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Giles Scott is back ploughing a lone furrow on the water but he insists he has missed the Finn as he gets going at the fifth and final ...
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Adam Gemili admits it makes sense for him to move to Loughborough and train alongside fellow World Championship finalist James Dasaolu....
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Rebekah Wilson will partner British driver Paula Walker for the forthcoming World Cup bobsleigh season.
Wilson, a world junior champion...
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British freeski team manager Pat Sharples claims the 2014 Winter Olympics will be a better event with the ‘show-offs’ his sport has to ...
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On the 5th October 2013 in Porec, Croatia, the election for the EOC Athlete Commission took place for the fourth time since the creatio...
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Sochi has so far not been the kindest place to Amanda Lightfoot, but the British biathlete insists she is hellbent on changing all that...
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Two-time Olympic sailing duo Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes will not bid for a 49er medal together at Rio 2016 after calling time on th...
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2 days ago
Alison Young's medal hopes were undone by an untimely illness at the laser radial World Championships in China.
European bronze medalli...
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A highly accomplished sports business executive with more than 25 years experience developing some of the most recognised and successfu...
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With the team competition coming to a close, it will be the turn of the individual events this week at the European Table Tennis Champi...
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2 days ago
Kristian Thomas insisted he learned the lessons from his Olympic experience after clinching vault bronze at the gymnastics World Champi...
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3 days ago
Kirsty Gilmour insists she is prepared to go that extra mile after failing to secure the women’s singles title at the badminton London ...
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3 days ago
Kristian Thomas was left pinching himself in amazement after he claimed Great Britain’s first-ever World Championships vault medal as h...
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Jon Eley insists the only way is up after Great Britain’s men claimed 5000m relay bronze at the Seoul World Cup.
Eley was joined by Pau...
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Chris Langridge and Heather Olver surged past the top seeds at the Copper Box Arena to book their spot in the mixed doubles final at ba...
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4 days ago
Kirsty Gilmour is just one win away from claiming her second title in a week after the Brit stormed into the women’s singles final at t...
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4 days ago
Having just missed out on an all-around medal Max Whitlock admitted it was a relief to not leave the World Championships empty handed a...
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4 days ago
Archery GB performance manager Barry Eley insists Great Britain’s compound women can hold their heads up high despite narrowly missing ...
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5 days ago
Rajiv Ouseph is anticipating his toughest test yet at the London Grand Prix as he faces promising Chinese player Houwei Tian in the men...
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Ruby Harrold and Rebecca Tunney insisted there were lessons to learn from their debut in a gymnastics World Championship final.
The two...
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Britain are one win away from a medal at the World Archery Championships in Turkey as the women’s compound team face France in the bron...
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Adam Rosen's Olympic record has a pleasing symmetry for someone obsessed with aeronautical design - two Olympic luge appearances, two 1...
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Britain’s women’s short track speed skating relay team demonstrated why they shouldn’t be written off ahead of the Olympic qualifiers a...
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5 days ago
Gillian Cooke doesn't not have fond memories of her Olympic debut in Vancouver - but that just makes her more determined for Sochi.
Coo...
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Kirsty Gilmour admits she couldn’t be happier with her performances at the London Grand Prix as she enters the quarter-final stage of b...
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6 days ago
Max Whitlock narrowly missed out on a medal in a high-quality all-around final at the gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp.
The do...
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6 days ago
Rajiv Ouseph hailed a triumph for experience over youth as his bid to reach at least the men’s singles semi-finals at the London Grand ...
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6 days ago
With just 127 days to go until the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games the International Skating Union (ISU) has confirmed a further two at...
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6 days ago
British trio Naomi Folkard, Amy Oliver and Becky Martin couldn’t continue their fine form at the World Archery Championships as all hop...
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6 days ago
Liam Pitchford wants this week’s European Table Tennis Championships to be his best ever as he bids to edge ever closer to the world’s ...
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VIDEO: GB Snowboarders @zoegillings & @jamienichollsuk go head to head in the gym. Let the race commence #RoadToSochi http://t.co/q0PbETmUrz
15 hours ago
2011 world champion @GilesScott has returned to the Finn in La Rochelle. Read about his hopes and fears here: http://t.co/PNpqq7SEBo
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Alpine skiing involves all skiing events which occur on a downhill course and do not involve ramps or bumps.
The Olympic alpine competition consists of ten event...
Imagine sprinting up 25 flights of stairs and, once at the top, trying to thread a needle five times in a row without once missing the hole. Imagine doing that over and ...
Bobsleigh consists of three events in the Olympic programme; the male four-man and two-man and female two-man. Each event consists of four heats, held on two consecutive...
The cross country skiing discipline involves racing over undulating terrain along a series of prepared tracks. Skiers set off at intervals and race against the...
Curling is a sport where players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding eight stones across the ic...
There are five Olympic figure skating events: ladies singles, mens singles, pairs, ice dancing and the newly introduced event for the 2014 Olympics – the Team Even...
Freestyle skiing consists of aerials and moguls plus the ‘new school’ events of ski cross, half pipe and slopestyle. All are dynamic and spectacular to watch...
At the Olympic Winter Games, women compete in an eight-team tournament whereas men compete in a 12-team tournament.
Each country may have one men’s and one...
A competition based on a sled that takes place on the same run as the Bobsleigh and Skeleton.
The competitor sits on the sled and rocks forward and back on fixed...
In Nordic Combined the athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
Until the 1950s, the cross-country race was held first, followed by th...
The juxtaposition of speed and potential spills makes this one of the most thrilling of all Olympic Winter sports. It is one of the few events where competitors race dir...
Taking place on the same artificially refrigerated ice tracks, skeleton is one of the three sliding sports along with Bobsleigh and Luge.
The athlete pushe...
An incredibly technical and graceful discipline, in which competitors seem to defy gravity as they hang in the air over the hill. Amazing skill is required to fly 80 met...
Snowboarding competition consists of downhill racing and freestyle snowboarding – snowboard cross, halfpipe and slopestyle. Snowboarders are often seen as the surf...
Speed skating consists of 12 events, which along with cross-country is the most number of events per sport at the Games.
All events are skated once, with the exc...
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