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Malagò leads criticism over World Athletics award snub for Italian Olympic gold medallists

  • Athletics

Italian National Olympic Committee President Giovanni Malagò has accused World Athletics of "a lack of respect" after the country’s two Tokyo 2020 gold medallists were left off its short list for the Male World Athlete of the Year award.

British sprinter CJ Ujah had been provisionally suspended for a doping offence - almost certainly meaning Team

GB will lose the Olympic silver medals they won behind Italy - Jacobs said it had made him "smile".Gianmarco


Curlers first athletes named in Britain’s squad for Beijing 2022

  • Curling

Bruce Mouat is set to become the first British athlete to compete in two curling competitions at the same Winter Olympics at Beijing 2022.

The 27-year-old Scottish curler is poised to skip the men’s team which includes Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie

GB (@TeamGB) October 14, 2021Mouat, Hardie, Lammie, McMillan and Whyte joined forces in 2017 where they

GB for this one."

for the Games and welcome such a talented group of curlers to Team GB for Beijing 2022.

 "Team GB have a established curling record at the Olympic Games and it’s fantastic to see our current


Ralph appointed as head coach for England and Britain women's hockey teams

  • Hockey

David Ralph has been appointed as the head coach of the England and Britain women's international hockey teams.

that has a rich history of success and has been at the forefront of raising the profile of women’s team

GB Hockey said there was a "worldwide application" for the role.Englishman Adrian Lock was reportedly

before committing to his current role with Spain's women.A very exciting few years ahead for our women's team

was the outstanding candidate from a worldwide application and short-listed group," said England and GB


Royal Mail issues a special postmark congratulating Team GB and ParalympicsGB Tokyo 2020 athletes

  • Collecting and Heritage News

Britain’s outstanding performances in the Olympic and Paralympic Games at Tokyo 2020 has been commemorated by the Royal Mail with a special postmark.

Team GB finished fourth on the Olympic medals table with a total of 65 medals, including 22 gold, their

second-best performance in an overseas Games behind Rio 2016.Paralympics GB came second at Tokyo 2020

Games since they were first held at Rome 1960.The postmark, which read "Congratulations to all our Team

GB and ParalympicsGB athletes Tokyo 2020", appeared on all mail sent in the United Kingdom between September


Ian Watmore: Cricket and the Olympics, a partnership to spark something special

  • Inside the Blogs

A mere 121 years after cricket made its one and only Olympic appearance, we have come together as a sport to try and recreate history and rejoin the Olympic family. In the intervening years, since Britain beat France in what would later be ratified as a gold-medal match, the subject of cricket in the Olympics has been raised on numerous occasions.

spent 13 years working with the English Institute of Sport, the sports science and medicine arm of Team

GB).The Olympics is the greatest show on earth and draws fans in like nothing else.

 The prospect of being part of a larger team, mixing with athletes from other sports and the whole


Pearne-Webb looking forward to buzz of fans at Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

Two-times Commonwealth Games hockey medallist Hollie Pearne-Webb believes having fans back at the Birmingham 2022 edition will inject the event with a buzzing atmosphere.

The 30-year-old Surbiton player, part of the England team that won a silver medal at Glasgow 2014 and

bronze at Gold Coast 2018, was speaking while attending the "I Am Team GB Festival of Sport" at the

Over 4,000 people attended the I Am Team GB Festival of Sport event at the London Olympic Stadium.

Supported by @ToyotaUK #GetUpGetActive #IAmTeamGB pic.twitter.com/XMDNqJYLAj— Team GB (@TeamGB) August

 The "I Am Team GB Festival of Sport" started with a lap of honour around the London Stadium within


Serious knee injury ends Bush’s hopes of Paralympic glory at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Reigning world champion Matt Bush has been forced to pull out of the taekwondo competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games here after sustaining a serious knee injury.

