EuroHockey Championships 2017: Success ‘can transform’ Wales hockey
The Wales men will join the likes of Germany, England and the Netherlands in the EuroHockey A Division in 2019. But before that both the men and women’s teams hope to qualify for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Clements says he hopes competing at these big tournaments will help earn more Welsh players call-ups for Great […]
European Team Table Tennis: England miss out on promotion
England’s women and men have both missed out on promotion at the European Table Tennis Team Championships in Lisbon. The women were edged out 3-2 by Greece in their divisional quarter-final. But they recovered to beat Bulgaria 3-1, and then Slovenia by the same score, to finish 21st overall. The men lost 3-1 to Belgium […]
Wales waits to catch Olympic fever
However, the spectre of Luis Suarez and Diego Forlan playing at the Millennium Stadium for Uruguay could change matters. Neymar, David Luiz and Ronaldinho have all been named in the provisional Brazil squad and were they to turn up on 26 July that would surely be enough to put bums on seats. Javier Hernandez is […]
Dame Kelly Holmes wants female athletes to inspire teenagers
For the first time, Great Britain was represented in women’s football, synchronised swimming (team) and handball. Holmes, who won gold in the 800m and 1,500m at Athens in 2004, believes these athletes must seize the momentum generated by the Games and follow through on London’s aim to “inspire a generation”., external “They’re pretty, they’re fit […]
Olympic and Paralympic sports fear ‘cliff edge’ moment
“You simply can’t do that in team sports because you have so many individuals and you have to build them together.” As it stands, of British Volleyball’s three disciplines, only women’s beach volleyball will be financed through to 2016, with the indoor and sitting programmes to receive nothing. Paralympic sports as a whole fared well […]
London 2012: Olympic sport this week
HOCKEY – FIH Champions Trophy, external, Argentina (28 Jan – 5 Feb); the last ranking event before the Olympics features eight nations, including Great Britain. The GB women are in Group A with China, Japan and the Netherlands. Live coverage of GB’s opening match against Japan on the BBC’s red button at 1800GMT on Saturday. […]
London 2012: Kelly Smith on her battle to make the Games
But after more than a decade at the top of the game that has also seen her battle injuries and alcoholism, Smith is facing another fight to be fit for a home Olympic Games. It would be a fitting climax to the career of a standard-bearer for women’s football in the UK, but the player […]
Shanaze Reade says Worlds are harder to win than Olympics
The meeting over four days, 24-27 May, includes a two-person Great Britain women’s elite team in the shape of Reade and Sheffield’s Abbie Taylor. Four British men – Liam Phillips, Grant Hill, Curtis Manaton and Tre Whyte – complete the line-up. For many, the event at the National Indoor Arena, external provides the final major […]
Civic honours for Beth Mead and Zoe Aldcroft
Getty Images Beth Mead, who grew up near Whitby, was first suggested for the award last year Footballer Beth Mead and Rugby Union player Zoe Aldcroft are to be made honorary Freemen of the Borough of Scarborough. The award will be confirmed by Scarborough Borough councillors at a special meeting on 20 March. England and […]
Leah Williamson: The England captain with impostor syndrome
Williamson says conversations on how to approach social media during the Euros – “posting, not scrolling” and “absolutely” avoiding the comments – have taken place in the Lionesses camp. “At the 2019 World Cup, I didn’t play, so I was fine,” she explains. “I was on every [social media platform], I didn’t care.” Williamson says […]