How our own drug busters allowed British Olympians to avoid crucial doping probe

The summer of 2012 was hailed as a triumph for British sport as a home Olympics unfolded with gold raining on London in the most successful Games for Team GB in 104 years. Of the 65 medals for the host nation, 19 of them gold, 12 gongs came from a single sport: cycling. Team GB’s … Read more

British Olympians fear taking the Covid-19 vaccine could make them FAIL drugs test

REVEALED: British athletes fear taking the Covid-19 vaccine could make them FAIL drugs test and be banned from the Tokyo Games – with ‘clinically vulnerable’ Paralympians lIkely to be offered the jab soon British athletes are demanding urgent answers over whether having the Covid-19 vaccine could cause them to fail a drugs test The roll-out … Read more

British 2012 Olympians guinea pigs for Special Forces ‘wonder drug’

British Olympians were used as guinea pigs to test an experimental substance in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money in a bid to enhance their performance at London 2012, an MoS investigation has found. The so-called ‘novel nutritional intervention’ was fed to medal hopefuls during competition despite only … Read more

How the lives of Britain’s Olympians have been turned upside down by coronavirus

Britain’s Olympians have told Sportsmail they face financial ruin with the Tokyo Games postponement putting their earnings for this year into doubt. The nation’s Tokyo medal hopefuls have been left anxious and unsure as they navigate the uncertainty surrounding their seasons with global sport at a standstill. Much of the world is in a coronavirus lockdown, forcing … Read more

Britain’s top Olympians face financial crisis with Tokyo 2020 Games postponed

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more