Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman has been appointed as the new chair of Sport England, it has been announced.

I am looking forward to helping the team bring opportunities to be active to more people than ever before

#TeamGB #Tokyo #Olympics pic.twitter.com/dTJikCH0bE— Team GB (@TeamGB) June 29, 2021Sally Munday,

The social media accounts of athletes representing Japan at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to be monitored to guard them against any hateful remarks.

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) is reportedly planning to set up a special team to protect participants

official familiar with the matters", Kyodo News reports that comments deemed malicious by the team

will be flagged to other authorities to investigate.Japan is set to enter its biggest ever Olympic team

be taking a "very close look at any adverse comments" seen on social media against any member of the team

GB athletes."

Andrew Butchart’s place in Britain’s athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games could be in doubt

Butchart was named on the British team yesterday, with the 29-year-old selected to compete in the men

had begun an investigation over comments Butchart had made in a podcast, with his spot in the British team

podcast but I apologise if it came across the wrong way or caused any offence to anyone, in particular Team

GB and the Japanese Organising Committee, who I know are working so hard to make the Games safe for

launching an investigation.The national governing body confirmed that his selection to the British team

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid - who battled it out in the men’s singles wheelchair tennis singles final at the Rio 2016 Paralympics - are among six players that have been confirmed as part of Britain’s squad for Tokyo 2020.

I’m so pleased to have been selected to represent GB at another Paralympic Games," said Hewett."

We have a strong team again so I’m hopeful we can come back from Tokyo with another good haul of medals

the 28-year-old.Britain’s Chef de Mission Penny Briscoe said: "Five years ago at Rio 2016 the British team

I am delighted to welcome all six brilliant athletes to the ParalympicsGB team and look forward to seeing

Four-time Olympic champion Serena Williams has confirmed that she will not be playing at the delayed 2020 Games in Tokyo. 

With the team we decided we're going to reassess the situation after Wimbledon because obviously if I

But I think we decided now let's just get through Wimbledon, sit down as a team, and then decide where

Leading Team GB out at the Opening Ceremony five years ago in Rio was one of the highlights of my career

British Olympic Association (BOA) chief executive Andy Anson has admitted that some members of Team GB

tried to reassure worried Japanese officials that they would "do everything we can to get the entire team

BOA chief executive Andy Anson is confident that 90 per cent of Team GB's squad for Tokyo 2020 will be

in India - and Sir Hugh had written to Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto to offer assurances.Team GB

the middle of a pandemic.Anson has admitted the Olympics will present serious health challenges to Team

GB and everyone else competing at Tokyo 2020."

The fourth International Federation of Sport Climbing World Cup of the season at the Kletterzentrum in Innsbruck will see all facets of the sport in action and feature bouldering and lead climbing in the same event for the first time.

in the women’s event, alongside European speed champion Ekaterina Barashchuk, also of Russia.Their team

this season’s Paraclimbing World Cup events.At the Paraclimbing World Championships Briançon 2019, Team

GB and Team Japan dominated the rankings with nine and seven medals respectively, but with neither team

London’s Olympic Stadium has staged another "Super Saturday" nearly nine years after Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah produced one of the greatest nights in British sporting history, except this time it was not gold medals being handed out but coronavirus vaccines.

Government Vaccines Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, tweeted: "This is an incredible effort by the whole London team

Jessica Ennis-Hill won one of three Team GB gold medals during 44 minutes on "Super Saturday" at London

Rutherford and Farah all won gold medals within the space of 44 minutes.Ennis-Hill, the golden girl of Team

GB, smashed her own British record to win the heptathlon, Rutherford took gold in the long jump with

Randox Health have signed a two-year partnership which will see the company provide COVID-19 testing for Team

GB around the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.

tests.The company has created a dashboard for the BOA to register its samples, which will be taken by the Team

GB clinical team and then transported to Randox Health's laboratory in Northern Ireland.Ahead of departure

IdKpS3AMSU— Randox Health (@RandoxHealth) June 14, 2021"This is a fantastic and vital partnership for Team

GB ahead of Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022," said BOA chief executive Andy Anson."

opportunity to try to win a third at the rearranged Games in Tokyo after the final place on his country’s team

massively inspired after watching London 2012 in my home city, and now to be selected to represent Team

GB after the delay, COVID and the challenges everyone has been through, I am delighted," Yee said."

rearranged Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the problems caused in preparation by the COVID-19 pandemic, Team

months has given an opportunity for young athletes to be stronger and put themselves in contention.Team GB

Britain expects a team of 300-plus to go to Tokyo 2020, due to take place between July 23 and August

GB Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) has announced the appointment of sports marketing company TLA Worldwide to

In all of our discussions with the TLA team we were bowled over by their energy and passion."

We thoroughly enjoyed he pitching process, getting to know the talented members of the team and its Board

Team GB have tried to reassure Tokyo 2020 that it will be safe for them to compete at next month’s Olympic

Team GB have announced that so far 86 per cent of Britain’s 300-plus team due to compete in the Japanese

the President of Tokyo 2020, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sir Hugh Robertson wrote that Team

GB athletes and staff were "doing everything possible to minimise any risk to the people of Japan" in

Olympic Games.Sir Hugh also promised the hosts that the BOA would "do everything we can to get the entire team

Britain’s strong hopes of earning medals at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships starting in Cairo tomorrow have been ended by the latest British Government update on travel restrictions.

list of countries, meaning people in Britain should not travel there, from 4am tomorrow, Pentathlon GB

set to travel to Cairo, have regrettably been withdrawn from the competition," the GB Pentathlon statement

Championships for those looking to achieve Olympic qualification status ahead of Tokyo - and Pentathlon GB

internal battle for Olympic qualification.Following the UK Government’s foreign travel update, Pentathlon GB

Cairo, Egypt 8-13 JuneFull statement ⬇️https://t.co/vU53pP62wX pic.twitter.com/75S2Cf1zre— Pentathlon GB

The British Olympic Association has unveiled its team's formal wear for the re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo, partnering with uniform company Simon Jersey.

modelled as part of the launch at the company's Manchester headquarters - revealing the uniform the team

GB logo and is made of comfortable fabric.Simon Jersey will have a pop-up tailor's shop at the Birmingham

GB is a real privilege and it's down to us to make sure our Olympic athletes look and feel their best

Our team is highly experienced in working alongside Team GB and formal wear for the Tokyo Olympics has

We're incredibly excited about seeing Team GB suited and booted in Simon Jersey formal wear to enhance