Britain to boycott boxing championships over decision to allow Russia athletes to compete under flag February 14, 2023 Great Britain will snub the women’s boxing world championships in India over the decision to allow Russian athletes to compete under their flag. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had advised all governing bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing under their own flags but the International Boxing Association (IBA) has gone against such [...]
British skateboarder Sky Brown, 14, wins world championship gold February 12, 2023 Teenage skateboarder Sky Brown won gold at the World Championships yesterday, with fellow Briton Lola Tambling coming sixth. Fourteen-year-old Brown, who became Britain’s youngest summer Olympian at last year’s Tokyo 2020 Games, laid down a high score of 90.83 in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to take top spot in the first Paris 2024 [...]
Olympics’ governing body urges Ukraine to drop Paris 2024 boycott threat February 9, 2023 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today urged Ukraine to stop making boycott threats in relation to next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. The war-torn country have said on multiple occasions that they would ditch plans to go to the Olympics if the IOC lifts a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from [...]
Ed Warner: The row over sport banning Russian players will be even bigger in 2023 January 12, 2023 Wimbledon will be here before we know it. Expect the debate about banning Russian and Belorussian stars to start soon. The tug of war over the two bellicose nations’ participation at next year’s Paris Olympics and Paralympics has already begun. Schisms within sports and between their leaders and politicians are inevitable. Last year, backed (or [...]
Best of 2022: Australia ready for green and gold decade of sport December 26, 2022 Australia is on course to be a major sporting player over the next decade. City A.M. took a look at why that is and what’s at stake politically for the country. Article originally published 15 August 2022. The sun-kissed nation of Australia is about to embark on a decade-long installation as the centre for world [...]
A year in sport: The big moments from 2022’s sporting calendar December 25, 2022 It’s been a monumental year for sport both on British shores and further afield. Take a look at some of the year’s biggest moments ahead of another year of exhilarating action. January Cricket: Ashes series concludes with 4-0 defeat for England. The result would extend England’s winless run in Australia to 15 matches and mark [...]
Best of 2022: Sir Craig Reedie lifts the lid on how London 2012 Olympics was delivered December 23, 2022 In this interview from July 2022, Sir Craig Reedie, one of the architects of the London 2012 Olympics and one of Britain’s most influential sports administrators, looks back on the Games 10 years on. If you lived through the London 2012 Olympics then you will probably remember where you were for its most spectacular or [...]
Ed Warner on the sporting year that was December 22, 2022 And so we reach the end of a year of sporting excess, or at least an excess of sport. Sunday’s FIFA World Cup Final was the calorific dessert that may well have caused you to come over all Mr Creosote, exploding under the temptation of just one more dish of must-see sporting competition. While we [...]
Beth Mead wins Sports Personality of the Year 2022 December 21, 2022 Beth Mead has been named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year at a ceremony at Media City in Salford. The footballing star beat gymnast Jessica Gadirova, curling star Eve Muirhead, snooker’s Ronnie O’Sullivan, cricketer Ben Stokes and athlete Jake Wightman to the annual gong. Stokes came second with Muirhead third. Lioness Mead was part [...]
Antyukh the fifth Russian track and field athlete to have 2012 gold stripped December 21, 2022 Russian athlete Natalya Antyukh has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London 2012 Olympic Games due to historical sampling data which came out of a Moscow testing facility. The 400m hurdler – who is now 41 – is already distanced from track and field due to a four-year ban which she [...]