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Anita Asante: Former England, Arsenal and Chelsea defender to retire at end of season

Former England, Arsenal and Chelsea defender Anita Asante has announced she will retire at the end of the season.

Evening Standard

Councillors to vote on calls to grant GB women's gold medal-winning curling team the Freedom of Perth

The special motion is being tabled by two Perth and Kinross councillors following Blair Atholl's Eve Muirhead and Guildtown’s Mili Smith's success at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing

Daily Record

Celebrities you might not know have links to Wirral

You may be surprised that some of these celebs hail from the peninsula

Liverpool Echo

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Team GB Olympic sprinter Emma Ania wins court battle with bigamist dad's fourth wife

Emma Ania, a former GB Olympic 100m runner, has won a court fight over a house with her bigamist dad's fourth wife but is left with nothing after the six year battle

Daily Mirror

Head of Team GB Olympic cycling joins calls to block transgender riders from women’s races

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also said he believes ‘biological males’ should not compete in women’s sport

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson says transgender women should not compete in women’s sport

‘I don’t think biological males should be competing in female sporting events. Maybe that’s a controversial thing to say, but it just seems to me to be sensible’

The Independent UK

‘Biological males’ should not compete in women’s sports – Boris Johnson

The PM also said women should have spaces, such as in hospitals, prisons or changing rooms, which are ‘dedicated to women’.

The Independent UK

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‘Something has gone to his head’: Joe Joyce reacts to leaked Anthony Joshua sparring footage

A recently-released video showed ‘AJ’ getting the best of his fellow former Team GB Olympian

The Independent UK

Olympic Village homes facing energy bills DOUBLING say '2012 legacy is ruined'

Thousands of properties on the site of the London 2012 Olympics are facing huge energy bill increases with no option to switch provider, and say they feel let hugely down

Daily Mirror

'Axe outdated PE lessons and create new sports curriculum to boost kids' fitness'

The Youth Sport Trust has called for an end to outdated PE lessons and to create a well-being-led sports curriculum that will boost the number of children who do sport

Daily Mirror

Jason Kenny: ‘Winning will take care of itself if we do everything right’

The most successful British athlete in Olympic history has taken on a coaching role and is looking to bring success and enjoyment to British Cycling

The Guardian - UK

Teenage Tom Daley was shamefully blamed for Olympics failure in phone row with partner

Tom Daley, whose Hell of a Homecoming challenge airs on BBC One tonight, was backed by Team GB chiefs after his diving partner Blake Aldridge took a call from his mum before their last dive

Irish Mirror

How ex-Scotland rugby player Grayson Hart swapped the scrum for CBD with Puresport

‘Rugby stars Finn Russell and Danny Cipriani were early fans - my inbox was full of international rugby players, pro footballers, golfers, Olympians like Team GB weightlifter Jenny Tong.’

Evening Standard

Mum-of-three who couldn't run to end of her road qualifies for Team GB

Lizz Davidson, 39, from Southport, Merseyside, piled on the pounds while working at fast-food chain McDonald's, but now she starts her duathlon training at 4am before her three kids even wake up

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Winter Paralympics: Team GB add two more bronze medals to Beijing tally

Team GB took their medal tally for the Beijing Winter Paralympics to five with bronze medals in both the men’s and women’s visually impaired super combined skiing.

Liverpool Echo

Mum who couldn't run to the end of the road qualifies for Team GB

Lizz is set to represent Great Britain for the second time this summer

The Guardian - UK

Should the Paralympics and Olympics unite? We ask an expert

Team GB Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson on whether she thinks a combined Games would be a good thing

Evening Standard

Winter Paralympics begins under familiar Russian cloud as inexperienced Team GB eye medals

Yet another Games finds itself overshadowed by the spectre of Russia.

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics in Beijing

Medal winners and first-timers are among the 25 Team GB athletes competing. Plus, a cultural romp through the 90s. Here’s what to watch this evening

Wales Online

ITV GMB: Russian Paralympians sent messages taunting Ukrainian competitors over bombing says athlete

Team GB Paralympian Richard Whitehead was speaking on Good Morning Britain after decision to ban paralympians from Russia and Belarus

Daily Record

Heroes' welcome for Team GB curlers at Dumfries Ice Bowl

Team Muirhead and Team Mouat visited the Ice Bowl to share their Winter Olympic experience with pupils from New Abbey Primary

Daily Mirror

Bruce Mouat ‘still sore’ after agonisingly missing out on Winter Olympics gold

The Team GB men's curling team, led by skipper Bruce Mouat, took the silver medal in Beijing after losing a tense final 5-4 against reigning world champions Sweden

The Independent UK

Olympic curling team talks about response to epic gold win in new interview

Eve Muirhead, Vicky White, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff and Mili Smith secured Team GB’s only gold medal at this year’s games.

Irish Mirror

Why Dancing on Ice's Stef Reid has Canadian accent and switched allegiances to Team GB

Dancing on Ice star Stef Reid won bronze at the Beijing Paralympics for Canada, then changed sides and won two silver medals while competing for Great Britain

Daily Record

Remarkable man who survived car crashes, a coma, losing his leg and Covid is selected for Paralympics

Callum Deboys thought his Team GB dream was over when he was involved in a second crash in October, writes Kathleen Speirs.

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