Cockroft wins fourth 100m title as Paralympics GB continue gold rush September 1, 2024 Hannah Cockroft completed the four-peat on Sunday, winning the T34 100m title at her fourth consecutive Paralympics. Cockroft burst onto the scene winning gold in the showpiece women’s wheelchair event in London 12 years ago and has repeated the feat in Rio, Tokyo and now Paris. She led home fellow Brit Kare Adenegan with Lan [...]
Cricket needs more like Flintoff so smaller nations must get financial support August 29, 2024 Andrew Flintoff’s Field of Dreams On Tour, the decline of Test cricket and whether a mooted hardship fund distributed by the ICC might just keep the red-ball game alive. You know when a broadcaster thinks it has a hit on its hands because it releases a series one episode at a time rather than in [...]
Olympics’ switch to pay TV triggered big rise in illegal streaming of Paris 2024 August 27, 2024 The IOC's move has caused frustration among some fans at being denied immediate access to sport that has historically been available on free-to-air channels.
Paralympics 2024: Day-by-day guide to events in Paris August 27, 2024 Over the next fortnight, the Paralympics promises 12 days of sporting drama from the pool, to the track, to the tennis court. Every single moment of the Games will be broadcast live for the first time. Here are the highlights from each day of Paralympic action, from Wednesday’s Opening Ceremony to the finale on Sunday 8 September. Day [...]
Selection for the Paralympics and Olympics: Who gets to decide who competes? August 27, 2024 More than 4,000 athletes from 150 nations are set to compete in 22 different sports when the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris begin this week. The names selected have been confirmed over the last few months. Selection can cause controversy, as it did at the Olympics where the Netherlands’ beach volleyball squad made international headlines [...]
How Neil Fachie found Paralympic glory after ditching running track for velodrome August 26, 2024 Since he first jumped on a mountain bike in the north-east of Scotland, cycling has been Paralympic champion Neil Fachie’s one-way ticket to freedom. That Fachie is now the owner of two Paralympic gold medals and 19 world titles doesn’t do justice to a complex sporting journey that was never guaranteed to bend in a [...]
Hannah Cockroft on on basketball inspiration and being part of Paralympic power couple August 25, 2024 British Paralympic star ‘Hurricane’ Hannah Cockroft is so hardwired to win that she even challenges fiancee Nathan Maguire to duels at home. The Halifax athlete, 31, has dominated wheelchair racing for the last decade, claiming seven Paralympic golds, 14 World Championship titles and five world records. By herself she has made a sizeable contribution to [...]
Jonnie Peacock: London 2012 star not ready to finish Paralympic journey yet August 23, 2024 Jonnie Peacock insists he has no post-Paris retirement plans as he eyes up a thrilling hat-trick of Paralympic gold medals. The Cambridge sprint star, 31, catapulted himself onto the big stage with an unforgettable 100m T44 title at London 2012 before defending that crown in Rio four years later. Bronze at a Covid-affected Tokyo 2020 [...]
Alice Tai: ‘I used to cry before swimming. Now it’s my job’ August 22, 2024 Alice Tai is a Paralympic champion who has demonstrated that she is equally adept in front of the camera and in the pool. It has been some journey for an athlete who ran away from her first competition because of the crowd. The 25-year-old from Poole will head to Paris this summer looking to add [...]
Ed Warner: The Paralympics is heading for a transgender row in Paris August 22, 2024 A row over the eligibility of Italian transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo looms over the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, showing why para sports must be independent from organisers the IPC. It is increasingly difficult to find footage online of Raygun at Paris 2024. For a brief moment it seemed the Aussie breakdancer who launched a thousand [...]