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Andy Murray to hang up his racket after Paris 2024

  • Tennis

Andy Murray announced his definitive retirement from professional tennis on Tuesday, after previous hints he could hang up his racket for good due to injuries. He has chosen to do so at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and will soon will find out who his opponent is this Thursday.

He underwent surgery and has been working hard to get back into the GB team for Paris 2024.


Keely Hodgkinson hoping to get her hands on gold in Paris

  • Athletics

Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson aims to win gold in the 800m at the Paris Olympics. Despite the ambitious nature of her goal, her recent achievements make it a realistic target. Her confidence is fueled by a solid track record and a strong drive for success.

At the age of nine, Hodgkinson joined her current team, Leigh Harriers, and took up athletics, inspired

Olympic Games.Ver esta publicación en InstagramUna publicación compartida de 🌪 (@keely.hodgkinson)The Team

GB star soon began winning national and European youth titles, paving the way for her success in 2021

Mu, who was also a member of the USA's victorious 4x400m relay team in Tokyo, crossed the finish line


Grace Reid relishing return to Olympic stage

  • Paris 2024

Reid will be joined in the French capital by British stalwart Tom Daley, who made a miraculous comeback to book his place at a fifth Games since making his debut as a 14-year-old at Beijing 2008.

Grace Reid has become one of the most established members of the British diving team over recent years

2️⃣ medals on day 1️⃣ for the 🇬🇧 divers in Doha 🔥 #Doha2024 pic.twitter.com/Xm1glw327g— Aquatics GB

Tom Daley and Grace Reid will participate for Team GB in Paris.

He’s such a great team member – I’m going into my third Olympics and he’s even more of a veteran going

#AQUADoha2024 pic.twitter.com/ZlIdaQoI3B— Team GB (@TeamGB) February 9, 2024In 2018, Reid made history


Medical emergency halts Germany vs Great Britain Olympic prep game

  • Basketball

On Sunday the 21st, the Copper Box Arena in London hosted a friendly match for Paris 2024 between the women's teams of Germany and Great Britain. After three quarters, the game was suspended following a medical incident in the crowd.

privacy for the spectator, who was later taken away on a stretcher without apparent risk.Germany and GB

GETTY IMAGES"During the game between the Great Britain women's team and Germany, a medical incident occurred

affecting a member of the public," reflected the GB Basketball federation in a statement released on

(@dbb_basketball)Satou Sabally, a key player for the German national team and a WNBA player for the Dallas

for Paris 2024 on Tuesday against the team to beat, the United States.


Charlotte Dujardin’s historic Olympic medal bid

  • Equestrian

The 39-year-old will be competing in her fourth Olympics in both the individual dressage and team event

 She clinched gold in the individual and team events at London 2012 and won team silver and individual

this summer, Dujardin hopes to be at the top of the sport for many years to come, just like fellow Team

GB member 57-year-old Carl Hester who will be competing at his seventh Olympics.


From the sidelines to the saddle: Dan Bigham’s Olympic journey

  • Cycling

Dan Bigham is preparing for his second Olympics, but this time as a part of Team GB’s cycling endurance

team.

Bigham, who was a performance engineer for Denmark’s cycling team in Tokyo 2020, will join Ethan Hayter

GB and set up a trade team.

If GB were not willing to listen to his ideas, the Danes were all ears.At the World Championships in

time in the final more than five seconds quicker than Team GB had gone in winning Olympic gold four

At the Tokyo Olympics, they won silver, defeating GB in a controversial semi-final."

I was actually on the track racing in their men's team pursuit team and even in their pre-Tokyo full



Team GB to rely on instinct in vying for kayak cross inaugural gold

  • Canoeing

The Paris Olympics programme will be spiced up by the addition of head-to-head races in the kayak cross event, an all-action, exhilarating discipline that will be making its Olympic Games debut this summer. The fast-paced, whitewater sport combines elements of traditional kayak racing with the strategic and physical challenges of a head-to-head competition with four athletes racing down a whitewater course while navigating through a series of obstacles and complete a 360-degree boat roll to top it all off. 

