Heptathlete has overcome family bereavement to claim silver this summer but believes she can improve in her bid to be world No 1Someone actually said to me ‘You look like you’ve just been run over’ the day after I won my heptathlon silver medal in…
Team GB snowboarder died a short time after missing a flight to train with her squadThe father of the British snowboarder Ellie Soutter who died suddenly on her 18th birthday believes the intense pressure of competing in elite-level sport may have cont…
• BOA pays tribute to popular snowboarder• Soutter won medal at European Youth Olympic Winter FestivalThe British Olympic Association has paid tribute to Ellie Soutter after the snowboarder died on her 18th birthday.Announcing her death the BOA chairma…
• Team captain Lorraine Ugen leaps 6.86m in long jump• United States lead after day one, with Fracne secondHolly Bradshaw cleared 4.75m in the women’s pole vault to give Britain its first victory in the Athletics World Cup, a new eight-team event at th…
Exclusive: The former Olympic long jump champion will retire after the summer due to ongoing injury and has his sights on cycling“At times I am in so much pain I can’t even sit on the floor and play with my two kids,” says Greg Rutherford as he revs hi…
• Dame Katherine Grainger warns of implications of budget cuts• Finances are set to get tighter for 2020-2024 Olympic cycleDame Katherine Grainger, the chair of UK Sport, has warned that Britain’s extraordinary record of Olympic and Paralympic success …
• Briton in second place coming over the last hurdle• Pozzi wins first gold medal at world indoor championshipsBritain made a fine finish to the world indoor championships when Andrew Pozzi won gold in the 60m hurdles by a single hundredth of a second….
Team boosted by performance in world track finals as Laura and Jason Kenny have encouraging returns to competitionThe Great Britain cycling team has had its moments on the velodrome in the Dutch town of Apeldoorn, which is where Laura Kenny, nee Trott,…
European champion at 1500m and 3,000m will tackle both distances at the world indoor championships in Birmingham despite pressures of studying for a veterinary science degreeFourth place is often said to be the most agonising finishing position for an …
We should not be obsessed with winning sporting medals, we should be obsessed with playing sport and getting as many people as possible to do itIt’s been a month of incredible success at the Winter Olympics. It was a month, right? It certainly felt lik…
The dust has yet to settle from Pyeongchang but already all eyes are on funding for the next Winter Olympics in Beijing in four years time. UK Sport will pitch for more funding as they look to propel Britain into being a top-15 nation, with basketball …
• No reason we shouldn’t be top-15 nation, says BOA chief executive• Athletes arrive back at Heathrow after record-breaking GamesGreat Britain’s Olympic chiefs have launched an impassioned defence of their £28m winter sport funding and are undeterred i…
Latest updates as the curtain comes down in PyeongchangEmail nick.miller@theguardian.com | Tweet: @NickMiller79Final medal table from Pyeongchang 10.38am GMT One thing you won’t be seeing today is a Russian flag. Those plucky band of stateless warriors…
GB lose 5-3 at Winter Olympics after Eve Muirhead’s late errors‘I’m devastated it didn’t turn out how we wanted,’ she saysGreat Britain’s women’s curling team finished fourth at the Winter Olympics as Japan won an attritional bronze medal match. Defeat…
Medal takes nation’s overall tally to five in PyeongchangMorgan holds on to third after series of falls from rivals on final runBilly Morgan has won snowboard big air bronze to claim Britain’s record fifth Winter Olympics medal of the Games. Related: C…
• Sweden defeat puts Team GB in play-off against Japan for bronze• ‘We came up short but did ourselves proud,’ GB skip Muirhead saidBy the time the crowd at the Gangneung Curling Centre had got to their feet to celebrate South Korea’s Garlic Girls reac…
• Short-track skater will consider doubling up in bid to end jinx• Briton reveals plan to retire and switch sports had she won goldElise Christie will consider moving abroad to take up long-track speed skating – where there are far fewer opponents and …
Great Britain short track speed skater Elise Christie insisted that she won’t be defined by a second disastrous Winter Olympic campaign. Christie was disqualified in the 100m on Tuesday after a crash earlier in the Games saw her miss out on a semi-fina…
• UK’s greatest Winter Olympian ‘won’t pursue celebrity’• Yarnold is not ruling out a tilt at third gold in 2022It took Lizzy Yarnold four years to weave together the myriad threads required to defend her skeleton title. Yet hours after becoming Britai…
• Available to UK viewers only. Britain’s women’s curling team lost to Sweden in controversial circumstances after skip Eve Muirhead was adjudged to have not let go of her final stone before the hogline. Replays suggested that she did let go in ti…
