Posted on February 22, 2020
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Shona McCallin looks back on an exciting tour for GB Hockey to Australia and New Zealand and how it felt to make her FIH Hockey Pro League debut, score her first GB goal and make her 50th appearance. It’s crunch time for a lot… Continue Reading “Heat, storms & goals – McCallin reflects on first tour of 2020”
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: 2020 FIH Hockey Pro League, 2020 Olympics, Argentina, Australia, Brisbane, China, FIH Hockey Pro League, GB Hockey, Germany, Great Britain, Hockey, Mark Hager, New Zealand, Olympics, Shona McCallin, South Africa, Sydney, The Netherlands, Tokyo 2020, USA
Posted on February 18, 2020
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Photo credit: British Athletics Jemma Reekie is a track and field superstar in the making. The middle distance runner has shot to prominence this indoor season, smashing three records in the last month. She also took 1500m victory in the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix… Continue Reading “Forget the Nike controversy, can we just accept Jemma Reekie for the exceptional talent she is?”
Category: Athletics, The 52Tags: 1500m, 2017 European U20 Athletics Championships, 2018 Athletics World Cup, 2018 European Athletics Championships, 2019 European U23 Athletics Championships, 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2020 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix, 2020 Indoor British Championships, Athletics, Brigid Kosgei, British Athletics, Eliud Kipchoege, Great Britain, IAAF, Jemma Reekie, Kenya, Kilbarchan, Kilbarchan AAC, Laura Muir, New York Times, Nike, Nike Vaporfly, Olympics, Poland, Scotland, Sofia Ennaoui, The Guardian, Tokyo 2020, World Athletics
Posted on January 26, 2020
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Laura Sugar is one of those athletes you can’t help but be jealous of. Many of us can only dream of being skilled enough to play for our country in one sport. Sugar has represented hers in three. She made her debut for Wales’… Continue Reading “Sugar hoping for sweet success at Tokyo 2020”
Category: Athletics, Canoeing, Paralympics, The 52Tags: 2019 ICF Sprint Canoe World Championships, Athletics, Canoeing, Great Britain, Hockey, KL3, Laura Sugar, Leah Wilkinson, London 2012, Para-athletics, Para-canoeing, Paralympics GB, Rio 2016, Rio 2016 Paralympics, Sarah Jones, SportSpiel, Tokyo 2020, Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Wales
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 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 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 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
Posted on October 2, 2019
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Rio 2016 hockey gold medallist Shona McCallin explains how she and her England team-mates will be using their Euros disappointment to ensure GB qualify for Tokyo 2020. I’m back! Back on the international hockey scene after 17 months out of the game and back… Continue Reading “McCallin ready to use Euros pain to ensure GB qualify for Tokyo 2020”
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: 2019 EuroHockey Championships, 2019 FIH Pro League, Australia, Chile, England, England Hockey, EuroHockey Championships, FIH, FIH Olympic Qualifier, FIH Pro League, GB, GB Hockey, Hockey, London, Netherlands, New Zealand, Olympics, Paris 2024, Rio 2016, Shona McCallin, Spain, Tokyo 2020
Posted on July 3, 2019
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21:53 – the time last night when the tears of a nation started flowing as the final whistle was blown on England’s 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign. It was a heart wrenching, soul destroying moment, seeing those 23 athletes whom we’ve come to… Continue Reading “England Inspired, Now It’s Up To Us To Ensure Lionesses’ World Cup Legacy Lives On”
Category: footballTags: #ShowUp, 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2021 UEFA Women's European Championships, Alex Greenwood, Alex Morgan, BBC, Carly Telford, Chelsea, Ellen White, England, Euro 2021, football, France, Great Britain, Hockey, Lionesses, Manchester City, Manchester United, netball, rugby, Scotland, Team GB, Tokyo 2020, USA
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