London 1908

Team GB’s boxing contingent at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be at least the largest in twenty years after their success at the recent AIBA World Championships in Chicago. Lightweight gold medallist Frankie Gavin, bronze medallists Joe Murray and Bradley Saunders and quarter finalist Tony Jeffries all secured places to compete for Team GB in Beijing next year, subject to t... read more

As the Rugby World Cup begins, Cornish Rugby folk are already focussing on 2008 when they hope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the day when their team represented Great Britain in an Olympic Rugby Tournament.

In 1908 London hosted the Olympic Games for the first time and a grand rugby tournament was envisaged. The Rugby Football Union were charged with p... read more

One hundred years ago this month, the newly formed British Olympic Association (BOA) accepted its biggest challenge, the organisation of the Olympic Games in less than two years.

The 1908 Olympics had originally been awarded to Rome, but the city was already experiencing financial problems when Mount Vesuivius erupted in early 1906.The Italian International Olympic Committee (IOC... read more