Search results for ‘Heather Stanning’
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Hope lies with rowers to end GB’s gold drought
Team GB is hoping to break its gold medal duck later today as Heather Stanning and Helen Glover compete together in the women’s rowing pairs.
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Britain’s first gold from female rowers
Olympic rowing pair Heather Stanning and Helen Glover win Team GB’s first gold medal – and put female rowers at the top of the Olympic podium for the first time in history.
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G4S donates £2.5m to army in ‘goodwill gesture’
The donation follows G4S’s failure to train and deploy enough Olympic security staff, forcing more than 4,700 members of the armed forces to be put on standby for the Games.
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Should state schools adopt posh sports?
In 2012 we shouldn’t have “posh” sports anymore. If comprehensive schools can’t afford rowing clubs and shooting ranges we need more community facilities that are easy to join.
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Team GB’s women win another rowing gold
Rowers Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins finish in first place in the double sculls – winning gold for Team GB.
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Team GB rowers win silver in men’s fours
Team GB rowers pick up silver in the men’s fours in a closely fought battle against South Africa and Denmark.
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Olympic chief slams dominance of private school medallists
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”.
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LIVE BLOG: Medals rush for Team GB
Latest updates from Channel 4 News on day five of London 2012.
