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Olympic athletes aren't known for being shy and retiring - but some of the sportsmen and women let their troubles get to them more than others. For...
It's the worst way to end four years of hard work, when your moment in the Olympic spotlight ends with an injury. London 2012 athletes have had the...
Luis Suárez was booed regularly during Uruguay's final Olympics match and 1-0 defeat to Team GB at the Millennium Stadium, and the Liverpool striker ...
Great Britain claimed another medal on Dorney Lake on Thursday as the men's lightweight coxless four pipped the defending champions to the post to tak...
The all-access, media accredited Olympic pass - sought after, hunted, desired - a tablet-sized piece of laminate that you wouldn't swap for a Jacuzzi session with Jessica Ennis. From the opening ceremony onwards, this picture frame medal with lanyard has dangled limply around my neck like Flavor Flav's massive clock. I did say 'clock' there, didn't I?
Bradley Wiggins celebrated his Olympic gold medal last night by, in his own words, getting "blind drunk". After informing a press conference of hi...
Team GB have qualified for the quarter-finals of the London 2012 Olympics football tournament after a tetchy 1-0 win against Uruguay. They will now fa...
Bradley Wiggins added to his Tour de France victory with a stunning gold medal after he and his famous sideburns stormed through the streets to victor...
Heather Stanning rowed to Olympic glory today, as she and Helen Glover became Team GB's first gold medal winners at London 2012. But what you might no...
The men's eight rowing team took bronze for Britain in a nail-biting finish at Dorney Lake on Wednesday. Team GB was overtaken by Canada at the las...
Team GB took home its first gold on Wednesday after women's pair Heather Stanning and Helen Glover beasted it to the finish by a clear length in the r...
British gold medal hope and reigning Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins has fallen victim to an extreme case of an age-old prank, as his Olympic ...
Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins could win Great Britain's first gold medal of London 2012, ending four frustrating days without a first-place...
The golds will come. In the meantime, let's savour the successes of those British athletes whose medals maybe be less shiny but whose stars are higher and brighter than ever.
The London 2012 Olympics will be known as one of the strictest ever in terms of branding regulations – with Locog officials stamping down on athlete...
This summer's unabashed patriotism has not passed me by. But aside from our sportsmen and women, I will also be cheering on a very different 'Team GB'. Based just down the road from the Olympics base, its members have also made the UK a world-class contender in its field.
"Please can you gather between the two placards...If you could please gather between the two placards that would be really great...we would REALLY love it if you could get between the two placards so we can move off on time...It's 22:11, let's go time to move off!"
After poor attendances and empty seats at some of the early events, how reassuring for the Olympic organisers to see a nearly full house at one of Oly...
I was saddened to hear that Paula Radcliffe pulled out of the Olympics due to a foot injury, especially since she still holds the World Record for the Marathon at 2:15:25 (set in 2003) which (interestingly) smashed the previous record of of 2:17:18 set in 2002 by... Paula Radcliffe.
The pristine Aquatics Centre, with its stifling yet welcoming scent of chlorine, hosted Team GB's poster boy on Monday. Tom Daley may be half of a two...
Team GB's men's football team have improved markedly in each of the first three games of their reincarnation. Although the opposition faced has been progressively weaker every time, the growing understanding among Team GB players has been very encouraging.
Lizzie Armitstead has won Britain's first medal in the London 2012 Olympics, winning silver in the women's road race for team GB. Marianne Vos secu...
Whilst the onset of hot weather and the start of the Olympic Games might give us a much needed boost of joy, we can rest assured that even if the rains return and team GB fails to win a single medal, the stoical people of Britain will still be able to muster a smile at themselves and continue their elusive search for happiness.
So, I think I have just about recovered myself from last nights Olympic Opening Ceremony, it was a late one......as I watched the ceremony in the jam ...
