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After their Tour de France success, Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish will be stars at London 2012. How different from 1972, when Phil Edwards was living on his savings as he prepared for Munich.
Got a ticket for the Games? Then you’ll want to know whether or not to brush down your beloved Pepsi T-shirt and wear it to London 2012. Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson has the answer.
The troubled UK Border Agency faces a backlog of cases equivalent to the population of Newcastle, MPs warn.
Britain’s Tour de France stars will cycle around London and Surrey on Saturday; Channel 4 News finds out where is best to watch them for free.
A win today will be the best conceivable tonic for the next few weeks of British sport. Make no mistake. A British cyclist, riding for a British team, winning the Tour de France, is simply massive.
Triple Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins becomes the first-ever British winner of the Tour de France.
Having already won gold in the 1971 European eventing championships, Princess Anne was training hard for the Munich summer Olympics when ITN sent Gerald Seymour to Windsor in March 1972.
The tabloids make a fuss about “plastic Brits” but Team GB is not alone in spreading its net widely. Ahead of London 2012, Channel 4 News reveals the winners and losers in the talent recruitment race.
Three days before winning gold in Rome – and less than four years before becoming world heavyweight boxing champion – Muhammad Ali spoke to ITN about his “Romanic” name and why he took up boxing.
The Olympic torch races through London on its first full day in the capital, giving crowds a “supreme buzz” before opening ceremonies kick off 27 July.
A week to go, and if you can look past the (barring catastrophe) triumph of Bradley Wiggins in the Tour de France, the biggest item on the summer sports agenda is the blue riband event of the Olympics.
Channel 4 News profiles Bradley Wiggins, the man who looks set to become the first Englishman to win the legendary Tour de France cycle race.
The Olympic torch is to be abseiled down to the Tower of London by a Royal Marine commando to start its journey around the capital.
At the 1964 Tokyo games, Mary Rand broke the world long jump record to win gold. But four years earlier, as post room worker Mary Bignall, she was just another Olympic hopeful.
“You essentially recruit the best people for your own organisation but instead of paying for the cost of vetting, interviewing, training and trialling them yourself, the taxpayer picks up the bill because those things are covered by the 2012 contract. You then collect from the taxpayer a second time because the people you recruited were on the Work Programme and you got them off the dole queue.”