@mattbush1) August 22, 2021"But I ask them to continue the support and direct it to the rest of the team

Along with GB Taekwondo medical staff, I'd returned myself to an incredible level of movement given the

I'm incredibly grateful for the GB staff and coaches who helped me as much as possible and will help


World champion Bankes headlines Britain's freestyle skiing, freeski and snowboard squads

  • Freestyle

The British freestyle skiing, freeski and snowboard teams for the forthcoming season have been announced, with 69 athletes selected.

Last year was obviously a real high point for me personally with great results for all of GB Snowsport

, but neither I nor any of the team plan to take our foot off the gas at this stage."

in the women's A squad, with Amber Fennell earning a first selection to the B squad.The men’s second team

: @benkinnear pic.twitter.com/m1yBf9LJZj— GB Snowsport (@GBSnowsport) August 5, 2021Oliver Davies, who

for the women’s equivalent.The head coach of national governing body GB Snowsport, Pat Sharples, said



Tim Hollingsworth: Tokyo 2020, inspiration and the Paralympic Games

  • Inside the Blogs

Last Sunday (August 15) I was privileged to attend the Team GB homecoming party at Wembley Arena.

The preparation and delivery of the team for Tokyo 2020 set tasks and challenges like no other and it

the background to the preparation camp in Yokohama and the protocols in the Athletes' Village - the team

GB, finishing fourth in the medal table and matching up to the medal tally of recent Games, was outstanding

GB showed us the way supremely well.And, with that in mind, there is more to come.

So much work, effort and resource have gone into ensuring medal potential and the success of the team


Diver Laugher backs Birmingham 2022 to bring nation together again

  • Birmingham 2022

Multiple Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jack Laugher is hopeful that the "whole nation is going to come back together again" to rally behind its athletes at Birmingham 2022.

noordinarypark) August 14, 2021Laugher attended the "Festival of Sport" event, which was jointly organised by Team

GB and Toyota.Events were held at the Olympic Stadium in London, the Stadium of Light in Sunderland

Team GB commercial director Tim Ellerton added: "We are really excited to have launched I Am Team GB.


Made by Sport calls for more organisations to use Clubs in Crisis fund following Tokyo 2020 Olympics

  • Tokyo 2020

Made by Sport chief executive Sophie Mason has called on community clubs to tap into a £1.79 million ($2.46 million/€2.10 million) Clubs in Crisis fund to build on the atmosphere created by the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

during the Olympic Games that sport really does inspire the nation, particularly given the success of Team

GB even though the events took place thousands of miles away in another time zone."


British Government pledges £232 million investment for Paris 2024 Olympic cycle

  • Paris 2024

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a £232 million ($321 million/€272 million) Government investment to support athletes' path to the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

received for Tokyo 2020 - a rise of 44 per cent.The money will also be used to support the British team

Team GB showed us the very best of this country in Tokyo - demonstrating sportsmanship, hard work and

This increased funding will support Team GB to deliver their best possible performances in three years

The announcement came as the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister, Nigel Huddleston, attended the Team

GB Homecoming concert and celebration at Wembley Arena.The concert featured performances from acts such


British Paralympic Association launch operation to keep Tokyo 2020 delegation free of COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has launched an operation to ensure that its delegation of more than 600 athletes, coaches and support staff remain free of COVID-19.

logistics drive mirrors a similar and highly successful regime which ensured that the British Olympic team

able to register, view and access reports for samples that will be taken by the ParalympicsGB Clinical Team

Following our testing regime for Team GB who enjoyed an incredibly successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games


Alan Hubbard: Despite the deprivations, Tokyo 2020 will be a hard act for Paris to follow

  • Inside the Blogs

The party’s over, as the song says, but Tokyo 2020 will not be calling it a day. Soon it will be time for Act Two of the smash hit Far East production, with a star cast of Paralympians waiting in the wings for their turn to go on stage.

Instead it was of Team GB’s golden glory and the finer points of BMX, skateboarding, the omnium, or climbing

I think one of the reasons may have been that Team GB seemed to be composed of eminently personable and

For what GB achieved was a team effort in every sense.One other matter arising from Tokyo 2020 is that