Karen Bardsley has withdrawn from the Team GB women’s football squad with an injury. Bardsley had been named as one of two goalkeepers in Hege Riise’s 18-player squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. A decision on her replacement will be announced in due course, with the competition running from 21 July to 6 August
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has written to the President of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic Games to provide assurance that the athletes and staff of Team GB are “doing everything possible to minimise any risk to the people of Japan” ahead of the Olympic Games. In a letter to President Hashimoto, the
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has confirmed the selection of 18 football players who will represent Team GB at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This is only the second time that Team GB have entered a women’s football team since the introduction of the sport to the Olympic programme in 1996. Olympic Champion Hege Riise
ParalympicsGB has today announced three athletes who will represent Great Britain in Para taekwondo at this summer’s rescheduled Paralympic Games. Two-time world champion and world number one Amy Truesdale, reigning world champion Matt Bush and Beth Munro – who only began training full-time in the sport in 2019 – will all make their Paralympic debuts
Today, adidas revealed the new kit that will be worn by Team GB athletes at the Games taking place in Tokyo this summer. Following a year of uncertainty, unprecedented challenges and unique circumstances, Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes will rise together in a kit that represents unity in diversity. The kit design features a contemporary
Joining the four pre-selected swimmers, Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, James Wilby and Luke Greenbank, who were named back in January, the current team size now stands at 28. Former World Champion Ben Proud added his name to the list thanks to posting a trials winning time that would have won silver at the 2019 World
ParalympicsGB has today announced four archers who have been selected to represent Great Britain at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games this summer. Paralympic gold medallists Jess Stretton and John Stubbs are joined by Nathan Macqueen and Hazel Chaisty, who makes her Paralympic debut in Tokyo. The four athletes represent the second sport to be
There are exactly 100 days to go until the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games finally begin and triathlete Vicky Holland believes she is on the right track after a very different but productive winter of training in Bath. The Rio 2016 bronze-medallist, who has already been named in the Team GB squad for this summer’s Games,
The British Olympic Association has confirmed the first seven members of the athletics squad who have been selected to Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Chris Thompson, 39, and Stephanie Davis, 30, secured their spots in Tokyo after victories at the British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial at Kew Gardens last week.
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
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