London 2012: the week ahead - Thursday
Cycling: Team Sprint FinalsVelodrome, 5.59pm & 6.15pm The first medals to be dished out in the Olympic Velodrome. Assuming all goes to plan in qualifying, first to go are Victoria Pendleton and...
View ArticleLondon 2012: the week ahead - Wednesday
Football: Great Britain v UruguayMillennium Stadium, 7.45pm Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Aaron Ramsey – what a proud day it will be for the three highest-profile Welshmen in the Team GB squad. The only...
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Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle FinalAquatics Centre, 8.15pmread more
View ArticleCapital choice
London has almost as many free sporting exhibitions on right now as there are official snack foods of the Olympic Games – and the big kahuna of them all opens tomorrow with The Olympic Journey at the...
View ArticleLondon 2012: the week ahead - Saturday
Subtitle: Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of sport on offer at the Games? Allow us to guide you through week one with our pick of the action - starting, in theory, with Team GB's first gold Cycling:...
View ArticleLord Coe interview
Leading London’s Olympic bid and seeing the city transform itself for the biggest sporting event in its history has changed Seb Coe’s world view for the better. And, he tells Sport, there’s no going...
View ArticlePeter Sagan: Mark Cavendish's big rival for gold
Mark Cavendish bids to take Britain’s first 2012 Olympic gold in the road race tomorrow – and the man most likely to stop him is a prodigy hyped as ‘the Lionel Messi of cycling’ (and not because he’s a...
View ArticleLondon 2012: the week ahead - Monday
Diving: Men's Synchronised 10m Platform FinalAquatics Centre, 3pm The Chinese will win, because the Chinese always win everything at the diving, but this will be our first chance to see young Tom...
View ArticleLondon 2012: the week ahead - Tuesday
Equestrian: Team Eventing Jumping FinalGreenwich Park, 10.30am The British eventing team has medalled at the past three Games (two silvers and a bronze), but it's now 40 years since they struck gold...
View ArticleOlympic no-hopers
There’s a noble sporting tradition of supporting the underdog. You know – the athlete who lands face first in the long jump, falls off the trampoline or blows their toes off in the shooting. What...
View ArticleUsain Bolt exclusive interview: the 100m gold medal star talks to Sport
With great irony, the world’s fastest man arrives late, walking at a glacial pace and with a pained expression on his face. We hear the deep, undulating boom of his voice a full minute before he ducks...
View ArticleLaura Trott interview
Two gold medals at April’s World Champs saw Laura Trott become British Cycling’s latest star. Now she goes to her first Olympics with potential to show up some of the sport’s bigger names… With the...
View ArticleUsain Bolt: fact or fiction
Millions of words have been dedicated to the subject of Usain St Leo Bolt, but how many of them are true?read more
View ArticleKeri-Anne Payne interview
As the first Brit to qualify for the Games, Keri-Anne Payne has had more time than most to prepare herself for London 2012. But, she told Sport, no amount of preparation can make one of the Games’ most...
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