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11 hours ago
Great Britain’s Elise Christie admits it will be win or bust for her attempts of claiming short track speed skating gold at the 2014 So...
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12 hours ago
London Olympian Imogen Bankier insists it is all systems go towards the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games following an impressive start t...
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16 hours ago
Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow continued their fine 2013 form in Mexico as the British pair claimed their second international medal of t...
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Great Britain’s Mark Cavendish became the first rider in seven years to win four Giro d’Italia stages in one year as he collected caree...
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London Olympian Andrew Selby will be bidding to defend his flyweight title as he leads a 13-strong GB Boxing team at the 2013 European ...
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Ian Coley MBE, the man that led Peter Wilson to gold at London 2012, has announced that he is retiring from his role as double trap coa...
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Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Giro d’Italia assault has been ended prematurely after the London 2012 time trial champion was forced to withdraw ...
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2 days ago
“It is impossible to think about the success of the London 2012 Games and not reflect upon the extraordinary commitment made by David B...
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2 days ago
Great Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his tenth win of the season and the 100th of his professional career with a trademark sprint fin...
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2 days ago
Zac Purchase insists he will only return to the water in order to win gold at Rio 2016 as the rower contemplates a comeback.
The 27-ye...
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Rising British heptathlon star Katarina Johnson-Thompson insists she is not feeling the pressure despite being labelled as the heir app...
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2 days ago
Christine Ohuruogu’s London 2012 heartbreak is now behind her and the former Olympic champion insists she will be attacking the new sea...
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3 days ago
Charlotte Gilmartin’s fledgling short track speed skating career continued on an upward trajectory last season and she’s confident if i...
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3 days ago
With the opening of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games less than 10 months away, the British Olympic Association (BOA) today hosted a ...
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3 days ago
With 50 days to go until the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote on the 2018 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) host, Glasgow’s young peo...
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3 days ago
Daniel Reed made it through to the main draws of both the men's singles and doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships after going...
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3 days ago
Peter Eriksson has cited personal circumstances as the reason behind his decision to leave his post as British Athletics head coach at ...
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3 days ago
When Isobel Pooley thinks back to 2012 she’s struck by agony, ecstasy, loneliness and expectation all rolled into one – however the ove...
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4 days ago
Great Britain’s women’s basketball head coach Damian Jennings admitted he was more than encouraged by his team’s performance in their t...
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4 days ago
Jade Faulkner insists plenty of hard work lies ahead if she is to go from competing at the London 2012 Olympics to reaching next year’s...
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4 days ago
Stuart Pearce has selected six of his London 2012 football stars for England’s Under-21s squad heading to Israel for next month’s Europ...
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4 days ago
Sir Dave Brailsford believes the pieces are very much coming together for British Cycling’s assault on the Rio Olympics after welcoming...
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4 days ago
Jenna Randall and Olivia Federici have been handed a boost as they build towards the FINA World Championships with world renowned coach...
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5 days ago
Liam Pitchford believes he has improved significantly since his last outing at the individual World Table Tennis Championships with his...
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5 days ago
Two-time Olympian Shanaze Reade has set her sights high this summer after continuing her fine early season form by winning round two of...
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5 days ago
Former world champion Ed Wright created history by becoming the first Brit to claim victory in the new EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup Se...
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6 days ago
Louisa Sawers struck gold as Great Britain claimed three podium spots at the canoe sprint World Cup in Szegad, Hungary.
Sawers won the ...
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6 days ago
Great Britain's Jamie Cooke claimed his first-ever modern pentathlon World Cup medal - and he made it a gold.
Cooke, the former world j...
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6 days ago
Sir Bradley Wiggins was forced to dig deep to stay in contention for the Giro d'Italia after a difficult day in the saddle.
The pre-rac...
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6 days ago
Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge stroked Great Britain's men's eight to victory at rowing's Essen International - but he conceded t...
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Win or bust for Christie at Sochi Winter Olympics http://t.co/f80MHmeajp #ShortTrackSpeedSkating
11 hours ago
Fast start to 2013 has Bankier dreaming of Commonwealths http://t.co/zCDGYCzNC2 #Badminton
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There are four table tennis competitions: men’s and women's singles, and men's and women’s team event at the Olympics.
Al...
A game consists of two 35-minute periods, with a 10 minute interval for half-time.
There are 12 teams of 16 players which are placed into two pools of six for th...
Basketball is played by two teams, made up of five players and seven substitutes. The aim of the game for each team is to get the ball into the elevated baskets at eithe...
The Olympic competition schedule consists of 47 events; 24 for men and 23 for women.
Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competi...
Traditional six-a-side indoor volleyball is referred to at the Olympic Games as volleyball. So the Olympic sport of volleyball has two disciplines - beach volleyball and...
Diving is an incredibly specialised aquatic discipline in which athletes leap from platforms or springboards elevated to a height of three metres and 10 metres above the...
A sport that has been around since the Middle Ages, Tennis is a raquet and ball game that can be played either in singles or doubles over five sets (for men) or three se...
Handball is played in an indoor court between two teams, of seven players each. The players’ objective is, by only using their hands, to throw the ball into the go...
In comparison to road racing and mountain biking, track cycling is an incredibly specialised indoor event, with a number of disciplines that place as much emphasis on st...
Although Judo is a martial art, its practice and methods are based around gentleness. Giving way to the strength of the opponent, adapting to and using it to your advant...
The Equestrian disciplines are unique among Olympic sports, in the sense that men and women compete on the same terms and horse and rider are both declared Olympic medal...
Bicycle moto cross (BMX) has caught the spirit of a generation as BMX bikes swept across Europe and the USA. As part of the extreme sports hungry generation, BMX has exp...
Road racing is the form of competitive cycling most analogous to that done by the general public, with riders competing against each other on conventional roads to compl...
Modern football has evolved from a game played in streets and schools in the mid 1800s to the most widely played game on earth played in almost every town and village in...
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