ED CLANCY has admitted GB’s team pursuit aces golden tilt was almost scuppered by dodgy food in Rio’s athletes’ village. Riders have complained after getting back from Brazil about the quality of the grub at the Olympics. Mark Cavendish branded the fare “terrible”. But Clancy, 31, admitted that he got a tummy bug just days before he […]
THE Rio Olympic medals table looks very different when you take population size and drug cheats into account. In fact, a country that did not even win a single gold medal – Caribbean island nation Grenada – tops the medals table because of its tiny number of citizens. Britain, despite a record-breaking haul in Rio, […]
TEAM GB are back in Blighty – and what an Olympics Games it has been on a golden fortnight in Rio. With a record number of medals resulting in their highest ever finish – and beating China into third – it’s been a record-breaking Games in nearly all disciplines. But with UK Sport funding the athletes […]
A TEAM GB football team taking the field for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics took a knock today as the Scottish and Irish FAs re-affirmed their resistance to the idea. There was a British football side for the London 2012 Games, but the idea was quashed for this month’s Rio Olympics. England boss Sam Allardyce admitted […]
JUBILANT Team GB sipped champagne and burst into song as they enjoyed a glorious flight back home. Medal winners got the star treatment as they were seated in business class – those without, as well as team officials, were stuck in economy on the British Airways flight to Heathrow. Post-Games bucket list #1 Enjoy a glass […]