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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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Two wins from two for GB women’s hockey

Great Britain beat India 3-0 in second Olympic match Goals from Giselle Ansley, Nicola White and Alex Danson secure the three points Danny Kerry’s side now with two wins from two matches Great Britain’s next match is Wednesday at 17:30 vs. Argentina, live on BBC Sport Great Britain made it two wins from two in

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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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Rio 2016 – Women’s Football

Although the official Opening Ceremony hasn’t taken place yet, the Women’s football kicked off on Wednesday and hosts Brazil gave the home crowd a lot to cheer about with their 3-0 win over China. Canada got their Olympic campaign off to a great start with a convincing win over Australia. They also made Olympic history

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2016 Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta

With 11 days to go until the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Rowing Regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the World Rowing Federation, FISA, brings you the athlete entries by name as they were submitted at the entry deadline of 18 July 2016. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, there will be 69 nations competing at

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BOC announces GB hockey squads for Rio 2016

The British Olympic Association has today named the men’s and women’s hockey squads who will compete for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Eight of the women’s team who won bronze at London 2012 return with Hannah MacLeod, Georgie Twigg, Laura Unsworth and Nicola White all included while Crista Cullen, Helen and Kate

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Rugby celebrates Olympic Day

The global rugby family has joined the international sporting community in celebrating #OlympicDay as excitement builds ahead of rugby sevens’ Olympic Games debut at Rio 2016. With 43 days to go until the Games, preparations are on track for very special and successful rugby sevens events and World Rugby has been leading the #OlympicDay celebrations

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Four more University of Bath athletes selected for Rio 2016

Pentathlon GB’s Joe Choong, Jamie Cooke, Kate French and Samantha Murray today became the latest University of Bath-based athletes to be selected to represent Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The quartet were officially confirmed as being Britain’s modern pentathlon representatives during a team announcement at Hyde Park Barracks in London on Wednesday.

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