AS Britain’s Paralympic athletes return home from Rio on a special flight, Team GB are counting their medals after the UK’s most successful Games. Both the Olympic and Paralympic teams beat their medals tallies from four years ago, when London hosted the competition, coming second in the medals tables. Great Britain won 147 medals (64 […]
DOPING chief Dick Pound raised concerns about the misuse of powerful medication for asthma by sports stars a DECADE ago. And he has long called for the names of athletes who have requests for therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) rejected to be published. Former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Pound was also involved in the recent McLaren […]
GREAT BRITAIN closed out our most successful Paralympics in 28 years with 64 gold medals and 147 in all to seal second spot in the table. Heroes such as Hannah Cockroft, Dame Sarah Storey and Ellie Simmonds led ParalympicsGB to runner-up behind China. The medal tally of 120 from London 2012 was passed on day […]
THE Paralympics closed with an explosion of colour at the Maracana Stadium as Rio capped off a surprisingly successful games. A packed stadium witnessed a Brazilian musician Johnatha Bastos play the electric guitar with his feet after a eye-opening firework display whilst there was also a minute silence to remember the fatal crash of Iranian cyclist […]
THE PARALYMPICS have been marred by tragedy after a competitor in the men’s cycling road race died following a crash in the race. Iranian Bahman Golbarnezhad was rushed to hospital after a fall competing in the C4-5 event in Rio today. The rider suffered a cardiac arrest after hitting his head against a rock but despite […]