French Open champions Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid are among a talented squad of six wheelchair tennis players announced today as members of the ParalympicsGB squad that will compete at the rescheduled Paralympic Games in August. Hewett claimed his fifth Grand Slam crown when he retained his French Open title in a straight sets victory
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today named the four Modern Pentathletes who will compete at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Following what can only be described as an exceptional season for the British modern pentathlon team, Rio 2016 Olympians, Kate French, Joseph Choong and James Cooke will once again return to compete for
Team GB has named the four women and seven men that will compete in the boxing competition at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The team includes 2019 middleweight world champion, Lauren Price, and two men that competed at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, flyweight, Galal Yafai and welterweight, Pat McCormack. The trio all won
Nine University of Bath-based swimmers have today been officially selected by Team GB for this summer’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Double Rio 2016 medallist James Guy and former World Champion Ben Proud are joined in the 28-strong swimming squad by seven Olympic debutants – Freya Anderson, Kieran Bird, Jacob Peters, Matt Richards, Brodie Williams,
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
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
Sean Horan, New Zealand women’s silver medal-winning coach at Rio 2016, is set to lead another side at an Olympic Games after his new charges China used their recent HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series experience to overpower a largely youthful Hong Kong team and win the Asia Rugby qualification tournament on home soil in Guangzhou,
Reigning Olympic champion Liam Heath heads the list of five canoeing athletes named today by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for Tokyo 2020, as part of the celebrations marking the 55th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of Tokyo 1964. Heath will compete at his third Olympic Games in Tokyo next year having won sprint bronze
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