Judo star Skelley channelling rugby’s Wilkinson for Paris 2024 success April 29, 2024 A Paralympic champion whose rugby career was curtailed by sight loss is channelling Jonny Wilkinson on his journey to Paris 2024. Chris Skelley, a visually impaired judo player, dreams of emulating the England rugby legend in his bid to climb further into the sporting history books. Skelley was thrown into rugby and judo by his [...]
Marathon man Mahamed ready to make sacrifices ahead of Paris 2024 April 28, 2024 If you were devising the perfect preparation to run a marathon, fasting during the day and training through the middle of the night would not come into the equation. Last Sunday, however, Mahamed Mahamed proved that even the most unusual training can work as he booked his place at Paris 2024 by finishing fourth at [...]
Weightlifter Campbell: Money doesn’t motivate me but I am ready to cash in April 26, 2024 Emily Campbell says money does not motivate her, but she is ready to cash in at Paris 2024. Campbell, the first British woman to win a weightlifting Olympic medal when she claimed silver in Tokyo, was speaking after World Athletics announced they would be giving gold medallists at this summer’s Olympics $50,000 each. It is [...]
Ed Warner: How do we value sport and the draw of much needed money April 25, 2024 After World Athletics announced it would be paying its Olympic gold medallists, a fresh debate has opened up around money for our athletes and the draw of cash in sport for bodies. Ed Warner writes. The British Olympic Association seats its gold medallists in the front of the plane carrying its team home from a [...]
Ed Warner: Seb Coe has given Olympic chief Thomas Bach a $100m headache April 18, 2024 Our sport business columnist on Seb Coe's challenge to Thomas Bach.
Paris 2024: Olympic Games will achieve gender equality but choppy waters ahead April 17, 2024 If Kenyan long-distance runner Peres Jepchirchir defends her Olympic title this year in Paris, she’s in for one almighty different reception at her medal ceremony compared to the Covid-hit Tokyo Games of 2021. Because for the first time ever the tradition of handing the men’s marathon winner his gold medal at the closing ceremony will [...]
Majority of top athletes back ban on trans athletes in female categories April 17, 2024 A majority of female athletes have backed sport categorisation based on biological sex rather than gender identity in a survey on transgender inclusion. The survey of 175 top level athletes saw a majority support the move in contact and endurance sport. Over 75 per cent of those who were classed as world-class athletes backed biological [...]
Olympic chiefs urged to extend prize money to all medallists by Team GB star Richards April 16, 2024 Athletics chiefs will pay their Olympic champions £40,000 each this year.
Plans in place for Paris Olympics opening ceremony amid terror concerns April 15, 2024 There are multiple plans in place for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games should the security risk be too high to host the curtain raiser on the Seine, according to the French president Emmanuel Macron. Europe, especially Champions League football, has been at the heart of security threats recently. Terror group ISIS said they’d [...]
Olympic champions to receive prize money for first time at Paris 2024 Games April 10, 2024 Athletics is the first sport to financially reward its stars for success at the Olympics.