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Nicola Adams

November 2021

  • Riding the wave … surfer Garrett McNamara, who came out of retirement in 2010.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a radical surf documentary from the man behind Fyre and Tiger King

  • Nicola Adams

    Nicola Adams: ‘I had a hammer under my bed in case I needed to help my mum’

July 2021

  • Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Team GB celebrate winning gold in Tokyo

    ‘Rainbow Olympics’: Tokyo hailed as turning point for LGBTQ+ athletes

    Tokyo has three times as many out LGBTQ+ athletes as Rio had, but activists say there is ‘still a way to go’

March 2021

  • Muse perform in the annual TCT concert series, held at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Royal Albert Hall at 150: 'It's the Holy Grail for musicians'

    It’s hosted opera greats, suffragette rallies, Hitchcock films, sports events, sci-fi conventions – and, of course, the Proms and countless rock gigs. Artists from Led Zeppelin to Abba recall their moments on the hallowed stage

December 2020

  • Composite of singer and TV personality Mel B (left) and boxer Nicola Adams

    Real talk: a conversation special
    Mel B meets Nicola Adams: ‘You’ve broken all the rules – and I’ve done the same’

    The Spice Girl and the Olympic boxer talk about forging their own career paths, their experiences of domestic violence and growing up in Leeds

November 2020

  • Nicola Adams, left, and Katya Jones dancing together in the launch show.

    Nicola Adams out of Strictly Come Dancing as partner catches Covid-19

    Adams ‘devastated’ after Katya Jones’s positive test ends first same-sex partnership on show

October 2020

  • Nicola Adams (left) and Katya Jones

    Strictly Come Dancing opener with first same-sex couple proves a hit

    BBC show scores highest first-day ratings in three years as Covid rules change its feel

September 2020

  • Nicola Adams for G2

    The G2 interview
    ‘It’s about breaking boundaries’: Nicola Adams on dancing with a woman on Strictly

  • Nicola Adams

    Olympian Nicola Adams to star in Strictly's first same-sex couple

  • Robert McCracken, performance director of the GB Boxing amateur programme at the Sheffield Institute of Sport. has overseen a huge improvement in the men’s and women’s game over his 10 years in the job.

    Rob McCracken: ‘Anthony Joshua knows there’s no room for error’

    GB Boxing’s performance director, who also trains the former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, tells Donald McRae there has been a major transformation in the men’s and women’s games over the past 10 years
  • Kevin Mitchell

    Sportblog
    Nicola Adams’s skill and sunny outlook lit up an often acrid boxing world

    Kevin Mitchell
  • Nicola Adams (right) in action against Maryan Salazar during their International Flyweight bout at the First Direct Arena, Leeds.

    Nicola Adams: a glittering boxing career – in pictures

  • The WBO flyweight world champion has been advised to stop over concerns she may damage her eyesight permanently 

    1:45

    Nicola Adams, two-time Olympic champion and boxing pioneer, retires – video report

  • Nicola Adams poses with the belt after a split decision in her WBO World Flyweight championship bout against Maria Salinas.

    Nicola Adams, two-time Olympic boxing champion, retires over eyesight fears

February 2019

  • Fury and Wilder and Fury during the WBC Heavyweight Championship bout in Los Angeles

    Tyson Fury insists Deontay Wilder rematch still on cards despite ESPN deal

    Tyson Fury’s proposed rematch with Deontay Wilder has been throw into doubt after Fury announced a deal with ESPN that makes it the ‘exclusive’ broadcaster of his fights in the US

November 2018

  • Nicola Adams

    The balance
    Nicola Adams: ‘I still get nervous before a big fight’

    The boxer on her training regime, her mum’s home cooking and her respect for her opponents

September 2018

  • Jade Anouka, left, and Nicola Adams photographed this month by Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer New Review. Hair and makeup by Kylie McClelland

    Kae Tempest edits the Observer New Review
    Actor Jade Anouka meets boxer Nicola Adams: ‘The basics of both our worlds are the same’

    Actor Jade Anouka prepared to play Hotspur by watching videos of boxer Nicola Adams. Adams, in turn, acted in her youth and hopes to again. They met up to talk breaking boundaries, performance, and superheroes

March 2018

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    On or off the court Serena Williams never stopped being the champion

    Rebecca Nicholson
    Her victory at Indian Wells should have surprised no one, but why are women in sport still forced to defend their gender?

February 2018

  • Michele Lamy

    Michèle Lamy, the style queen who packs a punch

    The fashion and art world creative talks about her latest work, curating a space at Selfridges. But why has she set up a boxing ring there? By Alice Fisher

November 2017

  • Lunch with Nicola Adams

    Lunch with...
    Nicola Adams: ‘I can’t start a family while I’m still boxing. But it’s something I’d like to do’

    The double Olympic champion on early family battles, the psychology of the ring, and the two women who have been the bedrock of her life
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