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BBC News
27-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Marathon one of the best experiences of my life
Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee says his London Marathon debut was "one of the best experiences" of his life despite suffering more "dark moments" than during his victory at the Paris 27-year-old finished 14th in the men's elite race in a time of two hours 11 minutes and eight who also became triathlon world champion in October, was the second-fastest Briton behind Mahamed Mahamed, who finished ninth."It was probably one of the best experiences of my life if I'm being honest. I expected the crowd to be good but they were another level," Yee told BBC Sport."I am so proud to have completed the marathon."An amazing experience but it was hard at the end. Emotions about [the] time will come afterwards, but the main thing for me today was to enjoy it, do something unknown and embrace it. I did that to my best of my ability."This is bigger than running. It's an amazing day and I wanted to be a part of it. This was the perfect opportunity."Asked how running a marathon compared to a triathlon, he added: "My legs have never been this sore. Physically they are quite similar but my legs have never felt like this in my whole life. It's a new experience definitely."Yee confirmed that the switch to the marathon would "definitely not" be a permanent one as he plans to try and defend his Olympic title in Los Angeles in 2028."Definitely a lot more dark moments, I'd say, than Paris, today," he said."Once I got to 32, 33k there's a lot of pain there. My legs are cramping and I just had to keep fighting through that." 'Definitely more marathons in future' for McColgan Eilish McColgan also made her marathon debut after injury had prevented her running in London in previous Commonwealth 10,000m champion secured the highest finish among British runners in the elite women's race in eighth, and clocked a Scottish marathon record of 2:24: doing so, she also beat the personal best of her mother - 1996 London Marathon winner Liz McColgan - who ran 2:26:52 in 1997."I was very, very nervous. Probably the most nervous I have been," the 34-year-old told BBC Sport."The distance was an unknown. I have never raced more than a half marathon so the thought of doing it back-to-back was scary. The crowds were insane."I knew my first [marathon] would be tough. I was coming in underprepared. I can now call myself a marathoner which I was incredibly proud of. It was a really good learning experience."I would love to break two minutes 20 seconds. It is what I think I am capable of doing. I will make some tweaks in training."There will definitely be more marathons in the future. Hopefully there can another before the end of the year."McColgan finished a place above fellow Briton Rose Harvey with Phily Bowden in 11th and Holly Archer 13th.
BBC News
15-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
LA 2028 to feature Olympic mixed-team golf event
A mixed-team golf event will be held at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles following approval by the International Olympic Committee executive have said it will contested as 36-hole competition across two 18-hole rounds - foursomes and fourball - with a maximum of one team per will be comprised of one male and one female athlete from the individual men's and women's competitions being held at the group event will take place in between the men's and the women's competitions at the Riviera Country returned to the Olympics at Rio 2016 after an absence of over a century, and LA 2028 will see the first team competition since St Louis Games of Golf Federation executive director Antony Scanlon said: "We're excited to bring even more attention to our sport through this additional format."The athletes were very enthusiastic about their desire to play with their compatriots, and we look forward to watching them compete together in Los Angeles."TeamGB's Justin Rose won gold in the men's individual event in Rio just under a decade ago while Tommy Fleetwood picked up the silver medal at Paris is one of six sports - joining archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), gymnastics, rowing coastal beach sprint and table tennis - to add a mixed-gender competition for LA 2028.
BBC News
17-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Boxing set for Olympic inclusion in 2028
The International Olympic Committee executive board has recommended that boxing be included at the 2028 Games in Los sport was not part of the initial programme when it was announced in 2022, but last month World Boxing was given provisional recognition as the sport's international governing recommendation will still need to be approved by the IOC at this week's session in Greece, but outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach expects it to be given the green light."After the provisional recognition of World Boxing in February we were in a position to take this decision," Bach said on Monday."This recommendation has to go to the session, but I am very confident they will approve it so that all the boxers of the world then have certainty they can participate in the Olympic Games in LA."The creation of a new global body was the biggest hurdle to the sport's inclusion in the next IOC has run boxing at the past two Olympics after the International Boxing Association (IBA) was suspended as the sport's world governing body in 2019 over governance, finance, refereeing and ethical Russian-led IBA was then stripped of its status in June 2023 over a failure to implement Boxing was formed in April 2023 and now has 84 members across five continents, including Great month the IOC said World Boxing met several key criteria for provisional IOC has said only athletes whose national federations were members of World Boxing by the time of the start of the qualification events for the 2028 Olympics could take part in Los dates for the qualifying period are yet to be confirmed.
