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03 Dec 01 : 00 | Olympic sports handed extra £29m to plug 2012 funding shortfall The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, last night came to the rescue of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic sports by finding an extra £29m to fund the chase for medals at London 2012 but insisted there would be no more money. No sport will now lack financial backing for the next Olympics, but those... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 31 hours ago |
03 Dec 01 : 00 | BBC's Olympic coverage under threat after TV bid is rejected The IOC's rejection of the BBC's bid for the Olympics after 2012 has opened a gap for rival companies Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 31 hours ago |
02 Dec 14 : 07 | Olympic gold medallist James DeGale turns professional with Frank Warren Olympic gold medallist James DeGale today became the third member of Great Britain's boxing squad from Beijing to turn professional with promoter Frank Warren.Warren has also signed Billy Joe Saunders, who lost meekly in the second round before complaining of homesickness, and Frankie Gavin, the... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 42 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 00 | Digger: Backstreet borrowing and a fall-back for clubs Premier League clubs have been "reminded of their obligations to each other" in a circular letter demanding that transfer debts are honoured in full.In a microcosm of the mistrust that led to the credit crunch among banks, the memo could spark panic among clubs who suspect each other of being unable... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago |
02 Dec 01 : 03 | London 2012: UK Sport fears treasury will break £20m Olympic funding... UK Sport was promised an extra £20m by the government to help plug its Olympic-funding gap but the elite-sport funding body fears that, with public borrowing rocketing to levels in excess of £100bn, the pledge will not be honoured. More than a third of the 27 Olympic sports face a cut in their... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
01 Dec 03 : 12 | Cycling: Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy escapes Thailand chaos Triple Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy was among thousands of Britons stranded in Thailand following anti-government protests at Bangkok's airport Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
01 Dec 02 : 23 | Olympic games 2012: Lord Moynihan sounds warning if cuts bite into 2012... Britain's medal table target will be revised from fourth to eighth if funding is slashed, the BOA chairman has said Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
03 Dec 14 : 41 | Formula one: Max Mosley threat prompts teams to consider radical changes Radical new engine regulations and draconian restrictions on testing during the course of the racing season will be up for discussion in what promises to be a highly charged meeting of formula one team representatives in Geneva tomorrow. The intention is to agree a cohesive package of cost-cutting... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago |
27 Nov 23 : 32 | Olympic Games: Team GB families guaranteed 2012 tickets Olympic Games Robert Booth The families of British Olympians will be guaranteed tickets to watch their loved ones in action at the London Games and so stop them being forced to buy seats on the black market, as happened in Beijing this year.The British Olympic Association today reached agreement... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
03 Dec 01 : 00 | Cycling: Chris Hoy sets his sights on Glasgow games in 2014 The quadruple Olympic medallist Chris Hoy has said he may retire after the 2014 Commonwealth Games Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 31 hours ago |
02 Dec 18 : 46 | Boxing: James DeGale, Frankie Gavin and Billy Joe Saunders turn... The lure of turning professional has proved too seductive for Britain's Olympic middleweight gold medallist, James DeGale, to resist. He has agreed to a three-year deal to be managed and promoted by Frank Warren, along with the 2007 world lightweight gold medallist, Frankie Gavin, and a third member... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 38 hours ago |
02 Dec 11 : 39 | Athletics: Paula Radcliffe to race Constantina Dita in 2009 London... Paula Radcliffe will face Olympic champion Constantina Dita in next year's London marathon. The marathon officials announced this morning one of the strongest women's fields in their history as Radcliffe, who has not run in the race since 2005, bids to win the event for the fourth time.Radcliffe... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk 45 hours ago |
