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Articles tagged with: Olympics
Historic wins, inspiring moments and British success: MPs share what they’re looking forward at the Paris Olympics Partner content
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By UK Sport
Historic wins, inspiring moments and British success: MPs share what they’re looking forward at the Paris Olympics
Amidst everything else expected in 2024, a new wave of Olympic and Paralympic athletes are preparing to head across the Channel, aiming to win gold in Paris. Team GB and ParalympicsGB, backed by support from the Government and National Lottery, are hoping to inspire the nation once again with extraordinary sporting moments and medal-winning performances.
Countdown to Paris 2024: Westminster Hosts Team GB Athletes Partner content
Culture
By UK Sport
Countdown to Paris 2024: Westminster Hosts Team GB Athletes
With the Paris Olympics and Paralympics now just one year away, Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes took time out from their busy training schedules to meet with MPs at a parliamentary reception, hosted by UK Sport. It was a chance to celebrate the contribution that elite sport makes to the UK and for our athletes to share how they are preparing to make the nation proud at Paris 2024.
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By UK Sport
UK Sport announces extra investment to support Paris Olympic and Paralympic preparations 
UK Sport has today confirmed an additional £4m of funding into summer Olympic and Paralympic sport as preparations gear up for the Paris 2024 Games.
Government Failed To Achieve Legacy Aims For 2012 London Olympics
Culture
Government Failed To Achieve Legacy Aims For 2012 London Olympics
The government has failed to meet its legacy aims on sports participation after the 2012 London Olympic Games, according to a report by an influential select committee.
Why the UK is ready to build on a magnificent summer of sport Partner content
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By UK Sport
Why the UK is ready to build on a magnificent summer of sport
Sport is a part of the national psyche. It provides those big moments where the nation comes together in an act of celebration. These are the moments that inspire the next generation and bring enormous social and economic benefits to the UK as a whole. The House Live sat down with Esther Britten, Head of Major Events at UK Sport, to hear about a memorable summer of sport and learn more about what the future holds.
A decade on, the legacy of the London Olympic Games proves what levelling up can achieve in left behind areas of the country
Culture
By Shaun Dawson
A decade on, the legacy of the London Olympic Games proves what levelling up can achieve in left behind areas of the country
More than 50 years of coordinated and collaborative regeneration has transformed the slice of south east England, known as the Lee Valley, from a contaminated wasteland into one of the United Kingdom’s green lungs and a zone of sporting excellence, a perfect case study for what the government wants to achieve through its levelling up agenda.
The Chris Boardman Interview: Ending the culture war around cycling
Health
By James Wilmore
The Chris Boardman Interview: Ending the culture war around cycling
Three decades on from winning Olympic gold, cyclist Chris Boardman has a new national challenge – getting us out of our cars and onto our bikes.
Lord Coe: 10 years on from London 2012
Culture
By Lord Coe
Lord Coe: 10 years on from London 2012
It is hard to believe the London 2012 Olympic Games are already celebrating their 10-year anniversary.
It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the opening ceremony, when Great Britain welcomed the world to London with a riveting spectacle imagined by Danny Boyle.
The Winter Games that proved our love for Team GB and ParalympicsGB hasn’t cooled Partner content
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By UK Sport
The Winter Games that proved our love for Team GB and ParalympicsGB hasn’t cooled
The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games did more than unite the country behind British athletes; they showed that with the right funding, sport can plot a path to a more diverse, inclusive future for the country as a whole, and MPs agree.
The UK has never sent people to celebrate an Olympics where the host was credibly accused of genocide. Let’s not start now.
Foreign affairs
By Luke de Pulford
The UK has never sent people to celebrate an Olympics where the host was credibly accused of genocide. Let’s not start now.
Brace yourselves. As predicted, President Biden has used this week’s Summit for Democracy to announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. And you know what that means: Chairman Xi is going to go ballistic.
