Athletics

Britain’s first trampoline Olympic medallist Bryony Page insists her silver at the Rio Games has banished forever the fear of performing to her potential.

Olympic finalist Laura Weightman has revealed her shock at losing National Lottery funding ahead of the 2017 World Championships in London.

Where Jessica Ennis-Hill ranks as Britain’s greatest is debatable but her 10-year career at the height of international sport will forever find a place in the Olympic history books.

Jessica Ennis-Hill’s coach Toni Minichiello believes she is one of the country’s sporting greats after announcing her retirement.

Jessica Ennis-Hill has announced her immediate retirement from athletics after a glittering career which included winning gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games.

In January 2014, when Jessica Ennis-Hill announced she was pregnant, many doubters assumed that was it. Olympic champion. Tick. World champion. Tick. Career done. Thank you and goodbye.

She was the Sheffield-born poster girl for the triumphant 2012 Olympics whose mixture of talent and Yorkshire grit earned her a place among the nation’s sporting greats.

Jody Cundy has challenged his fellow Great British Paralympic stars to carry the momentum from their Rio heroics towards Tokyo 2020 and beyond.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal could not hide his disappointment after seeing his side fail to build on their midweek comeback win over Bristol City.

Great Britain’s Paralympians have won more medals at Rio 2016 than they managed four years ago in London - with two days of the Games still remaining.

Kadeena Cox was overcome with emotion after defying the doubters by winning Paralympic cycling gold, 24 hours after taking bronze in athletics and two years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Kadeena Cox on Saturday won gold in the C4/C5 500 metres time-trial to become the first Briton since Isabel Barr (later Newstead) in 1988 to win Paralympic medals in two sports at the same Games.

LEEDS’S Kadeena Cox won a sensational gold in the women’s C4/C5 500 metres time-trial on Saturday to become the first Briton in 28 years to win medals in two sports at the same Paralympics.

If Yorkshire was a country it would have finished 17th on the medals table at the Rio Olympics – above Canada, New Zealand and South Africa among other sports-mad nations.

Sophie Hitchon hailed an historic Olympic hammer medal for Great Britain after breaking her own national record with the very last throw of the competition to land bronze in Rio.

Usain Bolt declared himself on course for sporting immortality after completing the first part of his Olympic ‘triple triple’ bid by defeating Justin Gatlin to win a third straight 100 metres gold in Rio.

Luke Cutts’s Olympic debut ended before it ever really started on Saturday night but the Barnsley pole vaulter vowed to return stronger from his experiences in Rio.

We will miss them when they are gone.

Jessica Ennis-Hill looks set to retire from athletics in the wake of her heptathlon silver medal at the Rio Olympics after admitting she wants to leave the sport on a high.