OVER 150,000 people lined the streets in Manchester to celebrate Team GB’S Olympic and Paralympic success at Rio 2016. Despite the rain, giant numbers flocked for the parade complete with flags, gold hats and mock medals. Great Britain set a new record in Brazil by winning 67 medals, two more than the total at London […]
THANKS for the memories, Jess – Britain’s greatest female athlete, a national icon and symbol of the 2012 Olympics. A standard-bearer for women and mothers, role model for a generation, who returned to the track a year after giving birth to conquer the world once more. And the embodiment of Sheffield steel, too, someone who […]
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 […]
USAIN BOLT has barely stopped in a summer full of medals, parties and lederhosen – but looks to have slowed down during his recent trip to London. The Olympic gold medal winner, 30, was seen strolling around Covent Garden as he took in the sights of a pleasant Wednesday morning in the capital. Bolt has […]
DAME SARAH STOREY touched down at Heathrow with the rest of Great Britain’s Paralympian heroes and claimed Rio was just as good as London in 2012. Team GB’s most decorated female Paralympic athlete and the rest of her team-mates were greeted by huge crowds of friends, family and fans after their most successful Games since 1988 – winning 147 […]