Posted on January 5, 2020
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It was upon belatedly receiving her Olympic bronze medal in 2018 that Marilyn Okoro realised she still had more to give athletics. Ten years after being part of the 4x400m quartet that initially finished fifth in Beijing, Okoro – alongside Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton… Continue Reading “Okoro hoping for Tokyo swansong as she prepares to give her all in 2020”
Category: Athletics, The 52Tags: 2007 World Athletics Championships, 2009 World Athletics Championships, 2010 European Athletics Championships, 2011 World Athletics Championships, 2018 Mullers Anniversary Games, Athens 2004, Athletics, Beijing 2008, Christine Ohuruogu, Dame Kelly Holmes, Great Britain, Jeanette Kwakye, Jenny Meadows, Kelly Sotherton, London, London 2012, Marilyn Okoro, Nicola Sanders, Olympics, Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, SportSpiel, Team GB, Tokyo 2020, USA, Wigan
Posted on December 31, 2019
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At the end of another groundbreaking year for women’s sport, The 52’s Will Moulton (WM), Alasdair Hooper (AHp), Alex Horowitz (AHz), Ollie Godden (OG), Julia Cook (JC) and Shona McCallin (SMc) have collated their favourite moments of 2019. And in case you missed it,… Continue Reading “The 52’s Favourite Moments Of 2019”
Category: Athletics, Boxing, Cricket, End Of Year Reviews, football, Golf, Gymnastics, Hockey, Tennis, The 52, TrampoliningTags: 2018 FIH Champions Trophy, 2019 EuroHockey Championships, 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers, 2019 FIH Pro League, 2019 Gymnastics World Championships, 2019 Manchester Para-Cycling International, 2019 Solheim Cup, 2019 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, 2019 US Open, 2019 WBBL, 2019 Women's EuroHockey Championships II, 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2019 World Para-athletics Championships, Alex Blackwell, Ally McDonald, Amy Costello, Athletics, BBC Sport, Boxing, Brisbane Heat, British Athletics, British Cycling, Brittany Brown, Bronte Law, Bryony Page, Canelo Alvarez, Christina Linardatou, Coco Gauff, Commonwealth Games, Cricket, Dafne Schippers, Delfine Persoon, Dina Asher-Smith, Doha, England, England Rugby, Europe, European Athletics Championships, European Indoor Athletics Championships, FA WSL, football, France, Gavin & Stacey, Golf, Great Britain, Hayley Silver-Holmes, Hockey, IBF, Ireland, Italy, Izzy Petter, Jamaica, Jermall Charlo, Jess Ennis-Hill, Kadeena Cox, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Katie Taylor, Kings College London, KJT, Laura Gallagher, Leo Santa Cruz, Lionesses, London 2012, Marina Alex, Mexico, Nafi Thiam, New South Wales Breakers, Nicki Cochrane, Norway, Olympics, Phoebe Litchfield, Qatar, Red Roses, Rio 2016, Romania, Rose Valente, Rugby Union, Sandy Park, Scotland, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shona McCallin, Simona Halep, Simone Biles, Suzann Pettersen, Sydney Sixers, Sydney Thunder, Tennis, Tess Howard, The Netherlands, The Stoop, Tokyo 2020, USA, Venus Williams, WBA, WBBL, WBC, WBO, Wembley, Wimbledon, Wimbledon 2019, World Indoor Athletics Championships
Posted on December 24, 2019
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Following Fallon Sherrock’s two historic victories at the 2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Ollie Godden explains how darts still has a long way to go when it comes to encouraging women to play the game. As Fallon Sherrock stepped up to the oche on… Continue Reading “Fallon Sherrock is making PDC history but darts has a long way to go yet”
Category: Darts, The 52Tags: 2010 PDC Women's World Championship, 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, 2020 PDC World Darts Championship, Alexandra Palace, Anastasia Dobromyslova, Austria, Barry Hearn, BDO, BDO Women's Championship, Canada, Chris Dobey, Darts, England, Fallon Sherrock, Gayl King, Gerwyn Price, GMB, Good Morning Britain, Great Britain, James Richardson, Japan, Lisa Ashton, Mensur Suljovic, Michael van Gerwen, Mikuru Suzuki, PDC, PDC Grand Slam of Darts, PDC World Darts Championship, Piers Morgan, Russia, Ted Evetts, Trina Gulliver, Wales
Posted on December 22, 2019
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In her first piece for The 52, England and GB international Tess Howard reviews her favourite hockey moments of 2019 and explains why they show the sport has a blueprint for gender equality that all other should follow. To legitimise women’s sport, it is… Continue Reading ““Hockey is a flagship team sport & pioneer for athletic equality””
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: #EquallyAmazing, 2019 FIH Pro League, Alison Enever, Cricket, Durham University, East Grinstead, England, England Hockey, EuroHockey, FIH, FIH Olympic Qualifiers, FIH Pro League, GB Hockey, Great Britain, Hampstead & Westminster, Hockey, Kate Richardson-Walsh, Laura Unsworth, Lily Owsley, Mary Booth, New Zealand, rugby, Sarah Kelleher, Sophie Bray, Tess Howard, The Perse School, Tokyo 2020, Twickenham Stoop
Posted on November 29, 2019
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Bryony Page’s beaming smile after she completed her second trampoline routine at Rio 2016 was for many the highlight of that year’s Olympics. To see an athlete so completely overwhelmed with emotion after producing the performance of a lifetime is a memory that will… Continue Reading “Trampoline World Championships Special: Bryony Page”
