Rio 2016: History for Bolt as women’s hockey team & Skelton add to GB gold haul
Bolt, 29, has said the Rio Games will be his final Olympics as he plans to retire from the sport after the 2017 World Championships. He signs off having won all nine Olympic finals in which he has appeared. Bolt has claimed gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at Beijing 2008, London 2012 […]
Tokyo 2020: Britain’s leading lights in the sports returning for Tokyo
Not a new sport exactly, but baseball and softball return to the Olympic roster in 2020 after being cut from the 2012 and 2016 Games. Great Britain has little past history of Olympic baseball, but came second in the European Olympic qualifier for Beijing 2008, and now British Baseball believes the country can take the […]
Commonwealth Games 2014: Wales’ six-month countdown
Non Stanford, the current World Triathlon champion, which she won in her first senior season in 2013, is one of the clear favourites for the women’s race on 24 July. The 25-year-old is focused on her Commonwealth bid and training in Leeds with the Brownlee brothers – Olympic champion Alistair and his younger brother Jonny, […]
Catriona Matthew keen on role in Europe’s 2019 Solheim Cup team at Gleneagles
“Since I went on the LPGA we’ve had myself, Kathryn Imrie, Janice Moody and Mhairi McKay and since then we’ve not really had anyone progress on to the LPGA, which in women’s golf is the top tour to be on,” Matthew said. “We’ve got a few now on the European Tour and hopefully they can […]
Beth Mead: England forward ‘super proud’ to be back in England squad
Having played a crucial role in England’s Euro 2022 success, winning the Golden Boot and being named player of the tournament, Mead’s injury meant she missed out on the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, where England reached the final. She said there had been some “tough days” since she last pulled on the […]
Women’s British Open: Inbee Park wins seventh major at Turnberry
Sweden’s 2009 PGA Championship winner Anna Nordqvist birdied three of the last five holes to finish five under, along with Japanese player Mika Miyazato (73). Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen took advantage of the more beneficial morning conditions to card a seven-under 65, the joint best of the tournament with Kim Jyo-hoo’s first-round score, to finish […]
pivoting from work to people
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland Getty Images Recruitment crisis? Boris Johnson says the answer is to pay workers more. That’s unusual from a Tory MP, and risks fuelling inflation. There are more imaginative alternative ways of responding to the staff shortages which have put recruits in the driving seat. More pay may not […]
Jayne Ludlow: Wales manager wants fully professional women’s game
England boss Neville agreed with Ludlow, having gone out of his way to praise her side before a question was even asked at his post-match briefing. “First of all I want to say how good Wales have been over the campaign,” he said. “They took us to a place where this England team has never […]
Six things to know about the original play
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Matt Humphrey The play is being broadcast across cinemas in the UK next month Fleabag must have sounded like an odd prospect on paper when it was first performed in 2013. A monologue about an unnamed woman with a considerable sexual appetite who runs a guinea pig-themed cafe while mourning the […]
Don’t call me an ‘influencer’
BBC In just four years Jamie Genevieve has gone from department store make-up girl to social media sensation, amassing more than a million Instagram followers and 750,000 subscribers on YouTube. Jamie has a lipstick named after her and works closely with “about 15” of the world’s top beauty brands, jetting to locations including The Hamptons, […]