Team GB

Virgin Atlantic has been announced as the Official Airline Partner of Team GB and ParalympicsGB for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with Virgin Atlantic Holidays as the Official Holiday Partner. With LA28 two years away, the journey starts today. Virgin Atlantic founder Sir Richard Branson joined athletes Jake Jarman and Kadeena Cox and cabin crew at London Heathrow to declare check in for LA28 officially open.

Jonny Brownlee, one half of one of the most iconic pairs of sporting siblings in British Olympic history, has announced his retirement from triathlon at the age of 36. A three-time Olympic medallist, Jonny and his elder brother Alistair provided a vast array of memorable moments during their time competing with each other. Here are five of Jonny’s best… Breakthrough bronze Jonny Brownlee was just 22 when he took part in his home Olympics in 2012.

The heatwave may have finally eased off but the summer of British sport has shown no signs of slowing down with an August for the ages for Team GB athletes. Amy Hunt was the headline act of a sensational European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, while over in Paris, GB topped the medals table at the European Aquatics Championships.

The men’s Tour of Britain will return for its 22nd edition as the premier men’s stage race on British roads this September, with plenty of home hope chasing the green jersey. The annual five-day road race forms part of the UCI ProSeries, the second tier of men’s road cycling, with the route wending its way between Lincoln and through to Earlston in Scotland between September 2-6.

High-speed racing set against the historic backdrop of the Jurassic Coast. The iQFOiL Sailing World Championships are coming to the UK. The world's finest windsurfers descend on Weymouth and Portland from 7-12 September for the class's biggest event of the season. With Olympians set to sail and live racing on British shores, here is everything you need to know about the event. iQFOiL racing made its Olympic debut at Paris 2024, replacing the previous windsurfing RS:X class.

The last time that the Road Cycling World Championships were held in Montreal, Canada, the legendary Eddie Merckx took gold. The first edition of the championships to be held outside of Europe, the Belgian claimed men's victory as France's Geneviève Gambillon won the women's title. It was held at a time that saw the cyclists wear hats rather than helmets, so the return to the city this September will feel markedly different.

Only months into her senior rowing career for Great Britain, Finnola Stratton is preparing to make a splash on the world stage a long way from her farm in Somerset. Stratton was crowned under-23 world champion in the women’s quadruple sculls last year, and she is the apprentice under Olympic champions Lola Anderson, Imogen Grant and Hannah Scott at the 2026 World Rowing Championships.

James Robson is raring to wrap up a perfect year for the GB men’s four squad at the 2026 World Rowing Championships. Robson’s squad enter the World Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, as the clear favourites to claim the world title, the defending world champions undefeated in international competition this season with World Rowing Cup I and III titles. The 32-year-old from Bury St Edmunds, now based in West London, is driven on by the pressure of being in the quartet to beat.

Winning Olympic gold at just 21 is pretty special. But what happens next? Ten years on from Great Britain’s women’s hockey triumph in Rio, Lily Owsley reflects on the highs of that incredible achievement, the unexpected emotions that followed, and the search for purpose as she chases the dream of experiencing it over all again.

“Find a way to win,” may appear an oversimplification of Team GB’s journey to a historic hockey gold medal at Rio 2016 but it was the mantra that made dreams into reality. The imperative was executed as dramatically as it was successfully, and it provided one of the most memorable underdog stories in British Olympic history.