Cameron Norrie and Jamie Murray snub chance to represent Team GB at Tokyo Olympics with dreaded bubble restrictions putting athletes off… but two-time gold medal winner Andy Murray WILL head to Japan to compete in singles and doubles By Kishan Vaghela For Mailonline Published: 11:50 BST, 24 June 2021 | Updated: 12:21 BST, 24 June … Read more
Bianca Walkden might be a three-time world champion but she is not even the most famous member of her own family. ‘They overtook me on Instagram followers, I was fuming!’ laughs the Team GB taekwondo star about the Grammy-nominated DJ duo CamelPhat, who her brother Mike is one half of. Walkden’s respectable 107k followers is … Read more
Team GB name strong team for Tokyo Olympic Games this summer with 11 fighters led by Rob McCracken including gold medal contenders Pat McCormack, Lauren Price and Peter McGrail By Riath Al-Samarrai for MailOnline Published: 16:54 BST, 23 June 2021 | Updated: 16:54 BST, 23 June 2021 Britain has selected arguably its strongest ever boxing … Read more
British Cycling have vowed to ‘win the right way’ in Tokyo in the wake of the Richard Freeman doping scandal as golden couple Jason and Laura Kenny chase history in six events. The governing body’s reputation has been shattered in recent months after their former chief doctor Freeman was found guilty of ordering banned testosterone … Read more
Katarina Johnson-Thompson to miss this month’s British Olympics trials as she continues race to recover from Achilles injury ahead of Tokyo Games this summer By Riath Al-Samarrai for MailOnline Published: 11:25 BST, 15 June 2021 | Updated: 11:34 BST, 15 June 2021 Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been granted a medical exemption to miss the British Olympic … Read more
England and Manchester City goalkeeper Karen Bardsley withdraws from Team GB squad for Tokyo 2020 after picking up a ‘devastatingly cruel’ hamstring injury while on loan with OL Reign By Kathryn Batte For Mailonline Published: 16:55 BST, 12 June 2021 | Updated: 17:03 BST, 12 June 2021 England goalkeeper Karen Barsley has been forced to … Read more
The European Championships give talented players the opportunity to shine on the big stage, and there are high expectations for a number of stars heading into Euro 2020 this summer. In England, there are hopes that the likes of Phil Foden, Jack Grealish and Mason Mount can steal the show like Paul Gascoigne in 1996, … Read more
Women’s single sculls (W1x) Victoria Thornley (Club: Leander Club / Hometown: Wrexham) Coach: Paul Reedy Women’s pair (W2-) Helen Glover (Marlow RC / Penzance) Polly Swann (Univ. of Edinburgh & Leander Club / Edinburgh) Coach: Hamish Burrell Lightweight women’s double sculls (LW2x) Emily Craig (University of London BC / Mark Cross) Imogen Grant (Cambridge Univ. … Read more
Alistair Brownlee’s Tokyo bid dashed after the two time Olympic champion is disqualified for pushing rival under the water during swimming leg of triathlon in his home city of Leeds as Britain’s Alex Yee takes victory By Riath Al-Samarrai for the Daily Mail Published: 22:31 BST, 6 June 2021 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 6 June … Read more
In a stellar career, Colin Jackson won an Olympic silver medal, two World Championship golds, two Commonwealth golds and four European Championship golds in the 110metre hurdles. His world record of 12.91 seconds in the discipline stood for over 10 years and it remains the British and European best almost three decades after it was … Read more