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As the rules on outdoor space schools have to provide change, five-time Olympic Champion Sir Steve Redgrave tells Channel 4 News “we need as much space as possible within school areas”.
It seems almost insulting to whittle the entire Olympics down to a single event. And a single athlete – Usain Bolt. But he is the undisputed star of Olympic sport, eclipsing the considerable and combined talents of Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorious, and GB’s very own Steve Redgrave in his bamboozling, hellaciously brilliant, God-given talent.
More than a third of medals at Olympics and World Championships won by athletes who had suspicious drug tests, according to reports.
Olympic medallists will parade through Henley-on-Thames in an open-top bus on Saturday in a homecoming parade, including members of the town’s elite Leander rowing club.
It was a double goodbye to the Games and Blur as Damon Albarn’s band played their “farewell” concert in London’s Hyde Park.
With warnings of inadequate security and traffic chaos, the doomsayers were having a field day in the run-up to London 2012. And then the Games began.
Usain Bolt’s victory in the 200m makes him the first to do the “double double” of winning both sprinting distances at two Olympics. But there are other contenders for greatest Olympian of all time.
Sir Chris Hoy tells Channel 4 News that winning two golds in London to become the country’s most successful Olympian has been “phenomenal” and that he is proud to be both British and Scottish.
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.
After Lord Coe refused to call Michael Phelps the greatest Olympian of all time, Channel 4 News tries to find out who is. It’s the stuff of pub debates – so have your say and vote in our poll.
Great Britain & Northern Ireland’s sprint cycling team, comprising Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, win gold and break the world record.
Latest updates from Channel 4 News on day five of London 2012.
After a triumphant Tour de France, Londoner Bradley Wiggins has another chance for success, this time in his backyard. But will his Tour training regime deliver success at London 2012?
It was described as the “Everest of athletics”. Almost 60 years after Sir Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile he talks to Channel 4 News about sporting barriers, the Olympics and doping.
Niger’s Hamadou Djibo Issaka, whose spectacularly poor performances have endeared him to London 2012 spectators, has been in action again.