THE 2012 London Olympics came to a spectacular close last night in a musical extravaganza to mark the end of the country’s most successful Games in more than a century. More...
Before last night’s starting gun, artistic director Kim Gavin had suggested his Olympic closing ceremony would be like “the disco after the wedding”. More...
The Governor of the Bank of England has urged those in the scandal-hit finance sector to learn lessons from Britain’s Olympic heroes. More...
The tears of joy shed by Sir Chris Hoy on the podium represented the defining moment of London 2012, according to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge. More...
Almost 16 million people tuned in to watch Tom Daley fulfil his dream by earning an Olympic bronze medal on Saturday night. More...
The Olympic Park is set to reopen to the public from 27 July next year – a year after the opening of the Olympics. More...
A PARADE will be held for all of the British athletes who take part in the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics More...
G4S is to donate £2.5 million to the armed forces as a “goodwill gesture” after 18,200 military personnel were drafted in for London 2012 following a massive security blunder. More...
A REVIEW of ticketing for future Olympic Games will examine whether individual countries will retain responsibility for distributing their allocation, IOC president Jacques Rogge has said. More...
EMILIO IZAGUIRRE last night admitted he couldn’t focus on playing Real Madrid because he was so worried about the horror injury suffered to Dylan McGeouch. More...
Scott Overall admitted he misjudged the scorching conditions as he wilted in the heat in the Olympic marathon yesterday. More...
THE nationalists have worked hard at their story of Scotland over the last decade. More...
BRITISH Swimming performance director Michael Scott will lead a review of the team’s performance in the pool and marathon events at London 2012. More...
THE curtain has finally fallen on the feel-good blockbuster of the summer. More...
VOLLEYBALL: Russia became the first team in the history of men’s Olympic volleyball to win the final from two sets down as they stunned Brazil at Earls Court 19-25, 20-25, 29-27, 25-22, 15-9. More...
PAT FENLON is still waiting for his first Edinburgh derby win as Hibernian manager but he emerged from yesterday’s 1-1 draw with Hearts at Easter Road far more satisfied than his counterpart John McGlynn. More...
CHILDREN going through cancer treatments are having to make appointments to play with toys, parents have claimed. More...
FOR some Hibs supporters, the wounds of 19 May 2012 may never fully heal. More...
BRAZIL’S Olympic curse struck again today as Mexico secured arguably the greatest triumph in their history by winning London 2012 gold at Wembley. More...
Britain’s taekwondo fighter Lutalo Muhammad battled to an Olympic bronze medal with victory over Arman Yeremyan of Armenia in the under-80kgs at ExCeL. More...
NATIONALIST politicians have called for Scotland to receive its fair share of the multi-million-pound Olympic 2012 legacy to reflect the success of Scottish athletes. More...
THE organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 have pledged to do everything they can to attract Usain Bolt to the city for the event. More...
Just as it’s an understatement to categorise Usain Bolt as a mere athlete it’s equally unsatisfactory to describe his post-race discussions as simple press conferences. They’re more state of the nation addresses on behalf of the Independent Republic of Bolt than anything else, many of them of epic...
MAYBE tennis shouldn’t be an Olympic sport. That’s what reason suggests: that the criterion for the inclusion of a sport in the Games should be that an Olympic gold medal is the highest and most important award available for that sport. More...
EILIDH Child and Lee McConnell both ran confidently last night as the Team GB women’s 4x400-metres relay squad comfortably qualified for tonight’s final. More...
A FEROCIOUS final leg by Carmelita Jeter secured the 4x100-metre relay gold – and a new world record – for the United States last night. It was the second night running a world record had been breaking, following David Rudisha’s 800m run, and was the reward for a beautifully timed race by the...
IT was really during the 2000 Olympic Games when Britain’s sailors led the world with an unprecedented deluge of five medals that Scotland’s Luke Patience reaffirmed his desire to stand on the Olympic podium. More...
MHAIRI Spence is hoping to turn her world title into Olympic gold and continue Britain’s remarkable record in women’s modern pentathlon. More...
Anthony Joshua became the third British man to book his place in an Olympic boxing final as he cut down 6ft 9ins Kazakh Ivan Dychko with a big final round performance to pull out a 13-11 victory. More...
Brazil haven’t been this close to the gold medal in football since Romario was a rising star in the late 1980s. More...
GREAT BRITAIN won their first women’s Olympic field hockey medal in 20 years by beating New Zealand 3-1 in the bronze match at Riverside Arena yesterday. More...
LPGA TOUR: Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg fired a seven-under-par 65 late on Thursday to find herself two shots clear after the first round of the LPGA Tour Jamie Farr Toledo Classic in Sylvania, Ohio. More...
SWEDE Carl Pettersson, the latest golfer to lead a major using a long putter, sees no need to bring in a ban on them. More...
ONE of Australia’s greatest sporting stars, David Campese, is feeling for his countrymen and women as he watches the 30th Olympiad draw to its conclusion. More...
With top scorer Paul Heffernan out until the winter after breaking his collarbone, Kilmarnock manager Kenny Shiels is ready to turn the clock back and hand the No 9 shirt to Colin Nish in an attempt to add a cutting edge to the League Cup holders. More...
Goalkeeper Chris Smith will go straight into the squad for St Mirren’s Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash at Dundee after sealing his return to the Paisley club. More...
JACK Reilly is a worried man. The former Hibs goalkeeper, who went on to play for Australia against the great Gerd Muller and Franz Beckenbauer in the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany, is so concerned about the state of Scottish football that he fears the game may never recover unless more is...
Wales manager Chris Coleman was impressed by the performances of his quartet of Team GB stars, but admits he is pleased to see the back of the Olympics. More...
Mark Reynolds was desperate for a return to Aberdeen and the opportunity to play first-team football again. More...
PAT Fenlon hopes not to have to rely solely on the sudden glimpse of summer to help bring light into the lives of Hibernian supporters this weekend. More...
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