18 Nov 01 : 10 | Olympics 2012: Tessa Jowell should seize chance of a Olympic Games for our... New Labour's cash-for-honours scandal is the basis of David Hare's latest play, Gethsemane, which opened in London last week and features among its dramatis personae a leading politician whose husband is involved in dodgy business dealings. Sometime in the next year or two our most distinguished... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
15 Nov 01 : 07 | Olympic Games: Hunt finds chief position at the BOA Andrew Hunt has succeeded Simon Clegg as chief executive of the British Olympic Association Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
12 Nov 13 : 33 | Football: Scottish Football Association remain wary of GB Olympic team Plans for a British Olympic football team remain unsupported by the Scottish Football Association, despite pledges from Fifa that such a side would not threaten the home nations' independence.Government minister Jim Murphy today received "reassurances" from Fifa that the participation of a joint UK... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
13 Nov 01 : 07 | Football: Fabio Capello ready to battle Sir Alex Ferguson for right to... Managing the GB team at the 2012 Games would 'make another of my dreams come true', Fabio Capello has said Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
30 Nov 01 : 05 | Women's football: England battle US in Under-20s quarter-final England face the United States in the quarter-final of the women's Under-20s World Cup in Chile tonight. Mo Marley's side will hope to equal the achievement of the U17 women's team in New Zealand last month, when they became the first England side of either gender to reach a World Cup semi-final... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
29 Nov 12 : 32 | Triathlon: The manager of Team GB Keith Snell talks to Paul Doyle about the... Hi Keith, let's get some facts down straight away. What will the winter triathlon consist of in the upcoming championships?I've proposed concentrating on the world championships in Austria, which are a week after the Euros. There's going to be a 4.5k cross-country run, then 7.5k cross-country on the... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
07 Nov 01 : 05 | Rowing: Reed has admirals on board for Olympic title defence Coxless fours gold-medalist Peter Reed has the backing of the Royal Navy to continue his training until London 2012 Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
28 Nov 19 : 12 | Big Blogger 2008: vote for the week four winner Yes, you read that right. Six. Such was the quality of the 122 blogs we recieved this week that we've doubled the shortlist. In truth, we could have upped it to a dozen or more. For after one or two standouts, there was a very healthy batch of uniformly good and varied blogs just behind. In the end,... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
28 Nov 01 : 01 | Digger: Ministers close book on gambling fund levy With Europe's sports ministers meeting in Biarritz this week, the wider sports community has been begging Gerry Sutcliffe to make sports betting the central agenda item.David Collier, the England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive, has written to Sutcliffe, the UK sports minister, urging... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
28 Nov 01 : 02 | Football: Kinnear charged with improper conduct over 'Mickey Mouse' jibe Newcastle's interim manager, Joe Kinnear, has been charged with improper conduct by the Football Association after describing Martin Atkinson as a "Mickey Mouse referee" after their recent defeat at Fulham. He has until December 12 to respond.The 61-year-old former Wimbledon manager, appointed at... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
27 Nov 01 : 07 | Digger: FA's leading questions not answered Less than six months after unveiling its new staff-structure document Vision 2008-12, the Football Association pointlessly engaged the consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver a strategy for yet another potential shake-up of the executive team.Representatives of the world's largest... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
26 Nov 14 : 34 | Beijing Olympics 2008: Five arrested in online ticket fraud investigation Five people have been arrested as part of an online ticket fraud investigation over events including the Beijing Olympics.Four addresses in the London area, three residential and one business property, were searched yesterday by Serious Fraud Office investigators and officers of the Metropolitan... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
26 Nov 01 : 13 | Digger: Board games distract from World Cup 2018 bid Andy Anson's first task as chief executive of England's World Cup 2018 bid company will be to smooth infighting within the boardroom, according to the shadow sports minister, Hugh Robertson.The Conservative MP has been a vocal critic of the politicisation of the bid company board. Four of its eight... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
