Queen Elizabeth’s Olympic skydiving dress unveiled in new royal exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style will bring together around 300 garments and items The Independent UK · Apr 8
Team USA's Hilary Knight Thinks Things Feel Different This Time, Too The Seattle captain and 2026 gold medalist can't deny the groundswell of support now surrounding her game. Sports Illustrated · Apr 8
Russia to give cash payments to athletes banned from Winter Olympics IN FULL The Independent UK · Apr 8
Russia to compensate athletes unable to compete at Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics 13 Russian and Belarusian athletes passed an IOC vetting process to compete at Milano-Cortina The Independent UK · Apr 8
Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis says he never wanted to hurt wife Melissa Hoskins and attacks media’s ‘false narrative’ Dennis, whose car fatally struck Hoskins in 2023, wrote on Instagram ‘I have ALWAYS been against any sort of abuse against women’ The Guardian - AU · Apr 7
Sir Craig Reedie, key London 2012 Olympics figure and former BOA chair, dies aged 84 Sir Craig Reedie, a giant of the Olympic movement, who served as chair of the British Olympic Association for more than a decade and was instrumental in bringing the Games to London in 2012, has died at the age of 84 The Guardian - UK · Apr 6
Matt Baker forced to give up on his 'dream' career over common health condition The Countryfile presenter, 48, previously opened up about an ‘agonising’ injury that his physiotherapist wife helped him with Evening Standard · Apr 6
Booze bans worry Queensland hoteliers ahead of Olympics A state's hotel association says "outdated" Good Friday pub trading laws must be changed ahead of the 2032 Games or the government risks an Olympic hangover. AAP · Apr 3
US sprint star's path to LA leads through Stawell US sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson has a laser-like focus on the LA Olympics and will use the Stawell Gift as part of her long road back to the global showpiece. AAP · Apr 2
The new LA Olympics branding is blooming beautiful LA28’s identity is inspired by the natural landscapes of Los Angeles. Creative Bloq · Apr 1
Schooling shortfall at Olympic venue's housing project The home of the 2000 Olympics is set for a huge housing project in the next quarter of a century, but details about potential schools are vague. AAP · Apr 1
Chang Ung, North Korean ex-IOC member who brokered Olympic joint marches with South, dies Chang Ung, a former North Korean member of the International Olympic Committee who once led sports exchanges with rival South Korea including joint marches of their athletes at the Olympics, has died at 87 The Independent UK · Apr 1
Is the Fitzroy River a suitable venue for the Brisbane Olympics, given it’s home to crocodiles? Quite a few crocodile tears have been shed on the issue of the rowing and canoeing venue of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics. The Conversation · Apr 1
Princess Royal ‘fascinated by Gladiators’, original 90s TV show star says Kate Staples – known as Zodiac in the original series – was made an MBE in a ceremony at Windsor Castle. Evening Standard · Mar 31
The Mary Sue · Mar 30 Olympics Make a Disappointing Decision for the Los Angeles Games A generalization that hurts all women.
The Independent UK · Mar 30 Adam Gemili retires from athletics: ‘I missed an Olympic medal by less time than it takes to blink’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: One of Britain’s fastest men is calling time on his career, aged 32. He tells Lawrence Ostlere about his favourite night at the World Championships, his one Olympic regret and his new job at Chelsea
The Conversation · Mar 30 Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth The International Olympic Committee announced a new policy on March 26, 2026, for women’s competitions: Every athlete must be tested for a gene called SRY, usually found on the Y chromosome. Males typically have a Y chromosome and females typically don’t, so the IOC says this requirement will exclude “biological…
Sports Illustrated · Mar 30 After First Olympic Gold, Elana Meyers Taylor Is Eager to Take on Politics The most decorated Black Winter Olympian of all time struck gold at Milan Cortina. For her next act, she has political office—and more bobsledding—in mind.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 29 LPO/Tan Dun review – a full battery of drums, dramatic inhalations and hints of Mongolian throat singing The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Beijing Olympics composer premieres his immediately appealing choral concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Independent UK · Mar 28 ‘Quad god’ Ilia Malinin bounces back from Olympic nightmare with world championships win Malinin shouted and punched the air with relief after finishing the skate
Sports Illustrated · Mar 27 Amber Glenn Shares ‘Exhausted’ Message After Missing Podium Again at 2026 World Championships Glenn fell short of medaling again just a month after her Olympic heartbreaker.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 27 Mary Rand, first British woman to win Olympic athletics gold, dies aged 86 Mary Rand, the British track and field athlete who blazed a trail for women by winning three Olympic medals at the Tokyo Games in 1964, has died at the age of 86
Radio France Internationale · Mar 27 France calls Olympic gender testing a 'step backwards' as other nations support policy France on Friday called the International Olympic Committee's new policy on gender testing to determine eligibility to compete in women's events a "step backwards", but other countries welcomed the move.
The Independent UK · Mar 27 Human rights experts raise concerns over IOC gender eligibility ruling The Sport & Rights Alliance, along with over 100 other allied organisations, has called on the IOC to abandon its plans to mandate genetic sex testing
The Independent UK · Mar 27 Lindsey Vonn refuses to rule out return to skiing after horror crash at Winter Olympics Vonn crashed out of the downhill in Cortina d’Ampezzo after attempting to race with a ruptured ACL