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Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford claims he will leap further than he did at London 2012 at this year’s World Championships de...
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Great Britain’s short track speed skating performance director Stuart Horsepool claims they have made a statement of intent ahead of th...
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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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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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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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“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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3 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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6 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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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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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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7 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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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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Rutherford looking for giant leap ahead of worlds http://t.co/JVDmUhzIJF #Athletics
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Horsepool sets high standards for Sochi-bound speed skaters http://t.co/Nixqp2pag6 #SpeedSkating
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Mountain biking covers three different disciplines, Downhill, Four Cross and Cross Country/Marathon. For the Olympics the only event that is included is Cross-country.
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...
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...
Beach volleyball is the outdoor equivalent of volleyball and – despite its glamorous, sun-kissed image – is every bit as grueling as its indoor counterpart.<...>
A Korean form of martial art, which has been the dominant form of martial art in that country since 1955
Each of the eight weight categories involves a single el...
Water polo is a highly physical team sport in which the players of each squad try to score as many goals against the opposition as they can, while preventing their rival...
Badminton is the world’s fastest racquet sport where players compete to hit a shuttlecock back and forth over a high net. The record for the fastest smash currentl...
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...
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...
Sailing competition is run in different classes, or types of boats. In any race, only boats of the same class compete against each other.
The 10 classes of boats...
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...
Swimming is a hugely physical and demanding sport, with athletes competing over distances from 50m to 1,500m in the pool. Swimmers need huge strength and stamina to...
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...
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...
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...
Synchronised swimming is often described as ‘water ballet’, because of the dance-like movements swimmers make to music, and its theatrical character. Even th...
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