This week Covid-19 has brought disturbing news on several fronts to the world of women’s sport. It took on a sharp form at the Madrid 7s at the weekend. When the French squad announced a positive Covid test and withdrew, the USA squad decided to withdraw as well. When the tests proved negative, it was
The British Olympic Association (BOA) will this year mark 125 years of British athletes attending Olympic Games. As well as the re-arranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July and August, throughout 2021 the BOA will be honouring its athletes from the inaugural Games at Athens 1896 and re-telling the stories of some of the country’s
Today marks one year to go until the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games following the historic decision to postpone the event until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Team GB has reaffirmed its support for its friends and partners in Japan with the latest iteration of its ‘This is What Makes Us’ marketing campaign, which
To mark the one-year countdown to the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the British Sailing Team has released a collection of iconic posters celebrating its selected sailors. The set of ten posters feature all 15 athletes picked to represent Team GB at Tokyo 2020, including defending gold medallists Giles Scott and Hannah Mills. Each image
The Tokyo Olympic Games may still be a year away, rather than one day, but the focus and motivation remains strong for elite athletes based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV). The Coronavrius-prompted decision to postpone the Games – which had been due to start tomorrow (Friday) – until July 23, 2021, was
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organising committee and the International Olympic Committee have announced the revised competition schedule for the Tokyo Olympic Games which were postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the Opening Ceremony now set for 23 July 2021. In a reverse from the previous edition in Rio, the men’s
Sport climber Shauna Coxsey is the latest athlete to be reconfirmed as selected for Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, following its postponement. Coxsey personally earned a ‘named athlete’ quota place for Tokyo 2020 and retains her place for the Olympic Games, where her sport will debut. Named athlete quota places are those
The Tokyo Olympics have at last been postponed. It took a while for the IOC and the Japanese Olympic Committee to decide which of them would make the call, but now we know. What we don’t know is precisely when they will be staged in 2021. The most likely call will be exactly twelve months
Scott Forrest, the Team GB Sevens Coach, has announced a preliminary training squad of 24 to compete for the 13 places available in the GB Olympic squad for Tokyo: Holly Aitchison (England) Keira Bevan (Wales) Abbie Brown (England) Abi Burton (England) Heather Fisher (England) Deborah Fleming (England) Megan Gaffney (Scotland) Sydney Gregson (England) Hannah Jones
Shauna Coxsey has become the first sport climber selected to represent Team GB at the Olympic Games. Coxsey, a two-time overall World Cup winner in her favoured bouldering discipline, will be part of climbing’s Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer. The 27-year-old from Runcorn is the country’s most successful ever athlete in
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