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TW Interviews: Team Sky Cyclist Alex Dowsett
By on 06/07/2011 18:00:00
An Olympic gold, a time trial win in the Tour de France and World Championship glory - Team Sky rider Alex Dowsett doesn't ask for much. We caught up with the up-and-coming time trial specialist
he's added an Olympic medal to his Commonwealth Games Time Trial silver - and based on our chat he's certainly one to watch for London 2012.Tell us about your typical racing week?I've just come off the Tour de Luxembourg [Jun 1-5]. That started with a
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Team GB Profile: Denise Lewis
By on 22/06/2012 10:00:00
Discover why Denise thinks women will take the glory at London 2012 and her views on Jess Ennis claiming her British heptathlon record
Denise Lewis inspired national respect with her remarkable performance in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she triumped to take heptathlon gold against the odds with a bandage wrapped around her injured leg.Since retiring in 2005, she has remained a
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Team GB Profile: Jeanette Kwakye
By on 06/06/2012 17:08:22
Find out how Jeanette Kwakye has fought back against injury - and her guilty pleasures, including TOWIE
final at the Beijing Olympics, where she pulled out all the stops to produce a lifetime best 11.14.Knee injuries, every runner’s nightmare, dogged Jeanette for the last couple of years. Now, the bubbly athlete is back to full fitness and to form
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RW Interviews: Mo Farah
By Kerry McCarthy on 03/07/2012 16:00:00
RW favourite Mo Farah reveals his gold ambitions
. I don’t have to make a decision on that until after the 10,000 though, so I have time.And what about after London...what does the future hold for you?By the time the next Olympics, in Rio, comes round, I’ll be 33 years old, and by then I think I
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Team GB Profile: Richard Whitehead
By on 30/08/2012 10:00:00
Prepare to be inspired by the long distance runner turned sprinter
Back in April, we were honoured to meet Richard Whitehead - the marathoner turned men's 100m and 200m T42 sprinter. He told us about his blades, training regime and the power of the Paralympic Games.Catch up with this inspriring interview
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Team GB Profile: Sally Brown
By on 07/05/2012 16:00:00
Introducing the teenager tipped for Paralympic Games glory after a glittering breakthrough last year
)Sally Brown is part of Team Samsung, a selection of top British athletes who will be opening up their lives and training regimes to the public through Samsung’s Digital Hub in the run up to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Samsung is giving the British public
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Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man on Earth
By Kerry McCarthy on 05/07/2011 11:00:00
Does sprint champion Usain Bolt revel in his status as a global icon or long for anonymity? RW talks to the man himself
. As he lies there, eyes closed, face contorted and with sweat pooling on the track beneath his head, he is surrounded by camera crews and photographers. A Japanese sound engineer lowers his boom to catch the sound of heavy breathing. The World and Olympic
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Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man on Earth (Preview)
By Kerry McCarthy on 05/07/2011 11:00:00
Does sprint champion Usain Bolt revel in his status as a global icon or long for anonymity? RW talks to the man himself
. As he lies there, eyes closed, face contorted and with sweat pooling on the track beneath his head, he is surrounded by camera crews and photographers. A Japanese sound engineer lowers his boom to catch the sound of heavy breathing. The World and Olympic
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Usain Bolt: The World's Fastest Man
By Kerry McCarthy on 11/07/2012 09:00:00
Does the fastest man on earth still have the fire and steel to forge gold this summer?
was not ‘Would he win?’, but ‘How fast could he go?’But, in Korea last summer, something strange happened. In the 100m World Championship final in Daegu, Bolt didn’t win. In the biggest race outside of the Olympics, he false-started for the first time in his
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TW Interviews: Helen Jenkins
By Louise Steggals on 07/10/2011 11:52:00
Freshly crowned World Champion Helen Jenkins reveals why race experience is invaluable
When you hear the word 'old' it's highly unlikely it conjures the image of an elite triathlete who has just qualified for the 2012 Olympics. But in the funny world of sport, 27-year-old Helen Jenkins finds herself labelled just that
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