BBC News
11-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
The King's Baton Relay: 500 days to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
What are the Commonwealth Games? The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event which takes place every four first version of the event was held in Hamilton, Canada, in of the countries and territories involved in the Commonwealth Games are also part of the Commonwealth is made up of 56 countries, many of which had been part of the British British Empire was at one time the largest known empire in the world, until the 20th century when many of the countries it controlled wanted to become independent from Commonwealth was created to help keep friendly relationships with many of the countries that became of the countries in the Commonwealth are very big, like Canada, India, and Australia, while others are small, like the Pacific island nation of Charles is head of the Commonwealth - and this is the reason that he officially opens the Commonwealth Games at the Opening Ceremony. What is the King's Baton Relay? The Baton Relay is an important tradition that takes place in the lead-up to each Commonwealth Games. A specially designed baton is passed from one "baton bearer" to the next as it travels through different countries in the lead up to the 2026 relay, which began in London as part of the Commonwealth Day celebrations, marked the King's first as head of the Commonwealth. His Majesty placed a sealed message inside the baton, which will remain hidden until the opening ceremony of the Games in July. The first baton bearer is Scottish cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy, a six-time Olympic gold and two-time Commonwealth gold medallist, who was handed the baton from the next baton carriers included wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn, environmental campaigner Keiran Healy and judo athlete Gabriella Wood from Trinidad & Tobago, who is currently studying at the University of Stirling. The 10 sporting events in next year's Commonwealth Games include:Athletics and Para athletics (track & field)Swimming and Para swimmingArtistic gymnasticsTrack cycling and Para-track cyclingNetballWeightlifting and Para powerliftingBoxingJudoBowls and Para bowls3x3 basketball and 3x3 Wheelchair hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and stepped in again this time, after the state of Victoria in Australia backed withdrew in 2023 because it was going to cost too much money to put on the event there, so Glasgow agreed to a smaller version of the Games.
BBC News
27-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Double Olympic medallist Reardon to run in Belfast
Great Britain's double Olympic relay medallist Sam Reardon has joined an already strong entry list for the Belfast Irish Milers Meet on 10 May. His fellow Great Britain Olympic team-mate Phoebe Gill will lead the entries for the World Athletics Continental Tour meeting after her stunning performance at the Belfast event last summer. Reardon, 21, was part of Great Britain's quartet that clinched third place in the mixed 4x400m relay final at last year's Paris Olympics and also helped his country secure bronze in the men's 4x400m relay at the Londoner, who runs for the Blackheath & Bromley club, was a late call-up to the GB Olympic relay squads after smashing his 400m personal best when clocking 44.70 seconds at the London Diamond League meeting a week before the performance cut 1.29 seconds off his previous fastest 400m produced at the Morton Games in Dublin earlier in July. Reardon was fifth in the 800m final at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships in Colombia and has a 1:45.95 personal best for the longer distance but after combining the two events, opted to concentrate on the 400m last season. His opponents at the Mary Peters Track will include Ireland internationals Jack Raftery, Callum Baird and Sean Doggett while event director Eamonn Christie is also holding out hope that recent national indoor champion Conor Kelly could be a late addition to the 400m field."It's great that an athlete of Sam's calibre, a double Olympic medallist, is keen to run at my meet and he knows full well he'll be coming to a track and a meet where fast times have been run in recent years," said Christie. Gill, then aged 17, smashed the 45-year-old European Under-18 800m record at the Belfast meeting last May by clocking one minute 57.86 to cut almost four seconds off her personal Belfast victory started a run of remarkable performances by the St Albans athlete who won the 800m title at the British Championships and went on to reach the Olympic plans to race over 1500m at this year's Belfast meeting and her metric mile opposition will include other young British talents Innes FitzGerald and Ava big-name Irish athletes to have already signed up for the meeting include European mixed 4x400m gold medallist Sharlene Mawdsley. Last year's Belfast meeting was held in sweltering conditions and also produced a superb men's 800m as Great Britain's Callum Dodds broke one minute and 45 seconds for the first time to clinch victory in a track record of 1:44.79, which propelled him towards selection for the European will return to the Mary Peters Track where his 800m opponents will again include last year's runner-up, compatriot Tom Randolph who also went under 1:45 and another Briton Tiarnan Crorken, who clocked 1:45.60 when placing fourth nine months ago.
