When Keri-anne Payne dives into the Serpentine on August 9, she knows she will have to be "the ruthless one" if she is to add the Olympic open water title to the world crown she won in Shanghai last year.
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Lara Hatfield and Laura Lonsdale: There's too much pressure to love the Olympics
Friday 27 April 2012
The 2012 Olympic slogan is "Inspire a generation". Well, we are the generation Lord Coe has in mind, but are we inspired?
The one face you won't see marking 100 days to Games
Sunday 15 April 2012
Their rivalry is the stuff of Olympic folklore but while Coe has been running London 2012, Ovett is keeping his distance
Swimming: Second wave seek a fitting stage
Sunday 04 March 2012
Suit technology has been reined in but British Swimming Championships could see a rush of new records
Plotting a route to London 2012
Wednesday 04 January 2012
The countdown to the Olympic Games has begun in earnest. Robin Scott-Elliot charts what lies between Team GB's athletes and a place on the podium six months from now
How much is a British gold medal worth? £2m
Sunday 01 January 2012
Home athletes on the podium will earn riches beyond their wildest dreams from sponsors, TV shows and a host of other deals
Joan Smith: A woman's place is well away from the pitch, is it?
Thursday 01 December 2011
Imagine the scene at the BBC. There they are, busily collecting nominations from sports editors for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, when someone notices that most of the names belong to men. How on earth did that happen? Especially after they went out of their way to create a "level playing field" – I think that's the requisite cliché – by seeking nominations from such admirably gender-neutral publications as Nuts and Zoo. Sick as parrots all round!
BBC must include women in sports award shortlist, says Harman
Thursday 01 December 2011
The BBC was facing a growing backlash last night over the absence of any women from its shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year.
Joan Smith: A woman's place is off the pitch, is it?
Thursday 01 December 2011
The insidious bit excuses the 'experts' and places the blame firmly on the public
Keri-Anne Payne: Payne's the name of the game in the open water
Thursday 04 August 2011
The 10km champion may be GB's surest hope of gold in 2012
Swimming: Phelps says Shanghai setbacks will spur him on for London
Tuesday 02 August 2011
Michael Phelps endured the novel experience of being second best for significant parts of the world championships. It left the multi-decorated American frustrated but adamant that he will be swimming notably quicker come next year's Games in London where he will be looking to add seven Olympic gold medals to the 14 he already owns.
Swimming: Tancock grabs gold as GB finish on crest of wave
Monday 01 August 2011
Backstroke glory and silver for Miley lift Britain up medal table while China celebrate Sun world record
Swimming: Adlington beats Friis with style to take gold
Sunday 31 July 2011
Briton storms past Dane in world 800m freestyle in the country where she won two Olympic titles
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