2024Woods, who claimed her first individual world title at Lee Valley last September, will be part of Team

GB alongside Olympic medallists Joseph Clarke and Mallory Franklin, and Adam Burgess.With the International


Paris 2024: Ten talented teenagers to keep tabs on at the Olympics

  • Paris 2024

From record-breaking sprinters to rising stars in gymnastics, these ten young athletes are poised to make a splash at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Keep an eye on these future legends as they bring fresh talent and fierce competition to the world's biggest sporting stage.

16 years old, Quincy Wilson has made history as the youngest male athlete ever selected to represent Team

 Wilson's impressive feats secured his place on the USA's 4x400m relay team for Paris, cementing

already achieved remarkable success, including a European silver medal as part of the British women's team

the British Championships and a floor bronze at the 2024 Osijek World Cup, solidifying her place on Team

GB with impressive performances on the international stage.Abigail Martin is set to make her Olympic


Opening Ceremony key to Paris 2024 success, says London 2012 chief

  • Paris 2024

With the Paris Olympics opening ceremony fast approaching, Hugh Robertson, who led the London 2012 Games, emphasises its importance, after telling AFP it "sets the tone" for the entire event.

"Fortunately we have an excellent relationship with the French security forces which gives Team GB enormous


Bath student swimming trio thrilled to qualify for Paris 2024 Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Three international swimmers who have successfully combined training and studying at the University of Bath are celebrating after qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

in a 50m freestyle field that includes fellow club member and former training partner Ben Proud of Team

GB.

also guided Sports Performance student Joshua Gammon to back-to-back British titles and his Aquatics GB

He also coaches the Pentathlon GB squad, including Tokyo 2020 gold medallists Joe Choong and Kate French

Reigning champions Tom Dean and Freya Anderson will be joined by Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre


Athletes slam UK Athletics after Paris Olympic Team snubs

  • Athletics

athletes who have met the World Athletics ranking criteria but were not selected for the Paris Olympics team

won the shot put event at the 2024 British Athletics Championships last week, was not named on the Team

GB athletics squad last Friday.

It is a joke.”Olympic team confirmed 👊We can announce which athletes will be representing @TeamGB at

were among British athletes who similarly hit the world ranking criteria but were not named to the team

Team GB's Olympic athletics squad will be headed by world champions Josh Kerr and Katarina Johnson-Thompson


Team GB announces Taekwondo squad: McGowan selected over Cook

  • Taekwondo

Taekwondo stars Jade Jones, Rebecca McGowan, Bradley Sinden and Cade Cunningham were named as Team Great

Double Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones (-57 kg) will compete in her fourth Olympic Games for Team GB

and myself once again," told Jones Team GB' official website.

 Also returning to Team GB is double World Champion Bradly Sinden (-68 kg) , whose silver medal

 The youngest member of the Team GB Taekwondo squad Caden Cunningham became European champion in

 Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England told the Team GB official website that the selected team is


Paris 2024: Jonny Brownlee axed from British triathlon team for Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Great Britain has announced their triathlon squad for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, marking the first time since Athens 2004 that no Brownlee brother will be included.

Jonny and Alistair Brownlee have been key figures in GB triathlon over the past four Games, securing

 Jonny Brownlee and his brother Alistair will not be present at Paris 2024 for the Team GB triathlon

team.

Olympic medals won by the Brownlee brothers out of a total of eight in the sport.Leading the women's team

July, followed by the women’s individual race on Wednesday, 31 July, and concluding with the mixed team


ParalympicsGB announces Para taekwondo squad for Paris 2024

  • Taekwondo

Three of GB Taekwondo’s most experienced fighters have been selected to represent ParalympicsGB at the

Liverpool athlete Munro only joined the GB Taekwondo performance programme in the lead up to the Tokyo

Andy Paton, Team Leader for Para taekwondo, said, "Our Paralympic Games team sets a high bar with the

I am proud to be the Team Leader for Para taekwondo at Paris 2024 and following the success of our first

said, "I’m absolutely thrilled to welcome our trio of Para taekwondo athletes to the ParalympicsGB team