The government must set an example and stage a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Foreign affairs
By Iain Duncan Smith MP
The government must set an example and stage a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics
The Olympic Games should be an opportunity for people across the world to unite in a shared celebration of sport, transcending national and political divides. Yet, less than three months from now, the Beijing Winter Olympics will take place amidst a brutal campaign of repression against the Uyghur people.
The Olympic and Paralympic heroes inspiring communities Partner content
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By The National Lottery
The Olympic and Paralympic heroes inspiring communities
Since The National Lottery started to fund elite sport in 1997, National Lottery players have supported over 5,000 British Olympic and Paralympic athletes. This funding allows Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes to train full time and benefit from world class facilities, technology, coaching and support teams.
We must channel our Tokyo 2020 celebrations into combating the daily issues disabled people face
Communities
By Baroness Grey-Thompson
We must channel our Tokyo 2020 celebrations into combating the daily issues disabled people face
There has been much debate around what a delayed Tokyo Games would look and feel like. The buzz from the Olympics certainly fed through to the Paralympics and both Games raised the spirits of the nation at a time when it was sorely needed.
British para athletes make history to end our extraordinary sporting summer on a high Partner content
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By UK Sport
British para athletes make history to end our extraordinary sporting summer on a high
An extraordinary summer is drawing to a close and, as I returned home from Tokyo last week, there was finally time to draw breath and reflect on a very special Paralympic Games. A Games that, in the words of Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee President, ‘many doubted would happen, many thought impossible’.
Meet Eilidh: the Olympic hopeful inspiring the next generation of women in sport Partner content
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By The National Lottery
Meet Eilidh: the Olympic hopeful inspiring the next generation of women in sport
Thanks to National Lottery players, £36 million a week goes to a wide range of good causes including supporting our elite athletes, many of who go on to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
From past glories to new hopefuls, MPs share what the Olympics mean to them Partner content
Education
By UK Sport
From past glories to new hopefuls, MPs share what the Olympics mean to them
As a new generation of athletes prepare to take to the sporting stage in Tokyo, backed by sustained support from the Government and the National Lottery’, Westminster is looking ahead to the Games with high hopes that Team GB will again provide extraordinary moments to unite and inspire the nation
Let’s find our Team GB spirit to win the post-Covid race
Coronavirus
By Sir Keith Mills
Let’s find our Team GB spirit to win the post-Covid race
Coming out of the pandemic, our challenge is to now re-discover a sense of solidarity and togetherness. Because the more we’re together, the faster we’ll recover.
The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy Partner content
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By UK Sport
The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy
Olympic and Paralympic sports are generating increasing value for the economy – and UK Sport believes they have an important part to play in helping the country Build Back Better from Covid.
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By UK Sport
UK Sport outlines mission to create greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments
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By UK Sport
UK Sport names 27 coaches as part of plan to increase female representation in Olympic & Paralympic sport
Today officially marks the start of UK Sport’s new female coaches leadership programme with 27 coaches from 15 sports coming together as part of a plan to more than double representation in the Olympic and Paralympic high-performance community by Paris 2024.
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By UK Sport
UK Sport outlines plans for £352million investment in Olympic and Paralympic sport
UK Sport has today signalled its intent for the UK to become successful in a wider range of sports and build a high-performance sports community which reflects the diversity of British society.
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By UK Sport
UK Sport will grant extra funding to help national governing bodies due to financial impact of COVID-19
UK Sport has confirmed it will grant another £438,000 worth of extra funding to help national governing bodies struggling because of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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UK Sport & EIS outline ambition to make coaching UK’s competitive advantage
UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport (EIS) have come together to produce a paper as part of a joint ambition to develop coaching as the UK’s competitive advantage.
Coronavirus
By British Safety Council
It’s not safe for the Olympics to go ahead as planned says London 2012 health and safety boss
Lawrence Waterman OBE – “We ran the safest ever games for London 2012 – the Tokyo Games cannot be delivered safely for athletes, visitors or workers in Japan.”