Great Britain ended an 84-year wait for a four-man bobsleigh world championship medal after Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett claimed silver in St Moritz, Switzerland. The British sled finished with a combined time of 4min 20.3sec to go level with the Latvian pilot Emils Cipulis’s team, […]
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Prince William and Kate have met Raheem Sterling and Jamaica’s bobsleigh stars in the island’s historic Trench Town, the birthplace of reggae music, as they continue their Caribbean tour despite anti-royalty protests. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Jamaica earlier today ahead of a two-day tour of the […]
Great Britain’s Winter Olympics nightmare continued on Tuesday as their two-man bobsleigh team of Brad Hall and Nick Gleeson crashed on their penultimate run. The duo’s sled overturned on the exit of the 13th curve and they crossed the finish line with their helmets dragging along the ice. The Britons […]
‘It’ll be fire on ice!’ Echoes of Cool Runnings as Jamaica’s bobsleigh team qualify for the Olympics for the first time in 24 years Jamaica will compete in three different bobsleigh events at the Winter Olympics Country is represented in four-man, two-man and women’s monobob in Beijing This will be […]
Corie Mapp is Britain’s first Para Bobsleigh European Champion (Image: Corie Mapp/Girts Chris) As he hurtled like a cannonball down the track at more than 80mph this week, Corie Mapp expertly guided his bobsleigh through the frictionless chute. It’s a white-knuckle ride that’s over in a minute. “It’s like reading […]
Telling hard truths about British sport in the post London 2012 era, during which British Cycling was feted as a model organisation and athletes hailed as superheroes, became “a very dangerous thing to do”, according to David Pond, the highly regarded chief executive of GB Wheelchair Rugby. Pond, an influential […]
MPs have accused the Football Association of being ‘too embarrassed’ to admit how little it spends on research into brain injuries among players during a bruising encounter in Parliament. The politicians became exasperated during an investigation into the link between sport and dementia, which led one member to rebuke the […]
Premier League winner Chris Sutton has told MPs that the authorities have stood by while players have died as a result of dementia they developed through playing professional football. The former Blackburn Rovers, Celtic and Norwich City striker pulled no punches when he met politicians, who are gathering evidence on […]