Despite its critics, breaking is a sport worthy of its inclusion in the Olympics. Alex Twitchen explains why in this article.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Paris is the host of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Explore our related free resources.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Simon Rea previews the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy and looks at who in Team GB have the best chances of winning medals.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Team GB will be looking be build upon recent successes at Winter Olympics, as the 2026 Games in Italy starts this month. You can dig deep into the Winter Olympics with our range of free resources.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Simon Rea previews the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and looks at who are Team GB's best chances of winning medals.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Yasmin Reeve is one of this year’s Sport and Fitness Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Games of the Tokyo Olympics were played in empty stadiums and venues, without fans and family members. Jessica Pinchbeck looks at the importance of Adam Peaty's family to his success.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Olympic and Paralympic games show us that there is a sport for everyone. Dr Jane Dorrian looks at the ways you can inspire your child to be a future star.
Category: Sport & Fitness
In this article, Dr Nichola Kentzer considers resilience as a key factor in supporting athletes' disrupted journeys towards Olympic success.
Category: Sport & Fitness
You don’t have to have attended private school to be a member of the British Olympic team for Tokyo 2020 – but it may have helped, particularly for some Olympic events. Dr Jim Lusted, Lecturer in Sport & Fitness, explores the role that educational background can have in athletes reaching the highest levels of Olympic sports like rowing, hockey and archery.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Whilst this year’s Olympic Games will almost certainly suffer from COVID-19 constraints, the event remains the largest sporting spectacle in the world. Over time the Games have evolved from their modest beginnings into something incomparably grand. In this article, Steph Doehler discusses how a rural English town has closer links than most to the modern Olympics.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Simon Rea previews the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, looking at the new sports featuring, plus who are Team GB's best chances of winning medals.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The life of an Olympic or Paralympic athlete is characterised by highly planned and structured 4-year cycles designed to lead to peak performance in Olympic/Paralympic year, but what happens when that cycle unexpectedly stretches to 5 years and is threaded with uncertainty?
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Tokyo Olympics were a huge success for Team GB, who finished in fourth place - matching their medal haul from the London 2012 Olympics. You can dig deep into the Olympics and Paralympics with our range of free resources.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Ben Oakley looks at how five decades of sporting World records reveal more about sport, society and technology than initially meets the eye.
Category: Sport & Fitness
How do the successful Olympians cope with the aftermath of the games? Are they more prone to depression because of the sudden celebrity status?
Category: Sport & Fitness
What does the retired life hold for Olympians such as Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Michael Phelps? Can they cope with the change of lifestyle?
Category: Sport & Fitness
Many athletes at 2026 Winter Olympics will find themselves in the start gate ready to race in an event which can threaten injury as much as promise victory. The question is how do they cope?
Category: Sport & Fitness
Paris 2024 is an opportunity to expand the reach and dominance of the French language. This article explains what's being done to prevent French speakers from automatically resorting to English.
Category: Education & Development
Spartan females had much more freedom than other women in the ancient world; this allowed Cynisca of Sparta to win the Olympics twice. Find out more about her victories here...
Category: History & The Arts