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Olympic gold medal hero Luke Campbell said he was overwhelmed when he stood in the middle of his home city to acknowledge thousands of ...
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Olympic gold winning rower Kat Copeland has revealed she is considering giving up her sport at the top level.
The 21-year-old returned ...
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Olympic rowing champion Pete Reed will be honoured with a civic reception and open-top bus tour in his home town.
Civic leaders in Nail...
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Jessica Ennis has been promised a "champion's welcome" with a golden theme when she returns to her home city on Friday.
Thousands of pe...
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The Olympic Games may be over but the parties have only just begun as the first of many "welcome home" celebrations were held on Monday...
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Three Olympic medallists have received a hero's welcome as they returned to their home city to celebrate their success.
Thousands of pe...
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British Olympic Association (BOA) Chairman Colin Moynihan today made the below announcement in a letter to the BOA Board, the National ...
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Olympic rowing champion Pete Reed got engaged at the London 2012 closing ceremony.
Reed found his girlfriend Frauke Oltmanns in the cro...
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Anthony Joshua is preparing to spend his first week as Olympic super-heavyweight champion munching on his favourite chocolate cake and ...
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Tour de France winner and Olympic time-trial champion Bradley Wiggins will return to action for Team Sky at this month's Post Danmark R...
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Olympic gold medallist Nick Skelton will make a quickfire return to international showjumping action later this week.
Skelton was part ...
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Samantha Murray screamed at herself in the mirror as she battled to hold onto her modern pentathlon Olympic dream, and 10 hours later s...
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Britain's Olympic hero Mo Farah believes his coach will tell the athlete to concentrate on track success instead of chasing marathon ri...
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Samantha Murray defied the weight of history on her shoulders to continue Britain's brilliant record in modern pentathlon by winning si...
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Anthony Joshua brought a tumultuous end to the Olympic boxing tournament with a thrilling countback victory over Roberto Cammarelle, an...
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Samantha Murray won a brilliant silver medal to maintain Great Britain's record of having picked up a modern pentathlon medal at every ...
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Anthony Joshua rounded off Britain's most successful boxing performance at a Games for over 100 years in the most dramatic fashion imag...
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Great Britain's Samantha Murray stayed right in the hunt for a medal in the modern pentathlon at Greenwich Park and will start the fina...
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Tom Daley has revealed he lost over a stone in weight in the lead-up to the London Olympics.
Daley claimed a bronze medal on Saturday n...
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Scott Overall admitted he misjudged the scorching conditions in the Olympic marathon on Sunday.
The 29-year-old former shoe salesman, w...
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Great Britain boxer Fred Evans took an Olympic silver medal after losing 17-9 to impressive Kazakh Serik Sapiyev in their men's welterw...
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Lee Merrien was the first Briton home in the men's marathon in 30th place in two hours, 17 minutes on The Mall.
Uganda's Stephen Kiprot...
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Great Britain's Liam Killeen has crashed out of the Olympic cross-country mountain bike event at Hadleigh Farm in Essex.
The 30-year-ol...
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There has rarely been a more celebrated bronze medal than Tom Daley's on the penultimate night of the Olympic Games.
The 18-year-old wo...
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Olympic medals were never the target for Great Britain's rhythmic gymnasts but they believe they have achieved their aim to inspire the...
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Peter Wilson was undoubtedly Great Britain's shooting star at the Royal Artillery Barracks.
The 25-year-old farmer's son from Dorset se...
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The British Olympic Association has vowed Great Britain would do everything possible to top their amazing Olympic medal haul from Londo...
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The ground-breaking Great Britain synchronised swimming team said they have put the sport "on the map" with their first Olympic appeara...
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British success at the 2012 London Olympics will be glowingly recorded in the history books thanks to a glut of gold, silver and bronze...
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London 2012 was always supposed to be Ben Ainslie's Olympics and he did not disappoint, becoming the most successful sailor in Games hi...
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Err, should someone tell Luke Campbell that he's got an actual Gold medal? This one is not made of chocolate! http://t.co/GL0hj6gQ [PHOTO]
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The lovely @bethtweddlenews came to see us with her medal http://t.co/6zMaF04L She's rocking her #TeamGBScarf... We're so proud!
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There are 12 teams of 16 players which are placed into two pools of six for th...
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The 10 classes of boats...
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Weightlifting consists of two moveme...
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Beach volleyball is the outdoor equivalent of volleyball and – despite its glamorous, sun-kissed image – is every bit as grueling as its indoor counterpart.
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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...
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Al...
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