Flying down an ice track at 90mph takes bravery, skill and determination and that is exactly what the sport of skeleton requires from its athletes. No nation has won more than Great Britain’s nine ...

Five sports, one champion - welcome to Modern Pentathlon. The term 'pentathlon' derives from the Greek 'péntathlon', meaning contest of five events, with athletes competing in swimming, fencing, horse ...

Fans of Olympic trivia may already be familiar with the name Launceston Elliot but for anyone who is not, his is a story worth knowing. Team GB’s first Olympic champion remains his nation’s only gold ...

Matt Weston promised and then he delivered. The skeleton ace stormed to Great Britain’s first gold at these Winter Olympics with a performance so brilliant and so dominant, you could not help but ...

Artistic gymnastics never fails to capture an audience. But it can be a little hard to wrap your head around. Women's floor routines are set to music and last approximately 90 seconds, the gymnast ...

Dave Ryding, Team GB’s greatest-ever Alpine skier, he is ‘immensely proud” to have “elevated the sport” in Great Britain as he takes to the slopes for his final Olympic Games at Milano Cortina 2026.

It's not very often you can say that a British Olympian has been the voice behind an Academy Award winning song. In fact, there may only be one instance. Before he recorded the lyrics for the 1968 ...

Artistic swimming sees swimmers perform routines set to music, where they make dance-like movements in the water. When the sport originated in the late 1800s it was known as water ballet, and it has ...

As one of three countries to have appeared at every single Olympic Games, Great Britain boasts a long lineage of trailblazing women. From one female athlete at Paris 1900 to more women than men for ...

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has convened a small group of British business leaders based in California to provide support to the organisation ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. The ...

Before there was Josh Kerr versus Jakob Ingebrigtsen, there was Steve Ovett versus Sebastian Coe. One of the greatest rivalries in the history of middle distance running, Coe against Ovett was a ...

Gus Kenworthy threw down the mantle and produced his best Olympic performance in 12 years at Milano Cortina 2026. The 34-year-old finished sixth in the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe with a best ...