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What Team GB athletes get up to after winning medals
After years of strict diets and training regimes, Team GB’s athletes are now getting stuck into very different activities. Channel 4 News analysed their favoured pursuits before and after the Games.
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Concerns grow over securing Olympic legacy
As athletes and sports stars urge the government to invest in “patchy” school sports funding, Channel 4 News reveals that 38 per cent of 2012 British medallists so far went to independent schools.
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How lottery funding makes a difference to Team GB
Britain’s biggest gold medals haul since 1908 owes a lot to improved funding for Olympic sports. A former heptathlete tells Channel 4 News the difference lottery funding has made to athletics.
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Yorkshire continues rise in Olympic medals table
Alistair Brownlee’s triathlon victory means Yorkshire leapfrogs Hungary, North Korea and the Netherlands in the London 2012 medal rankings.
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British Olympic stars aim for ‘Super Sunday’
Team GB wins a sailing silver on Sunday following Saturday’s historic medal haul which included six golds in track and field, rowing and cycling.
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Britain wins two Olympic golds as rowers triumph
Great Britain wins its ninth and tenth gold medals of the Olympics as the men’s rowing four and the women’s lightweight double both triumph at Eton Dorney.
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LIVE BLOG: Latest from London 2012
Latest results and news – plus what the athletes are saying at London 2012.
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Sprinter Dwain Chambers selected for London 2012
Chambers will compete for Britain in his first Olympic Games for 12 years after a ban for systematic drug use, but bronze medallist Jenny Meadows is left out in favour of Lyndsey Sharp.
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Istanbul: the London 2012 dress rehearsal
Channel 4 News Sports Reporter Keme Nzerem is in Istanbul to report on how Team GB is looking, ahead of London’s Olympics this summer.
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Who will fall next to the athletics ‘cover curse’?
Sports reporter Keme Nzerem on the growing superstition that whoever features on the cover of the daily athletics programme will fall foul of the rules and suffer disqualification. Who will be next?
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Lord Coe adamant ‘false start’ rule will not change
Questions have been raised over the “red card” rule that saw Usain Bolt disqualified in the 100m finals, but Lord Coe tells Channel 4 News that “a rule is a rule” and it will not be changed.
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What makes these championships so important?
Sports reporter Keme Nzerem explains why the 13th World Athletic Championships mean so much to Great Britain.
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Team GB prepare to dazzle at World Athletics Championships
Great Britain’s stars of track and field speak to Channel 4 News Sports Reporter Keme Nzerem about preparing for next week’s World Athletics Championships at their South Korean training camp.
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Ryan Giggs ‘only exposed because he took on Twitter’
Ryan Giggs’ alleged affair need never have come to light, according to commentators. But the scandal has boosted his chances of winning Sports Personality of the Year, Channel 4 News learns.
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India criticised for spending on Games
As the Commonwealth Games action begins in Delhi, India faces a hail of criticism over the chaotic build-up, with one charity telling Channel 4 News “India’s poorest children are being left behind”.