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Olympic silver medallist Luke Patience admits he and partner Elliot Willis have prompted their rivals to sit up and take notice after c...
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Olympic canoe sprint champion Ed McKeever rebounded from his recent illness to claim silver at the European Championships.
McKeever ha...
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Ashley Jackson and Alex Danson were the stars as England's hockey teams prepared for next week's Commonwealth Games with morale boostin...
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Alistair Brownlee was Great Britain’s hero as he edged Frenchman Vincent Luis in a nail-biting neck-and-neck race to the finish line to...
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Kat Copeland and Imogen Walsh insist they are happy to be put under pressure after claiming lightweight women’s double scull gold at th...
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Helen Glover admitted it was a case of being sensible after she and fellow Olympic champion Heather Stanning contributed one of two gol...
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England's hockey teams will look to springboard into the forthcoming Commonwealth Games with morale boosting victories at the London Cu...
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Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee claimed gold at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Hamburg - his first series win of the year.
And y...
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Jodie Williams admits her personal best run on day two of the Glasgow Grand Prix has made her feel as though she belongs among the worl...
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Chris Froome has confirmed that he suffered fractures to his left wrist and right hand in the crashes that forced him to withdraw from ...
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World junior heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson smashed her long jump personal best at the Glasgow Grand Prix in the perfect...
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Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee admits his outing at the latest ITU World Triathlon Series leg in Hamburg is vital preparation for t...
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England Hockey's men and women made it four wins from four at the Investec London Cup while day two also saw Scotland women pick up the...
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Great Britain Rowing Team Performance Director Sir David Tanner insists the squad heading to this weekend’s World Rowing Cup in Lucerne...
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England’s men and women hockey teams opened up their Investec London Cup campaigns with emphatic victories over Scotland and Wales resp...
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Chris Froome admits he is ‘devastated’ after having to pull the plug early on the defence of his Tour de France crown.
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Sir Dave Brailsford praised Chris Froome’s bravery after the reigning Tour de France champion battled valiantly before injury finally f...
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Luke Patience is hopeful lightning can strike twice as he eyes up a medal-winning return to Athens for this week’s 470 European Champio...
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The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced today the athletes selected to represent Team GB at the second Summer Youth Olympic Gam...
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Mo Farah is adamant he will be back in action sooner rather than later despite pulling out of this weekend’s Glasgow Grand Prix because...
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Chris Froome concedes the defence of his Tour de France title has taken a turn for the worst after an early crash on stage four but he’...
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The Tour de France may have departed British shores but there’s plenty still taking place in the UK; below is a flavour of the Olympic ...
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Olympic bronze medallist Chloe Rogers has announced her retirement from international hockey – bringing to an end a senior career spann...
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The race to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games has taken significant step forward after the International Olympic Committee unanimously...
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Defending champion Chris Froome admits he is quietly content after ending the British leg of the Tour de France well positioned in fift...
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Great Britain's men's four stormed to an impressive victory at the Henley Royal Regatta as home crews dominated on the River Thames.
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Simon Yates insists he's taking his maiden Tour de France outing one day at a time after a second stage comparable to a busman's holida...
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Great Britain’s Chijindu Ujah finished sixth in the 100m on his Diamond League debut in Paris as his bid for the last remaining sprint ...
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Great Britain’s Bryony Shaw remains defiant she can secure some major success on the water this year after the windsurfer narrowly miss...
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Mark Cavendish is out of the Tour de France after he sustained a shoulder injury during a crash on Saturday's opening stage sprint fini...
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Alpine skiing involves all skiing events which occur on a downhill course and do not involve ramps or bumps.
The Olympic alpine competition consists of ten event...
Imagine sprinting up 25 flights of stairs and, once at the top, trying to thread a needle five times in a row without once missing the hole. Imagine doing that over and ...
Bobsleigh consists of three events in the Olympic programme; the male four-man and two-man and female two-man. Each event consists of four heats, held on two consecutive...
The cross country skiing discipline involves racing over undulating terrain along a series of prepared tracks. Skiers set off at intervals and race against the...
Curling is a sport where players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding eight stones across the ic...
There are five Olympic figure skating events: ladies singles, mens singles, pairs, ice dancing and the newly introduced event for the 2014 Olympics – the Team Even...
Freestyle skiing consists of aerials and moguls plus the ‘new school’ events of ski cross, half pipe and slopestyle. All are dynamic and spectacular to watch...
At the Olympic Winter Games, women compete in an eight-team tournament whereas men compete in a 12-team tournament.
Each country may have one men’s and one...
A competition based on a sled that takes place on the same run as the Bobsleigh and Skeleton.
The competitor sits on the sled and rocks forward and back on fixed...
In Nordic Combined the athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
Until the 1950s, the cross-country race was held first, followed by th...
The juxtaposition of speed and potential spills makes this one of the most thrilling of all Olympic Winter sports. It is one of the few events where competitors race dir...
Taking place on the same artificially refrigerated ice tracks, skeleton is one of the three sliding sports along with Bobsleigh and Luge.
The athlete pushe...
An incredibly technical and graceful discipline, in which competitors seem to defy gravity as they hang in the air over the hill. Amazing skill is required to fly 80 met...
Snowboarding competition consists of downhill racing and freestyle snowboarding – snowboard cross, halfpipe and slopestyle. Snowboarders are often seen as the surf...
Speed skating consists of 12 events, which along with cross-country is the most number of events per sport at the Games.
All events are skated once, with the exc...
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