British tennis great Andy Murray has confirmed the Paris Olympic Games will be his final tournament. ABC Sport will be live blogging every day of the Paris Olympics from July 27 The 37-year-old former world number one made the announcement on X, saying he was “extremely proud” to represent Great Britain for one last time....
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Andy Murray confirms he will retire from tennis after Paris Olympics
Andy Murray has confirmed he will retire after the Olympics, saying Paris 2024 will be his “last ever tennis tournament”. It had been widely expected that the 37-year-old Scot would call time on his career after the Games as he looked to go out at the top. Murray was recently robbed of a Wimbledon farewell...
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Olympic athletics: Stars, rivalries and key events to watch at Paris 2024 Games
Katarina Johnson-Thompson declared her second heptathlon world title win in Budapest last summer as “the best day of my life”, after completing a remarkable turnaround in her career. Following her 2019 triumph the Briton, 31, overcame a career-threatening Achilles rupture before suffering injury heartbreak at the Tokyo Olympics – and now seeks redemption in the...
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Special Olympics GB team descend on Aberdeen for training weekend at Sport Aberdeen venues
10 athletes from Special Olympics Great Britain (GB) descended on Aberdeen as part of a training weekend in advance of the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Eight athletes came along to Adventure Aberdeen Snowsports Centre on Saturday 13 July to practice skiing and two athletes practiced ice skating at Linx Ice...
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Paris 2024: The Chelsea trialist leading Great Britain’s Olympic hockey hopes
Ames recovered from that early sporting setback to go on to enjoy a fulfilling club and international career, initially representing Ireland and then switching his allegiance to GB. “I decided that hockey was the route I wanted to go down, based on a number of mates from my old club and school as well, who...
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Nielsen’s Gracenote Expects USA, China, Great Britain, France and Australia to Lead 2024 Paris Olympic Games Medal Table
Just days ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, Nielsen’s Gracenote releases its final Virtual Medal Table (VMT) forecast for the 2024 Games. Considering available results data from key global and continental competitions since the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, Gracenote has projected gold, silver and bronze medal counts for participating countries and...
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Ottawa’s Lucas Farabaugh plays well for Team Great Britain at WBSC European Championships
Ottawa High School junior Lucas Farabaugh recently played for Team Great Britian at the 18U World Baseball Softball Confederation European Championships at Armin Wolf Stadium in Regensburg, Germany. Farabaugh was the primary catcher for Great Britain in the tournament and batted 1 for 6 while drawing four walks. He helped Great Britain to a fourth-place...
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Man City consider £68m move for Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze – Paper Talk
The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… DAILY MIRROR Manchester City are considering a move for £68m Crystal Palace playmaker Eberechi Eze. Real Sociedad are resigned to losing Arsenal target Mikel Merino this summer after failing to tie the 28-year-old midfielder down to a new contract. Trent Alexander-Arnold has revealed that Gary Lineker’s...
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Wrestling and fencing among sports in Paris with no British athletes competing
Record medal hauls may be mooted for Team GB when the Paris Olympics get underway in the French capital on Friday, but there are some Games venues at which the Union flag will be conspicuous by its absence. The tentacles of sustained podium success, spread liberally by almost £250million of UK Sport funding for the...
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Inside the Olympic medal factories: how Team GB are shaping up in key sports
Athletics Star name: Keely Hodgkinson, women’s 800m For all the financial strife at UK Athletics, which lost £3.7m last year, its high-profile stars and strong relay squads should ensure that it hits its target of six to eight medals in Paris. There appears to be three medal bankers. The most certain? Keely Hodgkinson, who smashed...
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Olympics 2024 live: Latest Team GB news and ceremony tickets still unsold
Tom Daley reveals real reason behind Olympic Games comeback for Paris 2024 Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news The Olympics begins with the opening ceremony on Friday night – then the...
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Olympics 2024: Meet the 34 Scots in Team GB for Paris
Neil Gourley Age: 29 Event: 1500m. A calf injury ended Gourley’s hopes of going to Tokyo and he also missed this year’s World Indoor Championships in his home city of Glasgow through injury. However, he recovered to claim his Paris place with a 1500m win at the trials. Having gathered his first major medal last...