Wheelchair basketball: Great Britain women target Euro final
Great Britain women’s wheelchair basketball team feel they are ready to make their first major final at the European Championships in Tenerife. They have won nine European bronze medals but have never played in a world, Paralympic or European final. Co-captain Sophie Carrigill said: “It’s definitely about time we changed that.” The GB men will […]
Winter Olympics: USA and Canada both knocked out of men’s ice hockey quarter-finals
USA and Canada were both knocked out of the men’s ice hockey on day 12 of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Both are without their big-name players from the National Hockey League (NHL) but remained among the favourites. The US conceded a last-minute equaliser and then lost a shootout in a shock quarter-final defeat by […]
Boxer Chantelle Cameron to get Freedom of Northampton after Dublin defeat
PA Media Chantelle Cameron (left) lost to Katie Taylor on points in Dublin on Saturday night Boxer Chantelle Cameron will be given the Freedom of Northampton at a civic ceremony in December. Cameron was narrowly defeated by Irish star Katie Taylor in Dublin on Saturday night, losing her undisputed light-welterweight world champion status. However, Cameron […]
Hannah Mills hopes London 2012 success inspires British women
Hannah Mills, Britain’s 470 Olympic silver medallist, hopes her success alongside Saskia Clark in London will inspire more women to stay in sport. Women won eleven of Great Britain’s 29 gold medals, their best-ever haul. “I definitely think Team GB women doing so well was a huge boost especially for the young girls,” said Mills. […]
Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre: Olympic champions win World Sailors of the Year award
Tokyo 2020 women’s 470 champions Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre have been voted World Sailors of the Year. Mills became the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time with two golds and a silver to her name. McIntyre equalled the success of her father Mike, who took the top spot in the Star class […]
British Rowing looks into claims of bullying by senior coach
Taylor was selected in the original squad for the London 2012 Olympics but was left out of GB’s women’s eight and retired after the Games. The team, coached by Thompson, won three gold medals. Thompson, who joined British Rowing in 2001, was awarded an MBE following the team’s success at the London Games and will […]
UCI can do more for Para-cycling – Jody Cundy
Cycling’s governing body, the UCI, is still not making the most of Para-cycling, says Britain’s Jody Cundy. Cundy is part of the Great Britain team at the Track World Championships which start in the Netherlands on Thursday. The 36-year-old will be bidding for his seventh kilo title after setting a new sea-level best in January […]
Sochi Paralympics: GB keen to build on Games ‘breakthrough’
Concerns were raised late last year about the poor ticket sales, but by the end of the Sochi Paralympics in excess of 300,000 had been sold – 80,000 more than at the previous Games in Vancouver, Canada. The Sochi Paralympics also set a television first with US network NBC broadcasting the first ever Paralympic event […]
Three golds for GB paratriathlon team at European Championships
Great Britain’s paratriathlon team won three gold medals at the European Championships in Kitzbuhel. Lauren Steadman won the PT4 category (arm impairments), Chris Goodwin triumphed in the PT5 category (visually impaired) and Karen Darke was first in the PT1 category (wheelchair users). British athletes won 12 medals overall at the event. Steadman finished ahead of […]
Sochi Paralympics: Fourth medal for Etherington and Powell
“Jade coped really well with the terrain and it was a good run. Three seconds is a lot to make up. I never expected us to be that close at the end.” Etherington and Powell had earlier won silvers in the downhill and slalom, plus a bronze in the super-G. Now they have overtaken Denise […]