View image | gettyimages.com The Olympics is one of the most awaited events on the sporting calendar and it is a great opportunity for countries to unite and participate in multiple sports every four years. The London 2012 Olympics were a great spectacle which featured numerous sport events and with ...
Read More »Riders Aim To Continue Winning Start
View image | gettyimages.com Leicester Riders will be looking to make it three wins out of three when they take on Leeds Force in the British Basketball League. The Riders have won their first two matches of the meeting after beating Worcester Wolves and Glasgow Rocks in their opening matches. ...
Read More »Rugby World Cup: Scotland 39-16 USA
View image | gettyimages.com Scotland came back to beat the USA after a faltering first half to remain top of their group with another bonus point victory. It was a game of two halves in which the USA made the most of Scotland’s errors in the first period and ...
Read More »Rugby World Cup: Australia 65-3 Uruguay
View image | gettyimages.com Australia have put themselves in a very good position to qualify for the knock-out rounds of the Rugby World Cup, with a convincing victory over Uruguay. The Wallabies won 65-3 to send them to the top of Pool A. Nearly 40,000 spectators gathered at Villa Park ...
Read More »Elite League Hockey Returns
View image | gettyimages.com With The Elite Ice Hockey League returned last week, The Sports Lowdown looks at the format of the competition, the teams to watch, and why Ice Hockey continues to grow in popularity. Background of the League The Elite Ice Hockey League was founded in 2003 and ...
Read More »Tour of Britain for Wiggins and Cavendish
View image | gettyimages.com Bradley Wiggins will ride the Tour of Britain for his own cycling team, Team Wiggins in September, with Mark Cavendish also set to ride in the race. Wiggins left Team Sky in 2015 to set up his own team after losing the role as head of ...
Read More »Bolt wins 200m World Title
View image | gettyimages.com Usain Bolt took the 200m crown to go along with his 100m crown at the World Championships in Beijing, putting a further mark on his rivalry with USA’s Justin Gatlin. With the rivalry between both Bolt and Gatlin talked about in the lead up to the ...
Read More »Froome to lead Team Sky
View image | gettyimages.com Two time Tour De France winner Chris Froome will lead Team Sky in the final Grand Tour event of the year, the Vuelta a Espana, despite just weeks ago securing his second Tour De France win. Froome was not expected to ride the final event of ...
Read More »Team GB Squad for next month’s World Athletics Championships
View image | gettyimages.com Great Britain’s squad for next month’s World Athletics Championships in Beijing have been announced, and heptathlon competitor Jessica Ennis-Hill has been included. The 29 year old, who won gold at London 2012, has been out of action after giving birth to her baby boy, but ...
Read More »Tour De France 2015 – Froome Repeats
View image | gettyimages.com On the final stage of the tour, a day of procession around Paris, this article looks at the highlights of the tour and also from the initial article, how close I got to how I predicted the top 10 would finish. Chris Froome and Team Sky ...
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