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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...

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...

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...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Dame Sarah Storey to compete in her record ninth Paralympics Dame Sarah Storey will become the first British athlete to compete at nine Paralympic Games after being named in a 17-strong cycling team for Paris 2024. The 46-year-old surpassed former swimmer...

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 Keely Hodgkinson really should have won her first world 800m title last summer. That’s what the numbers said, and athletics is nothing if not a...

Wales will have the most athletes at an Olympic Games in more than a century after a record 31 were included in Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics. It will be the largest contingent of Welsh athletes to go to an overseas Games. Only once have there been more – 32 in London in...

Great Britain’s triathletes will pursue Olympic gold in Paris with the help of a new weapon: cutting edge trisuits designed to make them go faster on the water or a bike. The new kit, which uses different materials and covers more of the body than conventional trisuits, was tested secretly in competition by Team GB’s...

Great Britain women’s basketball match against Germany on Sunday was abandoned after a medical incident in the crowd. The exhibition match at the Copper Box Arena in London was called off after the third period when a fan alerted the Germany bench to the emergency. Medics moved into the stands to assist and raised sheets...

Dujardin still has big ambitions and goals, but is adamant the atmosphere should be positive for Isabella – who will be in Paris. “For me it’s showing her that actually most important for me is to enjoy it. I don’t want it to be a stressful event,” she said. “It’s really about making her proud....

After a short break following a thrilling British Grand Prix, Formula One returns with the 13th race of the season as the Hungarian Grand Prix from the Hungaroring in Mogyorod marks the beginning of the second half of the 2024 campaign. Lights out at the Hungaroring is in just a few hours’ time, as defending...

The 13th race of the 2024 Formula One season will be upon us in just a few hours’ time, and after a week off, the European summer of races continues at pace, heading east from Great Britain to the Hungaroring for the 40th edition of the Hungarian Grand Prix. We’re beyond the halfway point now,...