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…
The deciding final race of the Formula 1 season will be shown live on free to air terrestrial television this Sunday (12.12.21) after Sky agreed to share its coverage with Channel 4. Thanks to the deal struck between the two broadcasters, the British public will be able to savour every…
Today (Wednesday 8 December), The Football Association (FA) in association with The Premier League, The English Football League, and the Players Association have released a document summarising a joint action plan on understanding, promoting and protecting brain health in English football. What is in the document? The document outlines three…
The British Judo Championships returned this weekend with our Pre-Cadet and Cadet judoka battling it out to be crowned British Champion at the EIS, Sheffield. Saturday saw our Pre-Cadet Girls and Cadet Boys take to the tatami, whilst Sunday was reserved for our Pre-Cadet Boys and Cadet Girls. Cadet Boys…
Goalkeeper Harry Gibson has announced he is retiring from international hockey. Across six years, Harry made a total of 77 international appearances, with 41 of those coming in a Great Britain shirt while 36 of those games were for England. He played at the 2013 Youth Olympic Festival for Great…
A full team has been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at next month’s (12 December) European Cross Country Championships in Fingal-Dublin, Ireland. Trials winners Jess Judd (coach: Mick Judd, coach: Blackburn) and Jack Rowe (Tim Eglen, Aldershot Farnham and District) lead the senior women’s and men’s teams…
Alzheimer’s Research UK is undertaking a comprehensive review into the links between sport and dementia risk. The announcement comes today (Wednesday 24 November), with the charity partnering with The Health Policy Partnership to carry out the six-month project. Dementia is a heart-breaking condition that affects nearly one million people in…
Two community leisure centres run by Life Leisure have been named among the top three in Stockport. Life leisure Grand Central, on Wellington Road South, and Brinnington Park Lesiure Complex, based on Northumberland Road in Brinnington, have earned the accolade from Three Best Rated, an independent company developed to identify…
Today, Special Olympics Europe Eurasia has launched a unique online-offline activity hub and campaign called Faces of Basketball to celebrate European Basketball Week 2021 and International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December. It will be available to athletes, coaches and supporters across the region in six European languages: English, French,…
The retired Jamaican sprinter was speaking to Chuckie on the latest drop of JD’s In the Duffle Bag Podcast when Bolt, now 35, revealed just how tense it became between the two competitors. Bolt, who is an eight-time Olympic gold medallist said: “There definitely was a rivalry – I live off it…
Only six weeks before Santa slides down the chimney, we hope he will have his sack filled with copies of our book “Running Stories by people of all ages, speeds and backgrounds.” With all our profits being donated to The Running Charity and their work with young homeless people, this is the perfect…
EVENT TO BE HELD AT THE PRINCIPALITY STADIUM, CARDIFF IN MAY 2023Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR), who claimed an historic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 ParalympicGames this summer, has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2023 World Wheelchair Rugby EuropeanChampionship Division A Tournament. As Great Britain enjoys unprecedented…
British Athletics has announced the cohort of athletes on the Olympic and Paralympic Futures Academy Programme for 2021/22, which is supported by Nike. Recent graduates from the Futures Academy programme include Olympic silver medallist, Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh) and Paralympic champion Owen Miller (Steven Doig, Fife) while five European…
NEW: Winter Fishing Campaign to run fromFriday 17th December 2021 to Sunday January 2nd 2022 Registration for a FREE fishing licence is open now atwww.anglingtrust.net/takeafriendfishing December and January are a fantastic time of year to get outdoors and enjoy some time next to the water. Taking a friend or family…
England Hockey will host the first ever international hockey tournament in Durham next summer as the Women’s EuroHockey Qualifiers are set to take place at Maiden Castle Sports Centre. The tournament will be contested in from 22-27 August 2022 and act as one of four qualification events for the Women’s…