Ed Warner: Select committees are ultimately toothless "I’ve had the dubious honour of appearing before three Westminster select committees down the years." The political pile-on has been swift. But although they secured detailed testimony on cricket racism under the cloak of parliamentary privilege, MPs show no signs of learning from the futility of their past hearings into sporting crises. It needn’t be so. I’ve had the dubious honour of appearing before three Westminster select committees down the [...]
British Paralympic chiefs hail Tokyo 2020 as a success despite fall in medal tally Paralympics declared success for GB despite drop in medal tally ParalympicsGB chef de mission Penny Briscoe has hailed Tokyo 2020 as a success for Britain despite a drop in the number of medals won. British athletes finished with 124 medals, including 41 golds, enough for second place in the table behind China and more than British athletes won at London 2012. But the Tokyo tally [...]
Oarsome: Emma Wiggs paddles to canoe glory as Britain grabs three more gold medals at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Emma Wiggs wins gold again as Britain pass 100 Paralympic medals Canoeist Emma Wiggs won the first gold of a potential Tokyo 2020 double as Britain passed 100 medals on day 10 of the Paralympics. Wiggs, who won the KL2 kayak event at Rio 2016, landed gold in the first ever women’s VL2 competition at the Paralympics. The 41-year-old, who has nerve damage in her legs, [...]
Dame Sarah Storey wins 17th gold medal to become Britain’s most successful Paralympian at Tokyo 2020 September 2, 2021 Dame Sarah Storey became the most successful British Paralympian of all time with a hard-fought victory in the C4-5 road race at Tokyo 2020 today. The swimmer-turned-cyclist, who was born without a functioning left hand, won her 17th Paralympic gold medal, and her third of these Games, at Fuji Speedway. “I couldn’t have imagined going [...]
Dame Sarah Storey equals British record for most Paralympic gold medals with 16th triumph in time trial at Tokyo 2020 August 31, 2021 Dame Sarah Storey won a British record-equalling 16th Paralympic gold medal today at Tokyo 2020. Cyclist Storey, 43, successfully defended her women’s C5 time trial title to match former swimmer Mike Kenny’s tally. It was her second gold of the Tokyo Paralympics; she has a chance to win a third and surpass Kenny in the [...]
Kadeena Cox completes first leg of dual-sport Paralympic title defences with world record performance in Tokyo 2020 velodrome August 27, 2021 Multi-sport Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox set a new world record as the Briton defended her track cycling C4-5 500m time trial crown today at Tokyo 2020. Cox, who is also the reigning T38 400m champion in athletics, beat Canada’s Kate O’Brien in the final to claim ParalympicsGB’s ninth medal in the Izu Velodrome. “I knew [...]
Afghanistan veteran Jaco van Gass wins gold as Britain enjoys more track cycling success at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics August 26, 2021 Soldier turned sportsman and adventurer Jaco van Gass has won Britain’s second gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Van Gass, who lost an arm while serving in Afghanistan, beat team-mate Fin Graham in the final of the men’s track cycling C3 3,000m individual pursuit. The South Africa-born 35-year-old trailed Graham early on but fought [...]
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: Dame Sarah Storey wins ParalympicsGB’s first gold and moves to within one of British all-time record August 25, 2021 Dame Sarah Storey blew away her track cycling rivals to claim Britain’s first gold medal on the opening day of competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Storey, 43, set a new world record to reach the C5 3,000m individual pursuit final and then caught team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright after 1,750m to win the title for a [...]
Tokyo 2020: 10 Paralympics GB medal hopes including Dame Sarah Storey, Jonnie Peacock, Hannah Cockroft, Sir Lee Pearson and Jaco van Gass August 24, 2021 ParalympicsGB enjoyed a stellar Rio 2016 Games, finishing second overall in the medal table with an astounding 147 medals, 64 of those gold. Despite the Tokyo 2020 Games having been pushed back by a year, Britain still boasts a strong squad with plenty of medal prospects. The exclusion of six-time medallist Stephen Miller on the [...]