With the end of the current campaign only a handful of games away, all eyes are turning to the summer’s international tournaments to fill the off-season void. Euro 2012 comes first in June, before the exciting prospect of Team GB competing for gold at the Olympics. With some of the traditionally bigger nations not present at the competition in London, the home representation will be one of the favourites with Betfair football betting to claim gold medals, but who will be playing and can they go all the way? read more »
Team GB hopeful Roald Bradstock is using the unlikely capturing of one of his training throws by Google’s Street View cameras as inspiration that he might make the team for London 2012.
The 49-year-old finished seventh at the Los Angeles Games in 1984. Despite his advancing years, he remains Britain’s third best javelin thrower and is clinging to the hope that he might make the team next year. read more »
Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius is not yet certain to run at London 2012, according to South Africa’s Olympic Committee (Sascoc).
The 24-year-old was widely believed to have secured his place at the Games when he ran the Olympic “A” qualifying time in July. But Sascoc has confirmed that Pistorius will have to meet the qualifying time again closer to the Olympics in order to compete.
Sascoc chief executive Tubby Reddy said: “Within three months of the Games, if he runs that time he qualifies.
“Many people have said he has run that time already, however, he has not qualified.”
Pistorius is battling to medal at both the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012.
Women boxers at London 2012 could be wearing skirts. The move has been touted in a bid to differentiate the female boxers from their male counterparts.
The Amateur International Boxing Association has asked women boxers to consider opting for skirts, but only two nations – Poland and Romania – adopted the attire for the recent European Championships.
Poland went as far as to make skirts compulsory.
Coach Leszek Piotrowski said: “By wearing skirts, in my opinion, it gives a good impression, a womanly impression.”
