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4th April 2008

Kris Gilchrist books place on British Olympic swim team

Kris Gilchrist became the 5th Scottish swimmer who has qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

He broke the Scottish 100 meter breast stroke record finishing second to England’s Chris Cook.

He will join Kirsty Balfour, Gregor Tait, Caitlin McClatchey and David Carry at the Beijing Olympics.

“I am so surprised. My main event is the 200m but now I’ve got my Olympic place the pressure is off,” said Gilchrist.

Read more: Scots swimmer Kris Gilchrist grabs Olympics place

3rd April 2008

Liam Tancock breaks backstroke world record

Liam Tancock broke the 50 meter backstroke world record last night at the British Olympic trials currently being held in Sheffield. His time was 24.47sec - 0.33 seconds off the previous record set by Thomas Rupprath from Germany in 2003.

The 50 meter backstroke is not an Olympic event be he has qualified for the 100 meters.

Read more: Liam Tancock shatters world record to lay down early marker for Beijing

31st March 2008

Olympic ticket outrage in Britain 1 reply

Britain is enjoying its recent success at the World Track Championships in Manchester, where they won nine gold and two silver medals. They are now looking to continue their success at the Beijing Olympics. For cycling fans, the news is not so good - no British fans have been allocated tickets at the Beijing Olympics.

Diving sensation, Tom Daley’s mother is also worried about getting tickets for her family.

“We wanted 12 tickets for each of the events that Tom is competing in. It’s worrying, definitely. Obviously, if we go to Beijing we want to be able to watch him. We don’t want to travel there and have to stand outside waiting to hear the results.

“If we don’t get tickets, I don’t think I could explain how it will feel, to be honest. It would be completely devastating.

”Especially given his age, he wants to be able to see a family face in the audience.”

Read more: Beijing Olympics 2008 deprives gold medal cyclists of family tickets

30th March 2008

Britain’s medal favorite: Rebecca Romero

Rebecca Romero has a remarkable story and has proved herself as a true athlete. For 10 years she was a rower, winning a silver at the Olympics and gold at the world championships. Even though she was sure to win a medal at the Beijing Olympics, her heart wasn’t in the sport.

“Even if I had been guaranteed a gold medal in rowing at the Beijing Olympics, I was getting out. It was a waste of life. If you can’t do something in a whole-hearted and completely committed way, I would rather not bother,” she said. “I would rather do something to the best of my ability in obscurity. I’m a perfectionist.”

She said she didn’t like the regimentation of rowing training. She looked for a new sport and found track cycling. She adapted quickly to the sport and in a short time become world champion of the sport and favorite to win gold at the Beijing Olympics.

Read more: Drive and power help Rebecca Romero conquer the velodrome

25th March 2008

13 year old Daley becomes European champion

Tom Daley who is just 13 years old took out the European championships - the youngest to do so on record.

“If somebody had told me at Christmas I would be a European champion at Easter my answer would have been ‘go away’,” Daley told reporters.

“It was a perfect competition for me. If it seems as if I was without nerves I can tell you I have nerves and they were quite tense.”

Read more: Briton Daley, 13, wins European platform crown

23rd March 2008

Britain’s BMX bandit

BMX cyclist Shanaze Reade who is just 19 years old is favorite to win gold for Britain.

She has also started racing track and will compete in the World Championships in Manchester.

“Track’s not something I wake up and think: ‘Oh, great, a track session today’. At heart I’m a BMX racer. That’s my passion. That’s what drives me to get up in the morning,” she says.

Read more: Tough of the track… and off it, Shanaze is golden hope at BMX

4th March 2008

Boxer Billy Joe Saunders qualifies for Beijing Olympics

Billy Joe Saunders became Great Britain’s seventh boxer to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. Saunders family has a long history in boxing with his father and grandfather who were bare-knuckle fighters.

Saunders beat Slovakia’s Pavol Hlavacka 20-10 in Pescara, Italy.

“It feels amazing,” Saunders said. “It’s an honour going to Beijing as part of such a great squad.”

Read more: Billy Joe Saunders qualifies for Olympics

1st March 2008

Tom Daley not the youngest British Olympic athlete

A typing error is to blame for the report that British diver Tom Daley will be Britain’s youngest ever male Olympian.

Daley will be 14 years and 81 days when the Beijing Olympic games begin in August. The record is owned by Kenneth Lester who was in the rowing pairs at the 1960 Rome Games. Lester was 13 years and 144 days old when he competed.

The error was in the international Olympic handbook that had Lester’s year of birth at 1937, when it was actually 1947.

Lester called the Olympic office telling them the error.

“I feel awful about it,” Lester told the Daily Mail.

Lester was eliminated in the early rounds of his competition, so the record for youngest British Olympic medalist is in Daley’s grasp.

24th February 2008

Rebecca Romero hoping to win medals in two different sports

Rebecca Romero is hoping to become only the second woman in Olympic history to win medals in two different sports.

She won a silver medal in the quadruple sculls in Athens and has now turned to cycling.

She recently won the 3000 meter cycling World Cup in Copenhagen.

Romero said: “It was my first gold medal as a cyclist after a number of silvers.

“It is a long time since I was on top of a podium standing there for the national anthem and it was a fabulous feeling.”

Read more: Local girl aims for two Olympic medals in two sports

13-year old diving prodigy Tom Daley wins bronze

Tom Daley from Britain, who is just 13 years old won a bronze medal in the synchronised 10 meter platform at a World Cup meeting currently being held in Beijing, securing a place in the diving for Britain in the process.

Their own spots in the team are still undecided as they face a national selection in June.

His partner in the event is Blake Aldridge is 25 years old.

“We dived really well and I just can’t believe we won a medal as well as qualifying Britain for the Olympics,” said Daley last night. “It’s been an absolute rollercoaster of a ride.

“We didn’t dive at all well this morning and at one stage looked like we might not make it. We eventually finished ninth, made the final and then came away with a bronze. It’s totally amazing.”

Read more: Diving: Britain heading to Olympics thanks to 13-year-old Daley


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