Image provided by (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) A number of athletes who have been in receipt of Sports Scholarships from the University have been competing in Paris in the last couple of weeks. Here we look at the success of just a few of our amazing athletes who have achieved at the highest level. Daniel Wiffen...
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Everything we know about LA 2028: No cars, zero-build and Team GB’s base 360 miles away
After Tom Cruise plunged into the Stade de France on Sunday, Paris officially handed over the Olympics to the Hollywood state of California. Here’s all you need to know about the next Games in Los Angeles 2028: Sports For the first time since 1900, cricket will be played at the Games in its T20 format....
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Olympics: British Olympic chiefs target men’s football side at LA 2028
British Olympic chiefs are hoping to enter a men’s football team into the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. The British Olympic Association (BOA) is planning to unite the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Football Associations in fielding a first Team GB men’s side since London 2012. The Team GB women’s squad are eligible for...
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Olympic boxing bronze medal cost Britain £12m as most expensive sports revealed
Great Britain’s sole medal in boxing at the Olympics cost over £12 million in funding from UK Sport, with cycling topping the list as the most expensive sport as well as being the most successful. Lewis Richardson was the only boxer out of the six competing at the Games to end up on the podium,...
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Team GB stars greeted by adoring fans on return home from Paris Olympics
Team GB’s returning Olympic stars were greeted by hoards of cheering supporters at St Pancras International as they arrived back in the UK after winning 65 medals in Paris. The athletes travelled home by Eurostar following Sunday’s closing ceremony in the French capital and were told their feats had inspired the next generation. Among those...
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Why Team GB failed to hit Olympics target and what could change for LA 2028
PARIS — Was the Paris Olympics a success for Team GB? That is the £250m question that every athlete, sports administrator, coach and physio will play some part in answering over the next weeks and months. It will start with the medals table, the only really objective measure of these things, but even that comes...
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Paris Olympics: Team GB athletes return home from 2024 Games
Also among the athletes to return home was gymnast Bryony Page, who won trampoline gold to secure a complete set of medals after silver in Rio in 2016 and bronze in Tokyo in 2021. The 33-year-old was a Team GB flagbearer for the closing ceremony alongside triathlete Alex Yee. “It hasn’t sunk in,” Page told...
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Who are Team GB’s most successful Olympians of all time?
With the Paris 2024 Olympics now over, Team GB has finished the games with a total of 65 medals – beating their total from Tokyo 2020 by one. It was the same number of medals won by Great Britain at London 2012 and the second-best ever tally on foreign soil, with only the United States...
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Tom Daley retiring: British diver on ‘the end of an era’
Daley had been one of the two British flagbearers for the opening ceremony and his husband and children were among a large contingent of family and friends at the Paris Aquatics Centre to give the British pair loud support. “It’s just so special,” Daley said after they finished second behind China’s Lian Junjie and Yang...
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Team GB solidifies position as ‘sporting superpower’ – but how do they convert silvers into more golds?
Team GB have solidified their position as a “sporting superpower”. Coming away from Paris with 65 medals, this is the fourth consecutive games they have hit the 60 threshold. It shows that investment is “producing the goods”, with the UK spending more than £350m on Olympic and Paralympic sport, much from the National Lottery. In...
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Team GB’s Olympic stars of the future eyeing medal success at LA 2028
Attentions are already turning towards the next Olympics in Los Angeles after a thrilling finale to a memorable Games in Paris. However, a comparative shortage of golds meant that Great Britain could only place seventh in the final medal table – their lowest finish since 2004 in Athens. GB will be targeting a return of...
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Who Will Win BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2024?
Article By Warren Barner Experience Warren is an experienced sports and betting journalist who has written for Ladbrokes, The Independent, BetStars, sportinglife.com and FOXSoccer amongst others during spells with the Press Association/PA Media Group and Sky Sports. He writes mainly on football, golf, tennis and light entertainment. Read Full Bio Url copied! Last Updated: Aug...