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British boxer scores TV first with same-sex dance debut
Published on 02/09/2020
» LONDON: Bisexual British boxer Nicola Adams will become the first person to compete with a same-sex dance partner in the hit show 'Strictly Come Dancing', the BBC announced on Wednesday, in a coup for LGBT+ representation on primetime television.
Female fighters packing a punch
Sports, Published on 10/01/2018
» Not so long ago, women's boxing was a marginal sport -- a sideshow at best.
May gets majority government - for £1 billion
Reuters, Published on 27/06/2017
» LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal on Monday to prop up her minority government by agreeing to at least £1 billion in extra funding for Northern Ireland in return for the support of the province's biggest Protestant party.
Wanheng set to defend title
Sports, Kittipong Thongsombat, Published on 25/01/2017
» WBC minimumweight champion Wanheng Menayothin is expected to face a tough task when he defends his title against Melvin 'Gringo' Jerusalem of the Philippines in Phitsanulok today.
Murray in the mix for record third BBC award
AFP, Published on 29/11/2016
» LONDON - Andy Murray could round off his sensational year which has seen him finish as men's tennis world number one and win both Wimbledon and the Olympic title with a historic third BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Rain fails to dampen Olympic and Paralympic heroes parade
AFP, Published on 18/10/2016
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - A colourful parade featuring 400 of Britain's hugely successful Olympic and Paralympics athletes including recently retired athletics great Jessica Ennis-Hill gave great cheer to several hundred thousand rain-soaked spectators in Manchester on Monday.
Triumphant Brits return home from Olympics in gold-nosed plane
AFP, Published on 23/08/2016
» LONDON - Great Britain's triumphant Olympic team returned home on Tuesday when a gold-nosed aircraft brought home a host of athletes clutching gold, silver and bronze from the Rio Games.
Olympic boxing on brink after judging controversies
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Bloody and bruised, Olympic boxing was left teetering on the brink of crisis at the Olympics with several fighters complaining they were the victims of bad judging decisions and a few alleging more sinister wrongdoing.
Britain flexes sporting 'superpower' muscle
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» LONDON - Twenty years after a stinging Olympic failure, Britain has risen from the ashes to become a sporting "superpower" typified by the exploits of cycling lovebirds Jason Kenny and Laura Trott.
'Sporting superpower' Britain hails record Rio run
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Britain is now "a sporting superpower", one of the prime architects of its stunning success at the Rio Olympics on Sunday.