We proved all the doubters wrong, says British Olympic Association chief Sir Hugh Robertson after Team GB matched their London 2012 haul with a huge 65 medals at Tokyo 2020… and now it’s all eyes on Paris! We proved all the doubters wrong, insists BOA chairman Sir Hugh Robertson Great Britain […]
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FILE PHOTO: Football – 2018 & 2022 FIFA World Cup Host Announcement – Messezentrum, Zurich, Switzerland – 2/12/10 CEO of England 2018 Andy Anson outside FIFA HQ ahead of the 2018 & 2022 FIFA World Cup Host Announcement Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Matthew Childs (Reuters) – British athletes competing […]
China has threatened sanctions against Britain and any other countries who boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over the alleged ‘genocide’ of Uighur Muslims. British MPs including Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey have called for a Team GB boycott over Beijing’s alleged ‘ethnic cleansing’ against Uighurs who have been […]
Sir Mo Farah believes the Olympic Games will go ahead this summer and says athletes have been told they will receive vaccinations against Covid-19. Farah, who has won 5,000 and 10,000 metres gold at each of the last two Games in London and Rio, has previously said he is targeting […]
Team GB’s chef de mission for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics has shot down suggestions the Games could be derailed again by Covid-19 – telling the Guardian that “we are full steam ahead” and predicting they will be staged in front of packed stadiums. A dramatic rise in coronavirus cases has […]
The International Olympic Committee is working on ways to get athletes the coronavirus jab in the second or third wave so that the Tokyo Games can go ahead safely in July, the Guardian has been told. While insisting that we “do not want to queue jump”, IOC sources are hoping […]
One has to wonder how much longer Manchester United can fail to act before Mauricio Pochettino takes a job elsewhere. The Old Trafford board persist with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who is yet to convince many he is the man to return United to the top. Next month marks the second […]
Reflecting on the past few months as CEO of English rugby, Bill Sweeney reels off a gloomy sequence of events. From the Saracens salary cap breaches, to the Myners report, to Championship funding cuts, to lockdown, to a multi-million-pound backlog of fixtures. The list goes on. ‘It’s been full-on,’ he […]