25 Nov 10 : 52 | Boxing: Bradley Saunders held by police on suspicion of cocaine dealing Boxer Bradley Saunders, who competed for Great Britain at this year's Olympic Games, has been questioned by police on suspicion of dealing cocaine Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
24 Nov 01 : 11 | Athletics: Usain Bolt fights for right to party and rule the sprinters'... Usain Bolt was last night named male world athlete of the year and vowed to stop his partying to concentrate on shaking up the sport once more. The Jamaican sprinter was rewarded for his amazing feats at the Olympic Games in Beijing, where his sensational victories in the 100m and 200m - breaking... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
23 Nov 19 : 51 | Tennis: Spain surge to Davis Cup success as Argentina's risks backfire It had hardly seemed likely that this year's Davis Cup finale would be decided by a match between Fernando Verdasco and Jose Acasuso, yet this was a final that rarely ran to form, save for David Nalbandian's opening win against David Ferrer. Thereafter Argentina, the clear pre-match favourites, and... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
23 Nov 01 : 24 | If the BBC really want a personality there's only one contender - let's... There is no excusing naff television, however well-intentioned, and if you ask me the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show has become even more cringeingly unwatchable than the monumentally bad Children in Need over the years. Not that I would recommend asking me, because rather than watch the... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
20 Nov 13 : 01 | Dave Hill on why there should be no "austerity Olympics" in London 2012 Dogs bark, cats miaow and sinking nine billion quid into any sporting event is a form of insanity. But while calls for a 1948-style "austerity Olympics" may strike a popular chord, the prospects of our getting one are nil. At this stage in the Games, cost cutting can occur only at the margins. Deals... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
20 Nov 01 : 02 | Football: Theo Walcott faces surgery and three months out of action Arsenal are expected to confirm today that Theo Walcott requires corrective surgery on the shoulder he dislocated while training at the Olympic stadium in preparation for England's friendly against Germany, with Arsène Wenger, his club manager, saying last night that the winger will be out for "at... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
19 Nov 01 : 10 | Athletics: Dwain Chambers ends 2012 Olympics quest Dwain Chambers yesterday revealed that he will not be taking the British Olympic Association to court again, all but ending his dream of running in London in 2012. The controversial sprinter said that he cannot afford another legal battle over the BOA's lifetime ban on drugs cheats."I think the... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
17 Nov 01 : 03 | Football: Steven Gerrard out but Fabio Capello can count on John Terry in... The England captain, John Terry, linked up with the national squad at their Hertfordshire hotel last night and expects to be fit for Wednesday's friendly against Germany despite suffering a foot injury during Chelsea's victory at West Bromwich Albion. If so he will be one of the few experienced... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
15 Nov 01 : 04 | Athletics: Britain's forgotten star seeks historic home run in Tokyo All but unknown in her home country, Britain's best Olympic marathon runner Mara Yamauchi is much loved in Japan Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
13 Nov 00 : 11 | Ainslie is yachtsman of the year for a third time The IOC president, Jacques Rogge, has compared Ben Ainslie's Olympic feat to that of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
09 Nov 01 : 06 | Sport: BBC Sports Personality of the Year's battle of the sexes Vote Becky, by Anna KesselCome on the women,' says Rebecca Adlington, the double Olympic gold medallist from Mansfield. It is a rallying cry. In the 54 years the BBC have been running their Sports Personality of the Year award, there have been 13 female winners. Adlington is shocked that there have... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
09 Nov 01 : 06 | Observer Writers pick their sports personality candidates Kevin Mitchell, Chief sports writer1 Chris Hoy 2 Bradley Wiggins 3 Lewis Hamilton 4 David Haye Hoy was incredible, a force of nature. Likewise Wiggins. Team-mates in a cycling co-op we have rarely seen at an event like the Olympic Games. Hamilton held his nerve all the way to the end. And David... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
04 Nov 01 : 22 | Timely reminder to Rogge not to fritter away stadium legacy The cheers for Paula Radcliffe as she pounded through Central Park to win the New York marathon for a third time on Sunday were well merited, but she deserves even greater acclaim for her remarks last week when invited to comment on the recently expressed view of Jacques Rogge, the president of the... Source : Sport | guardian.co.uk |
