Olympic athletes news

The most high-risk and controversial Olympics of modern times begin today (23 July) in Tokyo, having been delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 ... More

Saturday, 8 June 2019 will mark the eighth annual Global Wellness Day (GWD), and thousands of locations across the world – including hotel/spa chains, fitness ... More

Matt Carroll, CEO of the Australian Olympic Committee, has said the organisation will take a 'new direction', which will include using the power of sport ... More

The UK sports sector has been paying its tributes to former Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell, who has died at the age of 70 ... More

More than £5m (US$6.1m, €5.8m) in funding has been earmarked for potential British Tokyo 2020 Olympic athletes by the support programme set up by leisure ... More

A course for retired Olympic athletes looking to take the next step in their careers has been prepared by the world governing body. The International ... More

Seven athletes supported by GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) through its sports foundation came home from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with medals. The medal winners ... More

ITV will be switching off all of its channels for one hour next week to encourage people to go out and take part in a ... More

Technogym, the official fitness equipment supplier to the Olympic Games, will donate 600 pieces of gym equipment to sports centres across the host city following ... More

Several high-profile Olympic athletes have been seen sporting the telltale red circles on their bodies that result from a session of cupping, a traditional Chinese ... More

It’s been a busy week in the spa and wellness world, with major openings, plans revealed, new initiatives launched, and new positions announced. At Spa ... More

Nuffield Health has opened its first specialist sports performance lab at its flagship City Fitness and Wellbeing gym in London, offering elite-level diagnostics to help ... More

Forty-three promising athletes are being lined up to compete at this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio in a team made up entirely of refugees. The ... More

A petition seeking to overturn the decision to introduce skateboarding at the 2020 Olympic Games has been launched by skateboarders wanting to keep their sport ... More

The Rio de Janeiro water which athletes will be swimming and sailing in for the 2016 Olympic Games contains so much human faeces that competitors ... More

A high performance coach who has worked with Olympic athletes has launched a new personal training and injury rehabilitation studio in Swiss Cottage, North London. ... More

UK Sport is to double its investment in Team GB’s Winter Olympic athletes ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The decision follows this ... More

The British Athletes Commission (BAC), which represents more than 1,500 of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes, has joined forces with the Professional Players Federation (PPF). ... More

Tokyo’s government expects to attract 4.2 million visitors a year to the planned 1.7-hectare Senkyaku Banrai complex in Tokyo’s Koto Ward, which will include a ... More

Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold medal at the Sochi Olympics on Friday was only the 10th gold in British winter Olympic history - a history which ... More

Olympic medallists live longer than the rest of the population, according to results from a new study. Australian researchers compared life expectancy among 15,174 Olympic ... More

Budding athletes could be taught by the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis if an idea mooted by culture secretary, Maria Miller, comes to ... More

After hosting the Rwandan Olympic Team last month, Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre welcomed the Rwandan Paralympic Team to the town with a very special ... More

Image: Paralympian Agitos have replaced the Olympic rings throughout the UK, including here in Edinburgh The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic ... More

Image: Hunt said school sport is a post-Games priority Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged that there is room to improve school sports provision in ... More