Katie Taylor – Ireland’s Olympic gold medal winner at the 2012 London Olympics – has turned pro. The women’s boxing icon – who took the top prize four years ago and reached the quarter finals in Brazil in the summer – will make her paid debut on November 26. The 30-year-old’s massive list of achievements […]
TEAM GB were shown huge appreciation by supporters as they paraded around Trafalgar Square in London following success at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It was day two of celebrations for the athletes, after they were applauded by 150,000 fans in Manchester on Monday. Thousands of fans watched on in the capital as the likes […]
JESSICA ENNIS-HILL has announced her retirement from athletics. The heptathlete great won a gold medal and London 2012 and a silver four years later in Rio de Janeiro. She is a two-time World Championships gold medallist and confirmed her decision via Instagram. Ennis-Hill wrote: “Amazing memories…from my first world title in Berlin 2009 to Rio 2016 I’m […]
WHEN Paralympic Powerlifter Ali Jawad takes centre stage at Rio 2016, he might take a brief second to wonder how is even there at all. It is fair to say he has had his fair share of bad luck. At London 2012 in his home town in front of family, friends and 6,000 British fans, […]
MO Farah jumped for joy after doing the “double double” in Rio yesterday — then said a knighthood “would be amazing”. He looks certain to get the honour after winning the 5,000m and 10,000m in Brazil, having done the same at London 2012. Mo posted a picture on Instagram yesterday of him with wife Tania […]