With only 365 days left until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Team GB is spreading Olympic fever across the United Kingdom as the countdown starts in earnest to the next Games. Team GB’s ‘(Only) One Year to Go’ campaign launched as Olympians Greg Rutherford and Beth Tweddle delighted commuters on the tram from Manchester Piccadilly
Come and Try Games for all at Bath sporting festival
Team Bath is helping to celebrate this year’s International Olympic Day through teaming up with the organisers of an inclusive sporting festival in Bath to provide everyone with the opportunity to ‘Move, Learn and Discover’. Those are the three pillars of both the Olympic Day movement and the Try Games event, which is taking place
BOA Vice-Chair reacts to the Queen’s Birthday Honours
Vice-Chair of the British Olympic Association (BOA) Annamarie Phelps has reacted to the Queen’s Birthday Honours List following recognition for a number of members of the Olympic Movement. Sally Munday, Chief Executive of England Hockey who will take up the CEO role at UK Sport later this year, is awarded an OBE for services to
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Six Olympians elected onto the BOA’s Athletes’ Commission
The British Olympic Association (BOA) today announced the six Olympians elected by their fellow athletes to serve on the 13-strong BOA Athletes’ Commission. London 2012 basketball player Eric Boateng was re-elected for a second four-year term on the Commission and is joined by five new members who will all serve a four-year term from 2019-2022.
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Olympic Champions Williams and Gardener receive Honorary Degrees
Olympic Gold medallists Amy Williams MBE and Jason Gardener MBE were today awarded honorary degrees from the University of Bath. Bath’s ‘Golden Girl’ Amy Williams who won Gold in the women’s Skeleton event at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, has been honoured in recognition of her distinguished sporting career as a skeleton racer. The
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Team GB celebrate inspirational women
To mark tomorrow’s International Women’s Day, and celebrate the women who inspired a nation, Team GB reflect on Rio 2016 and its greatest Olympic Games for women’s sport while asking fans to talk about the women who inspire them, using #SheInspiresMe. As the world looked towards Rio last summer, Team GB prepared to take its highest
Source: Koen Suyk
Team GB stars dominate New Year’s Honours List
Following a record-breaking year for Team GB, Olympic athletes have once again been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. The list of awards includes a damehood for Katherine Grainger, the first female Olympian to win five medals at five games, for services to rowing and charity; and a damehood for Jessica Ennis-Hill for
Source: Frank Uijlenbroek
Rio stars honoured at the 2016 Team GB Ball
Team GB’s hockey gold medallists were the big winners at the inaugural Team GB Awards last night with the squad picking up three of the five categories. Danny Kerry won Coach of the Year while the BBC Moment of the Games and the publically voted Great Britain’s Choice Award, presented by Aldi, both went to
Source: Frank Uijlenbroek
Team GB and women’s hockey honoured at the 2016 ANOC Awards
The British Olympic Association has this evening been named the Most Successful National Olympic Committee of the Year at the 2016 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly. The ANOC Awards also saw British success in the Women’s Team of the Year category, with Team GB’s women’s hockey team recognised following their gold medal
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Nominees announced for the BOA’s Athletes’ Commission
Eighteen Olympians will stand for election for the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Athletes’ Commission after voting opened for athletes last week. The Commission, which was created in 2010 to bring the perspective and expertise of Olympic athletes to the many initiatives and programmes operated by the BOA, ensures that the athletes’ voice is at the
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