Category: The 52, TrampoliningTags: 2010 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, 2012 Olympic Games, 2016 Olympic Games, 2019 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, Bryony Page, Great Britain, Izzy Songhurst, Kat Driscoll, Laura Gallagher, London 2012, Rio 2016, Rosie MacLennan, Sheffield Trampolining Academy, SportSpiel, Team GB, Tokyo, Trampoline Tumbling & DMT British Championships, Trampoline Tumbling & DMT European Championships, Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, Trampolining
Posted on November 28, 2019
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Image Credit: British Gymnastics You know an athlete is a special talent when they are winning World Championship medals in their teenage years. Great Britain trampolinist Izzy Songhurst is one of those, having helped her country to a team bronze at the 2017 Trampoline,… Continue Reading “Trampoline World Championships Special: Izzy Songhurst”
Category: The 52, TrampoliningTags: 2017 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, 2018 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT European Championships, 2019 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, Azerbaijan, Baku, BBC Sport, British Gymnastics, Bryony Page, Dorset, Great Britain, Izzy Songhurst, Kat Driscoll, Laura Gallagher, Trampolining
Posted on November 27, 2019
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Image Credit: British Gymnastics As she prepares to compete at her 11th World Championships, there are no signs that Kat Driscoll will be giving up trampolining anytime soon. Described by team-mate and The 52 writer Laura Gallagher as a legend of the sport, come January… Continue Reading “Trampoline World Championships Special: Kat Driscoll”
Category: The 52, TrampoliningTags: 2013 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, 2019 Trampoline Tumbling & DMT World Championships, BBC Sport, British Gymnastics, British Gymnastics World Class Programme, Bryony Page, Chatham, Great Britain, HSBC, Izzy Songhurst, Kat Driscoll, Laura Gallagher, London 2012, O2 Arena, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rio 2016, SportSpiel, Tokyo 2020, Tracy Whittaker
Posted on November 16, 2019
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(Image Credit: British Athletics) Paralympic champion. Five-time European champion. Seven-time World champion. Throw in a Commonwealth title, a Paralympic silver medal and two world records and it’s easy to see why we’re asking if Sophie Hahn is one of the greatest British athletes of… Continue Reading “Is Sophie Hahn one of the greatest British athletes this era?”
Category: Athletics, Paralympics, The 52Tags: 2013 World Para-athletics Championships, 2016 European Para-athletics Championships, 2017 World Para-athletics Championships, 2019 World Para-athletics Championships, Archery, Asafa Powell, Australia, British Athletics, Charnwood Athletic Club, Commonwealth Games, Danielle Brown, European Para-athletics Championships, Great Britain, Hungary, Jamaica, Justin Gatlin, London, London 2012, London 2012 Paralympics, Luca Ekler, Margarita Goncharova, Olivia Breen, Para-archery, Paralympics, Rhiannon Clark, Russia, Sophie Hahn, T38, Tyson Gay, USA, Usain Bolt, World Para-athletics Championships, Yohan Blake
Posted on November 13, 2019
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“Daddy, I think I want to be a goalkeeper.” This was the heartwarming statement made by a young girl sat behind me as nearly 78,000 people watched the Lionesses take on Germany at Wembley at the weekend. Despite being no older than six, she… Continue Reading “Lionesses’ Wembley extravaganza epitomised #BeSeenBeHeardBeInspired; now we need all sports to get on board”
Category: Cricket, football, Hockey, netball, Rugby Union, The 52Tags: #BeSeenBeHeardBeInspired, #GameChanger, 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2019/20 Barclays FAWSL, Barclays FAWSL, Carli Lloyd, Cricket, England, England Netball, England Rugby, FA, football, Game Changer, GB Basketball, GB Hockey, Germany, Great Britain, Harlequins, Hockey, Lionesses, London 2012, netball, Olympics, Rugby Union, Simon Middleton, Team GB, The Hundred, The Stoop, Twickenham Stoop, USA, WBBL, Wembley, Women's Football Weekend
Posted on October 27, 2019
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Great Britain’s women’s basketball team are ‘on the cusp of something special’. These are the words of Basketball England CEO Stewart Kellett. And he’s not wrong. In 2017, they failed to reach for the main draw at the Women’s EuroBasket event. In 2018, they… Continue Reading “The remarkable rise of GB women’s basketball”
Category: Basketball, The 52Tags: #BeSeenBeHeardBeInspired, 2017 Women's EuroBasket, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2019 Women's EuroBasket, 2020 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Basketball England, Chantelle Hardy, Chema Buceta, England, France, GB Basketball, Gold Coast 2018, Great Britain, Johannah Leedham, London 2012, Minnesota Lynx, Olympics, Rachael Vanderwal, Spain, Sport England, Stef Collins, Stewart Kellett, Temi Fagbenle, Tokyo 2020, UK Sport, WNBA
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