Source: Loughborough University

Loughborough athletes set up more medal chances in Rio

Team GB women’s hockey team produced the performance of the day on Wednesday 10th August, beating recent Champion’s Trophy winners and London 2012 silver medallists Argentina 3-2. With that result, which makes it three wins from three for Great Britain, the side top Group B and are guaranteed a place in the quarter-finals. In the

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Source: David Powell

Rio 2016: Team GB – Day 6 Preview

Justin Rose and Danny Willett will make history on day six of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as golf makes its return while there are a host of guaranteed Team GB medal opportunities. Rose and Willett will both tee off as golf appears back on the Olympic schedule for the first time in 112 years

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Source: Worldsportpics Frank Uijlenbroek

Rio 2016 – Team GB Day 5 Preview

Day five presents itself with an abundance of medal opportunities for Team GB from world champion gymnast Max Whitlock to Tour de France winner Chris Froome with a little bit of European gold medal winning divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears thrown in. There are as many as eleven events in which Britain could realistically

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Rio 2016: Team GB Day 4 Review

Silver medal wins for Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay squad give Team GB their best Olympic Games in the pool since Los Angeles 1984. Quartet of Stephen Milne, Duncan Scott, Dan Wallace and James Guy follow Siobhan-Marie O’Connor’s 200m IM silver for another stella night in the pool Katherine Grainger and Vicky

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Rio 2016: Team GB Day 4 Preview

Double Olympic silver medallist David Florence will bid to make it a Games hat-trick on day four of Rio 2016 as Team GB bid to keep the medal streak going. Florence – a canoe slalom specialist – collected C1 silver at Beijing 2008 before repeating the trick in the C2 with Richard Hounslow on home

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Source: FISA Detlev Seyb

Princess Anne visits Team GB preparation camp

HRH Princess Anne, President of the British Olympic Association (BOA), today visited Team GB’s biggest ever Preparation Camp in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.  She was accompanied on the visit by Lord Coe, Chair of the BOA. The Princess met a host of Team GB athletes including the athletics squad and Beijing 2008 silver medallist, marathon swimmer

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Source: World Rugby

Rio 2016 – Team GB Day 3 preview

Day three of the games could be an historic day for Team GB’s women’s rugby sevens side, as they look to become one of the first nations in 108 years to win an Olympic rugby medal when they take on New Zealand in the semi-final at 7pm. Diving and sailing will make their Rio 2016

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Source: Team GB

Rio 2016 – Team GB Day 2 review – as GB strike Gold

Adam Peaty opened Team GB’s medal account at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in phenomenal style, delivering gold in a new world record and forging himself as one of the greatest British swimmers ever. Peaty completes dominance with historic 100m breaststroke gold in world record Carlin takes 400m freestyle silver immediately after teammate’s victory in the

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