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British Olympic Association

January 2022

  • Snowboarder Charlotte Bankes

    Team GB targets record-breaking Winter Olympics medal tally in Beijing

    BOA and UK Sport have record of five medals in sightsTeam ‘has potential to win between three and seven medals’

August 2021

  • Jarvis Astaire, left, with the boxer George Foreman in 1973.

    Jarvis Astaire obituary

  • Members of Team GB walk in the Heroes of the Games segment during Tokyo 2020’s closing ceremony

    Team GB chiefs applaud joyous Tokyo 2020 and promise more to come

June 2021

  • Women wearing protective face masks walk past the Olympic rings in Tokyo.

    Some GB Olympic athletes refusing Covid vaccine over side-effect fears

    The BOA is still trying to convince some athletes to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before the Tokyo Olympics as a small number hold out over performance-related fears

May 2021

  • Olympics

    IOC and Pfizer strike vaccine deal for Tokyo Olympics competitors

    The chances of Team GB being fully vaccinated against Covid before the Tokyo Olympics have received a significant boost after the IOC struck a deal with Pfizer to donate free doses to competitors and staff

December 2020

  • Dina Asher Smith, Adam Peaty and Laura Kenny of Team GB.

    Back to the future: Team GB gear up for delayed Tokyo Games

    Bold predictions have been dampened by the pandemic but hopes for Team GB remain high as this Olympic year dawns, for a second time

March 2020

  • Steve Ovett beats Sebastian Coe to win the 800m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics

    Sportblog
    Coe and Ovett's Olympic debt to bureaucrat who defied Thatcher

  • If there is a postponement it would be first time in the Games 124-year modern history

    Athletes across globe call for Olympic postponement as countries pull out

December 2019

  • A person walks out of the Russian Olympic Committee headquarters in Moscow this week.

    BOA demands the ‘fullest possible sanctions’ be taken against Russia

  • IAAF London Diamond League - Day One - London Stadium<br>Great Britain’s Laura Muir in the Women’s 1500m final during day one of the IAAF London Diamond League meet at the London Stadium.

    BOA hits back at Team GB athletes in Olympic sponsorship row

November 2019

  • Adam Gemili

    British athletes launch legal action against BOA over sponsorship rules

    Twenty high-profile British athletes have launched legal action against the British Olympic Association to force it to relax its “unjust and unlawful” sponsorship rules

March 2019

  • Dina Asher-Smith

    Women set to outnumber men for Team GB at next Olympics for first time

    The BOA believes history will be made in 2020 when it selects more women than men for next year’s Olympics

February 2018

  • Lizzy Yarnold (right) and Laura Deas with the gold and bronze medals they won respectively in the women’s skeleton at Pyeongchang.

    Team GB to target top-15 finish in Beijing after record medal haul

    The British Olympic Association will target a top-15 finish in the medals table at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 after Team GB won a record five medals in Pyeongchang

October 2017

  • Great Britain’s Zoe Gillings competes in the Snowboard Cross at the Sochi Games

    North Korea tensions prompt GB to prepare Winter Olympics ‘evacuation’

    Plans are being drawn up to evacuate British athletes from the Winter Olympics in South Korea if there is an escalation in tensions between North Korea and the west

December 2016

  • 2020 Tokyo Olympic logo

    Team GB’s Tokyo 2020 hopefuls may face Ryder Cup-style Olympic trials

    Team GB’s Tokyo 2020 hopefuls may have to win their seats on the plane to Japan in a televised, multi-sport trials event a month before the start of the Olympic Games

November 2016

  • Hugh Robertson

    Sir Hugh Robertson to replace Sebastian Coe as BOA chairman

    Sir Hugh Robertson has been elected to succeed Lord Sebastian Coe as chairman of the British Olympic Association

September 2016

  • A screenshot of the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net seen on a computes screen in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday Sept 13, 2016.
WADA said the hackers were a "Russian cyber espionage group" called Fancy Bears. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Russian hackers expected to leak names of another 48 British Olympians with TUEs

    The British Olympic Association is bracing itself for Russian hackers to name another 48 Team GB athletes who competed in Rio with a current or previously held therapeutic use exemption

August 2016

  • Hugh Robertson, who was the UK sports and Olympics minister during London 2012, says: ‘It is really important for us that we don’t come here and stick too many pins into it … because the suspicion will be that we are just doing this to big up London.’

    Team GB told to be positive and not arrogant about Rio conditions

    The British Olympic Association has warned Team GB against criticising the logistical issues at the Rio Games for fear of appearing arrogant
  • Andy Murray carries the flag for Team GB at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

    British Olympic chiefs criticised for Strongbow sponsorship of Team GB

    Cider brand’s high-profile association with British athletes in Rio could encourage underage drinking, health experts warn
  • Sailors return from a training session on Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, on July 31, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WESTWILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images

    GB head reports no illnesses among water-based teams in Rio

    Bill Sweeney, the chief executive of the British Olympic Association, has reported no illnesses among the teams using the water facilities at Rio 2016
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