Awkward moments at the Tour de France
As the route of the 100th Tour de France is announced, cycling is overshadowed by doping revelations about Lance Armstrong … and others.
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From the Olympic and Paralympic Games to Andy Murray’s tears, sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan looks back on the most dramatic moments in an amazing year for British sport.
It’s that time of year: as December approaches, the lists begin. First up could be one of the trickiest – who is your sports personality of the year? Sports reporter Jordan Jarrett-Bryan takes a look.
As the route of the 100th Tour de France is announced, cycling is overshadowed by doping revelations about Lance Armstrong … and others.
British cycling bosses have distanced themselves from an era in which star cyclist Lance Armstrong was able to head up a “sophisticated doping operation”. So has the sport now cleaned up its act?
Sportsmen and women who have become familiar faces to millions of Britons during the Olympics and Paralympics celebrate their success at an open-top parade through central London.
Olympic and Paralympic medal winners are to be rewarded with their own honours list, with more of them receiving a gong.
When the Olympics have lept their final hurdle, what do you do with all the kit? With the athletes now gone, the big London 2012 sell-off begins with flags, costumes and sports equipment up for grabs.
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.
Alistair Brownlee’s triathlon victory means Yorkshire leapfrogs Hungary, North Korea and the Netherlands in the London 2012 medal rankings.
“A drunk cyclist was more likely to get hurt – and less likely to wear a helmet. But it was the booze, not the helmet, that had the biggest impact.”
Lord Moynihan says the high proportion of privately educated medal-winning athletes at previous Olympic Games is “one of the worst statistics in British sport”.
Latest updates from Channel 4 News on day five of London 2012.
Silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead voices her frustration at “overwhelming sexism” in sport that means women’s events have a lower profile and less investment than men’s.
British cyclists fail to capitalise on their Tour de France success, while swimmer Hannah Miley also misses out on a medal. Meanwhile, Chinese shooter Yi Siling wins the first gold at London 2012.
After last week’s British success in the Tour de France, Manx sprint king Mark Cavendish can reinforce Britain’s current cycling dominance by taking gold in the opening day’s road race.