British Olympic Association

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’
Sean Ingle
13, Jan, 2022 @2:08 PM

Jarvis Astaire obituary
Businessman who made his name as a boxing promoter and then went on to be a film producer and financier
John Rawling
23, Aug, 2021 @4:49 PM

Team GB chiefs applaud joyous Tokyo 2020 and promise more to come
UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger has said there is a need for lasting legacy for grassroots sport to follow in wake of Tokyo 2020 torrent of medals, moments and emotion
Sean Ingle in Tokyo
09, Aug, 2021 @7:00 AM

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
Sean Ingle
06, May, 2021 @3:04 PM

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
Sean Ingle
31, Dec, 2020 @1:45 PM

Coe and Ovett's Olympic debt to bureaucrat who defied Thatcher | Andy Bull
British Olympic Association chairman Sir Denis Follows was determined not to join the Moscow Games boycott in 1980, to the fury of the prime minister
Andy Bull
28, Mar, 2020 @8:00 PM

Athletes across globe call for Olympic postponement as countries pull out
The IOC is facing almost irresistible pressure to postpone the Tokyo Olympics this week rather than wait until its mid-April deadline
Sean Ingle Chief sports reporter
23, Mar, 2020 @7:22 PM

BOA demands the ‘fullest possible sanctions’ be taken against Russia
The British Olympic Association has called for the ‘fullest possible sanctions’ to be taken against Russia following the four-year World Anti-Doping Agency ban imposed for alleged manipulation of doping data
Guardian sport and agencies
11, Dec, 2019 @4:51 PM

BOA hits back at Team GB athletes in Olympic sponsorship row
The British Olympic Association is in a marketing rights row with its own athletes and the sprinter Adam Gemili, a BOA athlete representative, said: ‘We want to recognise our sponsors’
Paul MacInnes
10, Dec, 2019 @6:18 PM

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
Sean Ingle
15, Nov, 2019 @6:17 PM

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
Exclusive by Sean Ingle
12, Mar, 2019 @8:15 AM

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
Sean Ingle in Pyeongchang
25, Feb, 2018 @4:35 PM
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