in nine disciplines during the Games, with nine athletes selected for Team GB for the first time.…
Neil has produced a collection of the greatest goal scorers in the history of British football with profiles of 50 of the greatest, including Steve Bloomer, Dixie Dean, Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law, Ian Rush, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Sergio Aguero, Ian Wright and Harry Kane. The book spans the history…
Vince’s role and contribution to the London Lions has proven to be nothing short of legendary. A life-long, celebrated champion of British basketball and the community that supports it, boasting a raft of career milestones that have redefined the history of the sport in the UK, and will continue to impact its…
In a busy week of team announcements ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, the British Olympic Association (BOA) today added four skeleton athletes to the team. Olympic debutants Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have been selected in the men’s event, with fellow Olympic newcomer Brogan Crowley selected for…
Olympic 1500m silver medallist Laura Muir (GBR) will target the 1000m world indoor record at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on Saturday 19 February. Muir, the 2018 world indoor 1500m silver medallist, is the European…
After a successful launch in 2019, the Angling Trust in partnership with the Environment Agency, is pleased to announce a new Get Fishing Fund for 2022 An additional £100,000 of fishing licence income has been made available as part of a new Get Fishing Fund which opens for applications on Monday 17th January.Angling…
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced Rupert Staudinger as Team GB’s sole luge representative for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. The 24-year-old has been selected for his second Games, after finishing 33rd at PyeongChang 2018 where he made his Olympic debut. Staudinger who achieved his best World…
As the men’s and women’s squads return to training for the start of the Paris 2024 cycle, Great Britain Hockey is delighted to announce that eight new players have been selected for the women’s programme. They include several athletes who have already featured for Great Britain, including Holly Hunt –…
Sarah Stevenson MBE, Great Britain’s first Taekwondo Olympic medallist is launching a new fitness challenge, giving sign-ups access to live and on-demand workouts with Sarah herself. Six Weeks With Sarah, which begins on January 17th and is now open for sign-ups, offers individuals a rare chance to train with an Olympic…
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…
his year, we celebrate 10 years since the launch of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship – the electric cars motorsport racing series that promotes clean mobility. Since its inauguration in 2014, the series has hosted seven seasons and has gained millions of viewers from all over the world.…
England needs an ambitious and radical national plan for sport, health and wellbeing to address stagnant activity levels across the country. The recommendation comes in a new report from the House of Lords Sport and Recreation Committee which is published today. A national plan is vital as the delivery of…