British team at Olympics would be thin edge of wedge, says Brown Former Scotland manager believes pressure would increase for unified teamMike Aitken
in 2024 and later on,"Yann Krysinski, SVP of SOLIDEO (the entity in charge of the major infrastructures for the Olympics), toldReutersin February, "and we don't need air conditioning in these buildings because we oriented the facades so that they wouldn't get too much sun...
Top tennis playersincluding Aryna Sabalenka, Ons Jabeur and Emma Raducanu are boycotting the Olympics over concerns about the courts and injuries. The competition is played on clay at the French Open, but players have normally transitioned to grass by now. It's led to injury concerns over a l...
“The British are coming,” trumpetedChariots Of Firescreenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, with plenty of stick-on masterpieces in that number. Comedies, dramas, war films, horror....
Speaking of history, Tom Dean has been outspoken about his ambitious goal to attempt to win five gold medals at Paris 2024, having become the first British swimmer to win two golds at a single Olympics in 113 years at the Tokyo Games. “We want to change the aim, we want to change th...
The women from ROK had trained almost full-time hoping to win the gold medal at home and were offered rich rewards, but the Australians were too good in the final, which they won 2 to 0.AUSTRALIA AT THE OLYMPICS The Australian men's team is one of the nation's great hard-luck ...
Being selected to not only go to an Olympics but be aiming for medals is a dream I have had since I can remember," said the 24-year-old Weston who won a World Cup gold medal in Innsbruck last November and was previously a silver medallist at the same venue in December 2020. ...
Swimmer Tom Dean secured Britain's fourth gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the 200 metre freestyle on Tuesday. Not only that, he did so six months after contracting COVID-19 for a second time, which left the 21-year-old athlete struggling to walk up stairs. It was a truly moving...
NW:It was the proudest moment of my life. Competing at the Olympics for my country was a dream come true for me. I would just like to make that Bronze and Gold at Tokyo 2020. TM: For older people who aren’t likely to start a career in gymnastics, what can they realistically implem...
After a life-saving surgery that entailed having a section of his heart “burned off” while he lie awake in the operating room, Ben Pattison excelled at the 2023 World Athletics Championships as he crossed the finish line to...