TEAM GB’s heroic hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh said it was a “fairy tale ending” carrying the flag for Britain at the closing ceremony. The four-time Olympian, 36, was chosen after leading her unbeaten side to Britain’s first women’s hockey gold medal. Kate and her partner Helen, 34, also became the first same-sex couple to appear in a […]
BRITAIN today celebrates being crowned as a sporting superpower after our Olympic heroes stunned the world by coming second in the medal table. They are bringing home with them from Rio an astonishing 67 medals — 27 golds, 23 silvers and 17 bronze. The tally is two more than we amassed with home advantage in […]
TEAM GB’s victorious hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh is to carry the British flag at the Olympic closing ceremony. The gold medallist made history along with her wife Helen, becoming the first same-sex married couple to win an Olympic gold in the same final during a historic battle with the Netherlands on Friday. Andy Murray, gold […]
TEAM GB are set to complete their greatest Games – and have immediately vowed to claim even MORE medals in Tokyo UK Sport chief Liz Nicholl believes Britain have confirmed they are a “sporting superpower” by finishing second in the medal table for the first time in the modern Olympic era. Great Britain’s athletes have […]
SPRINTER Martyn Rooney has blasted Rio officials and claimed he is “even angrier” after watching replays of Team GB’s controversial disqualification from the 4x400m relay. Britain’s quartet of Rooney, Nigel Levine, Delano Williams and Matthew Hudson-Smith were harshly booted out of the competition after Hudson-Smith was alleged to have part of his foot out of the […]