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Modern pentathlon launch online coverage platform to boost interest for Rio 2016

  • Modern Pentathlon

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has officially launched its online coverage website

online UIPM platform.Fans of the sport will be able to experience a variety of coverage from modern pentathlon

sport.The platform will provide both live and on demand coverage in the build-up to Rio 2016, where modern pentathlon

“The launch of UIPM TV is a real gesture of intent as modern pentathlon prepares for a busy Olympic

secretary general Shiny Fang hopes the launch of the online platform will help spread awareness of modern pentathlon

Now all modern pentathlon fans have a great opportunity to be much closer to their favourite athletes


Rome 2024 to present "vision" for Olympic bid at Palazzo dei Congressi Eur

  • Paris 2024

Organisers of Rome's bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics will explain in detail about their candidacy at an event in the Italian capital next week, they have announced.

ImagesThe Palazzo dei Congressi Eur itself has Olympic heritage - having staged fencing and modern pentathlon


Liam Morgan: Northern Ireland being awarded Commonwealth Youth Games brings smile to country scarred by atrocities

  • Inside the Blogs

Judging by the enthusiasm and excitement which was palpable throughout a special event at Belfast City Hall earlier this week, you would have thought Northern Ireland had just been awarded the Olympics rather than the Commonwealth Youth Games. 

considered one of the country's greatest-ever athletes after she won the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon


Mike Rowbottom: Zika virus means Rio 2016 is like Delhi 2010 revisited for prospective Olympians

  • Inside the Blogs

There is a pattern to bad publicity before major sporting events. A year or so out the previously optimistic tone will dip amid stories of construction delays, dissatisfaction over ticket distribution, budgets running out of control, rumours of contract corruption and misdemeanours in the awarding of the event to the hosts.

Grainger will not be immune to the pressures to take the party line, as voiced by Britain’s 2012 modern pentathlon




Northern Ireland awarded 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games

  • Trinidad and Tobago 2023

Northern Ireland has been chosen as the host nation of the 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games, it was announced today.

is one of the country's best known and respected figures after she won the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon


Lithuanian National Olympic Committee hold annual Athletes Awards

  • EOC

Olympic modern penathlon champion Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė and International Cycling Union (UCI) World Road Race Championships bronze medallist Ramūnas Navardauskas have scooped the top prizes at the Lithuanian Athletes Awards 2015.

from rower Mindaugas Griskonis and boxer Eimantas Stanionis to land the men's prize.Olympic modern pentathlon



Philip Barker: Hollywood does the Olympics

  • Inside the Blogs

They are Olympians at opposite ends of the spectrum but the stories of Jesse Owens and Eddie "The Eagle"  Edwards will both hit cinema screens later this year.

In 1913 he had been stripped of the Olympic gold medals won in pentathlon and decathlon at the previous


FIH President leading hockey revolution following past threat of Olympic exclusion

  • The Big Read

As International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre jokingly said during his speech to guests at the recent Hockey Writers' Club lunch at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in London, the Spanish are no strangers to revolution.

consideration to be voted off the Olympic programme, ending up in the final three with wrestling and modern pentathlon


Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council appoints Dame Mary Peters as Patron

  • Commonwealth Games

Dame Mary Peters has been appointed Patron of the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council, it has been announced.

been one of the country's best known and respected figures since winning the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon

1974.She won four medals, including three golds, the penthatlon and shot put at Edinburgh 1974 and pentathlon

Dame Mary Peters won three Commonwealth Games gold medals, including the pentathlon at Edinburgh in 1970


Pentathlon GB appoints new chief executive

  • Modern Pentathlon

Pentathlon GB today announced the appointment of Danielle Every, the former director of football operations

as Board member and treasurer.She replaces Nigel Laughton, who left his position in September with Pentathlon

is claimed the differences centered predominately on aspirations and the specifics of implementing Pentathlon

I am thrilled and proud to be joining Pentathlon GB."

dedicated staff and volunteers who play such a significant role in the promotion and organisation of pentathlon

Britain won one pentathlon medal at London 2012 as Samantha Murray claimed silver in the women's event


NFL wide receiver Goodwin targeting Rio 2016 as long jumper

  • Athletics

National Football League (NFL) wide receiver and Pan American Games long jump silver medallist Marquise Goodwin is aiming to qualify for this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he has confirmed.

athletes who have competed in the NFL and the Olympic Games, headed by Stockhom 1912 decathlon and pentathlon


Pfaller appointed Austrian Chef de Mission for Rio 2016 Paralympics

  • Rio 2016 Paralympics

Walter Pfaller has been appointed Chef de Mission by the Austrian Paralympic Committee (APC) for this year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Pfaller brings a vast experience to the role having appeared at five Paralympic Games, winning pentathlon