London 2012: Nicole Cooke ‘knows what it takes to win’
Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke is in the UK for Sunday’s Olympic road race with team orders likely to hinder her chances of another gold medal. Cooke won the first of GB’s gold medals at Beijing in 2008, external, but since then Lizzie Armitstead has taken over as team leader. That means Cooke could have to […]
London 2012: Rebecca Adlington tells Team GB to seize the moment
More than 10,000 athletes from 204 nations will compete for a total of 302 gold medals in London, which also hosted the Games in 1908 and 1948. More women are taking part than ever before. Adlington added that the home crowd could have a key role to play as Britain seek to better their fourth-place […]
London 2012: Day-by-day guide to the highlights
Despite his recent travails, this is the one many people around the globe will be waiting for: Usain Bolt in the men’s 100m final. Never mind the dip in form which saw training partner Yohan Blake beat him in the run-up to the Games, or the perilous possibility of his false-starting just as he did […]
London 2012: Team GB football team eye historic opener
The match against the Football Ferns will be Team GB’s first in the Olympic women’s competition and Powell is aware there will be intense media interest in the fixture. “It is the first event, which is fantastic for us – I hope it will be a real positive,” added Powell, who is also coach of […]
Olympics volleyball: Brazil women beat United States to retain gold
Earlier, Japan beat South Korea 25-22 26-24 25-21 to claim the bronze. The USA came into the match at the Wembley Arena unbeaten in 21 matches in the calendar year, as the number one ranked team in the world, and with the loss of just two sets at the Games. Their billing as pre-event favourites […]
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2012
Voting for this award closed at 18:00 GMT on Saturday, 8 December 2012. The winner of BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2012 will be announced on Monday after a public vote between 10 of the country’s highest-achieving sportsmen and women. The award takes place at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 10 […]
Lia Thomas: Transgender athletes ‘not a threat’ to women’s sport
The heart of the debate on whether transgender women athletes should compete in women’s sport involves the complex balance of inclusion, sporting fairness and safety – essentially, whether trans women can compete in female categories without giving them an unfair advantage or presenting a threat of injury to competitors. Trans women have to adhere to […]
Nicol David hopes to dominate squash until 2020 Olympics
“But from the first world title up until now, every year the level has been so different. The players are so much closer and the depth is so much stronger, and there’s a lot of sports science involved now.” David calls Amsterdam a “second home” after 10 years there and generally only makes it back […]
Frozen eggs: US tech giants’ perk to attract female talent
The news that Facebook helps its US female employees pay for the cost of freezing their eggs, while Apple is planning to introduce the policy in January, has drawn a mixed response. The companies say they want to empower woman and see it as a way to recruit and retain top female talent to a […]
PV Sindhu: How India’s Olympic badminton star became a sponsors’ dream on £126,000 a week
After her return from Rio, she received cash prizes from the different state governments and government institutions worth Rs 13 crore (130m rupees – about £1.4m), while, as a comparison, gold medallist Marin received Rs 70 lakh (7m rupees – about £77,500) from the Spanish government for her achievement. Sindhu was also awarded land from […]