Rachel Reeves hands Team GB £344m fillip for LA 2028 Olympics Sport Team GB’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes are set to receive the funding boost they have been calling for following yesterday’s Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has committed to giving UK Sport £86m a year, an increase of 10 per cent on the last cycle, in the lead-up to the LA 2028 Games. UK Sport CEO Sally [...]
Monger eyes Paralympics and racing return after Ironman heroics Sport British former racing driver Billy Monger is considering competing at the LA 2028 Paralympics after winning Prince William’s approval for his record-breaking Ironman triathlon. The 25-year-old smashed the Ironman record for a double amputee on the 140.6-mile World Championship course in Kona, Hawaii on Saturday. Monger’s remarkable effort, which followed a year of gruelling training [...]
British athletes issue stark warning to government over funding Sport British sport could lose hundreds of elite athletes before the LA 2028 Olympics and Paralympics unless the Government increases funding for the next four-year cycle. The stark warning comes after 85 per cent of funded athletes in a new survey said they would not or might not continue competing if forced to make do with [...]
Ed Warner: My trip to the Paralympics taught me that sport is bad for your health September 5, 2024 Our sport business columnist on the danger of watching the Paralympics, dynamic pricing, election season in Olympic land, and Scotland’s Commonwealth Games dilemma. Watching sport is bad for your health. Or can be. I’m glad I wasn’t strapped to a heart-rate monitor during the wheelchair rugby in Paris over the past week or I would [...]
Au revoir, Paris. You have been a spectacular Olympic Games host August 12, 2024 Kinzang Lhamo finished her Paris 2024 Olympic Games marathon 90 minutes after gold medallist Sifan Hassan, but she finished it. The athlete from Bhutan walked towards the finish at Les Invalides as fans walked beside her, ensuring she completed the most iconic event of any Olympiad. While she encapsulated what it means to reach the [...]
LA 2028: When are the next Olympic Games and how much will they cost? August 11, 2024 Are you planning to tune into the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony today? Well when you do there will be a segment about LA 2028. The Olympics will head Stateside in four years time for the first time since Atlanta 1996, returning to Los Angeles 44 years after the West Coast last hosted a [...]