Usain Bolt unsure whether competitors at his Olympic Games swansong will be clean August 9, 2016 Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt admitted last night that he cannot be completely sure that his gold medal competitors at the Rio Games will be clean athletes. Jamaican Bolt, 29, will bid to complete the ‘triple triple’ of Olympic sprint titles in Brazil by retaining his 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay crowns which [...]
Andy Murray begins Olympic title defence in style and heaps pressure on himself to win second gold medal August 7, 2016 Defending Olympic champion Andy Murray began his quest to retain his title with a crushing straight sets victory over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki in the opening round of the men’s singles at the Rio Games. Murray, Great Britain’s flag bearer at Friday’s opening ceremony, dispatched Troicki 6-3, 6-2 to progress to round two where he will [...]
Paralympics does what Olympics wouldn’t and bans all Russian athletes from Rio Games August 7, 2016 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Sir Philip Craven has issued Russia with a stinging rebuke and confirmed that none of their athletes will be allowed to compete at this month’s Paralympic Games in Rio. Craven said the IPC had sanctioned the blanket ban on all of the country’s competitors that their Olympic counterparts shied away [...]
Russian athletes to be barred from Rio 2016 Paralympics August 6, 2016 Russian athletes are to be banned from taking part in the Paralympic Games in Rio later this month. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Russian athletes provisionally in response to the report from Professor Richard McLaren that uncovered the extent of doping in Russia, according to the Observer. Read more: The most marketable athletes at the 2016 Olympic and [...]
This is how a country’s Olympic medal haul compares with… the average pay of IT staff August 5, 2016 The Olympic Games will no doubt be watched closely by the world's IT staff. They may have a lot riding on it. At least according to one very original study, which claims to have found "strong correlations" between a nation's Olympics performance and how much their software developers are paid. Salary-benchmarking site Emolument.com's theory is that [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics: Wada and IOC come under fire from man who exposed Russia’s doping operation and Lance Armstrong August 4, 2016 The former chief investigator of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has launched a scathing attack on the leadership of the under-fire body on the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Jack Robertson, who helped bring down Lance Armstrong and worked for the organisation until January, says he leaked details of Russian state-sponsored doping in order [...]
Olympics betting: Rio carnival on the cards with record medals for Team GB August 4, 2016 Shares in coffee companies will likely nudge upwards over the next three weeks as the late night drama from the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro keeps the country awake. Pollsters Opinium teamed up with Sporting Index this week and found that the UK will lose up to 302m hours of sleep watching Team GB cycle, [...]
Outside the UK, only one country thinks Brexit was the right decision for Britain, according to pollsters August 4, 2016 Just one out of 16 countries believes that the Brexit vote was the right decision for the country, according to new polling figures. Ipsos Mori last month quizzed 12,525 people online across nine European and seven non-European countries, but found that in only one did a majority support the Brexit verdict – Russia. 54 per [...]
Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse booted from top stock market index August 2, 2016 The bad news just keeps on coming for the naughty children of the European banking sector. To top off what has been one of the finest examples of a corporate annus horribilis, both Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse are to be kicked out of the Eurostoxx 50 after their market cap has shrunk to record lows. [...]
Ed Warner interview: UK Athletics chairman hits out at scandalously weak and lily-livered IOC over handling of Russia doping scandal August 1, 2016 UK Athletics chief Ed Warner has issued a scathing assessment of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) failure to impose a blanket ban on Russia competing at this month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The build up to the Games, which start on Friday, has been overshadowed by the World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned (Wada) McLaren report, [...]