Day one of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games sees Elise Christie star in the short track 500m heats, an Olympic best result for Amanda Lightfoot in the biathlon while five athletes make their Games debuts. Elise Christie qualifies for 500m quarter-finals, setting a new Olympic record in the process Amanda Lightfoot matches Emma Fowler’s
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher, who made history at Sochi 2014, has secured her place in the ParalympicsGB team for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games. Gallagher became the first British athlete to win a gold medal on snow in either Olympic or Paralympic competition when she topped the podium in the women’s super-G
Team GB snowboard athlete Katie Ormerod has been ruled out of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games following a severe fracture to her right heel bone. The 20-year-old from Brighouse was due to compete in snowboard slopestyle and snowboard big air and will undergo emergency surgery in the morning. Mike Hay, Team GB Chef de
Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will lead Team GB into tomorrow night’s Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games after being selected as Flagbearer today. Yarnold will lead Team GB athletes into the PyeongChang Olympic Stadium where the Opening Ceremony will officially mark the start of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games. Team GB’s 59
World class badminton returns to the BBC after Britain’s history making year on court. Badminton England has confirmed that the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships will return to the BBC in March. As part of the broadcaster’s recently announced commitment to show more sports across its digital platforms, the partnership will mean British sports
Charlie Follett, George Budden, Jamie Harper and Bradley Sutton to all make World Cup debuts Plymouth’s Myles Pillage also selected in young men’s team Joanna Muir, Jess Varley and Kerenza Bryson complete Pentathlon GB line-up Four Pentathlon GB athletes are set to make their World Cup debuts in Cairo later this month. The first World
Curling has come again to Canary Wharf during Ice Rink Canary Wharf’s fortnight of Corporate Challenges. Following on from the success of last year’s Curling Challenge, the stones are back at Ice Rink Canary Wharf for a week-long tournament, from 5-9 February. 32 teams of four will battle it out through the week, but only
Badminton England statement on UK Sport funding investments into Olympic and Paralympic Programmes Over £630,000 to be invested into world-level badminton athletes over the remainder of the Tokyo cycle through UK Sport’s new Medal Support Plan. An investment of £960,000 into GB Para-badminton ahead of the sport’s Paralympic debut in Tokyo. UK Sport acknowledge a
World Rowing and Filippi Boats are on their way to pick the 2017 Filippi Spirit Award winner with the announcement of the top five finalists Featuring three Africans, a Serbian and one from Great Britain, the finalists were narrowed down from more than 20 applicants from 12 nations, including Olympic rowers, national team members and
The British Olympic Association will take its largest ever delegation to an Olympic Winter Games next month after 59 athletes were officially selected to Team GB for PyeongChang 2018. The 56 who travelled to Sochi four years ago was the previous highest, having grown from 52 at Vancouver 2010. Lake Placid 1932 remains the Games
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